Spacecraft Design: One Axonometry Competition

We are so excited to announce Non Architecture’s Spacecraft Design Competition as a media partner!

A quick introduction

Non Architecture wants to reinvent spatial design by questioning the base, fundaments and conventions of an architect’s work. With an international team and a design community of thousands of people, Non Architecture develops initiatives, mediums, and projects to explore innovative design solutions and experimental collaboration models.
Non Architecture is everything that is not architecture, yet.

It’s a non-discipline, a space for freedom and adventure, a place for broken rules and willing mistakes. Non Architecture is collective intelligence, it’s an anti-star system, it’s the 98% of world architects addressed by Frank Gehry with a middle finger in 2014.

Also, Non Architecture is concrete. Today it’s a portal for design contests, an open-source online journal, an independent publisher and a remote design studio.

Competition summary

Our world is changing fast, while ambitions and challenges match in importance. In this context, design can play a huge role. How do we imagine the world to be? What range of possibilities we haven’t discovered yet? What’s a Non Architecture for a World in crisis? In 2020 we started the second phase of competitions to address the issues of tomorrow.

In line with our style we propose 9+1 themes – ten critical topics to work on, but this time they come with a framework to make sure that each theme is explored from different design angles. Rather than a program, a research ecosystem composed of various competitions running in parallel and exploring the same theme from different perspectives.

Eligibility

Non Architecture Competitions are open to all human beings, from every age and cultural background, working in groups or individually. The registration fee is paid per team, regardless of how many members form it. Personal information of all the team members can be uploaded during the submission procedure of the final drawing.

Prizes

WINNER (1 PRIZE)

• 1.000 euros.
• Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions books and website.
• Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs.

HONORABLE MENTIONS (7 Prizes)

• Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions book and website.
• Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs.

EDITORIAL PICK (Maximum 6 Prizes)

• Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions book and website.

FINALISTS (Up to 36 Prizes)

• Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions Journal.

SPECIAL PRIZE

• The organization might establish additional special prizes and awards during the competition development and in the evaluation phase.

Note: The appearance on the involved architectural platforms is subject to the agenda and availability of the external platforms.

Jury & calender

The jury members are the following:

Annalisa Dominoni e Benedetto Quaquaro – Professors of Space4InspirAction at Politecnico di Milano and founders of (a+b) dominoni, quaquaro
Vittorio Netti – Space Architecture Consultant at Hassell
Barbara Imhof – Manager Partner and Co-Owner of Liquifer
Valentina Sumini – Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano and Space Architect and Engineer Research Affiliate at MIT Media Lab within Space Exploration Initiative and Responsive Environments

20 – 30 September 2021 -Special registration period (30 €).
1 – 25 October – Early registration period (55 €).
26 – 31 October – Late registration period (100 €).
26 October – Submission opens on our website.
31 October – 23.59 PM – Submission closes.
22 – 26 November – Winner announcement.

The timing always refers to Central European Time (CET)

Registration Bundles:
Spacecraft Design Competition + x1 Ticket Non Architecture Award (ticket discount from 25 euros to 10 euros)
Spacecraft Design Competition + x3 Tickets Non Architecture Award (tickets discount from 62.5 euros to 35 euros)

Competition kit

We have compiled a special content kit with Non Architecture team that will be useful to you.

Free for the participants

You should use this code in the ‘gift card and discount code’ section at the checkout page to get the Competition Kit for free.