CONCURSURI STUDENŢEŞTI PE TEME DE SUSTENABILITATE
STUDENT COMPETITIONS ON SUSTAINABILITY TOPICS

RESEARCH APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: International student competitions’ analysis reveals that the main factor in winning a leading position in the contest is related to the capacity to innovate and at the same time to built better and more connected solutions with the topic of the subject. You can find curled discourses that are reaching a wide range of issues that are interdependent with the outside factors as well as discourses that are relying only on technology and on the need of change, that are only about a new and unexpected character of the design. The analysis is very interesting in terms of graphical representations, the majority of the winners are coming up with solutions to mitigate the effects and not to block the main causes (solar umbrella to protect the sea ice, water towers, green lungs for polluted cities). The substance of the projects it is not to be found in the projected image, but in the influence of the conceptual speech and the large number of problems taken under consideration. The examples commented in the second part of the study demonstrate the attention for good arrangement on the site, for the study of sunshine effects and opportunities to promote natural ventilation. The need for natural light is solved either by double facade proposals with filter elements or by generating electricity with the help of photovoltaic cells that are looking similar with the outside sun shades of the building. Student competitions investigated in the present work are a clear filter of the society’s current problems and their proposals are characterized by a high degree of freedom and less constrained solutions.

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