The International VELUX Award is arranged in collaboration with the International Union of Architects (UIA) and regional winners. It is a biennial competition for students of architecture from all over the world. The competition is open for your personal ideas about daylight in architecture and following the two categories: “Daylight in buildings” or “Daylight investigations”.
The program wants to encourage and challenge students of architecture to explore the theme of daylight – and to create a deeper understanding of this specific and ever-relevant source of energy, light, life, and joy.
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Who May Eligible:
To eligible, the candidates must be following all the eligibility criteria:
- The award is open to any registered student of architecture – individual or team – all over the world. They encourage multi-disciplinary teams including e.g. engineering, design, and landscaping. Every student or student team must be backed and granted submission by a teacher from a school of architecture.
- An applicant must be signed up as a student (bachelor or master) in the study year 2017-18.
- Ph.D. students are not allowed to participate – neither individually nor in teams.
- The award welcomes projects from individuals or groups of students, who are students during the study year 2017/18.
- There is no limit to the number of entries from each school, but participating schools should ensure the quality of submitted study projects, e.g. by making a prejudgment. VELUX employees cannot participate.
How to Apply & Competitions Rules:
To participate, the applicants must submit a project using the IVA account that you create when you register. The link is: http://iva.velux.com/users/new
Rules:
You need to submit:
- One image file, which depicts your project
- A description of your project, no longer than 800 words, in English
Theme: “Light of Tomorrow” is the overall theme of the International VELUX Award. The award seeks to challenge the future of daylight in the built environment with an open-minded and experimental approach. Therefore, the award seeks to widen the boundaries of daylight in architecture, including aesthetics, functionality, sustainability, and the interaction between buildings and environment.
- Daylight in buildings
- Daylight investigations
The award is an open ideas competition and it is organized globally in two phases:
- In the first phase, regional prizes will be awarded to projects from the UIA member regions 1) Western Europe, 2) Eastern Europe and the Middle East, 3) the Americas, 4) Asia+ Oceania and 5) Africa.
- In the second phase, prizes will be awarded to overall winners.
Benefits:
- The total prize money is up to 30,000 €.
- Depending on the results of the international jury, a Grand Prize of 5,000 € per category will be awarded (4,000 € to the student and 1,000 € to the teacher) for the most outstanding projects.
- Depending on the results for each region, a prize of 1,250 € per category will be awarded for the best projects (1,000 € to the student and 250 € to the teacher).
- The jury will be allowed to award a number of special prizes, including prizes for innovative use of VELUX products.
Application Deadline:
The deadline for the International VELUX Award is April 15, 2018.
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If you have any further questions regarding the award, competition and submission process send them an email to iva-at-velux.com.
