introduction

USM and ADEYAKA BCN with the experience of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, organise Pavilion Workplace, the competition of ideas for architects, designers and students, with the aim of reflecting upon work spaces. The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich for the 1929 International Exhibition, is to be used as the setting for the competition. This year the jury will select 2 winning proposals, one will be from a professional and another from a student.

objective

The competition is held with the aim of generating a framework for reflection on the current state of offices and places in which people carry out their professional activities, and what they might be like in the future. The Barcelona Pavilion will be used as the site for developing these proposals.

Pavilion Workplace will make available to the participants a wide range of pieces of furniture for work spaces from USM in order to develop their proposals.

The Barcelona Pavilion, an emblematic work of the Modern Movement, has been exhaustively studied and interpreted as well as having inspired the oeuvre of several generations of architects. It was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich as the German national pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition.

participants

The competition is open to European professionals and students from the fields of architecture, design and interior design, who are interested in reflecting on work spaces and offices.

For the second edition, professionals and students from the same fields from Mexico and China are also invited to participate. Participation is open to both professional studios and any individual under their own name. From all the participants, the jury will choose 1 professional designer winner and 1 student winner. There will also be 6 finalists.

Those who have direct family ties to any members of the judging panel who make the selection of the proposals are excluded from participating.

prizes

The jury will select 8 proposals as finalists, of which 2 will become the winners. One of the winners will be a proposal by a professional designer and the other winner will be a student (at the time of submitting the proposal).

The 2 winning projects will be reproduced with VR technology and will be available as a video recreating the VR experience. The two videos will be shown during the awards ceremony to be held between 18 and 22 October 2021 at the Barcelona Pavilion and streamed worldwide.

In addition to this, each winner will receive a piece of furniture worth 2.500€. If the winning proposals are made by a team of people, the team will receive the piece of furniture. USM will also be happy to welcome the winners at their headquarters in Munsingen, Switzerland, designed by Fritz Haller.

The finalists will receive a present from USM and ADEYAKA BCN

entries

Participants must register via the Pavilion Workplace website and fill out the online form before 14 June 2021 at 23:59 GMT + 2, with the following information:

– Name and surname of the contact person
– Email and telephone number
– Studies or profession
– Country/ City

Registration is free, can only be done online and will only be valid if the required documentation is handed in before the deadline stated in the rules.

By completing the registration, the author permits their proposal to be shared via any means and format by the participating companies and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe.

conditions

The projects must be carried out in the pavilion space, without altering its architecture. In other words, maintaining all the original elements, without adding any fixed architectural element, such as walls, for example.

The graphic resources necessary for the development of the proposals are available for download click here.

Participants are invited to study the catalogues of USM to get to know its products and to use them to develop their proposals.

The project must include, as its principal foundation, furniture and compositions from USM. Other furniture can also be used as long as it has already been produced by a manufacturer and a VR item of it exists. The winners will be asked to send the furniture elements using the following 3D compatible files for the VR project: .skp, .3ds, .dwg, .dwg, .obj, fbx, .3dm.

It should be noted that the pavilion is already fit with all necessary facilities for comfort.

material to be handed in

The project must be presented on one single, horizontal, A2 panel (1.700 x 1.200 px / 72 dpi / max 8 Mb) in .jpg format.

The panel should be sent via email before 26 July 2021 at 23:59 GMT +2 to the following email address: competition@miesbcn.com

The panel should include all the graphic information necessary for the adequate definition and interpretation of the proposal: plans, photomontages, info graphs, perspectives or any other graphic expression which defines the project, will be accepted. The panel should also include a brief text explaining the project.

Each proposal will be presented along with a slogan to represent it, that will be placed on the upper right-hand side of the A2 sized panel.

In order to guarantee the impartiality of the jury, the projects will be presented anonymously. Therefore, the panel which is handed in cannot contain the names of the authors and must only be identified by their slogan.

All participating projects will be published on the website after the publication of the jury’s verdict.

the jury

The jury will be formed by:

Lorena Vieyra, architect Vieyra arquitectos, Ciudad de México

Katrin Eckert, Head of Planning at USM U. Schaerer Söhne AG

Carles Castellanos, Founder of ADEYAKA BCN

Mario Espinoza, architect and interior designer, winner of Pavilion Workplace 2019

Álvaro Alcázar del Águila, architect, winner of the Young Talent Architecture Award 2020

Secretary: Adriana Mas, Fundació Mies van der Rohe

The jury will evaluate the architectural quality of the adopted solutions, the choice of furniture, its originality, and the possibility of adapting the proposals to the challenges of the future.

The jury’s decision will be revealed at the awards ceremony in October 2021 at the Barcelona Pavilion. The ceremony will be streamed worldwide.

calendar

03 May 2021 Competition launch

14 June 2021 at 23:59 GMT +2 – Last day for registration and queries about competition procedures

9 August 2021 at 23:59 GMT +2 – Last day for receiving proposals

18-22 October 2021 Awards ceremony at the Barcelona Pavilion and worldwide streaming

queries and clarifications

Any queries or clarifications regarding competition rules or procedures should be put forward before 14 June via email, to the following address: competition@miesbcn.com

incidents

Only the jury is permitted to resolve any incident which may arise in relation to the awarding of prizes. The jury’s decision is final.

agreement of the rules

Participation in this competition is subject to agreement of the rules.

The participants accept and give their express consent for the personal data given for registration in the competition, to be treated by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, registered at c/ Provença 318, 08037 Barcelona, by ADEYAKA BCN registered at Rambla Catalunya 98, 08008 Barcelona and USM, with the purpose of carrying out all the activities necessary to manage the competition. The delivery of personal data for registration in the competition is mandatory in order to formalise the registration and properly manage the contest.

Participation in the competition will involve the publication of the identification data of the winners of the award on the website(s) of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, ADEYAKA BCN and USM, as well as on the social networks of these entities and the sector’s media.
The legal basis for the aforementioned treatment is the consent of the participants who enter to accept the privacy policy in the registration process.

The participants guarantee that the Personal Data provided to the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, ADEYAKA BCN and USM for participation in the competition are the truth and they are responsible for communicating any changes to them.
Provided that the participants expressly consent to it when filling out the competition registration form, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, ADEYAKA BCN and USM may use such data to maintain contact with the participants and inform them about their activities and services and / or products, including the sending of promotional communication by electronic means.

The owner of the data may at any time object to such communication by contacting the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, ADEYAKA BCN and USM. The data of the participants will be kept indefinitely, in order to maintain the history of the work submitted to the competition, with the identification of their creators.

With regards to the processing of data to maintain contact between the parties, the data will be kept until you tell us otherwise.

Participants may, at any time, exercise their rights of access, rectification, cancellation, opposition, limitation to processing and portability in relation to their personal data by writing to: Fundació Mies van der Rohe at the stated postal address, along with their National ID number, or by email to c/ Provença 318, 08037 Barcelona, to ADEYAKA BCN at the stated address, along with their National ID number, or by email to adeyaka@adeyakabcn.com.

The Spanish Data Protection Agency may also be contacted if a violation of the regulations in relation to your personal data is considered to have taken place.

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These Rules have been updated on 13 April 2021