YAF Atlanta Design-Build Challenge. Winners. 3rd Place

The following project where selected by our distinguished jury. Thank you everyone for participating. We had a lot of fun organizing and we hope everyone will follow YAF ATLANTA in the future.

Project Name: Public Figure

Leader: Alkanoglu Volkan

PUBLIC FIGURE is an urban device. This proposal for the Young Architects Forum will trigger a larger strategy to integrate exterior public spaces in Atlanta. Architecture as a cultural practice is obliged to create spatial environments that allow communities to grow and engage with each other. Community and public spaces are important cultural areas of our society and need to be upgraded with architectural design ideas that are attractive, functional, and allow for multi-purpose use.

The bold iconic form of the design proposal, its multi-functional use, and the material qualities including transparent, colorful and ephemeral properties, will be an attractor to the public and start a process of urban communication. PUBLIC FIGURE is an urban device that will be used for informal gathering, and for organized events, such as small lectures and receptions of the institution.

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PERISCOPE is the winner of the 10UP! National Architecture Competition.

The Young Architects Forum Atlanta (YAF) partnered with Modern Atlanta and White Provisions to develop 10Up! National Architecture Competition, which challenged young architects to construct an installation during the MA10 “Design is HUMAN” week of events taking place in Atlanta, GA in June of 2010. We called on young designers to step up to the 10Up Challenge and they did, from across the world.

PERISCOPE is the winner of the 10UP! National Architecture Competition designed by Brandon Clifford & Wes Mcgee, founders of Matter Design Studio. It’s an inhabitable installation with iconic implications to advocate bold architecture for the Atlanta community and young designers across the globe.

The 10up! Challenge had began as only an idea in January of 2010, in order to construct a more educated and encouraging public in Atlanta. The winning project was selected by our distinguished jury at the end of April. Periscope was delivered by the winning team less then a month later, ready for assembly, on May 27th. The 45 foot tower was assembled on site by the winning team along with YAF Volunteers in one day on May 28th.

We thank everyone for their vision, participation, dedication, and hard work for the last few months, especially the gracious donations of many, manyindividuals and companies without whom this project would not have been possible. We hope that this competition has inspired and will continue to inspire young designers from across the world.

About Young Architects Forum

The Young Architects Forum is a non-profit ALL volunteer organization that acts as a public forum for the discourse of architecture and relevant topics for young professionals in architecture + design. We are Atlanta’s young architects.

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Invitacion: Taller sobre Transformaciones Urbanas, Ambientales y Politicas Publicas

Asociacion Aves Argentinas. Calendario Educativo-Académico 2010.

Calendario Educativo-Académico 2010.

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James Corner Field Operations Wins Prestigious Urban Design Competition for a Major New City in Qianhai, Shenzhen, China.

James Corner Field Operations was awarded First Prize in the International Competition for the Planning of the Qianhai Region of Shenzhen, beating out 10 other invited design teams including OMA/Rem Koolhaas, BLAU Architecture and Urbanism, Bjarke Ingles Group,SWA, and Nikken Sekke among others.

The invited competition was sponsored by the Urban Planning Land and Resources Commission of Shenzhen. Chaired by Dr. Balkrishna Doshi, the jury was comprised of international experts in the fields of architecture, planning, landscape and urban design, including Charles Waldheim, Chen Yixin, Duan Jin, Lin Qun, Phil Kim, Ralph Lerner, Rocco Yim and Sung Hong-Tau.

The project site includes 4,500 acres of reclaimed land surrounding Qianhai Harbor on the western coast of Shenzhen. Upon implementation, Qianhai is envisioned to be the financial, logistics and service hub of Shenzhen, and a major new urban center – a “Manhattan” -- in the Pearl River Delta mega-region, linking Hong Kong to Shenzhen and Guangzhou.

The JCFO scheme envisions a new “Water City” for 1.5 million people. The design is dense, compact, mixed, sustainable and centered around the area’s most important resource – water. The proposal breaks the site into 5 manageable development sub- districts through the introduction of five “Water Fingers” that extend along the line of the existing rivers and channels, connecting the adjacent city perpendicular to the harbor’s edge. These Fingers function as both innovative hydrological infrastructures and new public parkland. They process and remediate stormwater, while expanding the amount of development frontage onto public open spaces that structure and organize the larger city.

The urban fabric within each development sub-district takes the scale of the typical Shenzhen block as a cue, but breaks it down to generate a diverse range of inter-connected urban neighborhoods. The result is a hyper-dense, yet ecologically sensitive urban territory that offers an iconic waterfront, diverse building stock, cultural and recreational features, as well as a series of unique, inter-connected public open spaces that rival major destination waterfront cities around the world.

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