Boisbuchet Residency Award 2020
May 4, 2020
Illustration by C. Caspari from the book European insects published by Kronen–Verlag Erich Cramer. Hamburg. (1957)
With the current pandemic, the relationship between private and public domains, between the interior and exterior of our habitats, has become uncertain and uncomfortable. Maybe an unreasonable management of human relations with other creatures has even been at the origin of this crisis.
Domaine de Boisbuchet is a place for research and education in design and architecture where nature has always been a main source of inspiration for a design process of experimentation, coincidence and improvisation.
Today, the Domaine de Boisbuchet invites you to design a project which shall allow nature to enter our personal cocoon, something where we can get in serene, conscious and free touch with the wild face of a world outside that has been neglected for too long.
“Locating the Precious” workshop directed by Lin Cheung at Domaine de Boisbuchet in 2019 ©Martina Orska
The Project
Design a project which shall allow nature to enter our personal cocoon
The project can be an object, an architectural intervention, a service, a ritual.The project can not take place in the virtual world.The project can be presented with a drawing, a painting, a description, a film, or with photos – to be sent to info@boisbuchet.org until June 12th 2020. (NEW DEADLINE)
The Jury
Alexander von Vegesack, founder Domaine de Boisbuchet (president of the jury)
Isabelle de Ponfilly, director of Vitra France
Tul Chompaisal, director of PHKA Studio in Bangkok
Mathias Schwartz-Clauss, artistic director of the Domaine de Boisbuchet
The Price
5 “Coup du Coeur” laureates from the jury will be welcomed for a week at Domaine de Boisbuchet, where they can work on the proposed project.
This competition is dedicated to design and architecture students currently matriculated in a university within the European Union. The competition will be launched May 5th 2020.
Terms & Conditions
• Entrants must be at least 18 years old and currently matriculated (until the end of this year) in a university within the European Union.
• NEW DEADLINE: Submissions must be sent before June 12th (before midnight) via email to info@boisbuchet.org containing up to 4 pages in pdf format (in high and low definition) presenting your project (realized or imagined), subtitled in French or in English, and inspired by the theme.
• The 5 winners will be announced on Domaine de Boisbuchet ’s website on June 22 and will be invited to a 1-week residency at Domaine de Boisbuchet. That week of residence includes accommodation, access to the workshop facilities and the estate’s archive, and a guided tour of the architectural park and the current exhibition. The dates of stay will be decided in agreement between the winner and Domaine de Boisbuchet and according to governmental provisions.
• A presentation of the winning projects will be organized during the winner’s stay at Domaine de Boisbuchet. The projects will also be posted in Domaine de Boisbuchet’s newsletter, on its website and its social media. An auction of the projects for the fund to help fight Covid-19 is under consideration.