NORLA and DOGA | Frankfurt Book Fair | Architecture Competition for the Design of an Indoor Pavilion

NORLA and DOGA | Frankfurt Book Fair

Architecture Competition for the Design of an Indoor Pavilion

BRIEF

In 2019, Norway will be the Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The project is Norway’s largest commitment to cultural-export, ever. As part of the Guest of Honour project, NORLA, in cooperation with The Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture (DOGA), will launch an open architecture competition for the design of an indoor pavilion, which will be 2300 sqm. The competition was announced January 12 2018.

The Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurter Buchmesse, is the world’s biggest book fair and the largest arena for cultural exposure in Germany. The book fair is held annually every October, and is attended by almost 10,000 journalists, and 300,000 visitors, who travel from over 100 countries. Each year, one country is the focus of the fair – as a Guest of Honour: In 2019 it will be Norway.

– The Guest of Honour project is a unique opportunity to showcase the best of Norwegian literature, and other art forms, internationally. The pavilion should be a window to Norwegian literature, it should be alive, playful, promote the joy of reading, and surprise a world audience, says Halldór Guðmundsson, NORLA’s project manager for Frankfurt 2019.

NORLA and DOGA encourage interdisciplinarity in the teams.

– Interdisciplinarity in the teams can, for example, consist of designers, architects, landscape architects, industrial designers, scenographers and artists, says Guðmundsson.

The competition is announced as a single stage open architecture competition (in Norwegian, Plan- og designkonkurranse). The comeptition was announced January 12 2018. The Norwegian Architectural Association (NAL) will act as technical official.

SCHEDULE

Deadline for submission is March 28, 2018

Call for competition: 12.01.2018
Deadline for Question: 23.02.2018, at. 15:00
Deadline for reply: 02.03.2018
Deadline for delivery: 28.03.2018, at. 15:00
Results published: Last part of May 2018

AWARDS

The jury has a total amount of NOK 500,000, – which they can allocate at their discretion to the winner of the competition (s), prizes and, if any, a draft. The jury may additionally award a draft “honorable mention”, but no money will be given to them. Premier in open competitions is exempt from VAT rebates.

JURY

– Halldór Gudmundsson. Juryleder and project manager for the guestland project, engaged by NORLA
– Margit Walsø. Director of NORLA
– Architect MNAL Ingerid Helsing Almaas. Senior Advisor to Design and Architecture Norway (DOGA)
– Architect MNAL Espen Røyseland. Appointed by the National Architects of Norway (NAL)
– Stian Hole. Author