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There are 10 days left to submit your application for the Step Beyond the Borders competition!

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There are 10 days left to submit your application for the Step Beyond the Borders competition!

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The competition is aimed at search for breakthrough ideas and creative solutions to stay in non-standard situations.

Applications have already been sent by representatives of 13 countries

Applications are being accepted in four categories, four fronts of overcoming overcoming natural limits and constraints, creating a comfortable and commensurate human environment in difficult conditions:

1. "Live Like in Space."

- Life beyond the stratosphere: conquest of the Moon, space stations (rethinking the concept of the city, public spaces, residential buildings and their filling: design of everyday objects and food)

- Space on Earth. What techniques of space architecture and design can be can be used for comfortable living and working in small spaces (small-format housing, capsule cities and housing, small-format public and commercial spaces)

2. "Cold and Hot Cities"

Comfortable and commensurate with human life of the city, public and individual human life in extreme temperature conditions: the city, public spaces, residential buildings, objects and objects.
spaces, residential structures, everyday objects and food.
Including indoor horizontal and vertical gardening, urban farms and gardens, use of technologies to maintain optimal temperature conditions, active social life in enclosed spaces:

- Life below -50C

- Life above +50C

3. "Life on and under water

- Life on artificial and natural islands, autonomous floating cities.

- Floating house and infrastructure (yachts, houseboats, mobile homes, marinas, petrol stations, quays, etc.).

4. "Extreme Earth".

- Non-capital construction and mobile homes. Stand-alone home.

- House in areas without access to public infrastructure: in the mountains, in the woods

- "New Village"

- Post-disaster land and post-war land.

Architectural and design project entries are accepted in each sub-nomination.

Participation in the competition is free of charge.

Contest participants are young architects and designers (up to and including 42 years of age) or teams of authors (up to 42 years old inclusive, architectural and construction companies, design bureaus of development companies, companies producing construction materials and solutions in the spheres corresponding to the nominations of the Competition.

Works submitted to the Competition may include both realised and unrealised projects, as well as unrealised projects, as well as concepts and ideas. One individual or organisation may submit several different projects in different categories.

The number of projects is not limited.

The deadline for submitting applications for the competition is 20.08.2024.

More detailed information on the competition page