Recently, the 10th Asian Contest of Architectural Rookie’s Award came to an end finally. The contest selected 3 entries from those recommended by Asian countries and regions to award the prize. Student Yang Siyi of the School of Architecture and Art Design in our university participated the contest on behalf of China using the work "Open and Close — Design of Residential Function Improvement Based on the Dual Goals of Community Opening and Closure" (Instructor: Hu Zinan), and finally won The Excellent Work Award with the top three results in Asia. This award is the highest award among all the international architectural design competition won by our students. It is an important international teaching achievement of our architecture major as the first batch of national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites.

The 10th Asian Contest of Architectural Rookie's Award

"Open and Close — Design of Residential Function Improvement Based on the Dual Goals of Community Opening and Closure" by Yang Siyi, a student majoring in architecture in the School of Architecture and Art Design of our school (instructor: Hu Nan), represented China in the competition, and finally won the Asian pre-Asian competition. Three of the results won The Excellent Work Award. This award is the highest award our school's students have won in an international architectural design competition. It is an important international teaching achievement of our school's architecture major as the first batch of national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites.

The theme of this year's Asian Contest of Architectural Rookie’s Award is "Contextual Design: Creating Space, Re-interpreting Tradition". Students from more than ten countries and regions in Asia including China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Kazakhstan, etc. entered the finals. After three rounds of voting and fierce competition, our university shared the three awards of the competition with the National University of Singapore and the University of Architecture in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

The Asian Contest of Architectural Rookie’s Award is an international competition for Asian architecture students sponsored by the Asian Association of Architecture (AUA Association). The once "Asian Contest of Architectural Rookie’s Award" has now become the most representative international student competition in Asia. The competition first selects 2-3 winners through the Asian Contest of Architectural Rookie’s Award held by various countries, and then recommends them to the host country of the year to participate in the final finals. The final session has always been an important platform for exchanges and presentations among the top architectural schools in Asia. Since its inception, students from Kyoto University, Waseda University, National University of Singapore, University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University, Southeast University, Tongji University, Tianjin University and Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology have all been selected for the finals before.

Contest Award Certificate of Our University Students

Dr. Lee Young il, Chairman of the Asian Contest of Architectural Rookie's Award, Presents Online Awards to Our Students

The award-winning work "Open and Close — Design of Residential Function Improvement Based on the Dual Goals of Community Opening and Closure" by our students this time is based on the background research of future era of epidemic. The work focuses on the hot and difficult issues in the process of urban renewal in contemporary China. An existing and old community in Hongqiao District, Tianjin is selected as the design research object, and is committed to solving the contradiction between community openness and urban vitality and community closure and control to respond to local outbreaks of the epidemic problem.