INTERNATIONAL STREET CAT HOUSE DESIGN COMPETITION

INTERNATIONAL STREET CAT HOUSE DESIGN COMPETITION
Background 
Architectural spaces are recognized as one of the important elements of the urban 
environment since they bring deep impact on social development as well as human 
behaviors. Architects, as the creators of the spaces, should take strong social 
responsibility on it. Under the pressures of the rapid urban development, people’s 
behavior and life patterns have been forming and transforming constantly from every 
aspect of the society. And those changes on individual life react instantly upon 
the social progress. Therefore, the mission of architects nowadays is inevitably 
creating rational and organized urban spaces based on the close research and study 
of social behaviors. We have been trying to find social problems from every aspects 
of urban life and by solving them we can create a new order which can affect people’s 
behavior positively and improve the living environment healthily.
After a series of close and deep observation and research we fixed our 
competition topic on one of the most common elements in current urban environment 
– stray cats.
Stray cats, as objective reality in the urban environment, are affecting 
people’s ordinary life and behavior in many different ways. As a group of 
social-responsible architects, we are now initiating this international 
public-welfare design competition. Our vision is to call out people’s attention 
on social problems and urban life according to the elements as stray cats. We hope 
that innovative and effective solutions can be provided in terms of all the social 
problems raised by stray cats. And furthermore, we also hope that people can open 
their heart to help stray animals around them.
 
Goal 
As an stray animal group which can be sighted almost everywhere in the urban 
area, stray cats affect people’s life in many ways and therefore cause positive 
and negative social problems. More and more people are spending their times helping 
them such aiding, feeding, adopting, and doing sterilization operations. There is 
also some people they abandon, drive off, hunting and killing them. Whatever 
individually or organized, these relationships between animals and humans, or even 
humans with urban spaces inevitably have impacts on people’s life. 
Therefore, by this competition we want not only shelters which prevent the stray 
cats from rain and wind. More importantly we want spaces which can create 
relationship and solve social problems. We hope this competition can be a catalyst 
of creating a better urban living environment for humans and animals and can arouse 
people’s sense of social responsibility. Together we can build a harmonious home.
The competition process
1. The activity will start in October 2014, 8, you can query in the following url: www.saachn.com,
2. The competition is in the global scope for proposals, you don't
need to sign up. Students, architects and other 
people in the society, all can take part in this competiton with th
e name of the group or individual
3. The contestants submission deadline is December 08, 2014 -December
10, 2014, works submitted by email: MjE5YE5OLWBOTlBVWxtQXFo=, spicaarchitects@gm
ail.com
4. Participants should provide can fully express the design concept o
f PDF documents and no more than two panel
drawings, design results panel drawings specifications for A1 (840 x
594 mm), vertical layout, any expression; Participants shall submit th
e electronic works, the organizing committee will not accept any work
print, each drawing file accuracy is not less than 300 dpi. If yo
u want, you can provide to the organizing committee of the auxiliary
express material such as animation, 3d models
5. Participants shall be provided for profiles and photos to the org
anizers, photo size uniform for 2000 x2000 pixels
6. The organizing committee will invite famous domestic and foreign s
cholars, experts, animal protection groups to participate in the selec
tion, released the outstanding works on January 10, 2015, released to
p three works on January 20, 2015. All the entries will undertake u
nity binding into a book, and published on web sites and platform a
nd
display
7. Questions about the competition to: MjE4YU9PLmFPT1FWXBxRXVs=, spicaarchitects@g
mail.com
 contact number：021-31600136
The rules of the contest 
1. The electronic drawings shall not be any word or logo on the au
thor name of individual and group, or will be disqualified
2. All entries copyright belongs to the organizers, and shall have t
he right to use the entries of authorship rights other than copyrigh
t
3. Participated in other works of the competition, or has been publi
cly published work created by others does not
allow to participate in the competition, all the consequences caused
by plagiarism from individual to assume
4. The competition of individuals and groups must
agree and abide by the content of this competition notice and the r
ules of the contest; All rights and the rules of the contest are 
reserved to the competition organizing committee.