VIRTUAL HOME ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION
The Virtual Home competition is the first in the Bee Breeders Virtual Architecture competition series focusing on virtual space creation. Architects and designers are being asked to create the concept of a virtual home. Without any physical limits what other important considerations would need to be made? Are there artificial constraints that are necessary in order for a virtual home to feel familiar and comfortable? In what context would you choose to place your virtual home?
The technology behind virtual reality and augmented reality has progressed rapidly, and with Facebook’s recent announcement of its plans to further develop the “Metaverse”, it’s likely that we’ll be spending more and more time in virtual spaces in the near future. Virtual work and learning environments are becoming increasingly complex and interactive, not to mention augmented reality experiences for exercise, entertainment and gaming.
But what about a virtual home? A huge amount of thought, effort and resources go into making our physical homes comfortable, but what would our homes in the virtual world look and feel like? What would be the function and requirements for a well-designed virtual home?
PRIZES
3 winning proposals and 6 honourable mentions will be selected. Bee Breeders will award a total of 5,000 €in prize money to competition winners as follows:
- 1st Prize – 3,000 €
- 2nd Prize – 1,500 €
- 3rd Prize – 500 €
+ 6 honourable mentions
Eligibility
Competition is open to all. No professional qualification is required. Design proposals can be developed individually or by teams (4 team members maximum). Correspondence with organizers must be conducted in English. All information submitted by participants must be in English.
Publications
The winners will get international art and design media coverage and will be featured on the Bee Breeders website and social pages.
Certificate
Bee Breeders will also acknowledge the outstanding performance of all winners and honourable mentions with Certificates of Achievement.
Jury panel
Bee Breeders is committed to selecting the most qualified industry professionals to comprise its jury panels. Jury panels consist of architects, in addition to professionals from other professional backgrounds that are relevant to the competition topic, to guarantee the most objective competition results.
You may find the invited jury list from previous competitions here – https://architecturecompetitions.com/guest-jury
Key dates
- Closing date for registration – 28 APRIL, 2022
- Closing date for project submission – 09 JUNE, 2022 (11:59pm GMT+0)
- Announcement of the winners – 14 JULY, 2022
