Important Dates

Early Birds Registration (33 USD/75.000 LBP)* ends July 12

Regular Registration (50USD/120.000 LBP)* ends August 30

Late Registration  (75USD/150.000 LBP)* ends September 14

Queries period ends July 21

Submission Date September 21 , 2021 @ 11:59 pm

*Please refer to Terms & Conditions in particular points 6; 7; 8; 9 & 10

Terms & Conditions

1. Entries can be made individually or by teams not exceeding four (4) participants.
2. All team members should be younger than 33 years old born after June 21^st Winning teams failing to prove this for any team member will have their entry disqualified.
3. Teams or individuals can submit more than one entry, as long as the entries are duly registered during the allocated time period and submitted before the deadline September 21^st, 11:59pm Beirut Time (GMT +3:00).
4. All submissions are done electronically there is no paper nor model submission required.
5. We have divided the entries into two categories the International and the Lebanon entries. With the following registration schedule and fees:
6. The international entries registration will be as follow:
   1. Early bird registration (till July 12^th)                                      33 USD
   2. Regular registration (July 13^th till August 30^th)                    50 USD
   3. Late registration (August 31^st till Sept 14^th)                         75 USD
7. Payment will be done by either money transfer to Beirut, or by bank transfer to London, within 72 hours after registration. Details will be communicated upon registrations.
8. The Lebanon based entries registration will be as follow:
   1. Early bird registration (till July 12^th)                                       75,000 LBP
   2. Regular registration (July 13^th till August 30^th)                    120,000 LBP
   3. Late registration (August 31^st till Sept 14^th)                        150,000 LBP
9. Payment will be done by either local money transfer or by setting up a meeting within 48 hours of registration.
10. To claim the Lebanon based entries, all team members should be located in Beirut. Cash winning prizes will only be handed in person to the entire team.
11. International winning entries will receive their prize by bank transfer.

12. The prizes are all in cash USD

           600 USD winning entry

          400 USD first runner up

          200 USD second runner up

1. Registration is final for the specific team members. No members can be added or removed after registration.
2. Registration payment is final and no reimbursement will be made regardless of any valid reason.
3. All correspondences for queries and, or for technical assistance are done through Dar[e] email competition@dar-e.org
4. Anyone directly affiliated to Dar[e] cannot join the competition.
5. It is strictly forbidden to get in touch with any jury member, explicitly to communicate details about the competition and or the team registration number. This will result in automatic disqualification.
6. It is strictly forbidden to mark the submission sheets with anything that might reveal the team (logo, picture, names). This will result in automatic disqualification.
7. Participant are not allowed to show, communicated and, or advertise their entries on any digital mean on any social network before the official results. Doing this will result in automatic disqualification.
8. By submitting your entry, you grant Dar[e] the perpetual full and unconditional right to use your entry in any form that fits their present and future goals for, among other archiving, exhibiting, digital publishing, hardcopy publishing, promotion, promoting future similar events, or disseminating knowledge and knowhow in the field of energy reduction, comfort studies and sustainable environmental design, locally and or internationally.
9. Entrants accept and agree that the jury final decision is final and non-appealable, and that it is the combined and agreed decision of all the jurors togethers, where Dar[e] coordinated the process.
10. It is the sole Participants responsibility to acknowledge any external source used, may it be graphical or a text reference. Failing to do so and if noticed within the judgment process will result in automatic disqualification. Dar[e] declines any current or future responsibility if such an incident occurs.
11. By registering and participating in the competition, participants agree to all the terms and conditions of the competition.
12. First prize entry should be decided by more than two third of the jury, for 12 jury first prize should be voted/decided by 9 jurors

Judgement criteria

1. Entries are judged anonymously; a number is assigned on registration visible on all submitted sheets.
2. As long as they abide by the program the Entries are judged individually and anonymously for their:
   1. Creative and innovative architectural design approach/concept,
   2. Relation to Beirut or cultural (des)integration, or what makes this project unique to Beirut and cannot be put in any other city.
   3. Sustainable environmental design approach and proposal for how user comfort is reached
3. Regarding the sustainable environmental design approach to reach user comfort and reduce energy, entries are expected to tackle the following fundamental points and present them in a concise and clear way (more graphic, less text)
   1. Passive design solution (including orientation, ventilation and natural light)
   2. Material choices (more for their expected thermal behaviour rather than their embedded carbon footprint)
   3. Cooling/heating strategies
4. Embedded energy & end of life decommissioning energy are left to the discretion of the participants, but will not be integral part of the judgment criteria.
5. Integrating active systems within the entry are kept to the discretion of the participants, but will not be an integral part of the judgement criteria.
6. Participants are NOT required nor expected to do energy simulation or any other software simulation. Similarly, No Energy calculations are expected.
7. Since all entries are digital, judgment will also be only digital, based on the shared presentation template size, participant should take this seriously into account when planning their text sizing and their overall submission.
8. Participants are expected to show through night/day and seasonal sketches how the building will behave in terms of providing comfort with minimal energy (Passive design).

About Dar[e] role

1. Dar[e] is an official Lebanese NGO registered at the Ministry of Interior under number 35/2019, its goal is to Encourage, Support and Promote Sustainable Environmental Design. Among the methodologies used to reach the goal is through Architecture Competitions as this one.
2. Philippe H. Saleh is the Founder and Current President of Dar[e].
3. This is a competition for ideas, there is no intention for neither the project nor any of the submitted projects to be built.
4. Dar[e] is launching and managing the competition. Dar[e] will also coordinate the judgement process between the various international and local jury members, without taking part in the proper jury progress.

Competition Brief

How would you design Beirut Post-Blast building?

Quarantina, separated from the main urban hub (mar Mikhael) but the high speed road and the train station, was typically an industrial zone turn into limited offices/businesses in addition to the local inhabitant. Recently the it started seeing some demand for residential in terms of rentals. Besides the famous B-018 and the forum de Beirut which can be said are on the edge of Quarantina, are vibrant spot locations, (night club and exhibition/concert hall) yet they do not allow the partygoer to engage and interact into the area.