Youcanplan Pattern Books: FAQs
Apologies for the delay in posting this:The following represents the questions we have received for the competition.
1) What is pattern book housing
This is explained a little in the brief which you can download when you register. We have also published a separate blog post on the subject. The competition is an ideas competition, so a degree of interpretation of the pattern book concept is expected.
2) Can we submit designs for apartments
Yes.
We need a range of typologies for our Youcanplan illustration of ESP to work. So apartment designs and collective housing patterns are warmly welcomed along with other individual house typologies. Please ensure you communicate the adaptability of your design to suit different sites and residents’ needs, and consider the self procurement aspect of your proposal.
3) How can I vote? When can I vote?Where do I vote?
Having registered interest in the competition, you are now a member of the UrbanBuzz community. As such you will be offered a vote in the competition. You will be directed to the Youcanplan Pattern Books online gallery, and here you will see thumbnails and text descriptions of all the entrants.
If you wish to vote, you have to vote for a total of five schemes and you cannot vote for less than five schemes. Once submitted your choices will be entered into the big database of votes, from which we find our winners.
4) I don’t understand the copyright issues. If my design is published online, can’t people just steal it?
You retain the copyright of your submission. If your scheme is built into the software, then your idea will still be protected. Whilst users will be able to view and explore your design, both internally and externally to see if they like it, they will not be able to download technical drawings of it, or use the software as a shortcut to get planning somewhere.
Beyond the demonstration in July, the use of the pattern book designs on a real site would be subject to separate fee negotiations between enabling developers and designers, in the normal manner.
5) Do I have to use the template provided? or can I come up with my own?
Yes you must use the template provided. This will help the technical jury check your submission. You are free to use the rest of the space as you see fit to communicate your idea.
6) Can associates of technical jury members enter the competition?
Slider Studio and Mae Architects are not permitted to enter the competition. Along with UEL staff, these practices comprise the technical jury. We have many associates and colleagues in the professional and academic world, and they are all welcome to participate in the competition. So long as the submission meets some basic criteria relating to appropriate size cost and environmental performance, then the designs will be posted in the online gallery and the UrbanBuzz community will ultimately be the collective judging panel.
7) Can previously published work be submitted?
Yes. We want to see the best ideas from wherever they come, and we want to see as many of them as possible. Many architectural practices have already designed ideas which might be appropriate as pattern book housing, and many of these schemes perhaps never see the light of day. If so please review them, check their suitability for contempoary use in the UK and consider submitting for the competition.
We have several people interested in submitting their work for our office.Can a single practice have multiple design entries? If so do we need to register each one of them for competition.
Yes, this is possible. In the case of multiple entries from a practice, each design needs to be represented by an indivudual who has registered with the UrbanBuzz community.
9) Can I submit Le Corbusier’s “Dom-ino” House?
Erm, this is an interesting question in terms of who would might be alive to sue you, but we ask that you own the copyright of designs that you submit, or if entering on behalf of a company that you have the authority to do so.
10) Can I vote for my own design?
Yes of course, but you must also select four other designs to vote for from amongst competing schemes, otherwise your vote will not registered in our voting system.
11) How is the prize money divided between winners?
There are to be 10 winners at £1500 a piece.We assume we will get over 30 entries.
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