ARE YOU AN ART/DESIGN STUDENT OR JUST ENJOY BEING CREATIVE? TAKE PART IN OUR COMPETITION TO HAVE YOUR DESIGN ON CLIFITON HALL’S WHITE WALLS!
Green Buildings – Design competition for white walls at Clifton Hall Staircase R
ReCO2ST (https://reco2st.eu/) is a European research project which demonstrates how buildings can be renovated to ‘near zero energy’ and CO2 emissions with optimum cost, health, comfort and environmental quality. Featuring 17 partners from nine European countries the project brings together academia and industry to develop a ‘Retrofit Kit’ that can be used to reduce energy consumption by 60-95% in renovated buildings. The Retrofit Kit brings together a number of advanced, cost efficient, and energy saving technologies which can be fitted 30% quicker than typical renovations. One of the demonstration buildings is Brunel’s Clifton Hall.
One of the technologies is the use of Vacuum Insulation Panels (VIP) which were installed on the ground floors of Clifton staircase R. The VIPs need to be protected and this has resulted to a white area on the north and south walls; see photo showing the south wall by the entrance to Staircase R. The size of the white panel is 3.30×1.95 m2 each.
We are therefore inviting designs created by individuals or groups to paint the two white areas with a theme representing the scope of the project; which is to reduce the energy use of a building at a near-zero energy coefficient, in a cost-effective way and decreasing installation time, whilst simultaneously increasing indoor environmental quality which is known to affect the health, comfort and well-being of building occupants.
The design must also highlight wider than just energy sustainability issues, for example green impact, recycling, water quality, biodiversity.
The designs should be submitted to: maria.kolokotroni@brunel.ac.uk by Monday 24 February 2020. Please put ‘Clifton Design Competition’ in the subject line.
What you need to do:
- Send over your design
- Write a 200 words description about your design
- An estimation of the cost for materials (The cost of materials will be covered by the ReCO2ST project).
The designs will be judged by a three-member panel which will include representatives of the ReCO2ST project, residences and student residences ambassadors.
Following the selection of the successful designs (one for each wall), the painting will be carried out in March 2020 by the successful designers.
A plaque with a short description of the design and the names of the designers will attached to the wall next to the design.
We look forward to hearing from many of you and are very excited to see how this amazing opportunity comes to life!
