Student's contest by SABIT: Design for a better life

Our Polish reseller SABIT has organized the following contest for local students:

Design for a better life: Create a 3D model in Rhino for improving the lives of others

3D modeling can be used to create innovative solutions to improve life and address various social, medical, environmental, and technological challenges in society.

SABIT invites all students to participate in this competition, where they will have the opportunity to showcase their skills in Rhino and creativity in developing 3D models to improve the lives of others. This is a challenge to develop innovative projects that can make the world a better and more comfortable place.

Submissions deadline 24 December.

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Christmas Competition by Packhunt.io

It's that time of year again, and Packhunt.io is launching its Christmas Design Competition!

How to enter:

• Design a parametric snowflake in Rhino/ Grasshopper
• Take a screenshot (PNG/ JPG) or screen recording (MP4)
• Send it to xmas2022@packhunt.io by 15th December 2022
• The winner will be announced on 20th December 2022

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Easter Design Competition 2022 by Packhunt.io

Get in with a chance of winning a special prize by entering Packhunt.io's Easter Design Competition! We are looking for a creative egg holder designed in Grasshopper/Rhino. Think about the shapes, colors and textures—how can you show us your design flair?

What do you need to do to enter?

• Design a 3D parametric egg holder in Grasshopper/Rhino, and remember to show us your creativity!
• Make a screenshot to showcase your design in PNG or JPG format, or alternatively, you can send us a screen recording as an MP4.
• Send it to us via email: easter2022@packhunt.io by April 10th latest.

We will then review all the models and announce the winner on April 15th, so keep your eyes peeled for the announcement, which will be via our social media.

And follow us on LinkedIn to make sure you’re notified! @White Lioness technologies and @packhunt.io.

Good luck, and may the best model win! We look forward to receiving your entries and reviewing many creative egg holders!

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UBC Design League Designathon, February 19-20

UBC Design League Designathon

Vancouver, BC @LIFE Building

February 19-20

Register here.

The UBC Design League is hosting the first-ever Architecture Designathon, which is similar to a hackathon, but for CADing instead of coding. Participants will get the chance to experience real industry prompts, network, and receive design feedback from industry professionals. 

The competition involves teams of two choosing one of two design prompts, and everyone is given 36 hours to create a solution. During the solution-making process, mentors will drop by and teams can receive pointers on their ideas. Afterward, professionals in the industry will judge the final projects and prizes will be awarded; prizes include 3D printers, drawing tablets, and even a firm visit! 

Admission is free and open to students of all faculties. It will take place in person (subject to change) at the UBC Vancouver campus.

The number of participants will be limited due to COVID restrictions, so register here while there are spots available!

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VisualARQ BIM Design Student Contest 2022

Asuni is pleased to announce the second edition of the VisualARQ BIM Design student Contest.

This contest seeks to recognize emerging talent in AEC students. The competition is open to any student enrolled in an academic program (during the 2021–2022 academic year) associated with the AEC industry.

Competition entries will take advantage of VisualARQ tools to create innovative design spaces with no scale or project typology constraints.

The submission deadline is on 1st March 2022.

Winner projects will be awarded Rhino, VisualARQ, and Lands Design educational licenses.

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8th Annual Car Render Challenge by Hum3D

Hum3D would like to invite all Rhinoceros 3D artists to join the 8th Annual Car Render Challenge. It’s the largest awards event for the car 3D modeling and visualization industry. Every year Rhino entries are in the final stage of voting, so let’s make this year's winner one of our users.

What participants need to do: create a car 3D model, put it into a 3D environment and make a beautiful rendering. You can choose any automobile you like, whether it is a racing or an imaginary vehicle.

Environment in the work should be made in 3D as well as a final image. Minimal use of third-party assets such as vegetation, street elements is allowed. Vehicle models should be made by you.

The first-place winner will get prizes worth a total of $15,000: license and content from 30 sponsors, leaders of the 3D world industry. Also, everyone has an opportunity to receive additional prizes. 

A professional jury team will vote to choose the winners.

Event dates: September 15-December 8.

 

See all rules and prizes on the challenge page...

 

IAA Mobility Design Competition 2021

 

Design and architecture students are welcome to participate in the IAA Mobility Design Competition 2021.
⁠⁠
Share your creative interpretations for the future of mobility and you could be presenting your concepts to a room full of design experts and leaders from some of the top global mobility Companies at the IAA Mobility Conference in Munich, Germany.

The competition has three categories:

• Mobility in the city of the future
• Urban Transportation of the future
• Mobility UX / UI of the future

⁠⁠Design briefings, information, and participation requirements are available here.

Participants are welcome to use Rhino and Grasshopper to create their concept designs.

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Into the Wild - design competitions by Non Architecture

Nature is the designer of this world. Since ancient history, we have always imagined and represented nature in a great many ways across history, painting it and worshipping it. Today we ended up undervaluing it.

Architects and designers have control over our built environment; by designing cities and buildings to empower rather than disconnect from ecosystems, we can change our proximity to the environment and change our physical relationship to it. Rekindling our relationship with nature is a task that architecture and urban design are well suited to tackle. Recognizing and making decisions based on nature’s value will be essential for building a better world.

Bringing nature back into our cities and enhancing existing ecological zones can deliver a truly impressive array of benefits, ranging from health and well-being to climate change adaptation and mitigation. However, reconciling cities with nature requires more than just a scientific approach.

Into the Wild is a compilation of design challenges that aim to approach the element of nature from different perspectives.

In this scenario, Rhino software presents itself as a powerful creative tool to design and develop the most innovative proposal to submit on this series of competitions.

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BIM Design Student Contest by VisualARQ

The VisualARQ BIM Design Student Contest seeks to recognize emerging talent in AEC students. The competition is open to any student enrolled in an academic program (during the 2020 – 2021 academic year) associated with the AEC industry (proof of enrollment required). Competition entries will take advantage of VisualARQ tools to create innovative spaces that are considerate of the current worldwide societal pressures.

Participants can use the VisualARQ evaluation version that is available for 90 days.

Submittals will be accepted until February 15.

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NON Architecture competitions

NON Architecture invites all Rhino and Grasshopper users to participate at its competitions:

Healing - Alternative Designs for Quarantine Cities

NonA is looking for visionary concepts for alternative urban life in relation to the COVID-19 emergency – Only 3 drawings, absolute freedom of scale, site or program. 

Prizes: 2 Winners 1000€/each, 6 Honourable Mentions. 

Jury: Maura Ambrosiano – Associate Partner at Foster & Partners; Enno Zuidema – Director and Urban Planner at MVRDV. 

Competition opens on May 1st, 2020, and closes on August 22nd, 2020.

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Social Distancing - Housing Block

NonA calls for alternative housing models to disrupt the real estate market in a scenario of prolonged social distancing, a creative approach to architectural design, departing from a given user, program and extension. Only 3 drawings, absolute freedom of scale, site or program. 

Prizes: 2 Winners 1000€/each, 6 Honourable Mentions. 

Jury: Fala Atelier and 3XN. 

Competition opens on May 1st, 2020, and closes on August 29th, 2020.

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6th annual competition for the best car render by Hum3D

Annual Hum3d Competition for 3D Artists

Car Render Challenge

September 18-December 4

"Sixth annual Hum3D competition for the best Car render. It’s the largest awards event for the car 3d modeling and visualization industry.

Everything is as usual: you have to create a car 3D model, put it into 3D environment and make a beautiful render. There are no limits for your creative ideas: you can choose any automobile you like whether it is racing or imaginary vehicle. We invite all Rhino 3D artists to participate."

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I National Electric Vehicle Competition in Colombia

Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana's (UPB's) RhinoFabStudio invites you to join the I National Electric Vehicle Competition that will be held in Medellín, Colombia.

This national competition, organized by the University of La Sabana and the University of Antioquia, will include the participation of 16 teams from different universities in Colombia. The challenge consists of manufacturing an electric vehicle capable of transporting a 75kg person and passing a series of tests, including lean technologies, sustainable mobility, and environmental care. 

Date: October 16-18, 2019

For more information please contact Andres Franco or visit this link.

What is RhinoFabStudio? A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer-controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

Reshape19| Cognified Matter - Adidas new partner

In its third year, Reshape is happy to announce the participation of Adidas as a primary partner at the Reshape19| Cognified Matter competition.

Simone Cesano - Senior Director Design Operations Adidas will be part of the Reshape Jury Members to evaluate the emerging designer that will participate in the new edition of Reshape Competition V.

Reshape19| Cognified Matter focuses on future applications of Wearable Tech and Smart Products, inviting creative minds to predict new trends, elaborate on novel solutions, and recalibrate existing markets in the direction of more sustainable models.

Non Architecture - Re-Draw Competition - Casa da Música

Designers have always used drawings to communicate their ideas to the rest of the world. Drawings were considered a communication medium, used to represent abstract concepts and bring them closer to reality. It was a primordial effort of giving a shape to thoughts and narrate concepts visually.

In the digital age, where content and images dominate our daily life, the relationship with visual content drastically changes when it comes to architecture. Renown buildings are often photographed, Instagrammed, shared as a passive portrait of what architecture can look like. It's to the point that some designers design for more photogenic buildings. The result is a media-oriented image of architecture, often portrayed online by various users from the same angle, following the trending aesthetics and styles. What used to be a moment of creation, tends to become today a passive exercise of pure repetition. 

Based on this paradigm, the competition series wants to encourage representation as a proactive exercise, and engage the public in rediscovering a given building, an architectural icon, proactively researching a new image, a new way to portray it, by being creative, critical and innovative.
  
Casa da Música by OMA—the Porto Concert Hall—is the first building selected for the RE-DRAW competition series.

The “Re-Draw” competition aims to develop one visual to ‘represent’ an iconic architecture.

The participants are asked to draft one image, with absolute freedom of scale, technique, and level of abstraction.

We encourage creativeness, criticality, and innovation.

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RESHAPE19| Cognified Matter competition

Reshape invites all Rhino users to take part in the 5th edition of its competition: 

Reshape19| Cognified Matter focuses on future applications of Wearable Tech and Smart Products, inviting creative minds to predict new trends, elaborate on novel solutions, and recalibrate existing markets in the direction of more sustainable models. 

Reshape V edition will shortlist three winners, from the Wearable Technology and Smart product category.  Additionally, two honorable mentions will be nominated for each category. The first winning designers will be awarded two scholarships* (value: 6.500 Euro) for the Design for Wearables postgraduate at IED Barcelona, and a monetary prize up to 1,000 euros.

All selected talents, winners and honorable mentions will have the chance to participate in Reshape Forum, with a free ticket pass at INDUSTRY From Need to Solution Event. At the Reshape Forum, designers will meet relevant industry leaders, presenting their proposals to the INDUSTRY and Reshape audience. Additionally, shortlisted projects will be showcased at the Reshape Exhibition.

*100% Scholarship program for the Wearable technology category 1st winner, 50% Scholarship program for the Smart Product category 1st winner. The inscription fee is not included.

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Non Architecture Buying Competition

Non Architecture is a nonprofit organization whose only purpose is to
encourage and support the creation of bold innovative ideas.

We can consider Architecture everything that has already been designed or built, a realm of conventional solutions, often repeated in a self-referential system. Imagine a counterpart, a Non Architecture: a world of unexplored designs and countless possibilities, that if found, could enlarge and change the boundaries of architecture permanently. In its framework, Non Architecture is developing a series of competitions whose focus on finding innovative approaches to a specific architecture topic, always related to a functional issue. Emphasis is always pointed to nontraditional, and therefore non-architectural approaches to the architect’s work.

The 9th and final competition of the series, launched on February 1st, is Buying.

The Buying competition aims to develop design proposals for the shop typology, intended as space—either material or immaterial—where goods or services are available to the public. The participants are asked to create innovative and unconventional projects, questioning the very basis of the notion of the shop. 

With critical thinking and creative attitude, the participants are urged to investigate how the shopping experience can be reformed in the future, and how the concept of the shop as a space with material and immaterial characteristics can be reinvented. The proposal can be a device, a piece of furniture, an interior design project, a pavilion, a building or an urban plan. Scale of intervention, program dimensions and location are not given, and they can be arranged by the participants to suit their project better.

Eligibility: Non Architecture Competitions are open to all human beings, from every age and cultural background, working in groups or individually.

Submission deadline is April 30.

For more information, please check Non Architecture – Buying page on
www.nonarchitecture.eu

IASS-Structural Membranes Symposium in Barcelona - October 7-10, 2019

FORM and FORCE (Barcelona, October 7-10, 2019), a joint International Conference incorporating:

IASS Symposium 2019
60th Anniversary Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures

and

Structural Membranes 2019
8th International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures


Following the customary celebration of the IASS Symposium every ten years in Spain and the Structural Membranes Conference every four years in Barcelona, the organizers have found an outstanding opportunity to merge both communities into a joint international conference that aims to provide a forum for state-of-the-art contributions and fruitful discussion in the broad fields of shell, spatial, tension and inflatable structures.

Complete info and registration...

Competition and exhibition of innovative lightweight structures: An invitation for artists, designers, engineers, and researchers

Internationally recognized and celebrated artists, designers, engineers, and researchers in cooperation with top universities from all over the world are invited to participate in a contest and exhibition of innovative lightweight structures. The structures must display a strong vision of structural design and innovation and demonstrably be the result of structural engineering focused research projects. 

The exhibition aims to show new insights into structural typologies, through the design of a pavilion. The pavilions will be exhibited in the summer of 2019 and during the joint IASS - Structural Membranes Form and Force 2019 symposium in Barcelona. During the conference the contest jury, chaired by the president of the IASS, will award a prize to the most innovative realized structure. 

The competition brief is to design an innovative lightweight pavilion, of maximum external dimensions 4x4x4m. It must be transportable and fit into six boxes each with a maximum external size of 1x0.75x0.65m and maximum weight of 32kg (total pavilion 192kg). The structure should reflect the structural engineering research of the submitting team. Each structure will be judged by examining the production techniques, materiality, level of structural innovation, constructability, transportability, architectural expression, and overall originality of the finished pavilion. The choices of materials, manufacturing methods, erection techniques, and so forth are at the entire discretion of each team. Innovative ideas and prototype methodologies that push the boundaries of construction are strongly encouraged.

Submission extended to January 20, 2019!

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Non Architecture – Learning competition

Non Architecture (NA) is a non-profit organization, whose only purpose is to
encourage and support the creation of brave innovative ideas.

Non Architecture considers “Architecture” everything that has already been designed and/or built, a realm of conventional solutions.

Imagine a counterpart, a “Non architecture”: a world of unexplored designs and countless possibilities, that if found, could enlarge and change the boundaries of architecture permanently. NA is developing a series of competitions to focus on finding innovative approaches to a specific architecture topic, always related to a functional issue. Emphasis is always pointed to nontraditional non-architectural approaches to the architect’s work.

The next and 8th competition, launched on October 1st, with a deadline of December 30th, is Learning – Alternative Designs for Universities.

Developed with Intrepid, this 32-country network is funded by the EU and
is investigating how to achieve more efficient and effective interdisciplinary
research in Europe. The aim of the competition is to develop design proposals for the university, intended as a space of higher education, training, and teaching on all levels and disciplines.

The participants are asked to create innovative and unconventional projects on this theme and to investigate what kind of spatial qualities can support or empower the process of learning in the future.

Designers are asked to merge considerable programmatic innovation and valuable design tools. The proposal could be a device, a piece of furniture, interior design project, pavilion, urban plan or something other. The participants chose the scale of intervention, program dimensions, and location to suit their project. 

Rhino and Grasshopper users are encouraged to submit their projects!

For more information, please check the Non Architecture – Learning competition page: www.nonarchitecture.eu

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2019 Skyscraper Competition

Announcing eVolo Magazine's 2019 Skyscraper Competition

Established in 2006, this annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of novel technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations.

The competition encourages participants to consider technology advances and to explore sustainable systems. The eVolo Magazine 2019 Skyscraper Competition is looking for projects that solve economic, social, and cultural problems of the contemporary city, including the scarcity of natural resources and infrastructure and the exponential increase of inhabitants, pollution, and unplanned urban sprawl.

There are no restrictions on the site, program, or size, and no specific height requirement. The goal is creativity without constraints. 

Both team and individual entries are accepted. 

Schedule and fees

November 20, 2018 – Early registration starts, US $95.
November 21, 2018 – Late registration starts. US $135.
January 29, 2019 – Registration deadline. Participants must register by this date.
February 12, 2019 – Project submission deadline
April 9, 2019 – Winners’ announcement

Awards

Winners and special mentions will be published by eVolo and several international print publications. Also, the results are covered by important online architecture and design publications and general media such as the Huffington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

1st place – US $5000
2nd place – US $2000
3rd place – US $1000

More details and to register...

Annual Hum3D Competition for the best car rendering

It's time for the fifth annual Hum3D competition for the best car rendering! 

It is the largest awards event for the car 3D modeling and visualization industry.

Everything is as usual: You have to create a car 3D model, put it into a 3D environment, and make a beautiful rendering. There are no limits for your creative ideas: you can choose any automobile you like whether it is a racing or an imaginary vehicle. 

Hum3D invites all Rhino artists to participate. Details here!