Important Dates

Early Birds Registration (33 USD/75.000 LBP)* ends July 4

Regular Registration (45EUR/50USD/120.000 LBP)* ends August 15

Late Registration  (65EUR/75USD/150.000 LBP)* ends September 10

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

Competition Brief

The Competition is to design Beirut’s Greener Tomorrow’s buildings. Three small adjacent lots (+300sqm) located in the Quarantina Area of Beirut are to be developed into mixed use (residential, office, commercial and public) varying between four to six floors.

The proposal should fit within the various terms of Green, sustainable, low energy, zero energy or nearly zero energy buildings, bio-climatic Project. As far as Dar[e] (the organizers) are concerned this is summarized by providing maximum users’ comfort while using minimum energy and natural resources, thus having minimum impact onto the environment.

Further design parameters and criteria, along with the corresponding maps, an Autocad file, a concise weather (graphical data) file for Beirut, and your unique registration number will be shared after finalizing registration.

Deliverables:

Three (A1) sheets + One (A3) sheet

1- All technical drawings of the building: plans, sections, elevations and axonometric

2- The clear and detailed passive design strategies (material choice, orientation, ventilation, natural light, cooling and heating strategies)

One important note for the Beirut Summer weather is how would you deal with the humidity.

3- A short text explaining concisely and clearly the passive design strategies.

4- A detailed table showing the various function distribution along with their respective areas

Not part of the Jury process each team will submit one visual (A3) as the main image for their project to be used as the project cover page. This image can be the same as in the main submission or it can a new addition.

Important note: Participants are advised to be careful about the all-digital presentation, and the actual size of the file to be submitted. Rely on texts that are large enough to be clear without the need to zoom in. Similarly, for the technical drawings and their relative scale and details, these should be as clear as possible without the need to zoom in.

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, (40%)
   2. Passive Sustainable environmental design approach and proposal for how user comfort is reached (50%)
   3. Overall visual presentation & clear explanation (10%)
3. Regarding the sustainable environmental design approach to reach user comfort and reduce running 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 nor solar 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).

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 1988. 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. For registration purposes, we have two categories
   1. The International
   2. The Lebanon entries.
6. The international entries registration schedule and fees are as follow, without any Tax added to these:
   1. Early bird registration (till July 4^th)                                  33 USD
   2. Regular registration (July 5^th till August 15^th)                45 EUR or 50 USD
   3. Late registration (August 16^th till Sept 10^th)                   65 EUR or 75 USD
7. Payments can be done by PayPal , or Bank Transfer to London, or Money Transfer to Beirut within 48 hours after registration. Details will be communicated upon registration. Payment through  PayPal is facilitated courtesy of our esteemed jury Richard Saad.  
8. The Lebanon based entries registration schedule and fees are as follow, without any Tax added to these:
   1. Early bird registration (till July 4^th)                                    75,000 LBP
   2. Regular registration (July 5^th till August 15^th)                 120,000 LBP
   3. Late registration (August 16^th till Sept 10^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

    1. 600 USD Winning entry

    2. 400 USD first runner up

    3. 200 USD second runner up

13. After registering participants can ask for clarifications by emails till July 21. After this date all questions (anonymously) and answers will be posted on the page.
14. Registration is final for the specific team members. No members can be added or removed after registration.
15. Registration payment is final and no reimbursement will be made regardless of any valid reason.
16. All correspondences for queries and, or for technical assistance are done through Dar[e] email competition@dar-e.org
17. Anyone directly affiliated to Dar[e] cannot join the competition.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. Participant are not allowed to show, communicate and, or advertise their entries on any digital mean on any social network before the official results. Doing this will result in automatic disqualification.
21. While retaining your full ownership rights, yet 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.
22. 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 together, where Dar[e] coordinated the process.
23. 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.
24. By registering and participating in the competition, participants agree to all the terms and conditions of the competition.
25. 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.
26. All submission shall be in English, as it is the competition language.

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.
5. The only activity Dar[e] will do for the composition is checking that all entries have followed the brief, and submission is complete having all the requirements