Competition introduction
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Music festivals are popular worldwide, allowing music fans to meet and experience their favorite bands and artists live and in a crowd of fellow supporters. And while you'd expect to see pop music festivals, rock music festivals, and jazz music festivals, you may not have expected a classical music festival.
Sansusī is just that, a festival dedicated to celebrating classical and contemporary chamber music within a modern festival setting. First established in 2014, the Sansusī festival has been held each year in Latvia and sought to create the world's first alternative chamber music festival. It brings together chamber music – a form of classical music composed for a small group of instruments – with all the excitement, adventure, and freedom of a typical rock festival.
There is only one Sansusī, where heartfelt simplicity meets exquisite excellence. The courage to create unprecedented works of art, to experiment with new formats, and the courage to trust audiences.
The festival aims to create accessible places and events where everyone can meet and fall in love with the contemporary scene.
Sansusī was built on the concept of creating and engaging with the wider community, both on-site and online.
Sansusī combines open-air concerts where visitors can listen to classical music with other interdisciplinary performing arts such as contemporary dance, circus performers, live theater, exhibitions, and all manner of other performances – all set within beautiful natural surroundings.
The Sansusī Forest Food Court competition is being run in partnership with the festival, tasking architects and designers to create a food court structure that would function as the center of the festival. The structure would need to be able to be assembled by hand and should be constructed of sustainable materials.
As winning designs will be put forward for consideration for construction, the Sansusī festival founders are asking participants to offer solutions that will best serve the various needs of the festival. Designs should reflect the festival's spirit while also being a prolific example of green building practices and sustainable design.
Download the full competition brief for more information!
The competition is open to all. No professional qualification is required. Design proposals can be developed individually or by teams (4 team members maximum). Correspondence with organizers must be conducted in English; All information submitted by participants must be in English.
Full competition brief
The full competition brief can be downloaded as often as required; no additional information will be provided after registration.
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- (!) FULL COMPETITION BRIEF
- Reglas de la competencia
- Regolamento del concorso
- Règles de compétition
- SITE & CONTEXT PHOTOGRAPHS
Prizes
10,000 € + Construction
Total Prize Fund
1st PRIZE
5,000 €
PublicationsCertificate of Achievement
2nd PRIZE
2,500 €
PublicationsCertificate of Achievement
3rd PRIZE
1,000 €
PublicationsCertificate of Achievement
BUILDNER STUDENT AWARD (more details)
1,000 €
+ 50 € ARCHHIVE BOOKS Gift Card + 50 Points BUILDNER Architecture University Rankings
Publications
Certificate of Achievement
+ 6 HONOURABLE MENTIONS
CERTIFICATE:
Buildner will also acknowledge the outstanding performance of all winners and honourable mentions with Certificates of Achievement.
Publicity campaign
The Buildner’s extensive global publicity campaign for the competition winners:
- "SEEN BY" ONE MILLION Results published on buildner.com - one of the leading websites in the industry and is visited by over one million unique visitors each year.
- "SEEN BY" 800 000 MORE Publications on Buildner's social networks (over 600,000 followers) and newsletter campaigns (over 200,000 subscribers).
- INTERVIEW Exclusive interview published with the results and shared on Buildner's social networks.
- MOVIE The competition winners will be granted and opportunity to submit a movie about themselves. The video will be published on the Buildner's website and social networks.
- MEDIA PARTNERS The competition results will get international art and design media coverage and will be featured in the world’s leading architecture media outlets.
Jury panel
Jury members shall under no circumstances be contacted by competition participants or their representatives. Participants who attempt to contact jury members, shall be disqualified.
All jury members are involved in the evaluation based on their availability at that time. All communication regarding the competition should only be carried out with Buildner staff. For any questions please contact us on [email protected]
Paula Gāgane
Architect, editor of the creative industries platform Fold.
Latvia
Uldis Trapencieris
tehnical director at Latvian National Symphony orchestra, founder of concert hall TJZK
Latvia
Armands Siliņš-Bergmanis
opera singer and board member of association Sansusī
Latvia
Ivars Veinbergs
architect at the NRJA
Latvia
Oskars Kotello
architect and co-founder of MERU arhitekti
Latvia
Marija Katrina Dambe
architect and founder of NOMAD architects
Latvia
Key dates
Closing date for registration
06 April, 2023
Closing date for project submission
05 May, 2023 (11:59pm London time)
Announcement of the winners
22 June, 2023
Competition Q&A deadline: 14 April, 2023
In order to guarantee equal opportunities to all competition participants,
no new questions will be answered after this deadline!
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Food Court deadlines
Food Court deadlines
Registration fees
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Registration Deadline09 February - 06 April
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Architects / Enthusiasts / Companies155 €Full award package
This registration provides a complete set of prizes, including certificates of achievement, monetary rewards, and potential construction benefits.110 €No monetary award This registration offers a comprehensive set of prizes, including recognition through publicity, certificates of achievement, and potential construction-related benefits, without any monetary awards. -
Students125 €Full award package This registration provides a complete set of prizes, including certificates of achievement, monetary rewards, and potential construction benefits.85 €No monetary award This registration offers a comprehensive set of prizes, including recognition through publicity, certificates of achievement, and potential construction-related benefits, without any monetary awards.
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STUDENT REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
Contact us to receive special student rates for group registrations (discount applies for 3+ registrations from one university/school) and to receive further information and support for getting your students involved in architecture competitions. Send us request from your university email address along with basic information about yourself and your university/school. Please note that only recognized university staff can apply for the reduced student rate.
Competition results in media
F.A.Q.
Competition related questions
The competition site boundaries are approximate and should be treated as guidelines, not fixed boundaries.
Caterers will prepare food on-site and have access to electricity and water.
Climate control is not required for storage.
The approximate budget for the structure should range around 20,000 euros.
Water and electricity are available on the site.
The festival has a visitor capacity of 1000 individuals, but the food court is designed to accommodate up to 200 people at a time.
Catering will be available throughout the day until late evening and will also function as a bar.
While the preferred system for dishes is not yet defined, the deposit system is being considered where customers pay a small fee for a reusable dish that they must return or refill with their food and beverages.
Campfires can be proposed.
It is not recommended to use trees as structural supports.
General questions
Click on "register now", fill in all the required fields, choose your payment method and submit your information. You will be forwarded to Paypal or CPS secure payment gateway, to cover the competition fee. Once we receive your payment, we'll send you an email with your username and password to upload your submission directly to the website.
You can add/remove/edit team member information as often as you want in the upload panel, up until the submission deadline.
Only one proposal per registration is permitted. Participants are entitled to register multiple times if they wish to participate in the competition with several proposals.
Yes we are in the process of negotiating with multiple international industry-related media representatives. The list of media partners is constantly updated on our website, please check it regularly to find latest updates.
Yes. If the jury panel selects a Student award's submission for the top 3, it will automatically be awarded both prizes.
Yes. If the jury panel selects a Sustainability award's submission for the top 3, it will automatically be awarded both prizes.
No. Competition entries are evaluated anonymously. The participant registration type is only revealed upon the announcement of the results.
Please contact us – [email protected] and we will address the problem directly.
The short answer is yes, you may submit a previously published design concept as long as you are the author. Before re-submitting your project, please carefully read the following clarification points listed here - architecturecompetitions.com/resubmit-your-design
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