Totem - International competition for students in architecture



International Competition - Results Totem - International competition for students in architecture

This single stage ideas competiton was organised in the framework of the UIA Congress, Turin 2008. Based on the Congress theme, Transmitting architecture, competitors were invited to design a totem, an architectural object for communication, information and exchange to be located in one of three types of environment: a social context: poverty; a natural context: sustainability; an urban context: metropoplis. The procedure was run entirely on internet. Jury The jury met on 11 and 12 April 2008 in Turin. Charired by Magda Hosam Eldin, architect, Egypt, it was made up of Wolf Tochtermann, architect, Germany, José Luis Cortes Delgado, architect, Mexico and Yan Yi, winner of the 2005 UNESCO Prize. The jury examined 435 projects from students in 34 countries. Winners 1st Prize, offered by Space Group of Korea with the support of UNESCO Xintao Ye (China) : “Environmental Mnemon ” 2nd Prize, offered by the Japan Institute of Architects - JIA Zhenbin Mei (China): Mirror of life Mirror of culture 3rd prize offered by the TORINO 2008 Congress organisation committee Dicky Ferdiansyah (Germany): “Flexible polypropylene sheets“ 4th Prize, offered by the Union of Architects of Russia - UAR Han Yu (China) ”Rocoloco” 5th Prize, Patrick Nelli Prize offered by the UIA French Section - CIAF Siji Lv (China) “A totem of caligraphy” 6th Prize, Louise Cox Prize Huang Zheng Huang “Well umbrella” 7th Prize, Wolf Tochtermann Prize Qian Chen (China)“The way to dreams” Mentions, offered by the TORINO 2008 Congress organisation committee Qing Ju (China) “Harbour on cycle track” Hanqi Wang (China) “Rooftops”. See all projects on-line http://www.totem.uia2008torino.org/vincitori.aspx