HP announced the winners of the second annual HP Cityscape City Life Design Competition 2020:-
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| The winning entry |
First Prize: Andrew Southwood-Jones - Sydney University of Technology 2nd Year
Second Prize: David Parsons - University of Tasmania 5th Year Masters with Honors
Third Prize: Matthew Nicholas Vrettas - Monash Uni 2nd Year
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| L-R Winner Andrew Southwood-Jones, Shane Lucas Director HP Graphic Arts South Pacific |
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| L-R: Second Prize David Parsons, Winner Andrew Southwood-Jones, Third Prize Matthew Nicholas Vrettas |
HP Cityscape 2020 invited architectural students and new architectural professionals to creatively express their vision of an Australian city skyline in the year 2020 with a focus on environmentally sustainable designs for the future.
Presenting the awards Shane Lucas, Director HP Graphic Arts South Pacific, and one of the judges, said “We have been overwhelmed this year by the interest in this competition. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the winner Andrew Southwood-Jones, as well as David Parsons and Matthew Nicholas Vrettas who came second and third respectively. I’d also like to thank our two industry judges who kindly donated their time – Paul Berkemeier and Des Smith”.
He continued. “We received some truly extraordinary entries that demonstrate the high level of creativity that exists in the architectural environment in Australia. HP is proud once again to drive this initiative and to support the next generation of architecture professionals with the best products and services”.
Entries were judged on creativity including originality, presentation, inspiration and execution, and community vision covering environmental sustainability, local relevance and future city planning vision.
Judge Paul Berkemeier said this year’s HP Cityscape 2020 competition attracted a “really diverse and interesting group of entries. Seven of them stood out and from these we selected the final three, the ones we felt were the most inspired and innovative”. All judges unanimously agreed upon the winning entry by Andrew Southwood-Jones.
He continued. “What we liked about Andrew’s entry, Power Tower, was the fact that it was looking at a realistic and achievable design situated within the existing fabric of the city. Rather than creating something completely new, Andrew took existing structures and added to them in a way that dealt with urban form, sustainability and design. His entry was very sophisticated and an elegant piece of design as well”.
Second placegetter, David Parsons’ entry Deviant City, was “very different in terms of looking at a bold and somewhat grim, but graphically exciting vision for the city. This concept was nowhere near as achievable as the winner’s, but had a very strong polemic and theoretical base as a contrast,” said Berkemeier.
The final, and third prize was awarded to Matthew Nicholas Vrettas for Melbah – The Salt City. “Matthew’s entry was very innovative in terms of harnessing human energy to help power the city and run the water systems. Matthew suggested the use of salt as a building material, the detritus of desalination. The design was somewhat unachievable, but had a very strong proposition and was graphically engaging”.
In closing Berkemeier congratulated HP on the Cityscape 2020 competition. “HP is the recognised leader in reprographic technology and we as an industry rely on the hardware and software that HP produces to graphically realise our designs. It is splendid to see HP supporting this competition for a second year and we hope they continue with it in the future”.
The winners were presented with their awards at the HP Imaging & Printing Experience Centre Melbourne. Photos are available.
About the winning entries:
Andrew Southwood-Jones - Power Tower
Andrew’s design focuses on a multi-faceted way of providing energy to the city through wind-powered farms that are integrated into the cityscape where residential and commercial spaces and dynamic skyline viewpoints and public art galleries, all morph into one.
David Parsons – Deviant City
In his submission David examines a way to ‘deviate from the norm’ to create dynamic change. His entry examines the cycles of the city incorporating existing points of ‘deviant’ structure, and environmental behaviour in the cityscape, to create a new vista designed to affect change and shift perspective.
Matthew Nicholas Vrettas – Melbah The Salt City
Melbah The Salt City, presents a healthy, new Melbourne where the city’s inhabitants exercise at gyms with the energy generated via their exercise machines used to power the city. In this design the detritus of desalination is also used to produce crystalised building materials that filter air and harness light creating a sustainable environment.
PRIZES
First Prize
HP xw4600 Workstation
HP LP2475w 24 Inch Widescreen LCD Monitor
HP Designjet 110plus Printer
Total value $6975 RRP
Second and third prizes:
HP Designjet 110plus Printer
Value $2475 RRP
The Judges
Shane Lucas – Director, HP Graphic Arts – South Pacific; Paul Berkemeier – Architect Practitioner – Architects and National Councilor – Australian Institute of Architects; and
Des Smith – Professor of Architecture, Deakin University
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