72HUA Urban Action Contest, Derry Design Competition, Northern Irish Building News, Architecture

72HUA Derry~Londonderry Competition

Architectural Contest Northern Ireland – UK City of Culture

16 May 2013

72HUA Derry~Londonderry Competition 2013

72HUA Derry~Londonderry Architecture Competition News, Northern Ireland

27 May 2013 – registration deadline

25-28 Jul 2013 – architecture competition timeframe

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UK City of Culture Derry~Londonderry and 72 Hour Urban Action International Proudly present

72 HOUR URBAN ACTION Derry~Londonderry 2013

10 Teams | 10 Sites | 10 Missions

3 Days and Nights to Design and Build

APPLICATION IS OPEN UNTIL MAY 27th 2013

TAKE OFF JULY 25th 2013| LANDING AND AWARDS JULY 28th 2013

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72 Hour Urban Action – the world’s first real-time architecture competition – gives selected teams only three days & three nights to design and build interventions in public space in response to local needs.

Participants will have an extreme deadline, a tight budget and limited space to rapidly leave a lasting impact on the city’s urban fabric. They will be battling the clock, the restrictive conditions and each other to dream and realize projects in response to the spatial and social challenges the sites and missions offer.

The international teams will include residents, architects, designers, artists, craftspeople, students and generally nice people. Teams will come to Derry~Londonderry armed with a passion for action, and ready to give their time and expertise to help with community needs.

All participants will live together on site, in a local school converted into a sleep-work camp, enriching the neighborhood with a multi-cultural and intense experience.

Participating teams will receive a budget for materials, a central prefabrication camp, and a team of ‘Angels’ (construction and safety engineers).

The missions and sites will be assigned randomly on take off day. An international panel of jury will include prominent leaders, architects and curators.

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