Arrival and Dezeen launch $85,000 Future Mobility Competition

Dezeen has teamed up with electric vehicle company Arrival to launch a global competition for mobility solutions that reimagine the future of transportation.

The Future Mobility Competition powered by Arrival is free to enter for anyone over the age of 18 of any profession and from any country around the world.

The contest is open for entries until 14 April 2022 and features total prize money of $85,000 with a top prize of $25,000.

Full details of how to enter the competition can be found in the competition brief and rules.

Contest invites ideas that reimagine the future of mobility

The competition seeks to support emerging talent bringing ideas that reimagine the future of transportation, radically impacting our planet, creating true sustainability and empowering local communities.

Contestants are asked to identify problems with mobility in their city, or a city they are familiar with, and propose solutions – big or small, for land, sea or air – that will improve how people move around their environment.

Arrival has produced a range of electric vehicles to date, including a bus

Judges will be looking for talented individuals to present new insights into mobility challenges in cities and visionary proposals for how to solve them.

Entries will be judged on how insightful and impactful they are, while the quality of the execution of the idea will also be considered.

Proposals to draw from Arrival's approach to vehicle design and manufacturing

Entries should look to draw from Arrival's unique approach to design, materials and manufacturing.

The company has pioneered a new method of the design and production of affordable electric vehicles, which is focused on the principles of sustainability, empowered communities and accessibility.

Arrival vehicles are designed for robotic assembly in microfactories

Vehicles are designed using in-house plug-and-play components, proprietary composite materials and a modular skateboard platform.

Vehicles Arrival has created to date using this approach include a delivery van, an electric bus and a ride-sharing prototype car for Uber.

Arrival vehicles are designed for robotic assembly in microfactories — smart production cells that can be set up wherever there is demand to serve individual cities, support local economies and deliver purpose-built products customised to regional needs.

Arrival has developed lightweight proprietary composite materials for its vehicles

The competition asks entrants to use Arrival's approach to designing and manufacturing vehicles as a starting point and inspiration for a future mobility solution for that city.

Competition closes for entries on 14 April

The Future Mobility Competition powered by Arrival closes for entries at midnight on 14 April 2022.

Ten finalists will be announced and published on Dezeen over two weeks in June 2022. Of these finalists, a winner will be selected, as well as a runner-up and third place.

The winner will win the top prize of $25,000, while the runner-up will receive $15,000 and the third-placed entrant will receive $10,000. Each of the seven remaining finalists will receive prize money of $5,000.

For more information about how to enter, including the full brief and rules, visit www.dezeen.com/arrival-future-mobility-competition.

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Drone video showcases exterior of 1,000 Trees by Heatherwick Studio

This drone video captures the exterior of 1,000 Trees, a shopping centre in China that Thomas Heatherwick's studio designed to resemble a greenery-covered mountain.

Recently opened in Shanghai, the building is covered with 1,000 structural columns that Heatherwick Studio has turned into planters for over 1,000 trees and 250,000 plants.

In the video, the planters are visible from various aerial views and also in a time-lapse that transitions from day to night, demonstrating how they are lit up after sunset.

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In an exclusive interview, Heatherwick told Dezeen that the building's decorative columns are intended to "humanise" the project while minimising its visual impact.

The drone footage also offers a glimpse of the development's flat street-facing wall, which is lined with billboards and artwork created in collaboration with international graffiti artists.

A second phase of the project, a 19-storey hotel and office building, is now currently under construction next door.

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Five architecture and design jobs in the US including roles at Clive Wilkinson and ODA-Architecture

We've selected five of the best US-based positions on Dezeen Jobs this week, including a mid-weight designer in New York, a senior project architect in Los Angeles and an interior designer in Wyoming.

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Clive Wilkinson Architects is seeking a senior project architect/senior project designer to join its team in Los Angeles. Clive Wilkinson designed his own family home in Los Angeles, crowned with a pointed terrace.

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ODA-Architecture designed 98 Front in New York, a residential development which sports a fragmented facade comprising concrete and glass cubes. ODA-Architecture is seeking an interior architect/designer to join its team in New York.

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Snohetta is hiring a proposal coordinator to join its team in New York. The firm designed a group of robust, angular cabins looking out over the Jostedalen glacier in Norway, replacing previous buildings which were destroyed in a cyclone.

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Martin Brudnizki Design Studio converted a 19th-century office building in New York into the opulent Beekman Hotel. The studio is seeking a mid-weight designer to join its team in New York.

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CLB Architects is hiring an interior designer to join its team in Wyoming, USA. Practice co-founder Eric Logan renovated his home in Jackson, Wyoming, adding a pitched cold-rolled steel roof.

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Natural Material Studio and Frama showcase algae and terracotta fabrics

Danish designer Bonnie Hvillum's Natural Material Studio has collaborated with multidisciplinary studio Frama on a collection of biodegradable materials made from algae, clay and foam.

The collection comprises three different fabrics that were turned into clothes, curtains and drapes, and showcased at Frama's Copenhagen showroom as part of last year's 3 Days of Design festival.

Above: Natural Material Studio unveiled new materials with Frama. Top image: the exhibition showed biodegradable clothes. Photo is by Natural Material Studio

The collaboration was the result of Natural Material Studio's long-running research into different types of natural materials.

"Some of the used materials were already in development when Frama's creative director Niels Strøyer Christophersen and I started having our meetings and talks about materials and our relations with them," Hvillum told Dezeen.

Door hangings were made from B-Foam. Photo is by Natural Material Studio

The fabrics that were shown at Frama's Copenhagen showroom were Alger, a seaweed fabric made from seaweed extract and softener, which is dyed with spirulina algae; and Terracotta, a clay-pigmented biofabric formed using a protein-based binder extracted from collagen and a natural softener.

Also on display were fabrics made from B-Foam, a foam material made from charcoal that Natural Material Studio has been developing since 2019. This was showcased at an earlier 3 Days of Design event, as part of design show Ukurant.

The three materials on display in the store are all biodegradable

"The seaweed textiles started during my research with Noma, but the terracotta bio fabric came up as a very impulsive idea we tried out, when we browsed for pigments we could use from Frama themselves," Hvillum explained.

"The B-Foam has been an ongoing research project for years and is used now in many different contexts, including fashion and furnitures."

Clothes were made from fabrics created from algae. Photo is by Natural Material Studio

The designer hand-casts the fabrics in wooden frames, in which they hang to dry for "a few days" before being cut out of the frames. All three fabrics are biodegradable.

"They are all based on a protein bio-polymer derived from waste," Hvillum said. "[The fabrics] are circular and bio-degrade within three months when exposed to soil and live bacterias."

Spores create patterns on clothes

As well as being made from natural materials, the fabrics have an organic look, with the algae ones featuring spores that give them a mould-like feel.

"The seaweed textiles contains live algae, which was used for pigmentations and colouring," Hvillum said.

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"They are alive and breathe the air," she added. "We didn't know exactly how the algae pigmentation would end up looking, and all the curtain and clothing pieces all turned out very individual and bespoke."

Eventually, Hvillum hopes the materials will come into everyday use, but she believes there still needs to be more research into these kinds of fabrics before commercialised standards can be set for them.

Pieces turned out "very individual and bespoke." Photo is by Natural Material Studio

"These are early-stage versions – beta versions, pilot versions, whatever we call them in other industries!" she said.

"They do not live up to quality standards for fabrics yet, but hopefully they will do one day with more research, testing and application trials continues," she added.

"This is a very important point because there is such a long step from early-stage research to commercial standardisation of all these new-age materials we see more and more of."

Terracotta clay was used to dye some of the fabrics

In order to make them commercially available, Hvillum believes more companies need to "be courageous" like Frama and focus on these kinds of natural materials.

"They will come into use gradually with smaller companies and brands that dare to be front movers, and are okay with not everything being fully standardized," Hvillum said. "This is nature we're talking about."

Hvillum's studio has previously launched projects such as the Shellware collection of ceramics made from discarded seashells from the Noma restaurant, while Frama is known for its minimalist design as seen in this interior for a Copenhagen bakery.

The photography is by Paolo Galgani unless otherwise stated.

3 Days of Design took place in Copenhagen on 16 to 18 September 2021. See Dezeen Events Guide for up-to-date details of architecture and design events around the world.

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Paritzki & Liani Architects builds triangular house with white stone walls

Paritzki & Liani Architects has completed IS House, a family home near Tel Aviv featuring a triangular floor plan and a minimalist stone and glass facade.

Tel Aviv-based Paritzki & Liani designed the two-storey property in Savyon for a couple with three teenage children.

The house has a white stone facade

The building's angular design responds to an unusually shaped site slotted between two other suburban homes, which narrows significantly at one end due to the curve of the adjacent street.

The architects used this unusual geometry to generate a design that plays with perspective, making it difficult to perceive the building's exact size and dimensions.

The house has a roughly triangular floor plan

"The compositional design idea for this home was to build 600 square metres distributed over three storeys, while also attempting to create the illusion that this volume does not exist," said architects Itai Paritzki and Paola Liani.

To achieve this, IS House is set into the landscape so that the lowest level is partially submerged underground.

The detail-free facade features minimal glazing

A detail-free facade helps to further disguise the building's scale. Smooth slabs of white stone clad the walls and roof, and are only interrupted by sliding glass doors and windows with extremely slender frames.

Meanwhile the roof incorporates a fold that divides it into two planes, both sloping in different directions.

The lower level is submerged into the slope of the landscape

Nature is another element of the design concept. The acute angle at the house's southwestern corner conceals a small triangular courtyard, where a tree is concealed behind the facade.

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"The view from the tip is of a patio with trees that extends from the lower floor to the upper floor and then to the sky," said Paritzki and Liani.

Trees are set into small courtyards within the building

There's also a second of these courtyards in the centre of the building.

Living spaces within IS House face onto these small courtyards. In time, the trees are expected to grow tall enough that their branches will emerge through openings in the roof.

The living space benefits from double-height ceilings

All other glazing has been positioned to ensure privacy from the neighbours, either facing the open landscape to the rear, or set down into lower sections of the sloping landscape.

"The openings were carefully studied to have views only to green areas," the architects told Dezeen.

The kitchen is finished in a contrasting shade of black

To enhance the feeling of spaciousness inside, the ground floor is largely open-plan.

The majority of this level is a grand living space, with double-height ceilings and a kitchen area picked out in a contrasting shade of black. This level also contains the primary bedroom, which has an en-suite and a dressing room.

One tree slots into the house's acute southwestern corner

Rooms on the upper level, which slot in under the highest sections of the roof, include three en-suite bedrooms for the clients' two sons and daughter.

The basement floor accommodates a home cinema and gym, plus a library and office that are naturally light through high-level windows.

IS House is home to a family of five

The garden was designed to work with the levels of the house. A large split-level patio extends across the full width of the site, incorporating a 30-metre swimming pool and a separate bathing pool.

Paritzki & Liani founded their studio in 2001. Their other residential projects include Eucalyptus House, which has a tree set into its facade, and T/A House, which is formed of three white boxes.

Photography is by Amit Geron.

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