120 Hour s
The Architecture Competition
for Students by Students
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for!
Here is the assignment for the 2022 edition of 120 Hours.
Have fun and good luck!
Please read this document and the
provided source material carefully
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Visionary architecture
The phrase visionary architecture refers to when architects
make utopian, dystopian or fantasy projects that are never
meant to be built. These designs are playful fantasies which
are not going to be realized. Sometimes they are simply
impossible to build.
These architectural drawings on paper allow insight into
worlds that are impossible to visit, except through the
imaginative environment. These visionary projects are quite
personal. It is not easy to transform your dreams into
precise drawings, so that they make sense to other people.
So, why do people draw architecture whitout the intention
of building it? For some people, visionary architecture
represents a form of protest against their society, or
an ideal for the future. For others it can be a creative
excersice to sharpen their tools, or simply an escape from
reality.
This way of thinking can also be found in other creative
fields, such as film, animation, litterature and other art
forms.
Jean-Jacques Lequeu
Etienne-Louis Boullee
Le Corbusier But remember, one persons utopia, may be another persons
Hermann Finsterlin dystopia.
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The Task
Visions of Nowhere
Utopia
An imaginary place or state in which everything is perfect
Dystopia
An imaginary place or state in which everything is extremely bad or unpleasant
– Oxford dictionary
Your proposal should be delivered as a pdf with two sheets (A3, landscape format)
Task 1 – On the first sheet:
Draw a dystopian society.* What makes this society dystopian?
Illustrate** and explain with a short text of maximum 150 words.
Task 2 – On the second sheet:
Now transform this society into an utopian paradise. What has changed?
Illustrate and explain with a short text of maximum 150 words.
* Society – By society we mean any form of community, city, village or place to live.
** Illustrate – You may use any form of illustration you like. Hand drawings, digital renderings,
collage, model photos, diagrams or any other technique that communicates your idea.
Sections and plans are often very communicative.
Read page 5 for delivery details!
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Evaluation
Your competition entry will be evaluated by the following criteria:
1. Idea and concept.
2. Presentation. Clarity and quality in the graphics.
3. Transformative ability. Ability to envision a transformed world.
And remember to make your proposal easy to read! There are many proposals to look
through and if your text is very small or difficult to read, your proposal might not get the
attention it deserves.
Jury
Marcel Bilow Head of jury – Architect – Teacher
Mirza Mujezinović Architect – Ph.D
Régine Debatty Artist – Writer – Art Critic
Linn Runeson Architect – Urbanism and landscape
Tom Davis Buildings archaeologist – Scholar
Rudy Ricciotti Architect – Engineer – Author
Silje Ekornrud Seim Student reprasentative
Marcel Bilow
Linn Runeson Silje Ekornrud Seim
2022 JURY
Régine Debatty Mirza Mujezinović
Rudy Ricciotti Tom Davis
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Delivery
PLEASE READ THIS INFORMATION VERY CAREFULLY.
Any infringements of the instructions below will lead to automatic disqualification, and the
proposal will not be evaluated by the jury.
Your proposal must be presented on two landscape oriented A3 sheets.
All text must be in English.
All delivered material must be marked with your team id, presented clearly in the bottom
right corner on BOTH your sheets.
Your delivery must not include ANY information that may give away your identity.
Your A3 sheets must be uploaded to Submittable within the deadline of
Saturday 11th of March 2022 at 14.00 (UTC+1). Remember to concider what time
this is in your own time zone.
You must deliver one high-resolution PDF containing both A3 sheets for your project.
The maximum file size is 20 MB.
team xxxx
team xxxx
2x A3
YES NO Write the team ID
Landscape format Portrait format on both the A3s
The name of the file shall be: teamXXXX.pdf
*teamXXXX - replace XXXX with your given team ID number.
TASK 1 TASK 2
Use one sheet for task 1 and the other for task 2
Page number must also be present on the sheets
NB! If you fail to follow these instructions we will automatically disqualify your proposal. Please
make sure that you have used the correct file names when you upload your project. You are only
able to upload your project once, so make sure to check that you are uploading the right files.
We will under no circumstances change the file for you.
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GOOD LUCK
AND
HAVE FUN!
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