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1. INTRODUCTION

“An empty house. Many empty houses.”

Since 2008, the world has been going througha tough financial crisis, which has subsequentlytranslated into a crisis of values. Te big recession, which originated in the United States, has itsorigins in the real state bubble burst and theresulting financial and mortgage problems. Terepercussions passed on firstly to the Americanfinancial system and later on to the internationalone, generating an economic crisis on aninternational level. Global pessimism was high

and the stock markets were dropping daily. Teconsumer trust rate was the lowest ever seen inhistory and a remarkable rise in unemployment inthe United States and other developed countries was produced.

Te countries in the south of Europe were mostaffected by the world financial situation as wellas their own internal real state bubble. At thebeginning of the 21st century, the Spanishand Portugese peninsula had become an open-air factory. Construction had become its mostprofitable industry and apartment values had

risen exponentially. In Spain alone, more housing was built yearly than in France, Germany andItaly together. Te local governments organisedambitious competitions which attempted to imitatethe successful strategy of the Guggenheim byFrank Gehry in Bilbao. After the crisis started,numerous austerity measures and restraints onpublic expenditures were imposed - education andhealth services were among them. Tis causedcitizen movements by different collectives, like the‘15-M’ and the ‘Indignados’ movements.

One of countries most affected by the financial crisis was Portugal. In May 2011, the Eurozone leaders

approved a rescue package of 78,000 euros to thePortuguese. Since then, one of the main problemshas been unemployment and lack of opportunitiesfor the youth.

2. PROPOSAL

“From crisis to opportunity”

Te competition departs from the socioeconomic

context of southern Europe, more precisely fromthe delicate situation in Portugal. Te country isrich in culture, architecture and history but the cutspolicies have reduced the call to carry out publicconstruction. It is even understood that despiteunfavourable context, it has not been permitted toproduce good architecture for the people, as thegreat school of Portuguese architects hasalways done.

We propose a unique piece of architecture, whichis described as a large container of activities. Publicinvestment is reduced to public equipment and the

expense is optimised by hosting as many events andcreating as many uses for the building as possible.It is a hall open to the citizens, activating thesurrounding public space and articulating goodarchitecture with limited resources.

It is a container that aims to react to the magazine-cover-like architecture that has been generated,instead relating to the historical context of theplace, the socioeconomic conditions and the moralsustainability of the proposal. It is an architectureof values that seeks its referents in history, in vernacular architecture and in the

Portuguese masters.



Te Young Architects prize will be awardedseparately from the student prizes. Students won’topt to win this prize in the same way that youngarchitects won’t opt to win student prizes. Te

projects submitted by these two groups wil l be judged separately.

*Depending on which country you live and pay taxes in, the cashprizes might be subject to some withholding to comply with thecorresponding legal regulations.

3.3 Jury

Te jury wil l be formed by the following members:Presidente del jurado:

• Teresa Batlle (Pitch Architects) - President

• Caterina Figuerola (Aq4 arquitectura) -Invited architect

• Pedro Rodriguez - Local architect

• Josep Ferrando - Young architect

• Carolina Garcia - History of Architecture

*All members of the jury have expressed their willingness totake part in the voting process of this competition. However,their participation is subject to their professional commitments.

3.4 Calendar

Jul 28th 2014 Special Entry period starts

Sept 15th 2014 Special Entry period ends

Sept 16th 2014 Regular Entry period starts

Oct 15th 2014 Regular Entry period ends

Oct 31st 2014 Submission deadline

Nov 10-21st 2014 Jury meeting

Nov 27th 2014 Winners announce

3.5 Registrations

Te entry periods will be divided as follows:

Special Jul 28th – Sept 15th 50€ + IVA*

Regular Sept 16th – Oct 15th 100€ + IVA*

*21% AX must be applied to these prices (Special 60,50€, Early 90,75€,Regular 121€)

Te registration fee is per team, regardless of howmany members are on the team.

If a team wants to submit more than one proposalto the competition they will have to register each

proposal separately and pay an additional fee foreach proposal they wish to submit.

For a project to be accepted the team mustbe properly registered to the competition. All registrations will be done through the ARCHmedium website (www.ARCHmedium.com), where you will be asked to choose between severalpayment options.

After completing the registration form each team will be assigned with a registration code. It’simportant to keep this registration code in a safeplace since it will allow your team to access theintranet were you’ll have access to your registrationstatus, payment tools, and the upload form to submit your project as we will explain in further sections ofthis document.



3.10 Submission

Submissions must be done through the ARCHmedium’s intranet only, before the dateindicated on the competition calendar. You must login with your username and password and follow theupload process. No submissions will be accepted bye-mail or any other medium. Te submission page wil l be automatically closed after the submissiondate and time are reached, not allowing anymodifications or aggregations after that, so please,try to upload your project 24 hours in advance sothat you have time to solve any issues that mightcome up along the way (they always do!).

Te panel must be no other size than Din-A1 andbe in no other format than JPG. Te maximum weight of the file is 12MB.

3.11 Evalutation Criteria

Te jury wil l be in charge of establishing the keypoints that this project needed to address based onthe site, brief, etc. and evaluate eachproject accordingly.

As par t of the design process we recommend thateach team takes the necessary time to research the working site as well as other case study projects thatmight relate to the brief in hand to determinate what aspects of the project are the most uniqueand therefore need to be addressed and successfullysolved to achieve a good result.

Remember that this is an ideas competition, anopportunity for experiment and explore the limitsof architecture. Te jury reserves the right to awardany proposal that fails at any of the parametersmentioned in these rules, as long as it justifiesthe breach of the rule in favor of the architecturaldesign of the proposal.

3.12 Voting System

Te voting system to choose the winning projects isas follows:

1. ARCHmedium team, following the jury’sinstructions, will make an initial selection of 50projects in response to the above criteria.

2. Te members of the jury will study both thepre-selected projects and all others privatley andinclude, if they consider it necessary, any of thenon-selected projects in the initial list of 50.

3. At the meeting, the jurors will discuss all thepre-selected projects (Te ARCHmedium’s

selected 50 projects plus the projects added bythe jury) to decide the winner, second and thirdprize and honorable mentions.

3.13 Intellectual Property

All the material submitted to the competition wil l become part of ARCHmedium’s files. ARCHmedium will have full rights to publishand promote this material, always making proper

mention of their authors. For any other purposesthe authors of the projects will keep full rights overtheir design.

By submitting a proposal you are giving ARCHmedium the right to use the receivedmaterial in both printed and on-line publications. ARCHmedium will also have the right to modifyany of the mentioned material at its will in order tobetter adapt it to the different formats and layoutsthat different publications might have.



3.14 Additional Notes

• ARCHmedium reserves the right to make any changes to this

document (dates, deadlines, requirements, etc.) as long as thechanges benefit a majority of the competition participants.

Any modifications w ill be announced on the ARCHmedium’sFacebook page. It is each team’s responsibility to check the

ARCHmediu m’s Facebook page on a regula r basis to followand incorporate all changes.

• Under no circumstances will members of the jury, members

of the organization, or persons with a di rect personal orprofessional relationship with members of the jury or theorganization be allowed to participate in t his competition.

• Te project of this competition is a fictit ious job and wil l not bebuilt. Te provided documentation has been modified to bettermeet the goals of this competition and, as a resu lt, the provideddocuments do not fully correspond with reality.

• Tis project is only an exercise, and therefore it will notnecessarily follow any existing building or urban plann ingregulations.

• No one has hired or contacted ARCHmedium in order toorganize this competition. Te idea and program of thiscompetition have been fully developed by ARCHmedium to

serve solely as an academic exercise.

• ARCHmediu m has no relation to the owners of the site where

this exercise is proposed to be and therefore cannot guaranteethat participants will have any access to

the property.

3.15 Thanks

ARCHmedium wants to thank the collaborators that have contributed

to the organization of this competition. We would also like to thank the jury members, without whom this projec t would not have been poss ible.

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