Competition Schedule
Opening Date for Submissions March 26, 2024
Closing Date for Questions & Answers April 26, 2024
To guarantee equal opportunities to all competition participants, no new questions will be answered after this deadline! All teams that register will receive written notification of all questions received and answered.
Closing Date for Submissions June 1, 2024
Regional Awards Announced at AIAS Grassroots July 18 – 20, 2024
ICC Annual Meeting and Final Winner Announced October 20 – 22, 2024
Submission Requirements
Participants are required to submit only Arch D (24” x 36”) portrait-orientated presentation boards (must not exceed 50MB each) with sketches, renderings, plans, sections, elevations, diagrams, and/or other representations to explain their proposal. Boards must be submitted in PDF file format. Each submission can use up to two presentation boards to convey their design solution.
Design teams can also, but are not required, to submit up to a three-minute video explaining their design solution and how it achieves the design program.
Recommended Submission Content
- A site depiction that highlights how the comprehensive design connects with the surrounding urban fabric.
- Plans and detailed annotations of two suggested home layouts (one exterior unit and one interior unit).
- Various inside and outside viewpoints reflecting the character of the housing’s interior and exterior spaces, including functionality, access, and flexibility to diverse living preferences.
- Explanation of the scheme’s building methods, material palette, and ecological adaptability such as energy efficiency or sustainable practices.
- Renderings or elevations that emphasize the comprehensive design and the solution’s potential influence on local communities and diverse families that could call this place home.
- Illustration of the project’s viability concerning local environment, prevailing weather patterns, material lifespan, conscientious material selection, and enduring sustainability.
Submission Rules
- All information provided in writing must be in English.
- All submissions must be uploaded to https://aias.slideroom.com/#/permalink/program/77878.
- Access information and instructions on how to upload the presentation board will be issued to participants via email immediately after successful registration.
- Presentation boards must not indicate any information related to individual’s/team’s identity.
- Participants who do not comply with the requirements will be disqualified.
Intellectual Property Rights & Other Rights
Contestants should have independent, complete, clear, and undisputed copyright of their works when they submit them to the competition. The works submitted by contestants must not be authorized for commercial use by any organization or individual (whether paid or unpaid) and must be original to the contestants and must not be plagiarized or stolen from others. Contestants should also ensure that their submitted works do not breach any third-party rights, including intellectual property rights, portrait rights, reputation rights, privacy rights, etc.
The organizer has the legal right to use all the entries provided in this competition. Once the participants participate in the competition, they are deemed to have agreed and authorized the organizer and its affiliated companies to use their submitted works for events and brand promotion free of charge, including but not limited to the use of the works for marketing events such as cross-media platforms without any need to notify the participants or obtain the consent of the participants when using the entries.
