[Concurso] Design Competition for Structural Bamboo Buildings

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International Design Competition for Structural Bamboo Buildings

Bamboo Technologies do Maui lançou a primeira Competição Internacional de Projectos de Casas em Bamboo. Um interessante concursos com prémios bastante promissores $5000 para o primeiro prémio.

The competition is open to architects, builders, designers and students anywhere in the world. Registration is online at http://www.bamboocompetition.com, the official website with all competition details and guidelines. Registration deadline December 31, 2006. Submission deadline January 15, 2007. Winners
announced March 15, 2007.

This competition has been created to develop new award winning designs for bamboo buildings, raise awareness of the use of certified structural bamboo for building code approved structures, and introduce architects, designers and builders to working with bamboo as a structural material.

There are design categories for different types of bamboo buildings, and winners will be chosen in each design category, such as family housing, urban buildings, emergency shelters, commercial buildings and even tree houses.

Competition sponsors include Bamboo Technologies, INBAR (International Network of Bamboo and Rattan) and the International Bamboo Foundation. Juries of architects, experts and notable people are being selected for relevant categories.

Awards are $5000 for overall first prize, $3000 for second and $2000 for third.
Winning designs have the opportunity to be commercially built by Bamboo Technologies, with royalties paid to the designer. Awards include inclusion in a planned book on bamboo buildings and free stay in a bamboo house on Maui.

Bamboo is the next green building evolution, and it’s heading your way from Maui, Hawaii. This giant grass is a renewable, restorative and versatile building material. Structural bamboo has been certified for international
building codes – the first time bamboo has ever been code certified.

Now this certified structural bamboo material is available for use by architects and engineers throughout the world. The competition encourages architects to apply their creativity to design new buildings with this ancient building material.

Further information available at:

2006 International Bamboo Building Design Competition
http://www.bamboocompetition.com

Fonte: Archiplanet.co.uk