(Courtesy of WSUD)

This competition seeks to explore how one can create water sensitive spaces with a sense of place. We will do this by learning, developing, and testing the informed, intuitive, and technical languages of design – worked through urban context, architectural typologies, scientific credibility and experiential relationships.
We will research, disseminate, interrogate, and pursue ideas through a rigorous analysis of our emotionaland intellectualpotential. Hence, this competition is about becoming more aware of yourself, and the development of your skills to sustainably engage and balance the built and natural environment around you.

To set our trajectory, let us accept certain definitions. Firstly, allow ourselves to accept that ‘all’ is design, and that design is about elements that exist in an active relationship to each other. Secondly, allow ourselves to accept that sustainability is not a product or a segregated discipline. It is a holistic approach to thinking and designing the relationship between us, and the world we live in. Given these two definitions, allow yourself to explore the possibility that our urban environment is more than the spatial composition of buildings and streets, but rather the creation of spatial experiences that has the potential to raise the environmental and social values of our society.

For more information: WSUD