About Competition
The aim of the “Meta-City” competition is to develop one drawing to communicate a conceptual design. The participants are asked to design a visionary concept for an urban block that responds to the requirements of the metaverse environment and one axonometric projection to represent it, with absolute freedom of interpretation, technique and level of abstraction. Even the concept of axonometric itself can be questioned in order to craft the most expressive way to represent the design. This is a competition where you develop your communication, designer, and space thinker skills. We are challenging designers to reinterpret and design what could be a city in the virtual world, by taking advantage of the absence of real-life rules or restrictions such as gravity, structural stability, climatic issues, or physical laws. On the other hand, new rules will apply. Designers should foresee which of those rules will be and how to play with them. The drawing can highlight functional aspects or a specific design aspect. It can focus on the aesthetic qualities, showing general configuration or specific project characteristics. The entry is entirely flexible and adaptable to the participant’s perception.
Requirements/Eligibility
Non Architecture Competitions are open to all human beings, from every age and cultural background, working in groups or individually. The registration fee is paid per team, regardless of how many members form it. Personal information of all the team members can be uploaded during the submission procedure of the final drawing.
Competition Website: https://www.nonarchitecture.eu/meta-city/?utm_source=archidiaries&utm_medium=platform&utm_campaign=archidiaries_metacity&utm_content=content
Submission / Key Dates
1 – 30 June 2022 – Special registration period (40 €*).
1 – 31 July – Early registration period (55 €*).
1 – 31 August – Regular registration period (70 €*).
1 – 30 September – Last Minute registration period (85 €*).
15 September – Submission opens on our website.
30 September – 11.59 PM – Submission closes.
1 – 15 November – Winner announcement.
The timing always refers to Central European Time (CET)
* +22% VAT.
About the Organizer
Non Architecture Competitions aims to find unconventional and unexplored design solutions in the field of architecture. From 2016 to 2019, Non Architecture organized a series of 10 competitions pointed at reinventing functional architectural typologies. In 2020, we entered a new phase structured around nine themes, building a Research Ecosystem with the purpose of exploring each theme from different perspectives and multiple competitions. They will all have their focus on tackling the big issues of tomorrow, by seeking non-traditional approaches in the architect’s work.
