###Brand introduction: WORLD HABITAT is a comprehensive event brand integrating international conferences, design competitions, online media, and exhibitions. It aims to reward innovative, excellent, and transformative residential design concepts, projects and programs from all over the world. Over the years, many outstanding world human settlements projects have been widely recognized, bringing substantial and continuous improvements to the living environment. World Habitat adheres to the customer-first service concept, is based on the fields of architecture, planning, landscape and other fields related to human settlements environment science, and organizes various types of activities, strives to advocate green design to guide the development of the industry, enhance the social status of designers, and contribute to the world's people. Contribute to the beautiful development of people. The "WORLD HABITAT(2022-2023) Architectural & Environmental Design Competition" is a widely recognized design competition in the field of human settlements. It aims to discover domestic design works with cutting-edge concepts, design aesthetics, innovative thinking, and good reputation, and provide excellent designers and enterprises. Provide sufficient display opportunities and communication platforms to promote the scientific, healthy and sustainable development of the human settlements industry.

Organizational structure:

【主办单位】：WORLD HABITAT INSTITUTE

[Organizer]: World Habitat Network, World Habitat All Media Platform [Academic Support]: World Habitat Think Tank, Aijing Think Tank [Supported Media/Units]: China Green Times, Green China Magazine, China Environment Network, Aijing Awards official website, Tencent, Baidu Baijia, Today's Headline, People's Daily Online, Sohu, Netease, Sina Weibo, Beili Beili

Competition theme:

With the rapid development of China's economy, technology in all walks of life has also advanced rapidly, and technologies in architectural design, landscape design, interior design and other industries related to the construction of human settlements are no exception. Technology serves design, and design serves people. This competition chose "Breaking Boundaries" as the theme of the competition, aiming to guide designers to look beyond the field and pay attention to experiential design in their works. Use new technologies and new materials to make ultra-experience designs that exceed user expectations. The continuous development of technology helps us better realize some design concepts and turn them into reality, allowing people to truly gain value from good designs, and even Through the development of technology reduces the cost of design, the maturity of design technology also provides designers with more imagination space and wings, giving them the confidence and conditions to create more good designs, allowing more people to enjoy the value brought by design.

Competition content and requirements:

Contestants should choose real space as the creative theme, focus on various living environment spaces associated with experiential design, base themselves on urban and rural construction and renewal, take building green homes and adhering to low-carbon environmental protection as the design concepts, and promote the green and sustainable development of urban and rural areas under the vision of carbon peak construction. Contestants can choose their own design sites and formulate their own design tasks. The form can be architectural design, landscape design, interior design, etc., without limitation on subject matter, scale, and techniques. The entries should highlight green, environmental protection, and low-carbon design strategies based on achieving the "double carbon" goal, achieve a balance between design planning, energy conservation and environmental protection, architectural aesthetics, reasonable layout, and environmental friendliness, and advocate new materials and low-carbon The use of environmentally friendly products and energy-saving materials. Contestants are encouraged to combine current national policy plans such as national rural living environment improvement, urban renewal, and old community renovation to propose comprehensive design plans such as renovation, quality improvement, etc. for existing building or environmental problems, so as to promote green buildings and low-carbon cities through design., the construction and development of beautiful countryside.

Participants:

This competition is divided into professional groups and student groups. The participants include developers, design institutions, etc. and outstanding companies in related fields, or independent designers and college students with unique insights in the field of human settlements. You can sign up for the competition in the name of a design agency, a team (up to 5 members) or an individual. Each team should have a main creative designer.

Works classification:

All public buildings such as residential buildings, commercial buildings, educational buildings, office buildings, sports buildings, medical buildings, cultural and tourism buildings that are planned (approved for project approval), under construction, and completed, and in the plan stage, as well as new areas (including old city renovation) planning, garden landscape design, and interior design projects can participate in the competition. The specific project categories are as follows: Architectural design category:

Including office buildings, industrial buildings, transportation buildings, educational buildings, residential buildings, tourism and leisure buildings, commercial buildings, sports buildings, cultural buildings, green buildings, comprehensive buildings, renovation buildings, digital buildings, etc. Landscape design category:

Including parks, public spaces, municipal governments, residential areas, parks, hotels, scenic areas, green space systems, tourist areas, national parks, ecological restoration, renewal and renovation, cultural tourism, rural revitalization, B & Bs, etc. Space design category:

Design of indoor spaces such as residences, apartments, cultural and educational space, medical space, office space, commercial space, exhibition space, entertainment space, sports building space, transportation building space, industrial plants and workshops, and agricultural buildings. Planning category:

Including urban planning (including old city renovation), urban planning (characteristic towns, beautiful villages), regional planning, residential planning, commercial district planning, cultural tourism planning, special agricultural planning, etc. Comprehensive category: If the entry involves two or more categories, the entry will be classified as a comprehensive category.

Schedule setting:

The competition is divided into three stages: preliminary competition (online professional review by judges), online voting and final (on-site comprehensive review + road show). Preliminary competition (online professional review by judges): The review committee is composed of experts from the World Habitat Think Tank and Aijing Think Tank, including leaders of competent units, well-known domestic and foreign experts, professors, scholars and leaders of well-known enterprises. The preliminary competition will be conducted in batches, and the shortlist will be announced through the preliminary evaluation organizing committee. Finals (on-site comprehensive review + roadshow): Finalists must participate in on-site comprehensive review and roadshow. The final is a comprehensive event that integrates contestants 'speeches, online voting, guest reviews, and judges' review. Each unit will receive 5 gold medals and 10 silver medals for outstanding works of "World Habitat World Habitat". There are also a number of awards for outstanding works. Award-winning works will be issued with certificates and no bonuses will be provided.

Schedule:

Registration time: Until April 15, 2023 Submission deadline: April 30, 2023 Preliminary competition time: January 15, 2023 (first stage) March 30, 2023 (second stage) April 20, 2023 (third stage)(the third stage shall prevail for the student group) Online voting: May 1 to 10, 2023 Final time: May 10, 2023

Participation process:

immediately signed up 2.根据提示完善参赛信息；

3.在官网上传参赛项目，供赛程期间线上展出使用；

4.将项目提交参赛，在线填写参赛报名表；

5.按要求向组委会递交作品详细资料；

6.等待评审结果通知。