Facoltà di Architettura

 

June 1st - to June 7th

 

The purpose and mission of Tongji International Construction Festival is to encourage and stimulate students’ creative potential, and to discover and foster design talents full of imagination and innovative spirit. Through design and building practice, not only can participants gain perceptual and rational knowledge of material property, construction mode and process, but also, comprehending the ability of fundamental building fabrication physics. Currently, this competition is designed to promote participants’ basic knowledge of architectural function, dimension of human figures, spatial form and building physics and technology by means of experience activities inside the cardboard architectural space they created themselves.

 

Team: 1 advisor and 5 freshmen/sophomores 

Registration Deadline: March 15, 2015

Task: Each team shall use corrugated cardboard to design and build one cardboard building at open area assigned by the organizing committee in one week, and the building must satisfy the need of all the team members to stay overnight.

 

Venue: college square, CAUP, Tongji University, Shanghai, P.R. China

Fees: 6 nights’ accommodation, 2 days field trip will be subsidized by organizer and sponsor.

Other fees, including transportation and insurance etc. will be borne by participants.

 

For information and registration please contact: 

Prof. Nilda Valentin – nilda.valentin@uniroma1.it