UnIATA '18

Best bachelor's and masters architecture thesis ever created 

UNFUSE serves as a platform to create a global community of architects and designers who are pushing the boundaries of architecture discipline to enrich our built environment. At unfuse we promote exceptional works, ideas, experimentations in the field of architecture, landscape, urban design, society, culture and ecology.

We as a designer invest over 1000 hours to bring our ideas on paper, to create something extraordinary that can change the kind of built environment we want around us, and make a better world. These ideas are the foundation to new possibilities that have the ability to take architecture ahead, not just for the academia they belong to, but the whole fraternity with it.

UNFUSE International Architectural Thesis Award (UnIATA 2018) is a step taken to identify and promote such exceptional projects across the globe.

UnIATA will focus on the graduate and undergraduate architecture thesis projects that happened in the last 3 years and will present it to the right jurors. UNFUSE international thesis award will acknowledge outstanding thesis and will promote it at a global scale through our online platform, media partners, prize money, social channels, and also in the form of a book presenting the best architectural thesis designs across the globe.

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Ground rules for submission of architecture thesis

1. UnIATA thesis award is open to people of all nationalities in the field of architecture, landscape and urban planning. There are no registration fees for the award submission.

2. All the graduate/master thesus and undergraduate/bachelors architecture thesis projects completed in the calendar year 2015, 2016, and 2017 are eligible to take part in UnIATA 2018.

3. Participation in the thesis award is free, however, each participant will have to register on our platform at UNI to submit their entries separately.

4. Group, as well as individual entries, are allowed, in such cases, all the participants will have to register on our platform.

5. Employees of UNI/Jury member/Curator/ organizing panel or anyone who is in direct/ close relation to them is barred from receiving any cash prize money. However, they can enter into the UnIATA to submit their entries. Such entries if found are worthy will be displayed under the shortlisted categories.

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Stage 1 for International thesis award

1. The 1st stage of architecture thesis award submission will start on our platform from 15th October 2017.

2. Participants will need to submit their graduate/master and/or undergraduate/bachelors project in the form of online web presentations with curated images of their projects.

3. For better visibility and sorting of their projects, participants can use following tags but not limited to, as the mode of categorization of their project:

SCALE: Small (Modular/Site Area up to 5000 Sq. m.) Medium (Site area from 5001 Sq. m. to 15000 Sq. m.), Large (Site area from 15001Sq. m. to 50,000 sq. m.) Urban Level, City Level.

TYPOLOGY: Commercial, Conservation, Cultural, Educational, Floating, Healthcare, Heritage, Hospitality, Housing, Industrial, Infrastructure, Leisure, Landscape, Museum, Office, Planning, Public, Religious, Residential, Restoration, Space, Sports, Transportation, Water, Urban.

STYLE: Contextual, Futurism, High-Tech, Interactive, International Style, Parametricism, Post Modernism, Structural Expression, Sustainable, Vernacular, etc.

4. Requirements for Submissions: 

• IMAGE of size 1024 px x 410 px or larger in the aspect ratio of 1 : 2.
• JPEGs at least 10 Nos. showcasing important 3D views, concepts, projects details, design drawings, and design boards.
• The size of the image should ideally be optimized for screen viewing. CONTENTS e.g. short videos, walkthroughs etc. can be uploaded from public channels like Youtube, Vimeo etc. and then can be embedded on our web platform.
• FAQs will be a list of questions that participants will formulate about their own project. E.g. What is the concept behind the project? What are the materials that have been used on the façade of the building? How does this project deal with a sustainable built environment?

5. Participants can edit/modify their submissions as long the submissions are open, and other FAQ/Comments can be answered throughout the architecture thesis award. 

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Stage 2: Shortlisted+ People’s Choice

In the second stage, uploaded projects will then be evaluated upon the following criteria:

GRADUATE PROJECTS: 20 Best Graduate/Master thesis projects will be shortlisted for the final round.

UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS: 20 Best Undergraduate/Bachelor thesis projects will be shortlisted for the final round.

Note: Due to heavy variations in scale, typology, style and year of completion between received submissions, the shortlisting of the architecture thesis will happen on the general judging criteria as the jurors find appropriate in the specific contexts in the thesis projects.

PEOPLE’s CHOICE: 10 projects (graduate and undergraduate) will be shortlisted for the final round based on the public votes for the most relevant projects.

The public voting will be open from the period of 16th January – 15th April 2018 Details of the shortlisted/people’s choice entries will be revealed on our website on 15th May 2018.

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Judging Criteria

Evaluation of entries is dependent on the juror’s discretion. Entries will be evaluated on some general criteria of evaluation e.g. Concept, Design process, Creativity, Functionality, Aesthetics, Innovation etc.

These criteria will not be the only criteria of evaluation and jury or’s may include or exclude such factors depending on the nature of the project.

The architecture thesis award evaluation of the project will be independent of the typology/scale/style of the project unless mentioned otherwise. Jurors will look upon the depth of research and the quality of the design of the project. 

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Stage 2: UnConference ’18

All the 50 shortlisted architecture thesis projects will be displayed physically in a week-long public exhibition at UNCONFERENCE 2018. Jurors will announce 2 winners upon reviewing all the projects.

Shortlisted participants will need to send their architecture thesis to the organising venue within 3 months upon the announcement of the result of round

All the participants are required to send their work on a maximum of 8 x A2 mounted sheets for exhibition. Participants are invited to UNCONFERENCE '18 to give a brief presentation to the jurors and audience. Jurors will announce 2 winners out of all the shortlisted projects. One at graduate/masters level and the other one at undergraduate/bachelors level. Apart from the Juror’s choice award, another winner will be announced as a People’s choice award.

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Prizes for the best architecture thesis

INVITE & EXHIBITION: All the shortlisted entry authors will be invited to UNCONFERENCE '18 for workshops and their entries will exhibit.

AWARD: Winners of best graduate/masters and undergraduate/ bachelors projects will receive prize money of 1000$ each + Trophy + e certificates.

MEDIA PUBLICATION: Shortlisted & People’s Choice selections will be published on our online media partner’s website, social platforms and under our bi-annual book.

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS: Apart from the juror’s choice, the most appreciated/publicly voted most relevant project will be given the people’s choice award.