Data końca rejestracji: 31/01/2013
Termin składania prac: 01/03/2013
Data zakończenia: 14/03/2013
Miasto: Flint,
Kraj: USA
The American Institute of Architects - Flint and Flint Public Art Project announce the first annual Flat Lot Competition, a program to design and build a temporary summer pavilion in the central parking lot in downtown Flint.

Formerly occupied by a series of office buildings and storefronts along Saginaw Street, the full-block surface parking lot known as the Flat Lot has become a staging ground for parades, flower-plantings, car shows, road races, and almost every sort of public event that draws large crowds. The Flat Lot Competition seeks proposals to design and build an innovative temporary structure that provides shelter, shade, and seating for a wide range of public events, defines space within the lot, and demonstrates the capacity of contemporary architectural form-making to transform space and captivate the public imagination - all while occupying no more than eight parking spaces during normal business hours. The winner of the competition will receive $25,000 to realize their proposal.
A collaboration between AIA-Flint, Flint Public Art Project and the Downtown Development Authority, the Flat Lot Competition is modeled after the MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program, which every year reinvents the former public school courtyard in Long Island City, Queens as a popular place for summer events and concerts.
The Flat Lot will be a new center and symbol for the city, an attraction for regional visitors, and a site that amplifies the many existing events that help define cultural life in Flint.
Entries will be judged according to the following criteria:

1. Conceives an imaginative transformation of space and conceptual design
2. Demonstrates innovative techniques and ideas of contemporary form-making
3. Meets functional needs of summer events, including
◦ provides a stage, bandstand, or other platform
◦ provides a shading or cooling mechanism
◦ provides seating or lounging area
◦ delineates space to allow for drinking and food service
◦ creates an inviting area for assembly of groups
4. Occupies no more than eight parking spaces during normal business hours
5. Demonstrates feasibility within budget or ability to raise additional funds to realize concept
6. Imagines far-reaching transformation of lot for future use

All entrants must include a preliminary budget demonstrating a capacity to realize their proposals by June 14, 2013 with a budget of $25,000. This amount will cover all materials, labor, travel, permit fees and other expenses needed to construct the project. Proposals need not address the entire site, but may concentrate on strategic areas. Proposals may include visionary designs for future institutions that recognize the Flat Lot's use as both surface parking and an active public space, as well as the eventual development of a permanent project that serves as-yet-unacknowledged needs. Proposals also may identify latent activities within the city's cultural and economic life that currently have no suitable space to accommodate them.
Schedule

November 14, 2012: Competition announced

January 31, 2013: Registration deadline
March 1, 2013: Submittal deadline

March 14, 2013: Winners announced

April 12, 2013: Curated exhibit during Flint Art Walk and online

June 14, 2013: Construction on winning proposal completed

More: http://www.flintpublicartproject.com/flatlot/

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