Akdeniz İçin Birlik (AiB / UfM) Kentsel Tasarım Öğrenci Yarışması 2025

İlki 2023 yılında Barselona'da düzenlenen Akdeniz İçin Birlik Kentsel Tasarım Öğrenci Yarışması, bu yıl Akdeniz İçin Birlik ile MSGSÜ Yapı Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi işbirliğiyle düzenleniyor. Yarışmaya katılım için 3 Kasım 2025 tarihine kadar kayıt yaptırılabiliyor.

Introduction

As part of the Day of the Mediterranean 2025 celebrations (28 November), the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) is hosting the second edition of its biennial Urban Design student competition, titled ‘Urban Solutions to Climate Change in the Mediterranean’.

Participation is open to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in relevant Schools or Departments across the 43 UfM Member States. Eligible proposals, however, must be situated in a UfM Member State along the Mediterranean (see details below).

Urban Design solutions for all kinds of climatic challenges that embrace resilience as a foundation, enable transition as a process and foster transformation as an outcome, constitute the main subject of the competition – taking into account the following:

Mediterranean cities have a multi-layered structure. Socio-cultural, physical, economic, political, and technological dynamics are constantly evolving, and cities serve as the primary arenas where these changes manifest. Cities can be understood as composed of multiple contextual layers, which shape their original forms through processes of overlapping, juxtaposition, and sometimes intricate interweaving. The interaction of these dynamics rapidly transforms not only the urban fabric but also daily life, giving rise to new urban spaces and novel spatial practices.

As some of the regions most affected by climate change, cities along the Mediterranean, must be planned and designed to confront sea-level rise, droughts, water scarcity, overheating, and urban heat-island effects. At the same time, respecting their unique cultural and morphological characteristics, these cities require creative, innovative, and tailored solutions to adapt both their built environment and urban heritage to the challenges posed by climate change and disasters.

Students meeting the requirements are invited to submit proposals that adopt a multi-scalar approach to the challenges of climate change in the Mediterranean basin and their built environments, while always grounding their response in the urban design scale. Submissions should demonstrate how resilience can be embedded within Mediterranean urban fabrics, how transition can guide adaptive processes, and how transformation can open pathways to new models of sustainable urban life. Designs are expected to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs and to embrace cultural, social, economic, and environmental sustainability

Who can participate?

– Undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the 2023/2024 or 2024/2025 academic years in Schools or Departments of Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Planning, or Landscape within a Union for the Mediterranean Member State are eligible. This applies to students submitting proposals individually or to the team leader. In team submissions, other members may come from related disciplines

– The Union for the Mediterranean Member States include all EU countries, plus Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia, Palestine, Tunisia, and Türkiye. The school of each participating student must be located in one of these countries.

– Students are encouraged to participate individually or in teams of up to five members. Travel expenses to attend the Awarding Ceremony in Barcelona will be covered for up to two students per winning team

Which projects are eligible?

– Eligible projects must be located in a country bordering the Mediterranean. This includes sites within Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Malta, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, or Morocco

– While maintaining flexibility, projects must address the challenges posed by the effects of climate change in cities and built environment of the Mediterranean basin.

– The competition promotes a multi-scalar approach, but above all, it expects participants to address the urban design scale.

– Submitted proposals should be based on an already completed design studio.

Prizes

3 projects will be awarded:

1st Prize: 5.000 €

2nd Prize: 3.000 €

3rd Prize: 2.000 €

The jury may shortlist up to 10 additional proposals.

Calendar

30th September: Opening of registration

3rd November: Registration deadline

10th November: Deadline for request for clarifications to [email protected]

17th November: Deadline for submission of proposals

Steering Committee

– Güldehan ATAY, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul (Turkey)
– Carles CROSAS, ETSAB Barcelona (Spain)
– Rachid ALILLOUCH, ENA Fez (Morocco)
– Victoria Jimenez, UfM Head of Sector for Urban Development

Jury

– Ouafa Messous, ENA Rabat (Morocco)
– Laurent Hodebert, ENSA Marseille (France)
– Teresa Marat, ISCTE Lisboa (Portugal)
– Dina Shehayeb, Nile University (Egypt)
– Burak Buyukcivelek, METU (Türkiye)