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IMPORTANT NOTICES:

General Note to Competitors

All Competitors must represent and warrant that any materials he or she submits shall be wholly original material not published elsewhere; shall not violate any copyright, trademark or other applicable law; and shall not, to the best of the Competitor’s knowledge, constitute a defamation or invasion of the right of privacy or publicity, or an infringement of any kind, of any rights of any third party.

Anonymity

Except for the Registration Form, Competitors shall not place any identifying name or mark on his or her Submission, other than the Registration Number assigned to Competitors upon completion of Registration.

Competition Materials

The Competition Materials introduce the Competitors to the Disaster Scenario -- a hypothetical neighborhood over the duration of a disaster and recovery. Competitors should use these materials to situate their proposals spatially and chronologically.

The Competition Materials consist of the Competition Brief in its entirety and the Disaster Scenario CAD files available for download. These materials are also available in hard copy by special request.

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Required Submissions

Each Submission will consist of nine (9) pages describing the Design and a single thumbnail image of the Competitor’s choice for the online gallery.

The chart below lists the title and content that should be represented on each page. The title should appear on the lower left; the Competitor’s Registration number should appear on the lower right, both in 12 point font.

	TITLE	CONTENT	FORMAT
1.	Summary	Diagram of design intent	JPEG
2.	Preparation	Diagram of preparation of resources and site	JPEG
3.	Deployment	Diagram showing construction or installation procedures	JPEG
4.	Rendering of One Unit	Image describing spatial and material qualities	JPEG
5.	Technical Drawing of Unit	Plan, section, or other drawing at an architectural scale	JPEG
6.	Rendering of Unit Agglomeration	Image describing the housing neighborhood context	JPEG
7.	Technical Drawing of Unit Agglomeration	Plan or other drawings at scale of neighborhood	JPEG
8.	Deconstruction	Diagram of deconstruction or reuse	JPEG
9.	Project Description	A text description of project in 12 point font	PDF

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Digital File Submission Specifications

Each Competitor will submit the nine (9) 11” x 8.5” pages as individual digital files. Pages 1-8 should be in JPEG format, and Page 9 should be in PDF format. Pages should also be in landscape orientation and at a resolution of 150dpi. The combined size of the nine (9) files is not to exceed twenty (20) Megabytes. Competitors should understand that the Jury will view the Submissions digitally. For clarity, Submissions should not contain typefaces smaller than 10pt. Additionally, Competitors are asked to submit one (1) 100 x 100 pixel JPEG file, 72 dpi, 20 Kb maximum size - (image detail of your choice for online thumbnail).

The Sponsor will e-mail instructions for the uploading of Submissions to the registered Competitors prior to the Submission Period which begins on November 29, 2007. The jpegs should be named as follows with “000000” representing the Competitor’s Registration number.

ITEM	FORMULA	EXAMPLE
Pages 1-8	Registration#_Page#.jpg	000000_6.jpg
Page 9	Registration#_Page#.pdf	000000_9.pdf
Thumbnail	Registration#_t.jpg	000000_t.jpg

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Mail Submission Specifications

In order to submit by mail, Competitors must notify the Competition administrators at the time of Registration. Mailed Submissions must consist of nine 8.5” x 11” printed pages, plus the thumbnail printed in a 1 square inch area on a separate page. The Submission package must be postmarked by 5 p.m. on January 4, 2008. Submissions must be mailed to the Sponsor’s address listed on the Registration page.

Mailed Submissions will not be returned.

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Project Development Period Required Submissions

NOTE: THIS IS NOT A REQUIREMENT FOR THE OPEN DESIGN COMPETITION.

Required Submissions

In addition to the requirements set forth above, each of the Winners entering the Project Development Period will be required to produce:

Four (4) high resolution presentation digital image files at 30” x 40” (portrait or landscape). The Winners will submit the files in a standard image file format to be determined (JPEG, TIFF, PDF, etc). The Sponsor will print these images, and intends to mount these renderings for the planned “What If New York City…” exhibition.

A scaled three-dimensional digital model with three iterations showing the deployment of the Provisional Housing, the occupation of the unit, and the Deconstruction process. The Winners will submit the files in a standard modeling file format to be determined (AutoCAD, 3dMax, Maya, Rhino, Form Z, Sketchup, etc). The Sponsor may use these digital files in an animated presentation to be viewed at the planned exhibition and on the Competition Website.

Optional Materials

The four presentation digital images and the three iterations of the 3-D digital model described will fulfill the minimum Submission requirements for the Project Development Period. However, in consultation with the Sponsor, Winners may optionally provide additional materials for the exhibition, such as physical models, thematic objects, additional renderings, additional iterations of the physical model, animations, etc.

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