Competition
Design for an Eco-friendly Community
arcspace Island
Second Life
"There is a long tradition in the world of building with bamboo. In the last century many of the areas with such tradition saw a gradual replacement of bamboo with synthetic building materials. However, bamboo is back in the center of attention for building in a sustainable manner, not only in those areas where bamboo is traditionally found, but around the world."
Dr. Coosje Hoogendoorn
Director General of INBAR
Photo: arcspace
arcspace and ecolandnow, in collaboration with INBAR - International Network for Bamboo and Rattan and Bamboo Technologies and Bamboo Living Homes, invite architects, designers and students to take part in an international competition at arcspace Island in the virtual community, Second Life.
The winners, selected by an international jury in Second Life and Real Life, as well as by public vote, will be invited to assist with the construction in China or Hawaii.
The key competition objective will be to develop a new Eco-friendly Community where people will live, work and visit; an environment which will encourage a wide range of uses, occupied at all times of the day. The goal should be to stimulate social, technical and cultural progress. The function and the relationship between the structures is as important as the individual design.
The “structure,” maximum 60M2, must respond to the tropical climate and promote the use of hybrid materials using a minimum of 25% bamboo. The living bamboo can be part of the design. Furniture designers are invited to collaborate with architects.
Photo: Poid Malhovich
The competition will be judged by a panel of international architects, engineers and pre-eminent Chinese academics, from both the Real World and the Virtual World, as well as a public votes through multimedia presentations.
The contestants will be judged by Individual Design, Sustainability, Creative use of Materials and Collaboration. Comments from both the judges and the public will be posted weekly.
The real life Bamboo Forest sites are in a Tropical Rain Forest, 700 meters elevation, in the South China Sea on Hainan Island, 14 kilometers inland from Sanya and Yalong bay, as part of a Traditional Chinese Medicine Spa with all structures to be of bamboo.
The other site at Jungles Edge, 250 meters elevation, on the Island of Maui near Hana in Hawaii, about 2 kilometers from the sea.
Photo: David Greenberg
The site on Hainan Island
Temperate and tropical forests are the lung of our planet. They breathe in carbon from the air, breathe out oxygen for our life. These cool forests call the rain, cleanse the air, circulate the weather currents and regulate our global climate.
”Ecological design or eco-design is the use of the ecological design principles and strategies to design our build environment and our ways of life so that they integrate benignly and seamlessly with the natural environment that includes the biosphere, which contains all the forms of life that exist on earth. This goal must be the fundamental basis for the design of all our human-made environments."
Ken Yeang
The competition will take place in two phases.
Phase I Spring 2008 (Ending June 1, 2008)
Phase II Fall 2008 (Ending December 1, 2008)
During Phase I the jury will select twelve designs to continue to Phase II of the competition. The presentations will be filmed and shown at arcspace in SL, www.arcspace.com and other international media, to invite the public to comment and vote for an additional three winners who will continue to Phase II.
In Phase II the jury will select the final three winners who will go to China or Hawaii.
The three winners selected by popular votes will receive special prizes.
The International Jury
From Real Life:
Shyam Paudel, Director of Housing Program, INBAR
Cui PenFei, Professor Architecture, CAFA - Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Wang Ru Song Professor,Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Edwin Chan, Partner, Gehry Partners, Los Angeles, USA
Jan Utzon, Architect, Denmark
Kent Martinussen, Director, DAC - Danish Architecture Centre
Kristen Richards, Founder/Editor-in-Chief, ArcNewsNow.com
Thomas Kearns, Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology
Nille Juul-Sorensen, Associate Director, ARUP
From the Virtual World (Second Life):
Persis Trilling, Director Princeton University Second Life Project
Scope Cleaver, Architect and Designer
Keystone Bouchard, founder of Crescendo Design and Studio Wikitecture
Poid Mahovlich, an Artist Builder and Land Terraformer in Second Life, has turned arcspace Island into a bamboo forest for the competition.
Her group Our Green Virtual World Builders specifically promote green issues.
Photo: Poid Malhovich
Photo: Poid Malhovich
Photo: Poid Malhovich
Photo: Poid Malhovich
Photo: Poid Malhovich
David Greenberg (ecolandnow.com & TreehousesofHawaii.com), who collaborated with INBAR and Bamboo Technologies for the first International Bamboo Building Design Competition in 2006, will introduce the competition from Hainan Island on March 4th.
The exact time will be posted on arcspace Island and mailed to members and other groups.
Sign up by March 7th, select your spot and get started.
Send your avatar name to: arcspacesl@gmail.com
Or send IM to KK Jewell in Second Life
Photo: arcspace
The competition is sponsored by KK of arcspace.com (KK Jewell in SL) and David Greenberg of ecolandnow.com (da5vd Latte in SL) in collaboration with INBAR - International Network for Bamboo and Rattan. and Robert Henrikson (Panmagic Aeon in SL) CEO of Bamboo Technologies and Bamboo Living Homes.
Suggested links:
INBAR Project
Forest Bamboo Gallery
Bamboo resources and their utilization in China
2007 Aga Khan Award for Architecture - Rudrapur School (YouTube)
Bamboo Forest Scene From 'A Touch of Zen' (YouTube)
Books of interest:
ECODESIGN - A Manual for Ecological Design, By Ken Yeang
Treehouses in Paradise - Fantasy Designs for the 21st-Century, by David Greenberg
The Book of Bamboo, by David Farrelly
Bamboo, by Robert Austin, Dana Levy Kochiro Ueda
Bamboo Style, by Gale Beth Goldberg
Bamboo - The Gift of the Gods, by Oscar Hidalgo-Lopez
Grow your own House, Simon Velez and Bamboo Architecture,
by Vitra Design Museum
arcspace, with Eolus One and Architecture Islands, have recently moved to a new location on the Second Life grid, where we will be sharing common borders as a contiguous group of islands. The move is part of a concerted effort to unite some of the brightest minds as well as the most ambitious projects in Second Life.
While each group will retain its own identity and function, the new archipelago will now collectively represent a wider range of the complete life cycle of the real estate industry, including education, development, architecture, construction, facilities management and investment management.
About Second Life and Linden Lab
Second Life is a 3D online world with a rapidly growing population from 100 countries around the globe, in which the Residents themselves create and build the world, which includes homes, vehicles, nightclubs, stores, landscapes, clothing and games. The Second Life Grid is a sophisticated development platform created by Linden Lab, a company founded in 1999 by Philip Rosedale, to create a revolutionary new form of shared 3D experience. The former CTO of RealNetworks, Rosedale pioneered the development of many of today's streaming media technologies, including RealVideo. In April 2003, noted software pioneer Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation, was named Chairman. In 2006, Philip Rosedale and Linden Lab received WIRED's Rave Award for Innovation in Business. Based in San Francisco, Linden Lab employs a senior team bringing together deep expertise in physics, 3D graphics and networking. Registration and an account are necessary to access Second Life. A basic account is absolutely free, and includes unlimited access to Second Life's tools, events and communities.
System Requirements
Your computer must meet specific requirements, or you may not be able to successfully participate in Second Life. Learn more about those requirements.
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February 26, 2008