Deadline:
March 31, 2025
Location(s)
France Worldwide
The International Stage of the Architecture Student Contest will be held from June 16th to June 18th, 2025, in Nord-Isère (Greater Lyon Area), France.
Overview
The Architecture Student Contest is an international competition based on Saint-Gobain’s vision of sustainable buildings . It was first organized in 2004 by Saint-Gobain Isover in Serbia, and became an international event in 2005. Today, it attracts more than 1,300 students in 30 countries.
The competition is a great chance for architecture students to gain professional experience while discovering the importance of sustainability in modern construction. The success of your project will depend on the ways in which it enhances the health and wellbeing of your building’s occupants while reducing the use of carbon, energy and resources.
Ready to be part of the game?
Details
Our Ambition at Saint-Gobain
In everything we do, we are guided by our engaging purpose: Making the world a better home. For all businesses on the construction markets, we translate our purpose into a strategic commitment and concrete actions: We Care about Building Better.
We care about building better means being at our customers’ and partners’ side to innovate and help design, construct and renovate better buildings that reduce impacts on our planet, enhance people’s health and wellbeing and deliver reduced costs and increased value; providing our customers with innovative solutions to improve their performance and support their journey towards more sustainability; advocating for building better to accelerate the market transformation.
Thanks to our 350-year-long history and the synergies between our different businesses, specialist brands and skills, we want to demonstrate our thought leadership and be the preferred partner who cares about building better.
Contest Goal
We believe buildings can and should deliver both improved performance and sustainability. We care about maximizing health and wellbeing for everyone, everywhere – while minimizing impact on the environment over a building’s lifespan.
Universities are preparing future generations, and students are already building the future. Together we can build it better.
The objective of the Architecture Student Contest is to develop a project based on sustainability, both for people and the planet. The buildings will be highly energy-efficient, low-carbon, and provide a comfortable environment for their occupants, in order to create better living, working and leisure spaces everywhere.
How Does it Work?
Every year Saint-Gobain selects a country with an architectural challenge and works very close with the local municipality to develop a task that will address real social and cultural issues. Students from different universities all around the world are bringing up their best ideas to compete and win one of the prizes of this international contest.
- National Stage: Competition against other students from universities of the same country. The best project will travel and compete in the International Stage.
- International Stage: A 3-day event for winners of National Stages compete against each other with the same contest task, where the following activities take place: welcome ceremony, jury deliberation, city tour, feedback sessions, awards ceremony and gala dinner.
Chimilin & Les Grands Ateliers - Contest Task 2025
For the 20th edition, the Contest Task covers to sites: Chimilin for the renovation, and Les Grands Ateliers for the new construction. Discover the Contest Task in images by watching these videos. Read the description of the competition task to find out more about the places, the requirements and the judging criteria for the Architecture Student Contest 2025.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Who Can Participate?
- Types of Studies: Students in architecture, design, construction engineering or other related disciplines.
- Year of Study: All students from the 1st to 6th year of study taking part of the academic year of the contest. Students on scholarship and exchange programs can participate.
- Team Localisation: Participants represent the university and the country where they are studying at the time of the competition.
- Team Composition: Students can participate as individuals or in teams up to of 3 members.
Dates
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
Prizes
1st Prize: 5 000 €
+ Award Certificate signed by the International Jury members
2nd Prize: 3 000 €
+ Award Certificate signed by the International Jury members
3rd Prize: 1 500 €
+ Award Certificate signed by the International Jury members
Teacher* Prize: 1 000 €
+ Award Certificate signed by the International Jury members
* This prize is awarded to the project which receives the most votes from the teachers at the International Stage.
Student** Prize: 1 000 €
+ Award Certificate signed by the International Jury members
** This prize is awarded to the project which receives the most votes from the students at the International Stage.
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