Open Architecture Network

Registration Requirements

Register for and maintain an account on the Open Architecture Network: http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/register

Submission Requirements

• All team members should register on the Open Architecture Network (username/pwd)
• Team Leader signs up for a competition entry, and may invite any other team members (by username or email)
• Submit entry on the Open Architecture Network
Project Title
Project Description (200 word minimum)
Minimum 3 images
    Formats: .jpg, .png, .gif
    Dimensions: 3000px x 2000px (pref. 10” x 15” @ 200 dpi)

Visual Guide to using the OAN

1. Create and Manage your Account

Creating a new account

Changing your Password

Editing your Profile

2. Start a Project

Enter the Competition

Access the Entry Page

Update the Competition Page

Upload and Edit Files

Re-Enter the Competition Page









Schedule

September 1st: Competition Opens
December 5th: Deadline for registration and submission.
December: Jury Review
February 2009: Announcement of winners!

Prizes

• 1st place: $1000
• 2nd place: $500
• 3rd place: Amazing Rubicon Bakery baked goods delivered to your door!

The winner/winners will also be invited to collaborate with Rubicon to design and execute a method of collecting and converting the mattresses into their value-added product, and potentially distributed for commercial use. This would be a unique opportunity to help an emerging social enterprise develop a product line with 100 percent reclaimed materials, create green-collar jobs, and support individuals in moving out of poverty.

| Rules |

• The designs will be judged on over-all product design, low-cost deconstruction and manufacturing, and innovative re-use of materials to create an amazing, affordable consumer product.
• more than 80% of final product must come from the mattress itself. Preference will be given to entries whose product utilizes all mattress parts and leaves minimum unused materials.
• Additional materials may be included, but must be recycled and/or waste products. No “virgin” materials.
• Processing and production needs to be replicable at a large scale (approximately 10,000 mattresses per month per facility).
• Entries must include a detailed description of de-construction and production process either by diagrams or text. Entrants are encouraged to use readily available tools and industrial machines.
• Size of mattress may vary and can be decided by the entrant. See 'Resources' for technical information.
• Teams are limited to up to 5 individuals.
• Priority will also be given to designs with cost-effective manufacturing processes.


Eligibility

The Discarded Dreams Mattress Competition is an open, international competition. Employees and family members of employees of Architecture for Humanity and Rubicon are precluded from participating in the competition, but there are no other restrictions on who can enter. Architects, design professionals, non-professionals, professionals in other fields and students of all ages are encouraged to participate.
In order to enter the competition, entrants must register for the Open Architecture Network. Participants may participate in multiple teams. For jurying purposes, each design is considered as a separate entry. Multiple designs will not be considered as a single entry.


Period of Submission


Entrants are invited to develop their design throughout the submission period. Once the submission period has ended they will not be permitted to make changes to their entry until the jurying has concluded at which time entrants will regain access to their project and may continue to develop their design. Entries that are late, illegible, incomplete, misdirected or incompletely received will not be eligible.

The period of submission for the Discarded Dreams Challenge is September 1st to December 5th, 2008. The competition organizers reserve the right to delay or extend the period of submission.


Anonymity and Design Credit


All files uploaded must be submitted without any markings that will identify team members in order to facilitate fair jurying of the competition. Building Plans, Building Elevations, Site Plans, Renderings and any other files submitted for consideration should not include title blocks or any other identifying information. Failure to comply with this rule will lead to disqualification.

This does not apply to the Project Details or "Edit Settings" area of each entry, which must be completed in full and must include the names and roles of all team members. Please note: Information entered in the Project Details or Project Settings area will be used to give proper credit to design team members.


Ownership and Copyright


By entering the competition, entrants agree to a) post entry materials to the Open Architecture Network and to the Terms of Use of the Open Architecture Network; b) to license all materials submitted under the Creative Commons Attribution (by) license and to adhere to the terms of that license.

Entrants shall own all design concepts, drawings, images, renderings, sketches, photographs, models, and/or text, documents, information or other materials submitted in association with the competition provided. However, the entrant hereby grants Rubicon Programs and its designees perpetual, free, unrestricted use of the submission materials in fulfillment of its charitable purposes, including its annual report, its websites and in communications with volunteers, funders and the media and all other purposes specified in these Rules.
 
Notwithstanding Rubicon Programs’ rights as a Licensor, competition entrants will allow Rubicon Program the use of any ideas, intellectual property and processes and/or materials in support of the commercial development of a social benefit venture or other social benefit purposes,. Should Rubicon Programs decide not to pursue commercialization of entrant ideas within 24 months of competition completion, entrants shall retain full rights to use the documents in other projects for commercial and for-profit purposes.

By entering this competition entrants warrant that all materials submitted by them are their own, that nothing in the submission of these materials will infringe the copyright or any other right of any person and that they have full authority to submit the materials for such purposes.


Exhibition and Publication


The results of the competition may be presented online, in galleries or other venues, or in a printed publication and all entries will be available to be viewed on the Open Architecture Network. Selected and Finalist entrants may be asked to build scale models representing their design and provide printed presentation boards for exhibition purposes.

In any exhibition, publication, or website, the organizers will make every effort to properly credit the appropriate competitors. Architecture for Humanity and its designees reserve the right to utilize materials submitted by entrants in any publication or promotional endeavor in perpetuity and free of charge (See "Ownership and Copyright").


Disputes


The jury has the sole authority and responsibility to recommend winners at the end of the competition. The organizers reserve the right to make a final decision regarding the winning scheme and any funding that may be made available for the development or implementation of designs entered into the competition. The competition administrators decisions in connection with all matters concerning the competition shall be final and binding.


Limitation of Liability


By entering the competition, all entrants and team members agree to indemnify, defend and hold Architect for Humanity including its chartered units, and its governors, directors, officers, employees, agents, partners, funders, sponsors and volunteers from and against any and all suits, claims, demands, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating in any way to services it provides in connection with this agreement.

If you have any questions about the rules stipulated above, please do not hesitate to contact the competition administrators at challenge |at| architectureforhumanity |dot| org