HYP CUP 2013 – International Student Competition in Architectural Design

Topic: Architecture in Transformations
Sub-Topic: The Disappearance of Architecture

Purpose of the Competition:

Architecture must disappear.
Behind the radicalism of this statement lies something crucial for the future of architecture. Architecture as a discipline should no longer think in terms of objects. Walls, facades, structures, are only modalities of architecture, but never its finality. Design comes after. After what? After situations. Architects deal with situations.
Architecture should be conceived as an integral part of the landscape. Glass, concrete or metal would in this case no longer be the elements that build architecture, but the territory as it exists, as we relate to it.
One of the commitments of an architect is to overwhelm the observable escalation in the production of contemporary architecture by introducing new situations, dialectic situations and experiences, between inside and outside, free and available spaces in-between what is public and what is private.
Sometimes, we make architecture disappear. We make it melt within the territory, blurring the lines between architecture and landscape, between physicality and immateriality, between presence and absence.

Registration Start Time:February 20,2013
Deadline for Registration: June 30, 2013
Deadline for Entry Submission: August 15, 2013
Announcement of Winners: September 2013
Question and Answer Time: February 20, 2013 – July 15, 2013

International Supporter: International Union of Architects-UIA
Organizers: School of Architecture, Tianjin University; Urban Environment Design (UED) Magazine Press
Co-hosting Organization: Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning Chongqing University(CQU)
Directors: China National Higher Education Architectural Department Professional Supervision Committee
China National Higher Education Architectural Department Professional Education Assessment Committee
Title Sponsor: Shanghai HYP Architectural Design Consultant INC

More information: http://hypcup2013.uedmagazine.net/Eg_index.php