The World SF Convention is the world’s most eyed science fiction cultural themed event with the longest history, the biggest scale, and the strongest influence. The “Hugo Award” awarded by the Convention is a major world science fiction award, known as the “Nobel Prize of science fiction world”. At the 79th World SF Convention held in Washington, Chengdu officially obtained the qualification to host the 81st World SF Convention in 2023. This is the first time for World SF Convention to be held in China, and the second time for it to be staged in an Asian city after Yokohama, Japan in 2007. Chengdu—This “Sci-Fi Capital” once again captured the world’s attention!
At present, Chengdu is actively preparing for the 81st World SF Convention, unfolding the publicity and promotion of the Convention, promoting the industrialization of science fiction and popular science, and at the same time promoting the industrial interaction among cities. The Science and Technology Museum constructed in this project will also be the venue for the future Hugo Award ceremony.
Project Overview
Project name: Global Conceptual Design Scheme of Science and Innovation New City Science and Technology Museum Project
Project site: Deyuan Street of Pidu District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Project scale: The gross floor area will not exceed 50,000 square meters (including above and under the ground), and the construction content includes a theater-style Hugo Award venue, a Hugo Museum, a star-themed salon, and other exhibition and supporting functional space.
Design requirements and contents:
The venue design must comply with the relevant architectural design codes of the People’s Republic of China and meet the requirements of the solicitation documents.
Please see the Design Brief of Global Conceptual Design Scheme of Science and Technology Innovation New City· Science and Technology Museum Project (hereinafter referred to as the Design Brief) for details.
Host
Chengdu Shudu Urban Construction Co., Ltd.
Qualifications and Requirements of Applicants
A. Application requirements
This consultation adopts a global open application method. Design units/teams with relevant design experience in China and abroad may apply for participation. The following qualification requirements must be met upon application:
1. Applicants in China must meet the following qualification requirements:
The design unit/team in China must have certification documents of legitimacy within the valid period of operation, and must be an independent corporate legal person or other organization or a legally authorized branch unit；
The design qualification of Grade A and above for the construction industry (construction engineering) issued by the competent administrative department and the design qualification of Grade A and above for the special design of landscape architecture engineering；
The parent company, wholly owned subsidiary, and its holding company with two and more legal representatives as the same person must not apply at the same time.
2. Applicants outside China must meet the following qualification requirements:
The overseas design units must have legal business and design licenses in the locality.
3. If the applicant is an agency in Hong Kong, Macao or Taiwan, it must have a legal business and design license in the locality.
B. Participation method
The design unit/team is allowed to apply in the form of a consortium. When applying as a consortium, a Consortium Agreement must be provided. The number of consortium members should not exceed two, and all consortium parties must not participate in the event in their own names or form a consortium with other design units/teams.
C. Team requirements
According to the characteristics of this solicitation, team members to be involved should be the registered personnel of the design unit/team, including but not limited to planning, architecture, and landscape professionals:
If the design unit/team is an overseas unit/team, in order to ensure that the project designers have an accurate understanding of the Chinese background and related requirements, there should be at least one person who is proficient in Chinese among the project designers.
The chief designers participating this solicitation need to be experienced in presiding design of similar projects, and must participate in the whole design process directly (the chief designer must have at least participated in the work report and scheme review report of solicitations in person). During the event, if the chief designer does not match the team member profile submitted in the qualification review materials, the host has the right to cancel the participation qualification of the design agency.
D. Achievements
At least 1 similar achievement in design of large-scale construction project since January 1, 2017 (subject to the time of contract signing) must be provided, and the achievement must be the winning bid (selected) scheme that has been adopted and is being implemented or has been put into use, and contract or other proof materials.
Application Methods
A. Application time of this solicitation is 9:00-17:00, from March 15, 2022 to March 24, 2022 (Beijing time, similarly hereinafter).
B. Application materials may be submitted with the following two methods:
Method 1: In-person
Applicants should, before the deadline of application, send paper documents of application information such as the completed application forms and application materials to the following address: 27F, Building T1, Fu’nian Square, No. 666, Jitai Road, Wuhou District, Chengdu, Sichuan. Recipients: Ms. Luo, Ms. Qiang； tel: 028-86610077-5888 (the delivery time of materials is subject to the actual time when the materials are delivered to the host, and documents received after the deadline will be rejected). The application materials should be preferably printed on both sides and bound in a volume, and the size of the text should be A4. Submit 1 copy of paper materials and electronic documents consistent with the content of the paper materials (affixed with an official seal, if it is a consortium, all members of the consortium must affix their official seals or sign)；
Method 2: Internet
Applicants shall, before the deadline of application, send application documents such as the completed application forms and application materials in PDF format of A4 size after signing and affixing their seals to the designated email: 2898623197@qq.com. At the same time, applicants should take the initiative to contact and confirm the delivery status of the application materials, and bear the risk that the application materials may not be delivered in time due to accidents in the e-mail sending process.
C. For details of application material contents and requirements, please see Appendix 1 Solicitation Document of Global Conceptual Design Scheme of Science and Innovation New City Science and Technology Museum Project, Appendix 2 Solicitation Application Form of Global Conceptual Design Scheme of Science and Innovation New City · Science and Technology Museum Project and Appendix 3 Consortium Agreement.
Consultation Description
A. This consultation is divided into two phases: Phase I – Open application and shortlisting； Phase II – Scheme preparation and review.
Phase I – Open application and shortlisting
Release global solicitation announcement for open application and shortlist five units/teams after the review of the jury (ranked in sequence).
Phase II – Scheme preparation and review.
The five shortlisted agencies that have passed the final review should submit the deliverables according to the Design Brief and present their schemes according to the draw sequence； the jury performs comprehensive comparison and evaluation in combination with the deliverables of shortlisted agencies and rank the schemes from No. 1 to No. 5； the host will submit the recommended results of the jury to relevant department. In principle, the design agency ranked (or sequenced) No. 1 will be the selected agency, and the design agencies ranked (or sequenced) No. 2~5 will be the shortlisted agencies. (If an agency is confirmed and selected by relevant departments after submission despite a different prior ranking or sequencing, the remaining four design agencies are shortlisted agencies.) And the selected agency will undertake the follow-up design work. The selected agency must optimize the selected scheme according to the opinions of the host, review experts and relevant departments.
B. In this solicitation, in addition to the selected agency, the other four shortlisted design agencies will receive a design compensation of 700,000 yuan (tax included) respectively； the selected agency will undertake the subsequent optimization (development) design work, and the subsequent design fee (i.e. consultation service contract fee) amounts to 6.5 million yuan (tax included).
Requirements of Submitted Deliverables
The contents of the design deliverables must comply with the provisions of the relevant chapters such as design principles, site planning requirements, architectural design requirements, and design deliverable requirements in the Design Brief.
Copyright Issues and Law
The right of authorship in all design deliverables of the solicitation belongs to the design units/teams, while all submitted design deliverables will not be returned to the design units/teams. The host is entitled to use of all design deliverables for free, including announcement of review results after the review, as well as introduction, display and evaluation of design deliverables via media, specialized journals, specialized books or other forms.
Design units/teams should ensure all contents in design deliverables are their original work without any materials infringing the intellectual property rights of third parties. In case of an infringement act, the infringing design units/teams must bear all legal consequences themselves, and will be disqualified from the solicitation.
All materials (text, drawings, electronic data, etc.) provided by the host are protected by copyright. Any unit or individual must not copy, adapt, distribute, publish, lend, or transfer these materials without authorization, otherwise corresponding legal liability will be ascertained according to law, and the unit or individual will be disqualified from the solicitation.
Rules of this solicitation are governed by the laws of the People’s Republic of China. The solicitation work and all documents are subject to the Chinese laws. Should negotiation fail in case of a dispute, both parties agree to submit to the Chengdu Arbitration Commission for arbitration.
Prior to the end of the solicitation, design units/teams or their designers must not disclose, make public or display design deliverables in any form unless the host permits, otherwise the corresponding legal liability will be ascertained according to law, and the units/teams or their designers will be disqualified from the solicitation.
Right of interpretation: The host reserves the right of the final interpretation of this consultation and relevant documents with the language of interpretation subject to Chinese.
The announcement is published on AIMIR’s website now. If you want to know more following details regarding to this competition, please feel free to contact AIMIR. What’s more, you’re more than welcome to touch base with us if you need architectural visualization.
Architectural visualization is a tool to create 3D rendering with high-quality visuals with the help of BIM or CAD software. Moreover, it also assists all parties involved in the construction projects to participate in the entire design process for better collaboration. And today, in this blog, we’ll reveal five ways that conduces to a perfect understanding of design at any project stage.
Create Effective Communications with Potential Clients
While developing new clients, designers find it difficult to make potential clients understand the design under various constraints and hammer out some proposals. The key to success is heating their imagination. By using architectural visualization tool, designers are able to quickly generate, review and display their visions which are laden with unique and wonderful elements. And it’s enormously helpful to make potential clients have a comprehensive understanding of the design and determine their needs and concerns without hesitation. It is no exaggeration that architectural visualization saves the cost of communication for the reason that it guarantees consistency of what design teams convey and what the owners understand. As a result, it reduces chances of misunderstanding and redesigning.
Answer Critical Questions Effectively
Clients are often concerned about questions such as daylight exposure and camera angles. Confronted with this kind of doubt, the designers don’t need to explain more. Architectural visualization can come into play, directly giving answers to these questions in a quite efficient manner. It provides a visual presentation of the project influenced by different factors such as viewsheds, shading, and radiation exposure. Through the assessment of vivid analog images of exposure to solar radiation, the clients can see the lighting situation very intuitively and get everything arranged logically.
Change Design Options Promptly
One of great advantages of architectural visualization is that design choices and options are substituted and reviewed flexibly as requested. Thus, the clients are able to quickly make a comparison between various design details which are displayed in the 3D digital rendering in real time. This enables them to determine what is needed in their dream buildings. In addition, switching modeling scenarios is practicable in the 360° virtual tour. It provides static spherical views with hotspots that allows the viewer to jump between scenes. Both of them bring great convenience and dynamic interaction to all the parties during the cooperation.
Expose Quality Issues Quickly
In many cases, mistakes of architecture models are difficult to notice in the CADs and plan drawings in the early stage, even though in 3D space. Some quality problems don’t come bubbling back to the surface until the construction starts. These issues are truly a time-killer and even a cost failure. In this respect, architectural visualization can help a lot because it makes incorrect modeling details readily visible. As a result, these quality issues are easy to detect and solve promptly.
Make Rapid Changes
Change is always going on in rendering process. However, no one wants to see the construction process delayed by last-minute changes. In this situation, architectural visualization makes a contribution to making final changes rapidly so that the clients review and confirm modification quickly. It’s conducive to increasing efficiency to ensure smooth construction operation. With the aid of architectural visualization, what can be achieved is that all parties understand designs promptly and accurately and, finally, 3D artists deliver targeted 3D works for implementation of projects.
Architectural Visualization, an Enjoyable Way to Design
Visualizing your idea enables the appropriate design to be understand and seen quickly and accurately. AIMIR is a studio dedicated to photo realistic architectural visualization and virtual reality experience. If you want to integrate visualization into your design workflow, kindly visit AIMIR’s website and get your ideas fly.
International Competition for Future School Design in Western China (Chongqing) Science City – Season 1 will be launched soon! The competition releases 4 public school projects of Western China (Chongqing) Science City in 2022, and is open to global design teams.
At the sixth meeting of the CPC Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission, General Secretary Xi Jinping made special arrangements for the development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, stressing that “support the cooperation between the two places to build Western China Science City in the mode of ‘one city, multiple campuses’, and make Chengdu-Chongqing region a science and technology innovation center with national influence”. The construction of Western China (Chongqing) Science City is a concrete action to carry out such important instructions.
The Western China (Chongqing) Science City is the future of scientific and technological innovation and high-quality development of Chongqing. Chongqing is holding the strength and wisdom of the whole city in such effort. With the overall orientation of “Science City and Innovation Highland”, The Western China (Chongqing) Science City closely follows principles of “five sciences” and “five technologies”, focuses on the theme of science, develops city for the future, and builds itself into a “city for scientists and entrepreneurs”. The Western China (Chongqing) Science City strives to build a “Western China Education Special Zone” with “Education Leading Area, Education Innovation Pioneering Area, and National Smart Education Demonstration Zone” as the core. In order to accelerate the improvement of city functions, construction of a number of primary and secondary schools and kindergartens are to be launched.
Diagram of Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle
This competition is hosted by Chongqing High-tech Industry Development Zone Administration Committee Public Service Bureau, organized by Chongqing High-tech Development and Construction Investment Group Co., Ltd., and co-organized by Shenzhen Position Spatial Culture Development Co., Ltd..
This competition is to explore future school space design with future-oriented education philosophy. The design shall reflect the unique characteristics of Chongqing as “a city of mountains and rivers, a place of beautiful landscape”, and realize the concept of “High-tech Innovation · Smart Education”, to achieve distinctive future schools.
Competition Objectives
Create high-standard and high-quality campuses, encourage teaching innovation, adapt to future education development.
Emphasize characterized design to achieve a unique educational environment for each school.
Advocate local and ecological features, reflect the unique characteristics of Chongqing as “a city of mountains and rivers, a place of beautiful landscape”. Build low-carbon and green campuses.
Embody the characteristics of scientific innovation, promote new trends of smart education, and advocate the use of new materials/technology to build models of smart campuses.
The competition emphasizes the uniqueness of each school, asking architects to understand the school’s needs and research space design to meet the educational philosophies of each school. Interpret the site characteristic to put forward design ideas, and control the implementation process. Architects, school authorities, construction parties and supervised departments shall collaborate deeply to ensure the construction of high-standard, characteristic and high-quality public schools in Western China (Chongqing) Science City.
Project Overview
The 4 public schools are all located in Chongqing High-tech Zone, which is also the core of Western China (Chongqing) Science City. This area is the new city center where basic scientific research and technological innovation functions are gathered.
4 public schools include kindergarten, primary school, junior and senior high school. We hope to comprehensively discuss the teaching mode and educational space design of each school age segment, highlighting the characteristics of each school and improving the quality of campus space.
Project Location
Project Sites
4 schools are 4 independent projects. Each team can choose no more than 2 projects to register for the competition, but cannot register for project 1 Jinfeng School of Western China (Chongqing) Science City and Project 2 Hangu School of Western China (Chongqing) Science City at the same time.
Project 1: Jinfeng School of Western China (Chongqing) Science City
School Size: 48-class elementary school, 48-class junior high school, 60-class senior high school and 6-class international school
Site Area: 217616.55 sq.m., in which 18932.30 sq.m. is restricted construction area
Gross Floor Area: about 169000 sq.m. tentatively
Project 1 Site Diagrams
Project 2: Hangu School of Western China (Chongqing) Science City
School Size: 12-class kindergarten, 48-class elementary school, 48-class junior high school, and 60-class senior high school
Site Area: 175939.72 sq.m.
Gross Floor Area: about 232000 sq.m. tentatively
Project 2 Site Diagrams
Project 3: Western China Science City School Affiliated to Chongqing No.8 Secondary School (Expansion)
School Size: 48-class junior high school and 60-class senior high school
Site Area: 134893.90 sq.m.
Gross Floor Area: about 192000 sq.m. tentatively
Project 3 Site Diagrams
Project 4: Hangu Junior High School of Western China (Chongqing) Science City
School Size: 48-class junior high school
Site Area: 42328.92 sq.m.
Gross Floor Area: about 63000 sq.m. tentatively
Project 3 Site Diagrams
Competition Rules
The competition adopts the method of open solicitation, divided into Pre-qualification Phase, Conceptual Design Competition Phase and Final Approval Phase.
Pre-qualification Phase
Pre-qualification Review Committee shall review application materials submitted by the participating teams including concept proposal, experience of chief architect and the team, and comprehensively determine 5 shortlisted proposals without ranking and 2 alternatives with ranking by voting.
There will be 20 shortlisted proposals all together (5 for each school) to enter the next phase.
Conceptual Design Competition Phase
The shortlisted teams submit complete architectural conceptual design according to relevant requirements. Only 1 design for each project shall be submitted. Scheme Review Committee shall evaluate the design schemes anonymously, and fully listen to opinions of the host, organizer, builders and users, then determine ranking of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, and 2 unranked shortlisted award teams for each school by voting.
Final Approval Phase
The host and supervised department shall make final examination of the results given by the Scheme Review Committee. In principle, the 1st place selected by the Scheme Review Committee shall be the winner and the corresponding design contract shall be awarded if there are no other special circumstances such as excessive project cost exceeding the budget. The 2nd and 3rd teams will receive the Excellence Award, and the other two will receive the Shortlisted Award.
The competition results will be published after confirmation by the host, for 3 working days.
Application Requirements
Applicants must be domestic or overseas legally registered companies or organizations. Two or more legal persons, parent companies, wholly-owned subsidiaries and their holding companies with the same legal representative shall be regarded as the same applicant and shall not apply for the same project at the same time.
There is no qualification requirement.
Each applicant must specify the school project applying for. Each applicant can choose no more than 2 projects, but cannot simultaneously apply for project 1 and Project 2.
Consortium is accepted, with no more than 2 members (1 leading + 1 member). Consortium members shall sign the Consortium Agreement legally and specify the leading member and work distribution.
Each member of the consortium shall not further apply for the same project alone or by joining another consortium. But one applicant is allowed to form two different consortiums to apply for two different schools, but not for project 1 and 2 at the same time.
Individual or team of individuals are not accepted.
Winner contract
Work Scope of the Winner Contract
The winner of each project will be awarded of schematic design and design development contract.
The contract work scope covers: Including but not limited to building, structure, water supply and drainage, electrical, hvac, civil air defense, BIM, prefabricated, energy saving, green building, sponge city, landscape, signage, interior design, floodlight, building intelligence, biochemical pool and related disciplines. Work include schematic design (including estimation), design development (including budget), Follow-up EPC bidding cooperation service. The winner shall send professionals to provide on-site services, and assist the client or the agent of the client to complete the preparation of feasibility study, project approval, construction and other approval procedures. Design at each stage must pass the examination. The winner is responsible for review of construction drawing design, construction supervision, completion acceptance and other coordination work; the chief architect shall be responsible for work necessary in the process of construction document preparation and construction.
The winner must ensure that the design drawings meet the requirements of schematic design and design development. If they do not have relevant professional qualifications, they can entrust a qualified design company to assist on some work to ensure that the design drawings meet the depth requirements. The final work content is subject to the design contract.
Design Fee
The estimated design fee of the winner contract in this competition is shown in the following table. The basic design fee shall be calculated according to the construction and installation fee approved in the estimate document as the billing base.
The contract design fee is calculated according to the tentative construction and installation fee of each project, and the rules are as follows: The basic design fee of the project is calculated according to the “Engineering Survey and Design Charge Standard” (price [2002] No. 10) formulated by the State Development Planning Commission and the Ministry of Construction. The total basic design fee of the project is calculated with the coefficient of specialty as 1, the coefficient of engineering complexity as 1, and the additional adjustment coefficient as 1. The winning contract awarded this time covers schematic design, design development stage, and related cooperation work. The contract design fee shall be 50% of the total basic design fee of each project. The related professional design fees within the scope of site boundary of each project are all included and will not be billed separately.
Competition Bonus
For each project that is pre-qualified but not winning, if the deliverables are determined by the Scheme Review Committee as meeting the design requirements of the competition, the organizer will pay the corresponding bonus as follows:
Pre-registration
The official announcement of this competition will be issued soon. We welcome all design teams to pre-register. If interested, please scan the QR code or visit the link below to fill out pre-registration information. The pre-registration deadline is at 17:00, March 22, 2022 (UCT+8). We will inform pre-registers by email once the official announcement is released.
The announcement is published on AIMIR’s website now. If you want to know more following details regarding to this competition, please feel free to contact AIMIR. What’s more, you’re more than welcome to touch base with us if you need architectural visualization.
While progress still needed to be made to achieve gender equality in the world and in the profession, women can be found in world’s most admired architectural projects. In the early 20th century, there are not any true women in classical architecture that we can look back on. But now, we know they exist, most of them have been brought into the light for people to know them – Marion Mahony Griffin, Zaha Hadid, Denise Scott Brown, Neri Oxman, Julia Morgan, Eileen Gray, Amanda Levete, Elizabeth Diller, Annabelle Selldorf, Maya Lin, Kazuyo Sejima – who is you favorite and most respected?
8th of March is not a day to make women feel “special”. It is about celebrating accomplishments what led by female, highlighting the success that made on their own, and sharing their brilliant ideas and visions.
As an architectural visualization specialist, AIMIR has been collaborating with amazing women architects and designers around the world since 2006. Hope the following case studies would elaborate our mission and vision of women in the built environment.
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As thrilled as we were, AIMIR created the interior 3D renderings for Morpheus. The unique metallic structure is addressed by 3D images as if they are real.
International Women’s Day is powered by the collective efforts of the society as a whole. Being a tiny part of the architecture community, our architectural visualization studio will keep doing our part to truly make a positive difference for women.
Organizer: Management Committee of Guangzhou Nansha Development Zone
Undertaker: Mingzhu Bay Development and Construction Administration of Guangzhou Nansha New Area
Organizing Agent: GZPI
Zonleon Sungin Tendering Consulting Co，Ltd
Project Name
International Competition for Architectural Concept Scheme of Permanent Site of Greater-Bay Science Forum
Project Background
This project is located at the estuary of the Pearl River in China, at the tip of Lingshan Island, Mingzhu Bay, Nansha New Area, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China. Nansha New Area, with a total area of 803 km2, is located in the Greater Bay Area, the geographical geometric center of Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Bay area, one of the four bay areas in the world. It has unique geographical advantages, within a radius of 100 kilometers, it gathers all the 11 cities and 5 international airports in Greater Bay Area, 38 and 41 nautical miles away from Hong Kong and Macao respectively. Nansha New Area carries a historical mission of comprehensively deepening reform, expanding opening-up and innovatively developing the “experimental field” of the country, and has the strategic advantages of the “three-zone and one-center” (National New Area, Pilot Free Trade Zone, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Comprehensive Cooperation Demonstration Zone and Guangzhou Sub-Center carrying the function of gateway hub). It is making every effort to build a “center of the bay area, the open door, and the city of the future”.
Figure 1: Schematic Diagram of the Location of the Project in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
On May 7, 2021, Guangdong Province issued the construction plan of Guangzhou Innovation Cooperation Zone of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Dawan International Science and Technology Innovation Center, in which it clarified that Nansha Science City will be based on the construction of Centennial Science City, focus on the fields of marine, energy, aerospace, information, etc., lay out the construction of the major scientific and technological infrastructure clusters, cutting-edge cross research platforms and high-level scientific research institutions, gather the high-level scientific and technological talents, and build it into a “Silicon Valley” in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Figure 2: Schematic Diagram of “One Core and Three Circles” Innovation Network of Nansha Science City
Figure 3: Schematic Diagram of Spatial Structure of “One Body, Two Wings and Three Fulcrums” of Nansha Science City
On September 22, 2021, Guangdong Province issued the 14th five-year plan for scientific and technological innovation in Guangdong Province, emphasizing the promotion of the construction of the pioneering zone of the Comprehensive National Science Center in the Greater Bay Area and the Pearl Science Park of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the creation of highly concentrated cluster of major scientific and technological infrastructure and a highland of advanced scientific research and technological innovation with global influence. supporting the Nansha Science City to focus on key frontier scientific fields such as information, life, ocean, etc., and creating an important carrier of the frontier basic research and high-tech innovation in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area； and accelerating the promotion of construction of the International Talent Special Zone in Guangzhou Nansha New Area； holding the Greater Bay Area Science Forum, continuously enhancing its influence, and attracting global high-end innovation resources to converge.
On December 3, 2021, the Information Office of Guangdong Provincial People’s Government held a press conference of the Greater Bay Area Science Forum in 2021 in Guangzhou, officially announcing that the permanent site of the Greater Bay Area Science Forum will be located in Nansha.
The Greater Bay Area Science Forum is committed to building a grand gathering of global scientists integrating scientific exchange and discussion, scientific achievement display, scientific consensus promotion and innovative mechanism, and a high-end platform for “discussing and sharing global scientific development and promoting exchanges and cooperation”. The convening of the forum will help bring together global top scientist resources and extensive contact with core scientific institutions, promote my country’s better integration into the international innovation network, and deeply participate in global innovation governance. Based on the Greater Bay Area, the forum will carry out related work in eight aspects of holding high-level scientific conferences, building high-level think tanks, promoting international exchanges and cooperative research, assisting in the introduction of international top high-tech talents and projects, providing scientific services, building the brand of the forum, establishing scientific research funds and establishing Greater Bay Area Science Awards.
From December 11 to 13, 2021, the Greater Bay Area Science Forum in 2021 was successfully held. At the opening ceremony of the forum, a launching ceremony of the “Greater Bay Area Science Forum Permanent Site Design Competition” was held, hoping to collect the most creative design scheme with world vision through international competitions and make the permanent site a landmark building in Greater Bay Area.
Figure 4: Launching Ceremony of the “Greater Bay Area Science Forum Permanent Site Design Competition”
The organizer of this competition is the Management Committee of Guangzhou Nansha Development Zone, and the organizer is the Mingzhu Bay Development and Construction Administration of Guangzhou Nansha New Area.
Contents of the Competition:
(The specifics are subject to the technical document for competition finally issued)
1. Location of the Project:
The permanent site of the Greater Bay Area Science Forum is located in the Mingzhu Bay District, the main functional area of Nansha Science City. The Mingzhu Bay District has geographical advantages and resource endowments of “five watersheds, three rivers and six banks, connected mountains and rivers and the gate of the South China Sea”, and will benchmark international and domestic advanced cities to create a “smart city in Lingnan and a window of charm in the South China Sea”.
This project is located at the top of Lingshan island in the Mingzhu Bay District, in the vision center of the Zhujiang River estuary into the central urban area, with an excellent geographical environment. This project faces the Huigu West Cultural Island across the river through Jiaomen Waterway, and echoes Hengli International Financial Island and P Mingzhu Science Park across the Upper Hengli Waterway in the south. Several outer river waterways converge here, and the water surface is wide and unobstructed. It will become the vane of the world’s cutting-edge technology and a demonstration site for Nansha’s international image.
Figure 5: Schematic Diagram of the Location of the Project in Mingzhu Bay District, Nansha New Area
2. Land Use Overview:
The land area within the design scope of this competition is 9.51 hectares, and the research area is 26.7 hectares. Therein, the length of the north side of the research area is about 859 meters, the length of the south side 832 meters, the length of the west side 499 meters, and the length of the east side 143 meters. The research scope includes one long-term reserved development land (with an area of 3.04 hectares), one original planned bus terminal, island embankment and other green spaces； therein, some of the roundabout embankments have been finished.
The land within the design scope of this competition extends to the planned property line in the west and is adjacent to the Yuexiu international financial center project, coincides with the flood control line in the East, the land extends to the flood control line in the east and coincides with it, and the north and south borders coincide with the property line of road, reference line for the outer river and management scope line. The scope includes the control scope of rail transit Line 31, the original planned 15 m urban road and the built 30 m urban road (including North Jiangling Road and South Jiangling Road).
Figure 6: Schematic Diagram of the Location of the Project in Lingshan Island, Mingzhu Bay District
Figure 7: Schematic Diagram of Design Scope
3. Project Function Positioning:
The first is to provide first-class conference venues and supporting facilities for the Greater Bay Area Science Forum and various scientific exchange activities, and to create a “cooperation hub” for world-oriented scientific and technological exchanges.
The second is to provide modern office space and a first-class innovation environment for scientific research, innovation and entrepreneurship, and create a world-class scientific organization “gathering space”.
The third is to create a space for popular science experience for the public and become an “interactive center” for popular science experience that serves the Bay Area.
The fourth is to build a space for the display and transformation of cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements, and create a “preferred platform” for innovation and entrepreneurship for integrated development.
4. Construction content and scale：
Construction Content ：Mainly including the academic center, Nansha science and technology museum, science and innovation center, scientists’ apartment, high-end office，supporting service facilities, etc.
Construction scale: the total construction volume within the design scope of this competition (volume area of the building) is about 100,000-140,000 m2.
Competition Announcement
This competition is issued through the people’s government website of the Guangzhou Nansha Zone (, English web page: ), the official account of the Greater Bay Area Science Forum (GSF), architecture forum (), the website of the organizing agent（）and official account of the Mingzhu Bay Development and Construction Administration of Guangzhou Nansha New Area, etc., and openly accepts the registration and participating documents for the domestic and overseas design organizations. In case of any difference in the text of this announcement issued in various media, the text issued on t the website of the Organizing Agent will prevail.
Competition Registration
Registration Scope:
For this project, the competition development method shall be designed with reference to the architectural scheme design competition of similar public building projects in Guangzhou province, and the registration mode of global open solicitation shall be adopted. The competition announcement will be published in the above media, and the registrations from the domestic and foreign design organizations in China are acceptable.
Registration Conditions:
This international competition adopts the registration mode of global open solicitation, and there are no qualification requirements. The domestic and foreign design organizations shall provide the following application materials to apply for the competition. Refer to Appendixes 1 and 2 for registration materials and format requirements.
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In this project, the consortium is allowed to participate in the competition, the members of the consortium shall not exceed 2, and each party shall not participate in this competition in any form.
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Credibility requirements of the participating organizations: the participating organization shall have a good reputation in the field of the industry and has not been subject to revocation of business license, revocation of qualifications, suspension of business for rectification, or being taken over or frozen of property being, entering bankruptcy proceedings, etc. by relevant departments (the declaration of the competition registration organization affixed with the official seal shall be provided)；
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The project principal or the creative team of the participating organization shall promise to directly participate in the whole process of this competition and architectural scheme design； (① The statement of the participating organization affixed with the official seal shall be provided ② The personnel list shall be provided)
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For the registration of the domestic design organization, the independent legal personality and business license shall be provided.
For the registration of the overseas design organizations (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), the registration certificate of company shall be provided (if the data is in English or other languages, they shall be translated into Chinese.)
（Remarks: for Item 4 of this form, any kind of data can be provided.)
Registration Method
The design organizations interested in participating in the competition shall fill in the registration form as required and send the seal-stamped and scanned registration form to the competition email (e-mail: gjjingsai@163.com) before March 11, 2022.
The design organization interested in participating in the competition must submit the qualification selection registration documents (for the details of the contents, see Appendixes 1 and 2； for the format, refer to the “Format of the Qualification Selection Registration Document” in Appendix 1) in written form (bound into a volume with A4 paper in eight copies) to the specified receiving address, and submit the electronic documents to the specified mailbox in by mail (mailbox address: gjjingsai@163.com ), and the qualification selection registration documents received overdue will not be accepted. (The time when the competition organization agency receives the written documents shall prevail； if the written documents are inconsistent with the electronic documents, the written documents shall prevail)
Address for receipt of written documents: Floor 6, No. 234, Gaotang Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
Qualification Selection
In this competition, the qualification selection and evaluation expert group will select the registered design organizations, and select the best 9 design organizations for formal competition. For the details of the specific qualification selection and evaluation rules, see Appendix 2. If there are no more than 9 participating organizations, all the participating organizations are allowed to participate officially. If there are more than 9 registration organizations, 9 formal participating organizations will be selected.
Submission of Competition Deposit
The official participating organization must submit the competition deposit of 50,000 yuan within 5 working days after the announcement of the list of official participators. For details, see the notice of qualification selection results.
The participation deposit of the original amount (RMB 50,000) (without interest) will be returned within 15 days after the evaluation of the original design scheme. For the formal participating organization which has paid the participation deposit but fails to submit the competition design results as required, the participation deposit will not be refunded.
If the participating organization that fails to submit the participation deposit as required will be deemed to give up the competition qualification automatically.
Formal Competition
During the evaluation of competition results, the expert review committee shall select 3 recommended schemes and 3 alternative schemes (no ranking) from 9 formal competition schemes.
The formal design period is about 44 days. For the specific time, document preparation requirements and specific evaluation methods for the competition results, the requirements in the finally-issued technical documents shall prevail.
Finally, the decision-making organization selects one optimum scheme from the recommended and alternative schemes, and the optimum scheme will give priority to the scheme design right of the project.
The competition design results include the design text (including design description and drawings), display drawing board, three-dimensional electronic model, multimedia presentation document (including Chinese subtitles), and design solid model. The electronic document shall be provided except for the design solid model (for the requirements for preparation of outcome documents, the requirements in the finally-issued technical documents shall prevail.)
Relevant Fees and Payment Methods
In this competition, the top three scheme design organizations will be given design copyright and compensation of RMB 1.5 million yuan (tax included) (about US$237,400)； the 4th~6th alternative design organizations will be given design copyright and compensation of RMB 700,000 yuan (tax included) (about US$100,780)； the 7th~9th alternative design organizations will be given design copyright and compensation of RMB 300,000 yuan (tax included) (about US$47,478). If an overseas design organization is required to sign a contract due to the acquisition of scheme design right or design copyright and compensation fee, the overseas design organization shall entrust a domestic organization with a RMB account in China to collect. The participating organization shall fully consider the participation cost, and pay taxes in accordance with the relevant national tax laws. The organizer will not bear any expenses incurred in obtaining compensation.
Other Requirements and Instructions
The time mentioned in the announcement of this scheme competition is Beijing time.
The organizations participating in this competition are deemed to have accepted all the provisions in this document.
All the materials provided by the participating organizations in accordance with the above provisions shall be in Chinese. The materials in foreign languages of the competition results must have a contrastive Chinese Translation. When there is a discrepancy between the Chinese and the foreign language of the same content, the Chinese version shall prevail.
The authorship rights of the works participating in this design competition belong to the participating party, and the copyright belongs to the competition organizers. The competition organizer has the right to publicly display the results of the competition, and introduce, display, evaluate and use the results of the competition through the media or other forms.
All the materials submitted by the participating organization will not be returned, including but not limited to registration information, achievements, works, models, etc.
The competition scheme shall be created originally by the participating organization. If the results involve the intellectual property rights of a third party, the participating organization must bear all the responsibilities and consequences arising therefrom.
If losses are caused to the competition organizer or third party due to the infringement of the participating organization to the intellectual property rights of others, the participating organization must bear the full legal liability (including compensation for losses, etc.).
If losses are caused to the third party due to the use of the achievements submitted when the competition organizer does not know that the participating organization infringes the intellectual property rights of others, the participating organization shall bear the full legal liability (including compensation for losses, etc.).
The documents and materials obtained by the participating organization from the competition organizer or the competition organization agency shall be kept properly, which shall not be disclosed or used for any purpose other than this solicitation activity. The participating organization must bear the legal liability arising from the leakage of documents and materials (including compensation for losses, etc.).
The laws applicable to this competition and all the related activities are the laws of the People’s Republic of China.
Plagiarism or plagiarism in any form is not allowed in this competition. All the responsibilities caused must be borne by the fault party, and the competition organizer shall not bear any legal liability.
In case of any discrepancy between the announcement of this competition and the Technical Documents for Competition officially released, the Technical Documents for Competition shall prevail, and the competition organizer has the final interpretation right of this announcement.
Before the formal competition, in case of policy change or other force majeure, the organizer has the right to terminate the competition, and the final interpretation right belongs to the organizer of the competition.
Unless otherwise specified and explained, in this announcement and its annexes, the term “participating organization” also refers to all the parties of the consortium.
In case of any discrepancy between the English edition and the Chinese edition of the registration announcement of this design competition, the registration announcement in Chinese shall prevail.
The participating organization must ensure that it has the capability and conditions of scheme design.
Source of funds: the competition organization expenses are financial funds of the government.
Appendix
Format of the Qualification Selection Registration Documents (including Declaration Letter of Registration Organization, Consortium Agreement, Commitment Letter of the Design Team Participating in the Whole Process, etc.)
Qualification Selection and Review
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