Jury announced for Concrete Design Competition

Tektoniek University is organizing the Dutch edition of the 10th Concrete Design Competition. This international ideas competition challenges architecture and civil engineering students to come up with ideas and designs. The focus is the material concrete. New forms, sustainable concepts and architectural expression. This week the names of the Dutch jury were announced.

The national jury will evaluate all the designs and choose the winners, who will be announced in June 2022. Cindy Vissering of the platform Tektoniek: "I am proud of this jury composition. They are architects with experience and engineers from the industry. A group of people with a passion for the material concrete. It's great to see that they want to bring their expertise to the Concrete Design Competition."

The Dutch jury includes:

• Marieke Kums - STUDIO MAKS, chairman of the jury (focus interesting architectural forms in connection of opposites);
• Albert Herder - Studioninedots (focus spatial experience and influence on human actions);
• Serge Schoemaker - Serge Schoemaker Architects (focus sensory experience in materialization and detailing);
• Pim Peters - IMd consulting engineers (focus structural sustainability and circularity)
• Ellen van Genechten - Hurks (focus sustainability and technical feasibility of aesthetics)

Concrete Design Competition

The competition is being held simultaneously in several countries, the upcoming edition also in Belgium, Ireland, Austria and Germany. The national winners will be allowed to participate in a week-long international master class completely free of charge. These 10^e edition is special because it takes place during the 100-day world exhibition of contemporary visual arts Documenta in Kassel, Germany. Also special because this hands-on master class takes place at G.tecz in their laboratory for innovations in concrete. The international student teams get to work on a design in concrete and, supported by the staff of G.tecz, actually implement it (to scale). In addition, the winners receive a cash prize.

Theme 10^e 2021-2022 edition

The theme of this edition is REIMAGINE. The interpretation can be taken broadly, but the focus is indicated toward the circular economy. "Imagine if we could take all concrete structures completely apart again and easily reuse them," Vissering says, "that could be one of the interpretations." More information about the Concrete Design Competition, such as the detailed introduction to the theme, can be found at https://www.tektoniek.nl/circulair/concrete-design-competition/concrete-design-competition-2021-2022

The participant conditions and submission documents can be found (in English) at www.concretedesigncompetition.com