1.   Description 
The name of this open international ideas competition is ‘Building for Bouwkunde’. The organizer of the competition is the Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The competition programme is available on www.buildingforbouwkunde.nl.

2.   Objectives 
The Faculty wants to use the competition to encourage architects, urban planners and students to make statements about the university building of the future, and specifically the character and position of Delft’s new faculty of architecture.

This open international ideas competition has three objectives:

1. To stimulate research by design. 
2. To encourage creativity among the important younger generation of designers.
3. To stimulate scientific development in the field by means of critical reflection and debate.

3.   Entrants 
Entry is open to architects and urban planners and students following a degree programme in the area of architecture, urban planning, civil engineering or industrial design.

1. Architects and urban planners declare at the time of entry that they are registered in the Dutch Architects Register or a comparable register in another country.
2. Students declare at the time of entry that they are enrolled in the current academic year:
   • In an architectural or urban planning degree programme at a recognised educational institution, of which the degree allows access to the Dutch Architects Register or a comparable register in another country; or
   • In a study programme to become an industrial designer or civil engineer at a recognised educational institution.

All entrants declare at the time of entry that they can provide proof of their registration in a register or enrolment at a recognised educational institution if so required by the competition organiser.

The organisers of the competition, members of the analysis teams and members of the jury (and their offices) are barred from entry in the competition.

4.   Method of Registration and Submission

Registration
All entrants need to register to enter the competition. At the time of their registration, entrants will be asked to create their own unique username and password. Entrants will then automatically receive a unique registration code for their entry in the competition in order to safeguard the intended anonymity of the competition. The registration code will be used to identify the entry after the evaluation of the jury. The only party to know which entrant name is tied to which entry is the manager of the website, who has signed a confidentiality agreement in this context.

If an entrant wants to submit more than one entry, he/she will have to register and submit each entry separately.

Registration closes at 6 November 2008, 12 noon Dutch local time. Any registration received later than this time will not be accepted.

Submission 
The entries must be anonymous and can only be recognised by the registration code. The registration code must be included on all submitted items on the downright corner. All entries need to be submitted under a motto written in the Latin alphabet or Arabic or Roman numerals. The motto must be included on all items of the entry. At no point is the entry allowed to show the entrant’s handwriting or any other sign or logo that could indicate the origin of the design.

The digital entry is submitted using the entry format on the website, which facilitates the following entry items:

1. A maximum of two A1 posters (84.1 x 59.4 cm, each vertical format in pdf file with a maximum size of 15 MB), with at least: 1 ground plan on scale 1:500, 1 exterior view (scale at entrant’s discretion), 1 location sketch (scale at entrant’s discretion).
    
2. One A4 text document (21 x 29,7 cm vertical format in MS Word or rich text file, maximum size 1 MB) with a motivation of the vision on each criterion.
    
3. A statement identifying the design as the intellectual property of the designer.

Submission closes at 13 November 2008, 12 noon Dutch local time. Any submission received later than this time will not be accepted.

5. Time schedule

6.   Questions and answers 
Questions regarding the competition programme can be submitted before 24 October 2008 12 noon Dutch local time via the competition website. Answers to these questions will be provided on the website at the latest at 31 October 2008. 
All questions submitted as well as the related answers will be made anonymous and will be offered for reference on the website, together with possible relevant information. From that point on, these answers and related information will be considered an appendix to the competition programme, with the same binding nature.

All contact with the organiser runs via e-mail: info@buildingforbouwkunde.nl. 
Entrants are not allowed to confer with the organisation outside this procedure.

7. Jury panel

8. Evaluation criteria 
The entries will be judged against three criteria, during which evaluation the jury will emphatically review their treatment of the indicated themes.

1. Visionary power, in the context of which the jury will focus on the originality and innovative character of the sketch design, including the area of sustainability.
2. Architectural quality, in the context of which the jury will review the spatial composition, the incorporation in the urban environment, the expression and materialisation, and the consistency of the sketch design. 
3. Economic and ecological viability, in the context of which the jury will assess the functionality and feasibility of the sketch design.

9. Evaluation procedure 
The evaluation procedure will be as follows:

a. Assessment phase: 
The submitted entries will be appraised in week 47 and 48 by two analysis teams. The entries will be checked against the competition rules as set out in this competition programme: rules regarding time,  submitted items, registration code, motto, entrants and language. Entries that do not comply with the rules will not be included in the remainder of the evaluation process. The related decision will be made by the jury. In addition, the entries will be appraised as to how they have dealt with the two themes of the competition assignment and the information on requirements and conditions. The results of this assessment will be made available to the jury.

b. Evaluation phase: 
The jury will evaluate the submitted entries to the two themes of the competition assignment, and analyse the entries on the basis of the individual evaluation criteria in the first half of December 2008.
In a still to be determined number of evaluation rounds, the jury will subsequently establish, on the basis of an integral review, which entries are to be nominated for awarding a prize and will indicate the order of the awardees. As the jury is interested in solutions for sub-aspects, they will also indicate which entries are eligible for an award on the basis of one theme or one evaluation criterion.

The jury’s decisions are binding. Organiser and entrants unconditionally accept the decisions of the jury. 
The jury is authorised to lift the anonymity of all the entries after it has announced the winners.

The jury will announce the nominated entries in the second half of December 2008 on the website. The winning entries, the names of the winners and that of the other entrants will be announced at the awards ceremony in January 2009; date to be decided.

10. Jury report 
The jury’s report will be made available in January 2009 at the awards ceremony and via the website. The jury report is public.

The jury report will offer a general interpretation of the evaluation criteria that were in place, discuss the progress of the evaluation procedure and indicate in which round the non-winning designs dropped out. In the case of the entries that made it to the final evaluation round, the report will treat each design in more detail, explaining how it was appraised against the criteria. The jury report will furthermore contain an evaluation of the competition results and recommendations for the organiser.

11. Prizes 
The competition prize money totals EUR 60,000, not including VAT, which will be reimbursed by the organiser. The organiser will transfer the total prize amount no later than 28 February 2009.

The jury will distribute the prize money at its own discretion among the winning entrants. The jury can give specific entries honourable mentions at its own discretion. No prize money is connected to such an honourable mention.

12. Follow-up to the ideas competition 
The ideas that come out of this competition will be used to hone and draw up the definite programme of requirements for the new faculty of architecture and draw up the definite programme of requirements for the new faculty of architecture.

Based on the definite programme of requirements a project competition for the new building will be launched early 2009. This project competition will take the shape of a European Procurement process, the precise structure of which has not yet been determined. In the selection stage of the project competition, various aspects such as visionary power, conceptual capacity, demonstrable vision regarding educational buildings and (successful) participation in design competitions like this ideas competition will play a role. All entrants in the ideas competition will be informed about the project competition. The winners are emphatically invited to take part in the project competition.

13. Language 
The official language of the competition is English.

14. Publicity, publications and exhibition 
Entrants, jury members and anyone other than the project manager are not allowed to seek publicity with regard to matters relating to the substance of the entries or the competition in general prior to the jury’s announcement of its decision. 

The names of the nominees will be published at the website in the second half of December 2008. After they have been announced by the jury, the names of the winning entries and the jury report will be published on the website.

The winning entries and a number of other entries, to be determined by the jury, will subsequently be presented in an exhibition. All entries will be included in a publication that provides a shorter or longer explanation of each entry, depending on the evaluation. The results of the competition will be discussed in a debate.

15. Copyright 
The entries will remain the intellectual property of the entrants. Through submission the entrant declares that the entry is his intellectual property.

16. Use and ownership 
All entries in the competition will remain available for use by the organiser for a period of one year after their date of submission.

During the period that the entries remain at the disposal of the organiser, the organiser has the right to publish or exhibit the submitted material in the manner set out in this competition programme, without having to offer the designer any form of remuneration. The organiser requires the express permission of the designer for any other form of depiction, publication or exhibition of the material.

During the period that the entries remain at the disposal of the organiser, the organiser has the right to use the submitted material for educational purposes, with acknowledgement of source, without having to offer the designer any form of remuneration.

17. Disputes
Any disputes that arise between the organiser, entrants and members of the jury, including disputes that are viewed as such by only one of the parties, will be settled through arbitration. 
Arbitration will be carried out according to the Rules of Arbitration of the Stichting Arbitrage Instituut Bouwkunst, as they apply three months before the date on which the entries must be submitted.

18. In closing 
This competition is subject to the terms as set out in this competition programme. The competition programme is the definitive statement of the terms and conditions for this competition. The competition programme is binding for the organiser and the members of the jury. By submitting a design, the entrant declares that he/she is aware of and accepts the contents of the competition programme.

The competition programme was drawn up on the basis of the model competition programme for competitions as described in the Kompas publication and referred to in the Covenant for Competitions in the field of architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture.