Competition terms and conditions (guidelines)

Participants

Entry is open to students registered on the Graphic and Chromatic Design module of the ETSA UPV Qualifying Master’s Degree in Architecture during the academic year of 2018-2019.

Aims

The aim of the competition is the development of a proposal for chromatic solutions in a residence for the elderly, specifically in a common room. The proposal will include a graphic solution for residence indications (signaling elements), which is consistent with the intervention proposal.

The residences object of the competition have been facilitated by the company Gesmed (http://www.gesmed.es/#ip-container) and correspond to the locations of Velluters (Valencia), Manises and Chiva.

The intervention will aim to promote the visual comfort of the residents, responding to the functional, compositional, aesthetic, cultural and any other aspects that concur in the design of the interior space.

These interventions are framed within the activities of the research project “Modifications of Visual Comfort in Residential Centers for the Improvement of the Quality of Life of the Elderly” led by professor Ana Torres Barchino, and will take into account previous research in this field.

Contents of the architectural proposals

The proposals presented will contain the technical information necessary for their execution. The candidates will be entirely free in the conception of their proposals. The proposals will consider a maximum material execution budget of € 15,000.

Formalization of proposals

Each proposal will be made individually or by teams of up to 3 people.

Each student or group of up to three people, must submit the following documentation within the established deadlines:

• 3 Printed panels format DIN A2, containing the drawings, sketches, plans, photographs, texts, etc., which explain the solution to carry out. The panel must, at a minimum, contain a justification of the proposed solution, a visualisation of the expected results, and a layout showing materials and colours in a standard colour notation system.
• Optionally, a 3d spherical panorama to visualize the solution with VR glasses.
• Also presented along with the panels will be a technical guide in DIN A4 format, with supplementary information:

– Detailed budget of the material execution of the proposal. For this, the CYPE price generator can be used. https://www.isaval.es/documentacion/generador-precios-cype/

– Any complementary documentation that is considered appropriate to adequately explain the proposal, if any.

• A 1: 1 prototype of the signs designed for the residence.
• A video of 20 seconds of duration of the whole proposal to be disseminated on social networks.
• Likewise, the day of the presentation of the work will be an oral presentation with a maximum duration of 5 minutes.
• A complete copy of the project documentation will be enclosed in the PoliformaT electronic application of the subject “Graphic and Chromatic Design for architecture”. This includes the digital files, both of the presented panels and of the video and the technical memory. The images will also be attached independently in .jpg. The minimum resolution of any graphic material will be 300 ppp. Other file formats will be admitted as complementary material, in addition to the previous ones: .dwg, .doc, .ppt, etc.
• The above information must be uploaded by each and every one of the students of the working group in their personal folder of the subject

The following file names will be used:

• pdf
• pdf
• pdf
• Others: Surname1Surname2Name_image 01_2018.jpg

The work will be clearly identified with complete details of the authors: name, surnames, address of residence including postcode, ID number, nationality and contact telephone number.

The organisation will not be held responsible for any damage loss, etc., of the presented material, any damages due to any cause that the material may suffer during the time it remains in the UPV, being the responsibility of the author.

Available documentation

– Each student will have the planimetry on the floor of the assigned residence.

– Each student will have an authorization to visit the spaces subject to intervention on the dates agreed with those responsible for the residences for the elderly.

– Each student will have a 360 photographic panorama of the common room of the residence to be redesigned.

Selection criteria

The delivery will be made before a jury, assembled in a collegiate manner to assess the proposals presented. It will take into account the following criteria:

• Assessment of the adequacy and creativity of the proposal.
• Assessment of the aesthetic and functional quality.
• Assessment of the technical adequacy and its viability in the execution.
• Assessment of the quality of the presentation of the proposal.
• Adjustment of the economic costs to the budget for its possible execution

 Composition of the jury

The jury will be comprised of the following members:

– The director of the Higher Technical School of Architecture, or person delegated.

– The Professor Ana Torres barchino, responsible for the research project “Visual Comfort Modifications in Residential Centers for the Improvement of the Quality of Life of the Elderly”, or person to whom she delegates.

– The teacher responsible for the subject “Graphic and Chromatic Design”, or person delegated.

– The CEO of the company Gesmed, or person delegated.

– The head of one of the residences involved in the competition, or person delegated.

– A delegated vote on the citizenship and staff of residences for the elderly, expressed electronically.

Rules

• The presentation to the competition will be effective formalizing the delivery of the documentation and defending the project before the jury in a public act on the dates established in these bases. The absence of the candidate (s) at the time of the defense of the proposal implies the renunciation of participation in the competition.
• The jury may declare out of competition any work that fails to comply with any of the obligations contained in these rules.
• The prize may be declared null if, in the opinion of the jury, none of the proposals presented meets the necessary requirements.
• The work awarded the prize will be the property of Gesmed, who will hold all rights over the same and may carry out the proposal at their convenience.
• The awarded work will remain the property of the Gesmed company, who will be the owner of all rights over it and may carry it out under the appropriate conditions.
• Gesmed accepts no obligation to carry out the works of the winning proposal.

Date of receipt of proposals and defense of the works

Tuesday January 22, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. Delivery of documentation in electronic format.

Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 9:00h. Delivery of documentation in paper format and at 12:00h public defense before the members of the jury. Place: North access hall of the Higher Technical School of Architecture.

At the end of the act, the jury will meet to deliberate and render its decision.

In the event that there is a change of date or place of the above, for reasons beyond the control of the organizers, this condition will be communicated to the email address of the participants prior to 24 hours.

Prize

-There is a unique First Prize awarded to the best proposal and valued at 1.500€

-There are two accesits worth 750€ each.

Notes

The faculty of the Master’s Degree in Architecture reserves the right to use the name (s) of the participants and the images of their proposals, whatever the medium or support, for their informative, teaching or research activity. In the disclosure of any images or documentation of the competition by the candidates or the entities involved, the following text must appear: “This proposal has been developed by (full name of the authors) in the course Graphic and Chromatic Design of the Master University in Architecture of the UPV in the 2018/19 academic year ”

Gesmed and the teachers of the Qualifying Master’s Degree in Architecture reserve the right to use the names of the participants and images of their proposals, whatever the medium, for their informative, educational or research activity. The publishing of any images or documentation connected to the competition by the competitors or the entities involved must be  accompanied by the following text: “This proposal was developed by (full name of the authors) in the Graphic and Chromatic Design module of the University Master’s Degree in Architecture at the la UPV in the course 2018/19”

Valencia, January 2019