What is DOCEXDOCE?

What is DOCEXDOCE?

​COMPETITION RULES 'LITE' EDITION

​BEFORE THE COMPETITION 'LITE' EDITION

 

A NEW EXPERIENCE OF COMPETITION

DOCEXDOCE seeks to settle at the European level with a singular format. A stimulating competition for architecture students from all over Europe on contemporary urban issues.

Participation systems: a presence mode in the classrooms authorized by the various collaborating architecture schools; an online mode through which teams can work from anywhere in the world.
 
Social networks are a key element throughout the contest process. Increasing the viral effect it also encourages interactions between participants and the public.Only twelve hours of continuous work, avoiding to make the competition an additional workload over several months for students.

A theme kept secret until the beginning of the contest, thus assuring the same conditions of equality for all participants.

The teamwork under the conditions of the competition offers a very good training for the future professional life. Requesting quick decisions around a common goal and precise management of the working time.

Twelve awards: composed of a First, Second and Third place rewarded with financial and material rewards, eight Honorable Mentions with official certificates and a Special Public Prize with a material reward.

 

 

COMPETITION RULES 3rd EDITION


Competition aim

 

DOCEXDOCE announces the first ‘DOCEXDOCE LITE’ as an intermediate special edition of our annual 12 hours competition system. 

The aim of the competition is to bring focus to european students and get them involved, as well as to celebrate this new academic year 2019/2020 and the new DOCEXDOCE Latinoamerica.

 
 
Participation requirements
 
Participants must fulfil the following requisite: being an undergraduate/master architecture student in any european school of architecture in 2019.
 
 
Participation process
 

Participants must enter the competition in teams of 2 to 4 members, and must not be members of more than one team. All team members must be ready to provide evidence of their student status should the organization require so.

In this ‘LITE’ edition there is only one way to participate:

Online: the students will receive all the necessary information online.

All participating projects must be presented in digital format and be uploaded to the competition web on the day of the competition.

 
 
Languages
 

The competition languages in this ‘LITE’ Edition are English and Spanish. 

All information about the competition will be available in any of these two languages. Participating projects can be written in either English or Spanish.

 
 
 
Entry process
 
Students wishing to participate in the competition must fill in the application form online (www.docexdoce.com) There is no entry fee. Applications to participate will be open until 2 September 2019 or until all places have been filled. Participation in the contest entails full acceptance of the rules.
 
 
 
Competition day
 

The competition itself will be held on 4 September  2019, starting at 9:00 AM and finishing at 9:00 PM  (MADRID LOCAL TIME)

The topic will be disclosed at the beginning of the contest. The dossier will be submitted online to participating teams. It will include enough written and graphic information so that participating teams can fully understand the topic and present a proposal. Proposals sent after the deadline will not be considered.  

Further information about delivering the project to the jury (size, format, email, etc) will be included with the topic document and released on the day of the competition.

 
Jury
 
An international jury is in charge of evaluating the projects and deciding on the winners. It will be comprised by:
 
Álvaro Rojas (Costa Rica) + Nicolás Martínez Rueda (Spain), 

(AR) Founder of MUNDANEUM (Latin American Congress of Architecture), Fournier_Rojas Arquitectos. (NMR) Founder of DOCEXDOCE.

Kyra Michel + Grégoire Guex-Crosier (Switzerland), 
Co-organizers of EASA CH 2019 ‘TOURIST’. 

Álvaro Gomis + Miguel Ángel Maure + Hugo Cifre (Spain), 
Espacio La Nube. 

Iñigo Ocamica + Iñigo Tudanca (Spain), 
Ocamica Tudanca Architects.

Dovile Gudaviciuté + Egle Daunoraite + Kristijonas Nenartavicius 
(Lithuania),  
DOCEXDOCE 3rd edition winners.

+ 2 goverment representatives from the topic emplacement, 
To be published after the competition day in order to maintain the secrecy of the competition topic.

The decision of the jury is final and it will be made public within less than 6 weeks from the completion of the contest. The jury members reserve the right not to award some of the prizes if they consider it appropriate.

 

Prizes 

1st   Prize:     400 € 
2nd Prize:      200 € 
3rd  Prize:     100 € 
 
8 Honourable Mentions: official certificate
 
Audience Special Award: architecture magazines.
 

The publication of the winning projects and their authors in journals and specialized architecture web will be promoted.

The Special Audience Award is chosen through social networks: a selection of up to 60% of the submitted proposals will be published and the number of interactions that each proposal received after a certain period of time will be counted. The selection will be chosen by the jury. Information about this vote will be expanded after the day of the contest.

Votes that the organization will consider via bot or similar will be automatically canceled.

 
 
Others
 
Participants accept giving DOCEXDOCE rights of publishing and broadcasting the winning projects by any media, individual or in sets. By agreeing to this, the participants do not forfeit their rights as authors of the projects.