Architecture students and young architects who have Spanish or Portuguese nationality, or a Spanish or Portuguese residence permit and who meet the following requirements on the closing date of applications will be eligible for the grant:
Students
a) Must have achieved at least 60% of the credits necessary to obtain the qualification in architecture permitting them to exercise the profession of architect at a school of architecture in Spain or Portugal.
b) Be enrolled for the 2019/2020 course at a Spanish or Portuguese School of Architecture.
Architects
Must have obtained the qualification permitting them to exercise the profession of architect at a school of architecture in Spain or Portugal, or have obtained the qualification outside of these countries and it has been approved in either of them, after 30 April 2019.
Opening of call: 2 January 2020
Registration period: 2 January to 30 April 2020
Results: July 2020
Awards ceremony: October 2020
There are two ways of applying: academic transcript and competition. You can opt to participate in one or both simultaneously. 12 grants will be awarded via academic transcript and the rest via competition. To ensure adequate geographic distribution of the grants, the number of valid entries will be weighted proportionally by institution of study and type of application.
Candidates may choose to carry out the internship at all destinations offered by the Arquia Foundation within the Programme, selecting their preferences when they apply, as long as they meet the specific requirements of each grant
Academic transcript. Candidates will be selected according to their academic transcript. This is assessed by the average mark obtained in degree subjects passed, as well as by the average mark obtained in design project modules passed (for this purpose, all modules that come under the Department of Architectural Projects shall be taken into consideration). These average marks will be calculated by the applicant, as specified in Annex I of the Requirements.
Competition. Students will be selected according to the material submitted to the competition, as specified in Annex II of the Requirements.
The information can be edited until the day and time that the registration period closes: 30 April, 2020 at 12 p.m. (CET).
Academic transcript. Once registered, access the private user area by entering the email and password and enter the aforementioned average mark in the appropriate box (grants section, 'edit participation' option). Later, the short-listed candidates will have to send a PDF of their academic transcript.
2020 competition: 'Rethink façade systems for future high-rise residential buildings'. Once registered, access the private user area by entering the email and password and add and complete the mandatory fields. Submission of a PDF file in DIN A1 with 72 dpi, format .pdf and a maximum size of 10 MB that includes the following materials:
Title and text of 100 words
Elevation and physical model at a scale of 1:200 of a residential building façade with a height of 12 to 18 floors in an urban location
Floors, section, elevation and physical model at a scale of 1:50 of a more detailed area, with a height of 4 floors and a width of 4 rooms
List of materials and construction systems that reflect the solutions and infrastructures adopted
1 view of the indoor environment, 1 view that shows the external appearance
The studios were selected, as the ones at which they preferred to do their internship, by students at Spanish schools of architecture according to the results of the 7th online architecture student survey carried out by the Arquia Foundation in 2017. Studio destinations are updated every 3 years via an online survey.
The studios participating in this call, with which the Arquia Foundation has agreed to collaborate for the internships, are as follows:
Aires Mateus e Associados
Alberto Campo Baeza
Álvaro Siza
Amid.cero9
AZPML
Barozzi Veiga
Carme Pinós
Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos
EMBT. Miralles Tagliabue
Emilio Tuñón arquitectos
Flores Prats Architects
Foster and Partners
H-arquitectes
Herreros Arquitectos
Kéré Architecture
Lacaton & Vassal Architectes
MVRDV
Nieto Sobejano, Arquitectos GMBH, Berlín
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, Madrid
NoMAD
OAB Carlos Ferrater
Patxi Mangado
Rafael Moneo
RCR. Aranda Pigem Vilalta
The Arquia Foundation, with the collaboration of Architect-US, will award 2 grants to young architects from Spain and Portugal so that they can undertake internships at architecture studios in the US at the following studios:
OMA*AMO Architecture, New York
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, New York
The Arquía Foundation, in consideration of the educational value attributable to practical knowledge of the profession, awards 1 grant to architecture students and young architects from the schools of architecture in Spain and Portugal so that they can gain practice in cultural management, not working practice, at the Arquía Foundation head office in Barcelona.
The Arquia Foundation, in consideration of the educational value attributable to practical knowledge of the profession, awards 1 grant to architecture students and young architects from schools of architecture in Spain and Portugal so that they can undertake an internship in cultural management, not a working internship, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Through an internship at an institution dedicated to promoting creation, enjoyment and knowledge of visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate, the grant aims to give candidates the opportunity to complement the cultural knowledge acquired during their studies and their initial years of professional activity.
Taking into account the educational value of practical knowledge of the profession, the Arquia Foundation will award 2 grants to young architects who have graduated from a Spanish or Portuguese architecture school who are interested in Urban Planning, Innovation and City Development, so that they can undertake internships at the Metrópoli Foundation.
Taking into account the educational value of practical knowledge of the profession, the Arquia Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Works, Department of Architecture, Housing and Land, will award 3 grants to architecture students and young architects from Spanish architecture schools, so that they can undertake internships in the civil service, Ministry of Public Works, Department of Architecture, Housing and Land in Madrid and 6 grants to young architects for the Spanish Foreign Office, European Union and Cooperation (4 grants in Madrid and 2 in Rome).
*The awarding of grants with the civil service is subject annually to the extension of agreements already signed with the Arquia Foundation.
Taking into account the educational value of practical knowledge of the profession, the Arquia Foundation, in collaboration with the Arquitectura y Sociedad Foundation, will award 2 tuition grants to architecture students and young architects from Spanish and Portuguese architecture schools for participation in the 2020 Ultzama Campus.
Through participation in architecture meetings and the Ultzama summer school, the grants aim to give candidates the opportunity to complement the knowledge acquired during their training and help bring the professional and academic fields closer together.
Registration for the arquia/grants competition can only be done via the online registration system by completing the form provided for this purpose.
To facilitate the registration process, you can save the registration at any time and continue later.
Thursday 30 April, 2020 at 12 p.m. (CET).
Thursday 30 April, 2020 at 12 p.m. (CET).
31-35 rue Saint-Ambroise, Roger Anger, Paris.
© Aurovici Sercomanens
In an unprecedented context of urbanisation, contemporary architecture demands compact floors that limit the impact of the city on the environment. This has generated a plethora of high-rise buildings that are not alien to residential use. Given the risk of abandonment of human scale in this high-density housing, where the monotonous repetition of apartments stacked one on top of the other without a main criterion is usually accompanied by industrialised techniques, such as curtain walls and huge homogeneous skins, this competition explores the façade as a key element of innovation, which embodies the new face of an anthropocentric and integrative urban planning, sustainable from an environmental, social and economic point of view.
The façade of a building is a fundamental architectural element that establishes a transition between the interior and the exterior, between the privacy of the individual and the collective space of the city, between environmental conditions that can be manipulated and a changing climate throughout the seasons, whose impact can be controlled by flights or sunscreen devices. However, the "skin" of the building could also be thicker in volume, a living transition space, in the style of the balconies of yesteryear, but updated. Its materiality could incorporate new aspects, such as the growing concern regarding the effect of buildings on the environment, the generation of waste or low energy consumption materials. It could also be a living element capable of evolving over time, as required by the transformation of the city. And it should not forget the porosity required for that housing organism to exchange air with the outside. Façades of the future should take advantage of their potential to capture solar energy or rainwater, to facilitate contact with nature through urban gardens. The repetition of residential units in high-rise buildings, which could lead to monotony and the dilution of the individual's identity in the community, poses a new challenge that we must face with tools that anticipate the future of the residential façade, such as artistic and intellectual expression based on its formal conditions or the internalisation of aspects related to human perception and scale. This future, which can be reflected in the face of the built habitat, is in line with emerging social values: concern for social problems, human scale and individual expression in relation to identity, the image of the individual and the place they occupy in society or the material and technological decisions that support the spatial definitions of the gaps in architecture.
Through a balance between the exposed conditioning complexes that leads to a synthetic solution encompassing all of these aspects, an innovative façade proposal is requested for this type of collective high-rise housing. The façade is conceived as the boundary between the built and the unbuilt, as a glimpse of the image of the future city. The proposal will detail an area of four heights and four rooms per height, extracted from a broader outline devised by the applicant. The considerations regarding the size and height of the interior spaces, as well as the climatic conditions, will be left to the applicants, although they should be reflected in the proposal.
Submission:
• Title and text of 100 words
• Elevation and photographs of the physical model at a scale of 1:200 of a residential building façade with a height of 12 to 18 floors in an urban location
• Floors, section, elevation and physical model at a scale of 1:50 of a more detailed area, with a height of 4 floors and a width of 4 rooms
• List of materials and construction systems that reflect the solutions and infrastructures adopted
• 1 view of the indoor environment, 1 view that shows the external appearance
Anupama Kundoo, Berlin, 10 June, 2019
