The Result of [Digital Design Competiton]

The Result of [Digital Design Competiton] by Nikkei Architecture was announced. This competition is the Final event of Archidemo.

This was epoch-making design competition of Virtual-Worlds, by large amount of money prize (about 20,000 dollars in all) and famous cross-field jury member. Winners was elected from 55 application ideas.

The result of competition was published in the Website of Nikkei Business Publications and Nikkei Architecture magazine. All articles are only Japanese, but, the automatic translation version can be seen here.

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Grand Prix : [THE MUSEUM OF THE GLOBE] by Atelier Ten

Competition Theme:

Life Media Museum in 21st century


Jury Member:

• Ryue Nishizawa
  (Architect, Associate professor of Yokohama National University)
• Tetsuya Mizuguchi
  (Game Producer, CCO of Q ENTERTAINMENT Inc.)
• Mitsuo Iso
  (Animation Director, Scenario writer)
• Hidenori Watanave
  (CEO of Photon, Associate professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University)
• Yoshihisa Yamamoto
  (Executive editor of Nikkei Architecture)

Winners:



Grand Prix

Integrated proposal section (Prize 1,000,000 yen)

• [THE MUSEUM OF THE GLOBE]
  Iwami Kawamura|Ichiro Furse + Tsutomu Teramoto|TERRA Zehetbauer (Atelier Ten)
  

Single facilities section(Prize 500,000 yen)

• [SKY+]
  Naomi Kuratani (Osaka Seikei University)

Distinction

Integrated proposal section(Prize 100,000 yen)

• [Third Life ~ANOTHER SECOND LIFE~]
  Naomi Ida + Syo Funabashi, Tetsumi Kanno, Baku Mochida (Japanese engineering academy Hachioji school)
• [discuscape ~discussions change the landscape~]
  Yasutomo Matsuoka|Yaah Oh + Atsuo Ishikawa, Jun Yamada, Sai Ishizawa (Takenaka Corporation)
• [plusfive,50,217,26]
  Takumi Kitagawa|tasumi kungfu (+5) + Kotetsu Li|bigleee kungfu (STUDIO BIGROOM), Yukio Tsuchiya|tutti kungfu (+5)

Single facilities section

• [Room-by-Room Design of Degital Museum and Its Behavior-Oriented Modeling]
  Shigeru Owada (Sony Computer Science Laboratory)
• [Is it a trash dump or a dream island?]
  Tetsuya Sekimoto|Okoge Honi (Free-lance)
• [Point oriented Architecture]
  Keita Watanave (Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School)
• [Memory sharing navigation]
  Takeshi Kabata|kabayan wellman (Ad-lib Ltd.)

In-world Prize (Prize L$100,000)

• [3D * Web Structure]
  hsr Voom (Company employee)
• [Peach Mania Guerrillax]
  Hidetaka Nagahama|sela Boa (Free-lance) + Satomi Inao|peeeach Loon (Company employee)

Honorable Mention

Integrated proposal section

• [Life Media Museum in 21st C.]
  Kazutaka Narabe + Kazunori Komine, Takumi Hino, Genta Katsumoto, Taichi Harasawa (Japanese engineering academy Hachioji school)
• [media town - white garden]
  Hiroyuki Nakagawa (Free-lance)
• [LIFE WOVEN MUSEUM]
  Hiroto Iwamura (Architectural Association School of Architecture)
  

Single facilities section

• [distance = 4log(2r) + 8.3]
  Takeo Funabashi|SIEMED Dryke (Tokyo Electrical Engineering College information environmental faculty), Support enterprise: Kyodo Printing

Please see result:

• Winners (Picasa web album)
  
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