Dezeen teamed up with Forbo Flooring to problem architects and designers to create an inside area that promotes well-being utilizing the model's Marmoleum materials.
The Marmoleum Design Problem asks contributors to create a small area inside an area that may present respite and enhance well-being in environments comparable to faculties, workplaces or hospitals – anyplace you play, be taught, work or heal.
Participation within the competitors is free for anybody over the age of 18 who works or research structure or design, from any nation on the planet.
The problem is open for entries till 30 April 2024. A shortlist of the perfect concepts shall be printed on Dezeen in Could and the ultimate end result shall be introduced in June.
The winner will obtain a money prize of £5,000, in addition to having their design created in collaboration with Forbo Flooring and displayed within the model's showroom within the Netherlands.
The winner may even be invited to attend the launch occasion within the Netherlands, with the chance to satisfy the judges and Forbo Flooring.
Full particulars on how you can enter the problem will be discovered within the competitors doc and guidelines.
Contributors have been challenged to make use of Forbo Flooring's Marmoleum materials
Contributors are tasked with designing a 10 sq. meter area that may improve well-being by offering an area for leisure and rejuvenation.
The area have to be designed for set up in indoor environments comparable to hospitals, faculties or workplaces. Residential functions are excluded.
Entrants should use Marmoleum as flooring and the design ought to be lifelike and possible to construct.
Marmoleum is a linoleum flooring product from Forbo Flooring that’s produced from pure uncooked supplies, together with linseed oil extracted from the seeds of the linseed plant, wooden flour, limestone, pine resin and jute plant fibers.
Consequently, it's climate-positive from cradle to gate, with no trade-offs. Which means the carbon dioxide absorbed by the organic supplies used to fabricate the product is larger than the carbon dioxide emitted by its manufacture.
To be taught extra about Marmoleum, potential attendees can register on the Forbo Flooring web site to obtain an invite to a webinar the place the corporate's design workforce will conduct a dwell Q&A session.
The webinar will happen on March 28, and contributors might want to register by March 21 to affix.
Contributors will obtain free samples of Marmoleum and a brochure to tell their design as soon as they register.
Register to affix the webinar and obtain free samples of Marmoleum ›
Entries shall be judged by Ilse Crawford, amongst different main designers
Competitors entries shall be judged by an professional panel of Dezeen editors and design professionals, together with inside designer Ilse Crawford, HOK senior inside designer Christine Vandover and Studiopepe co-founders Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara Di Pinto.
The panel shall be joined by Dezeen editorial director Max Fraser and Forbo Flooring senior linoleum designer Tamar Gaylord.
Judges shall be on the lookout for modern but buildable concepts for a well-being area. Entries shall be evaluated in keeping with the next standards:
› The power of the final concept
› Aesthetics
› Performance and practicality
› Originality
› Constructive influence on the person's well-being
› Utilizing Marmoleum
› Constructive influence on the atmosphere
The competition closes for entries on April 30
The Marmoleum Design Problem closes for entries at 23:59 CEST (Central European Summer season Time) on 30 April 2024.
A shortlist of the perfect concepts shall be printed on Dezeen in Could, with the winner introduced and printed on Dezeen in June 2024.
The winner will obtain a money prize of £5,000 and have their design created in collaboration with Forbo and put in within the Forbo Flooring showroom within the Netherlands.
The winner (one consultant) may even be invited to attend a launch occasion within the Netherlands.
For extra info on how you can enter, together with the complete temporary and guidelines, go to www.dezeen.com/forbo-flooring-marmoleum-design-challenge.
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