Sziget festival is one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe, its first edition took place in 1993 and next August will celebrate its 25th anniversary. It is held every August in northern Budapest, Hungary, on Óbudai-sziget ("Old Buda Island"), a leafy 108-hectare (266-acre) island on the Danube. More than 1,000 performances take place each year. You can´t lose this!

Archtalent, an online architecture platform for Architects, in collaboration with Sziget, one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe, make an international call to design a temporary structure within the particular context of a music festival in the city of Budapest in Hungary.

The aim is to use the current model of architectural competition to develop a new contest in terms of format and scope, which should be an opportunity to all emerging talent anywhere in the world to boost their potential in a real competition, and showcase their built project to an audience of thousand of people.

Obetive.-
“Structures of Freedom” is a single stage competition with the objective of receiving ideas from all over the world for the development and construction of an ephemeral structure in a unique music festival like Sziget, under the following concepts: design, innovation, context, recyclability and sustainability.

Participants.-
The competition is open to architects under the age of 40 from all over the world, and participation can be both individual or in teams, where teams should be up to 3 people.

Architecture students can participate as part of a team with the sole condition that at least one member is a graduate architect under the age of 40.

Schedule.-
Competition launch: Tuesday February 28, 2017
Early registration deadline: Up to Tuesday, March 21, 2017, 11:59:59PM GMT
Standard registration deadline: Up to Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 11:59:59PM GMT
Advanced registration deadline: Up to Monday, May 22, 2017, 11:59:59PM GMT
Submissions deadline: Up to Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 11:59:59PM GMT
Jury review: May 24 to June 7, 2017
Public announcement of winner: Friday, June 9, 2017
Exhibition dates: August 9 to August 16, 2017

Jury.-
Sam Jacob (UK) - Principal of Sam Jacob Studio
Filipa Frois Almeida (DE) - Co Founder and partner of FAHR 021.3
Caroline O´Donnell (IE) - Principal of CODA
Hugo Reis (PT) - Co Founder and partner of FAHR 021.3
Dávid Ráday (HU) - Creative Director of Sziget Festival

More information

Published on: May 5, 2017
Cite: "Summer arrives, festivals arrive. Architecture at the Sziget Festival" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/summer-arrives-festivals-arrive-architecture-sziget-festival> ISSN 1139-6415
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