The Faculty of Architecture at the University of Trieste has organised in collaboration with the Associazione Amatori Veicoli Storici of Trieste (Association of Vintage Vehicles Amateurs) an international competition of free hand drawings and/or computer generated entitled «Car design».
The main themes to be tackled and on which solutions should be proposed for the car of the future are: the overall dimensions, and comfort of cars, their use in urban and/or extra urban areas. The proposed vehicle can either be a dream car (beautiful and impossible) or a city car.
The finalists will be selected considering the following features: originality, feasibility, appropriate definition of both internal and external features, materials used and dimensions.
In particular, the quality of the sketch (hand-drawn or computer generated) will be carefully evaluated.
Participants should present a written description in A4 layout; up to four panels in A3 landscape format, including the 4 views of the vehicle (front, back, side, plan) and an artistic sketch of the project; and a CD Rom with additional information and CAD files - where available (see the official website for complete rules).
The projects must be delivered within 1 March 2010 in sealed packages addressed to: «Concorso internazionale Car design – Facoltà di Architettura – Università degli Studi di Trieste – via S. Anastasio 12 – 34134 Trieste – Italia».
Participation is free. The competition is restricted to students and graduates from the faculties of architecture, engineering, design, fine arts, who are no older than 35 years on the date of entering the work.
The panel of judges will also commend 3 projects, which will not receive any money prize.
The awards ceremony will take place on the occasion of the conference «Car Pencil Sketches». The winner of the First prize will also be able to see his work made into a physical model to a scale of 1:5 that will be made by the students of C.E.M.I. Centro Europeo Modellismo Industriale.
For more information visit: http://www.concorsocardesign.it/.
The three winners of the 2009 edition of the contest - announced in May 2009 - were respectively: Kaushaliya Buddika Bandara (Sri Lanka, 26 years old), Italian Antonio Paglia (25 years old) and Federico Archidiacono (24 years old, while the "car design without limits" category was won by Italian Andrea Pezzolato.
(Source: University of Trieste)
