宜居乡村·我们的家园——第五届紫金奖·建筑及环境设计大赛(2018)竞赛公告

5th "Zijin Award" of Architectural Design& Environmental Art Contests

（2018）

Livable Country and Our Homeland

This year’s contests adopt the theme of "Livable Country and Our Homeland" as both an implementation of the strategy of rural vitalization and relevant requirements for building a beautiful and livable countryside proposed in the 19th CPC National Congress and an extension of the "idyllic countryside" theme of the 4th contests. Centering round "New Age, New Countryside and New Life," the contests require participants to focus on villages in real life and make creative design for farm houses, public buildings and surroundings in the countryside, in order to promote the construction of a beautiful and livable homeland rooted in the rural society, rich in local characteristics, bearing idyllic nostalgia and embodying modern civilization and echoing the needs and longings of rural inhabitants for a better life.

The review team is composed of members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, national engineering survey and design masters, design masters of Jiangsu Province, senior designers, well-known experts and scholars from all circles of society, representatives of towns and villages as well as media representatives.

the chairman
the Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering  Wang Jianguo

The subject selection is open-ended in the contests. Participants can select villages to be designed regardless of the limit of administrative divisions, which can be existing villages or new rural communities. The organizing committee will offer the catalogue of villages in several batches for participants to consult and select. Participants can, according to their creative ideas and the focus of their designs, conceive their subtitles and design tasks.

The design contents can be new, expanded, refurbished or upgraded farm houses, individual units or clusters of public buildings, public places and space of a village, rural surroundings or architectural oddments. Participants are encouraged to provide comprehensive design plans for villages.

Participants are required to offer creative design plans to improve life in the countryside focusing on realistic problems. They should take an in-depth research into the countryside and create based on the natural environment, cultural characteristics and economic conditions; show respect to villagers’ wills and practical needs, organic integration of villages into the rural surroundings; attach importance to the application of rural materials and local varieties of trees; pay high regard to the expression of traditional culture and local characteristics, the blend of characteristics of the times with green construction concepts, the integration of facilities such as photovoltaics into buildings. Also the application of new construction methods such as prefabrication is encouraged.

Participants will be divided into the professional group, the student group and the public group. 

Designers, teachers and students from related fields are cordially invited to participate in the contest.

The contest set up "Zijin Awards" and "Awards for Excellent Works".The total bonus is over one million yuan.Among them, the winning works of "Awards for Excellent Works"are also awarded the same level of  "Excellent Design Awards of the Jiangsu Urban-Rural Construction System"; The winning works of "Zijin Awards" are also awarded "Jiangsu Excellent Project Awards of Applied Social Science Research" and "Jiangsu Excellent Engineering Design Awards" (see Contest Announcement).

The contests have set up "Incubation Funds for Creative Idea" to support the implementation of excellent design works.

Participants can log in www.iarchis.com or the WeChat platform "iarchis" to apply for the contests and download relevant information.

For more information, please visit "5th "Zijin Award" of Architectural Design& Environmental Art Contests(2018)" (click here).