Archizinc Campus competition | « Increasing urban density: The city on the city, building upwards »

The Archizinc Campus competition is a sustainable building competition organised by VMZINC for students in European architecture schools. With the Archizinc Campus trophy we aim to emphasize the architectural relevance of combining titanium zinc with wood. For this reason, CEI-Bois, the European Confederation of woodworking industries, is partnering with VMZINC.

In the town of their choice (with a population of more than 100,000 people), candidates will look for an existing building or group of buildings that can be raised in height to realistically accommodate one or more housing unit(s). This building, or group of buildings, must have sufficient structural qualities to accommodate a roof extension (prior checking of supporting walls and frameworks). The current purpose of the building, or group of buildings, is not pre-defined, other than that it must have the structural qualities described above. Accurate full-scale measurements of usable surfaces must be taken on site by the candidates in order to give a comprehensive presentation of the existing surface areas prior to extension. Direct enquiries will be conducted locally to ascertain urban planning regulations and regulatory constraints applicable to the construction area (materials and colours, maximum heights, fire protection, access, shapes of volumes added and slope of roofs...). These regulations and constraints must be taken into account when designing the project. The extension must be built on the structural elements of the existing buildings that are capable of supporting it.