The packard motor plant
International architecture competition Reanimate the Ruins! by Parallel Projection’s. This competition challenges architects, engineers, planners, artists and students from around the globe to rethink and reshape the ruins of Detroit’shistorical Packard Motor Plant. You are charged to investigate and propose a new dynamic and adaptive urban node that will reinvigorate Detroit. Rethink urban practices surrounding public transportation, sustainable systems, and spatial organization.
The aim is to memorialize the Packard’s current ruined state, while simultaneously imagining a future that will heal Detroit technologically, socially and aesthetically.
Author Wendell Berry wrote, “All good human work remembers its history.” Competition proposals should seek to embody this notion. We are asking not only for solutions to Detroit’s current woes, but also for a memorial to its dilapidated state, the evidence of its history.
In this regard, you are charged to present a new vision for the Packard Motor Plant, which leaves a portion of the structure in ruins. Amongst the ruins, incorporate a transit center and museum to act as the nexus for your design intervention, attracting all other elements to them. The remaining program should include civic, residential, business and entertainment amenities. Participants must also consider recreational and public spaces necessary to support the program listed above.
Submission: July 31, 2014
Registration: July 31, 2014
Location: Detroit, USA
Prizes: 1st Prize $ 3.000 2nd Prize $ 2.000 3rd Prize $ 1.000
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