SPP Document 208 Lecture Architectural Design Competition

Summary

The lecture on SPP Document 208 by Ar. Adolph Vincent Vigor discusses the framework and intricacies of architectural design competitions. These competitions, mostly for large-scale projects, serve as a platform for architects to showcase their skills. Key roles in the competition include the secretariat, professional advisors, technical advisors, and jurors, who ensure the competition's integrity and fairness. The lecture also emphasizes the importance of compensating participants and the legal obligations concerning intellectual property and project execution rights.

Highlights

• Competitions mostly focus on large-scale projects, not on housing or residential buildings. 🌆
• The professional advisor ensures that the competition's timetable is adhered to and maintains fairness. 📅
• Technical advisors provide expert consultation to the jurors during the competition. 👨‍💻
• The jury is mainly composed of architects, ensuring informed decision-making. 👩‍🎨
• Winners are often obliged to work with the project if awarded, ensuring continuity of design. 🖊️
• Intellectual property rights are protected; designs can't be altered without the author’s consent. 🔒

Key Takeaways

• Architectural design competitions are primarily for large-scale projects, not residential buildings. 🏙️
• Participating in these competitions can boost your profile or firm, especially if you're starting out. 🚀
• The professional advisor, a vital role, supervises the conduct of the competition, ensuring fairness and adherence to timetables. ⏰
• Juries, mainly consisting of architects, evaluate the entries and ensure the integrity of the competition. 🎨
• Winners not only receive monetary awards but also the opportunity to be commissioned for the project. 🏆
• Legal provisions ensure the intellectual property rights of architects are preserved within these competitions. 📜

Overview

In this lecture, Ar. Adolph Vincent Vigor delves into the details of SPP Document 208, highlighting the organizational structure of architectural design competitions. These contests are critical avenues for architects to gain recognition, especially for large-scale urban projects. In such competitions, a secretariat, often formed by the owner and consisting of various supporting roles like receptionists and researchers, works alongside a professional advisor to administer the event.

The lecture stresses the role of the professional advisor, a designated architect responsible for maintaining the integrity, fairness, and procedural correctness of the competition. Notably, the advisor supervises the jury's work without participating in the final vote, maintaining impartiality. The jury's composition is mainly architects, supported by lay jurors who express the owner's intent, ensuring a balanced assessment of submissions.

Compensation for competition participants is a highlighted concern, with stipulations for honoraria and rights to further collaboration if a project moves forward. The intellectual property safeguards within the competition structure are also emphasized, ensuring that architects’ rights are protected, and designs cannot be modified without consent. This protective measure encourages creativity and fair practice in the architectural industry.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Overview This chapter introduces the topic of "SP Document 28", which covers architectural design competitions. It begins with a discussion on the role of the competition secretariat, which is a body formed by the owner and approved by the professional advisor to assist both the advisor and the jury in managing the administrative aspects of the design competition.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Competition Secretariat The chapter discusses architectural design competitions, particularly the roles involved such as the secretary, receptionist, encoder, and researcher, as well as support staff including OGTs. These competitions typically involve large-scale projects such as city-level endeavors or skyscrapers, rather than smaller housing projects. This context provides insight into the organizational and scope aspects of architectural competitions.
• 01:00 - 01:30: Architectural Design Competitions The chapter discusses the rarity of residential buildings being included in architectural design competitions. It suggests that participating in these competitions is an effective way for architects, especially those just starting out, to promote themselves and their firms.
• 01:30 - 02:00: Professional Advisor Role This chapter discusses the role of a professional advisor in design competitions. A professional advisor is an architect who is selected, appointed, and compensated by the project owner. This appointment must be approved by the Architectural Professional Organization Association (APOA) or the national board of directors via its ADC Community or the design competition committee. The advisor's main responsibility is to organize the design competition on behalf of the owner.
• 03:00 - 04:00: Technical Advisors and Jury The chapter focuses on the role of technical advisors and the jury in design competitions. It discusses the importance of having a professional advisor approved by the AOA (currently known as UAP), particularly when the scale of the competition is large. The advisor's primary responsibilities include supervising the conduct of the design competition (ADC) and preparing conditions for it.
• 05:00 - 07:00: Competition Budget and Costs The chapter discusses the importance of adhering to the ADC timetable in a competition setting. It covers the responsibilities of supervising the receipt and dispatch of competitor questions and replies. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of maintaining the anonymity of competitors throughout the process.
• 07:00 - 10:00: Prizes, Honoraria, and Mentions The chapter discusses the issue of potential bias in competitions where competitors' names are known, especially if the participants are large firms. It also outlines the role of a non-voting jury assistant responsible for organizing and conducting the competition.
• 09:00 - 12:00: Use of Winning Designs This chapter discusses the roles and responsibilities in a design competition, with specific focus on technical advisors and the jury. Technical advisors are specialist personnel that provide necessary and relevant information to jury members, who are responsible for assessing competition entries.
• 12:30 - 14:00: Conclusion and Next Steps The chapter 'Conclusion and Next Steps' emphasizes the importance of having a majority of registered and licensed Architects within a team. Despite this requirement, it allows for the inclusion of a lay juror, representing the owner's voice. The key point is that while not all members need to be Architects, the group must be predominantly composed of them. This ensures professional integrity while also considering the owner's intentions through the lay juror.

SPP Document 208 Lecture Architectural Design Competition Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 okay right so good day class so today we're going to discuss about SP document 28 which is architectural design competition so let's read the first section is about the comp uh competion Secretariat so so the body formed by the owner and approved by the professional advisor to assist the professional advisor and the jury in the administrative conduct of the design
• 00:30 - 01:00 competition which may include the secretary the receptionist the encoder researcher then the support staff or or the ogts so when we're talking about architectural design competitions class um rarely do I encounter there's a competition uh regarding housing it's mostly on large scale projects for example already on the city scale level or at most an entire skyscraper or a
• 01:00 - 01:30 landmark um you don't see um residential buildings being put into architectural design competition okay so joining architectural design competitions is one way to promote yourself or your firm if you're still starting out then we have here uh there's another uh
• 01:30 - 02:00 written about the professional advisor so a professional advisor is an architect nominated appointed and paid by the owner and approved by the a apoa or the national board of directors through its ADC Community or the design competition committee to organize the design uh competition on behalf of the owner so as you can see here guys it's written here that the
• 02:00 - 02:30 professional advisor should be approved by the AOA the current AOA guys is the UAP so it just means that um the scale of design competition is large enough that it merits the involvement of the organization itself okay so his role is the supervision of the conduct of the design competition or the ADC and the preparation of the conditions His
• 02:30 - 03:00 function includes ensuring that the ADC uh timetable is adhered to or followed design competition is uh timetable is followed supervising the receipt of competitor's questions the dispatch of reply to all competitors and the receipt of competition inre and safeguarding the anonity of the competitors at all times sometimes um
• 03:00 - 03:30 uh if the names of the competitors are already announced and it's not Anonymous there's a tendency that there might be some bias especially if the ones joining are are really really big firms then you will assist the jury and will present during its deliberations but he will have no vote so his responsibilities will be limited to the organization and the conduct of the competition then we also have the
• 03:30 - 04:00 technical advisors so when you talk about technical advisors these are specialist Personnel who may be consulted by the jurors during the conduct of the design competition to permit them to obtain all necessary relevant information then you also have the jury so the jury these are the people appointed by the owner to assess the entries to the competition the members of the jur are called jewers so it
• 04:00 - 04:30 consists of a majority of registered and licensed Architects assisted by a leerer to represent and voice the intention of the owner so what does section two mean it means that it's not necessary that all the members are Architects what's important is that the majority of the members are Architects then if there's a lay jurer um to represent the voice of the owner it means that uh the that juror is
• 04:30 - 05:00 not necessarily no it's not an architect what what's written there is Lay jurer so that he could be the one to voice the intention of the owner then the jury they are nominated nominated by the owner and approved by the integrated and accredited Professional Organization of Architects or the aapa which is the UAP so you could just imagine the scale of design competitions it's really uh uh big in scale
• 05:00 - 05:30 this is are not these are not normal commercial or uh residential buildings then um about the competition budget or cost a budget must be earmarked for the salary of the Secretariat throughout the duration of the competition from the time it is launched and up to the end of the exhibition awarding and close out so salary can be on a monthly basis for the temporary staff and weekly allowance for
• 05:30 - 06:00 support staff like the ogt was in a judging exhibit and awarding ceremonies so a budget can also be earmarked for office overhead cost including office rental if necessary transportation office supplies and meals so the professional advisor shall be provided with an honorarium per month during the duration of the competition expenses for board and lodging
• 06:00 - 06:30 transportation and airfare so if travel for the advisor is so required a competition it shall be reimbursed by the owner the technical advisor shall also be provided with an honorarium as the consultation fee then the jurors also be provided with an honorarium to cover the period for judging expenses for accommodation food transportation and
• 06:30 - 07:00 airfare also should be on the account of the owner so now we have on the section for the prices honoraria and mentions so the prices awarded must be related to the size and complexity of the project so what does this mean if the project is large then of course the um the rewards for the project should also uh
• 07:00 - 07:30 for the competition will also be commensurate because otherwise uh the owner is Just Fishing out for information or for ideas then the amount of work involved the expense incured by the competitors it is important for the owner to a lot adequate price money to compensate all the competitors for their work so I I think what this means guys that if you join the
• 07:30 - 08:00 competition um your work should be uh compensated ideally so I'm not so sure if what's happening right now if this is followed uh because sometimes in design competition uh usually you don't get compensated unless you win the competition itself then for ideas competition only it may be possible to
• 08:00 - 08:30 remunerate only the first price winner then the owner undertakes to accept the decisions of the jury and to pay the prices allotted within one month of the official announcement of the design competition results so this means that the owner should respect the decision of the jury as to who will win the competition okay
• 08:30 - 09:00 so in two stage competitions a reasonable honorarium shall be paid which of the competitors selected to take part of the second stage the this sum which is intended to reimburse them for the additional work carried out in the second stage shall be stated in the conditions and shall be in addition to the prices awarded then the sixth the conditions shall State the use
• 09:00 - 09:30 to which the owner will put the winning the plans design schemes uh design competition generated plans or designs may not be used or art or altered in any way except by the agreement with the author with the author so it doesn't mean that you enter the competition guys that um the owner could just uh get ideas mix and match them
• 09:30 - 10:00 ques or a project it should be with the consent of the author or the authors the owner or his agents are not free to pick out portions of the entries to compose another plan or design so this is covered by the applicable ownership and copyright Provisions under Section 20 and 33 of ra9 9266 and ra a293 which is the intellectual property code of the Philippines and their respective irr or implementing rules and
• 10:00 - 10:30 regulations so in Project design competitions the award of first price to a plan or design places the owner under an obligation to entrust the author of the plan design with the commission of the project so if you win the competition it it's it means that you'll be the one who will also be commissioned by the owner so if the winning comp competitor is unable to satisfy the jury of his
• 10:30 - 11:00 ability to carry out the design or plan or work the jury may require the winner to collaborate with another architect of the winning competitor's Choice JY duly approved by the jury and the owner then in addition design competition Provisions shall be made in the uh design uh in the ADC conditions for the first pricee winner to receive compensation
• 11:00 - 11:30 of a further sum equal to the amount of the first price if no contract is assigned within the first 12 months of the announcement of the jury jury's award so if you won't be awarded a contract within the next 12 months after winning this competition you'll receive compensation of another sum aside from what you initially received after winning in so compensating the first prize winner the owner does not acquire
• 11:30 - 12:00 the right to carry out the project except with the collaboration of the author so it doesn't mean guys that um the you that you join the competition that the owner has complete power over your design he must he or she must collaborate with you as the architect so in an ideas competition if the owner decides to make use
• 12:00 - 12:30 of all the parts of the winning scheme you should do so with the collaboration of the author the terms of collaboration must be acceptable to the later okay so let's discuss section 14 next week so this guys is our lecture for architectural design competitions which is sp document uh 208 so it's really important
• 12:30 - 13:00 uh uh guys that uh someday when you become Architects that you join also competitions especially if you're still starting out in the industry because it will allow uh uh your brand to be known by others okay so I'm going to post our activity in our padlet link you have any further questions or clarifications feel free to reach out to me anytime okay so take care class and see you next meeting