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November 28, 2021 at 9:54 am in reply to: Hello There from Luke, Witek, Tom, Cesar, David and Josh :) #22769
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KeymasterHello Witek team!
You guys have such an interesting mix of interests. We are sure this will make for a very interesting project which we are eager to see! Welcome to the Mies Memorial Library competition! 🙂
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KeymasterHi Jacob! We love to see first year students joining the competition. It takes courage to make this commitment on top of how overwhelming first year can be, but it will also open you guys to a lot of other students and ways of approaching architectural design, something which we strongly believe can only make you better architects. Welcome!
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KeymasterHello @DRIMS! Fun fact, most of our team is also based in Spain, in Barcelona, así que bienvenidas! 🙂
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KeymasterHi there @Arquitecthores. We are glad to have you here 🙂
Please send us an email to competitions@arkitekturo.com with the details of your new teammate and and we will add him/her for you.November 19, 2021 at 11:21 pm in reply to: Qhaus (Dongwoo, Shane, Vanja, Will, Kosuke) from Brisbane, Australia #22641arkitekturo
KeymasterWelcome Qhaus team! We look forward to seeing how you guys bring together what you learned about Mies with what you learning while designing your first library. Best of luck and don’t hesitate to ask any questions or share any thoughts here in the forums! 😉
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KeymasterHello Jasmin! So nice to have you here 🙂
Language is definitely a big barrier when it comes to international networking (or simply working). But as long as we can all understand each other it’s ok if we make some mistakes here and there, and your English is great!
We are glad to hear your school supports your participation on this competition. Could you tell us a little bit more about how they are supporting you? Did they cover your registration fee? Do they give you hours to work on the project? We would love to hear more about that!
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KeymasterThat sounds amazing. As you probably already know architecture history is our thing too! And we love seeing young architects taking an interest. Keep up the good work!
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KeymasterWelcome Mihaela! Glad to have you on board 🙂
Tell us a little bit more about you. In which school do you study? In which year of your program are you currently in?
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KeymasterHi Jezim,
Yes, the finalists did get feedback from the jury, but that feedback is private as it is a lot more personal.
In the jury’s meeting minutes you can find a summary of what they jury valued about the awarded projects. The feedback the finalists got on the other hand goes a little bit deeper into the project, it raises questions, suggests how the project could have been approached differently, etc. There’s nothing confidential in them, but it is a private note from the jury to each team.
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KeymasterHello Arjun!
You can read a short summary of the comments the jury had on the winning proposals (frist, second, third and honorablem mentions) here https://arkitekturo.com/competition/bauhaus-campus-2021/jury-minutes
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KeymasterGreat suggestion Ann! Right now you can navigate from one finalist project to another, or from one honorable mention to another, but not make the jump directly from the last honorable mention to the first finalist.
We will add this to our to-do list and get our development team working on it as soon as possible!
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KeymasterHi @May,
It’s easy for us to look at any standing structure and think that their physics are obvious. After all, they are standing there before our eyes. But if you do a bit of historic research you’ll find that people were actually scared of them when they were first proposed. In their minds such structures could and would not stand. They too thought that such designs were ignoring the laws of physics.
Take a look at this quote published by the Popular Sciences Monthly in March 1904 regarding the idea of commercial airplanes:
“…The machines will eventually be fast, they will be used in sport, but they are not to be thought of as commercial carriers. To say nothing of the danger, the sizes must remain small and the passengers few, because the weight will, for the same design, increase as the cube of the dimensions, while the supporting surfaces will only increase as the square. It is true that when higher speeds become safe it will require fewer square feet of surface to carry a man, and that dimensions will actually decrease, but this will not be enough to carry much greater extraneous loads, such as a store of explosives or big guns to shoot them. The power required will always be great, say something like one horse power to every hundred pounds of weight, and hence fuel can not be carried for long single journeys.”
Or even this one other one on the same matter, published by Harper and Row in 1962 (remember that the Wright brothers had already made their first successful flight in 1903, 59 years earlier!):
“…The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic and carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steamships…It seems safe to say that such ideas must be wholly visionary, and even if a machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could own his own yacht. Another popular fallacy is to expect enormous speed to be obtained. It must be remembered that the resistance of the air increases as the square of the speed and the work as the cube…If with 30 h.p. we can now attain a speed of 40 m.p.h., then in order to reach a speed of 100 m.p.h., we must use a motor capable of 470 h.p…it is clear that with our present devices there is no hope of competing for racing speed with either our locomotives or our automobiles.”
These statements were made by reputable people with knowledge in the field, and yet today we fly people and cargo across the world all the time.
If you are looking for an example of a house suspended in midair, there probably isn’t one. But you can definitely book a romantic dinner on a hot air balloon. Could we call that a dining room? Could we imagine a nice bath after that dinner sometime in the future? Probably. Would that be called a dining room and a bathroom? Will it be comfortable? Probably not, at least not at first, but neither where the first airplanes, and today you can travel on a full flat bed watching cable TV and take a nice hot shower before landing. Innovation needs to be approached with an open mind and taken one step at a time. Groundbreaking ideas rarely go from not existing to fully working, ready to use, comfortable products or solutions.
Anyone else would like to join the debate and share their thoughts? We would love to hear them! 😊
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KeymasterHi @Jezim,
Including text on the presentation boards was totally optional. The brief did not require or limit the amount of text that could be included in the presentation. Some teams decided not to include any text, and that’s ok, as long as their projects could be understood through their drawings and other graphic elements there’s no reason why they could not be awarded. As a matter of fact, architecture is a highly visual language, and it is possible to tell a story and represent an idea without the need for words.
As for language, this matter was widely discussed on the forums through the competition and the answer was always the same. We encourage everyone to use English for three main reasons. 1. To be sure the jury understood your presentation. 2. To maximize the chances of other participants understanding a project and 3. To increases the chances of architecture magazines and media publishing your work. However, we also said that no project would be disqualified for using a language different than English.
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KeymasterHello @May and @Jezim,
The jury’s meeting minutes can help you understand a little bit better what they jury valued about this project.
Technically speaking the project is challenging, no doubt about that, but there’s nothing in this solution that’s so far from reality that one could not imagine how it might work.
The cells themselves can be seen as small hot-air balloons, or zeppelins. The exact diameter of the cells and the composition of the gas to make them float would have to be carefully studied, but the idea of being able to elevate from the ground without the need of a propeller is not new.
The cables themselves could be just that, a cable that could be rolled or unrolled with the push of a button, very much like the systems you see on tow trucks.
The cells would not tangle with one another for the same reason kites can be flown very close to one another. The wind is the same for all of them, and so when the wind changes direction they all move at once without crashing into each other.
Of course those are just the main ideas that make this project work “in theory”, and there are still many other challenges that would need to be solved, but every daring structure humanity has ever built, including landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge or the Sydney Opera, were initially only ideas that could work “in theory” with tons of challenges that needed to be solved, and they were, even though they might have looked like science fiction at the time.
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KeymasterHello Yijun, Hannah and Si,
We just checked our records and can confirm that we never received any submission files for registration ID #1887. Like you said yourselves, your registration ID does not show up in the submissions list, which only purpose was to allow teams that their files had been received successfully. A banner like the one below was displayed on all dashboard pages of our site, including the submission form page.
A small percentage of teams contacted us because they had problems uploading their files, and we helped each of them find a solution so that they could submit their projects.
We are really sorry about this. We know you put a lot of work an effort into your design, but today, a full month after the submission deadline, there is nothing we can do to help, unfortunately.
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