CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE

INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION

BRIEF CONTENT

Page 3-4 INTRODUCTION

Page 5-8 PROJECT VISION

Page 9-11 PROJECT SPECIFICS

Page 12-14 OTHER TUMO INITIATIVES

Page 15-30 LOCATION

Page 31-36 ARCHITECTURAL PROGRAM

Page 37-44 COMPETITION INTRODUCTION The EU TUMO Convergence Center for Engineering and Applied Science will be a mixed-use campus bringing together academia and industry, linking local students, researchers and technologists to each other and with their global peers, and fostering innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Convergence Center program includes a set of mutually reinforcing facilities totaling 25,000 sqm of built up area. The project site is a 15,000 sqm plot perched on top of the river gorge in , . With an initial budget of over 25 million euros, it will create an open platform and a vibrant community combining academic and training facilities, businesses and a conference venue with retail units such as cafes, restaurants, a gym and a daycare center.

The project is an extension of the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies, an innovative after school learning center attended by close to 15,000 teernagers every week. It is located next to the TUMO building which houses, in addition to the TUMO Center, leading technology companies, both multinationals and startups.

CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE 4 INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION BRIEF PROJECT VISION THE CONVERGENCE CENTER IS CONCEIVED AS A MICROCOSM OF THE KINDS OF NEIGHBORHOODS THAT OFTEN DEVELOP AROUND MAJOR RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

Kendell Square near the Massachusetts Institute components will be strategic assets, and of Technology is a typical example of a mixed-use collaboration is expected to be a theme fractally neighborhood surrounding a major university. reflected at different scales within the project: It brings together different institutions and inside each component, between components, businesses functioning as a productive ecosystem and at the scale of the campus as a whole. This that includes academic activities, technology aspect of the project should also work in relation companies, startup incubation, conference to the adjacent TUMO building and Tumanyan venues, but also hospitality and retail commerce. Park. Just as these types of neighborhoods often become important nodes within their larger urban As a destination, the Convergence Center context, attracting and contributing to research is meant to be permeable and welcoming, and industry activities beyond their perimeters, accessible and attractive to the general public, so does the Convergence Center intend to be an and an interface between visitors and the world important hub for institutions, firms and people of education, entrepreneurship, and engineering throughout the city of Yerevan. and applied science. Some of its components, such as its retail commerce units are, by their As such, the Convergence Center is a platform, a nature, expected to server the general public nexus and a destination. as much as they would serve the project’s core tenants. But even beyond that, the project would As a platform, it must be extensible and is meant lend itself to becoming a place where residents to initially provide a critical mass of core functions of Yerevan come to take part in events, to meet around and among which more components each other, and to use resources at different can be added over time. Other academic and levels of accessibility, from the fully public, such industry partners are expected to move in with as a café, to ones targeted to specific audiences, new facilities or occupy parts of the core facilities such taking courses in an academic extension with new functions complementing the dynamics program. of its ecosystem. The implication is that built up areas within the available 15,000 sqm of land would leave plenty of room for growth inside the project’s perimeter, and would be deployed within an architectural logic that lends itself to significant growth and expansion beyond the current program.

As a nexus, the project is meant to connect academia and industry, creating opportunities for collaboration and productive encounters among them, while linking them to their local and global counterparts. This means that the project’s common spaces, public areas and collaborative

CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE 6 INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION BRIEF KEY ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTERISTICS

In addition to the above-mentioned prerogatives VEGETATION: CREATING A LUSH, of extensibility, common space, and accessibility GREEN ENVIRONMENT to the general public, the project’s design requirements include density, vegetation and a Yerevan has a dry climate with very hot summers. future-oriented architectural expression. At the same time, much of the city’s former tree cover has been lost over time due to various DENSITY: ACHIEVING BALANCE WHILE reasons. Even TUMO’s own plaza, linking the MINIMIZING FOOTPRINT TUMO building and the Convergence Center site to Tumanyan Park is a hard landscape with In addition to the above-mentioned prerogatives little vegetation. It is therefore very important to of extensibility, common space, and accessibility incorporate abundant vegetation and particularly to the general public, the project’s design trees, in the Convergence Center project, as an requirements include density, vegetation and a integral aspect of the design. future-oriented architectural expression. FUTURE-ORIENTED DESIGN: CHANNELING THE LIVABLE ENVIRONMENTS OF TOMORROW

We expect the Convergence Center’s physical expression to convey more than just a modern educational and professional environment. We want it to make an extraordinary architectural statement about the future of comfortable and livable built environments for learning and working. Whether that vision manifests in a bold or delicate architectural expression, it needs to send a clear signal about the innovative and high- concept ambitions of the Convergence Center project.

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PROJECT SPECIFICS TUMO CENTER FOR CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES HAS PARTNERED WITH EUROPEAN UNION FOR THEIR LATEST PROJECT, THE EU TUMO CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE.

The Convergence Center is a project jointly TUMO LABS funded by the European Union and TUMO, with the participation of the French University in Armenia. TUMO Labs will provide non-formal educational It is designed as an open platform promoting services inside of the EU TUMO Convergence project based learning and entrepreneurship, Center, building on the know-how acquired by but also as a self-sustaining financial ecosystems TUMO Center for Creative Technologies. It will that will generate sufficient revenues by renting act as an incubator for real-world educational offices, conference and convention venues and projects that have the potential of spawning retail facilities to cover its operating costs and viable startups. Students and young professionals offer free or highly subsidized education services aspiring to take part in TUMO Labs projects will to local students and young professionals. participate in online courses (MOOCs) that prepare them with essential prerequisites and act The project pursues two key objectives: as a filter for identifying the most motivated and capable participants. 1. It strives to provide cutting-edge education to students and young professionals in SHARED HUB engineering and applied science in order to prepare them for the labour market and make The Convergence Center will host a shared them competitive at a global level. hub which will make lab equipment and facilities 2. It seeks to offer a platform for existing available to all Convergence Center participants initiatives, including startups, incubators, and the wider community. Member institutions accelerators, universities and industry, in are expected to allocate resources to the shared order to build productive linkages and foster hub by collocating in it any equipment they resource sharing and collaboration. procure through grants or research programmes. In exchange, they will be allowed to use the It will use the following strategy to achieve these equipment and facilities already available there. It objectives. will be a multi-purpose facility, which will expand in size over time and will have spaces that are 1. Prioritize applied, project-based education in interchangeable with TUMO Labs and the 42 leading-edge technology fields Coding Bootcamp (see below). 2. Create a vibrant neighbourhood with all essential ecosystem components 3. Complement and empower local institutions by providing shared resources

The following are the main program elements of the Convergence Center campus.

CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE 10 INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION BRIEF 42 CODING BOOTCAMP OFFICES School 42 is an innovative coding school based in paris that is now building an international Office space will be made available for rent to network of locations offering its program. Similar companies in sectors and areas of activity relevant to TUMO, 42 is based on project based learning. to the mission of the Convergence Center. Peer-to-peer evaluation, and gamification are Office space will also be allocated to start-ups used to support a highly efficient model of that originate from the Convergence Center or hands-on learning. A maximum of 150 students are affiliated with its partner organizations. are expected enter the 42 program at the Convergence Center on an annual basis. RETAIL SPACE

THE FRENCH UNIVERSITY IN ARMENIA In light of the fact that the Convergence Center will host a large number of entities, it As a university offering diplomas which are can also stimulate demand for services such as recognised internationally, the French University cafes, gyms, print shops, day-care centres and in Armenia has been a leading educational restaurants. The existence of such retail facilities institution in Yerevan since its opening in 2000. in the Convergence Center will play a key role in To further help it develop its educational activities creating a neighbourhood effect that is important in Armenia, UFAR will relocate its entire campus for any vibrant ecosystem, and conducive to inside the Convergence Center and will expand it unstructured interactions among its participants. to include a new department of mathematics and computer science.

CONFERENCE AND CONVENTION FACILITY

The Convergence Center will also include a space for conferences and conventions – a key resource that it is needed to meet the growing demand for such facilities in Armenia. It will be used for educational and business events.

CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE 11 INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION BRIEF OTHER TUMO INITIATIVES TUMO CENTER FOR CREATIVE TUMO STUDIOS TECHNOLOGIES TUMO Studios is an educational program for university age students and young professionals The TUMO Center for Creative Technologies is that focuses on the design and creation of analog an educational program that puts teenagers in products, combining traditional know-how with charge of their own learning. Teens combine contemporary designs. the TUMO learning targets in their own personal learning plans, which are always adapting to fit Local craftsmen, budding professionals and their progress and evolving preferences. international designers are connected in an atelier setting where they create innovative pieces TUMO was founded by Sam and Sylva Simonian, in areas such as fashion, jewelry, embroidery, from Dallas, Texas, in collaboration pottery, printing, product design and cooking. with Marie Lou and Pegor Papazian, the center’s Studios students develop work that can compete CEO and Head of Development, respectively. in a global market and help raise the quality of locally produced merchandise. Hands-on There are four TUMO centers in Armenia and two processes are explored to create products that more are in the construction or planning staged. are contemporary in design, but often rooted in A TUMO center opened in Paris in collaboration tried and true traditional methods. with the Municipality of Paris at the end of September 2018, and another will open in Beirut, The current headquarters of TUMO Studios is Lebanon in September 2019. TUMO Moscow, Pushkin 38, a beautiful historic building within the TUMO Tirana and several other international center of Yerevan, where the jewelry, fashion, locations are expected to open over the next two printmaking and pottery facilities are set up. years. The new home of TUMO Studios will be located TUMO’s interior design, created by Beirut based in Tumanyan Park, adjacent to the Kievyan architect Bernard Khoury, is full of open areas, Bridge. It will be a learning hub that will nurture transparency and mobility, which reflect TUMO’s a bustling community of designers, artisans, and pedagogical philosophy. It has flexible spaces for master craftspeople. The building will feature open lectures and master-classes, presentations modular studios and workshops, as well as roofs and other events for students and the general that double as green spaces. There will also be public TUMO’s physical environment creates a rentable studios available for those interested in dynamic atmosphere that energize the students working in the space. and helps keep them motivated. Since its inception, TUMO Studios has brought over 45 design professionals to Armenia to work with hundreds of students and local crafts professionals in workshop settings. We have had workshops in jewelry, pottery, printmaking, fashion, culinary design, product design and embroidery led by leading professional from France, Denmark, Japan, the US, Lebanon, Corsica, Brazil, the UK, Russia, India, Italy, Estonia, and Spain.

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LOCATION The Convergence Center will be located in Armenia’s capital Yerevan. The site is located in the Ajapnyak neighbourhood, at a 10 minute drive from the city center, at the edge of the Hrazdan River gorge. It is bordered on its West side by the Halabyan Street and on its East side by the river gorge. The South side abuts the TUMO building. The North side is currently bounded by the entrance to a private estate, but the Municipality of Yerevan announced in the beginning of 2019 the project of a commercial center at the site’s northern border that will host the future Halabyan metro station.

The Hrazdan river gorge is a protected landscape area. The project site is within walking distance of a few notable monuments, such as the Karen Demirchyan Complex (1983) and the Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex (1967), as well as the Yerevan Physics Institute famous during the Soviet Era for its leading edge research and one of the most powerful particle accelerators of its time.

This project is part of an informal master plan that includes the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies, the Tumanyan Park and the future building of TUMO Studios, creating the foundations of an education and technology belt.

The site is located at 1045m of altitude above sea level. Yerevan features a continental influenced steppe climate, with long, hot, dry summers and short, but cold and snowy winters. Summers temperature in can reach up to 40 °C (104 °F) in August, and winters generally carry snowfall and blow freezing temperatures with January often being as cold as −15 °C (5 °F). The amount of precipitation is small, amounting annually to around 318 millimetres (12.5 in). Yerevan experiences an average of 2,700 sunlight hours per year.

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ARCHITECTURAL PROGRAM COMPONENTS THE FRENCH UNIVERSITY IN ARMENIA (8,000 + 4,000 sqm)

The Convergence Center includes the following The campus of the French University of Armenia components. (UFAR), that has been operating in another location in Yerevan, will be expanded and relocated CORE COMPONENTS (3,000 sqm) to the Convergence Center. The 12,000 sqm facilities of the UFAR must be designed in such a The core components of the Convergence way, that 8,000 sqm can be built out immediately, Center include TUMO Labs, the Shared Hub and 4,000 sqm Science and Engineering section and the 42 Coding Boot Camp, each of which added later as funding become available for its is described below. Ideally, one or more of the further expansion. three would be able to expand in the future at the expense of the others. The areas provided below The “UFAR space requirements” annex provides for each of the tree individual core components a detailed breakdown of space requirements for are indicative but must not exceed 3,000 sq.m. the French University in Armenia initial campus. combined. OFFICES (4,000 sqm) TUMO LABS (± 1,250 sqm) Among the main revenue-generating components An educational facility that acts as an “incubator of the project are office facilities that can be for learning projects.” It includes rented out to businesses that would add value • Two small lecture halls of ±50 sqm each to the Convergence Center ecosystems, such • One larger lecture hall of ±200 sqm as technology firms, as well as to startups, • Five workshop rooms of ±60 sqm each including ones being incubated or accelerated • Multipurpose open space plus common at the Convergence Center. In addition, the areas, combined, of ±320 sqm administrative functions of the Convergence Center can be housed in these facilities. Tennant SHARED HUB (± 1,250 sq.m.) offices will range from 40 sqm to 400 sqm or more, and it is likely that co-working spaces An open space that is meant to house will be provided as well. All floors should lend laboratories shared by the entire Convergence themselves to (1) large open plan layouts, ample Center community, including students working in light and views and plenty of common spaces the TUMO Labs. Specific equipment and facilities and visibility among offices in order to encourage housed in the Shared Hub will emerge over time chance interactions and collaboration. based on grants and projects initiated within the Convergence Center and by partner institutions throughout Yerevan. As a result, the Shared Hub must lend itself to subdivisions into modular laboratory units varying from 40 to 400 sqm.

42 CODING BOOT CAMP (± 500 sqm)

The 42 Coding Boot Camp is part of the global network of ten new franchise centers of the renowned École 42 coding school in Paris (www.42.fr). It is made up of an open area densely populated with 150 workstations, a small administrative area (40 sq.m.) and a server room.

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A multi-purpose space for holding conferences, THE TUMO BUILDING trade fairs, exhibitions and conventions. Due to its proximity to various other components that have An 18,000 sqm office building and home of lecture halls, conference rooms and workshops, the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies the bulk of the Conference and Convention headquarters and flagship location, which Facility should be devoted to large volume that occupies its first two floors and receives close can accommodate different types of events to 15,000 students per week. Upper floors are other than lectures and breakout sessions. occupied by leading multinational firms such as Mentor Graphics, a Siemens subsidiary, Synaptics, Special note about the Conference and a major manufacturer of touchpad and biometric Convention Facility: technologies, and Synopsis, a world leader in chip design tools, as well as highly successful There is a requirement to begin executing some local startups such as PicsArt, an image editing the core educational and entrepreneurial activities app with 100 million active monthly users, and of the Convergence Center at a small scale prior DISQO, an opinion and behavior data provider. to the completion of the entire construction project. One possibility is to give first priority to the THE ADJOINING PLOT construction of the Conference and Convention Facility and to determine its placement within The 30,000+ sqm plot between the project site the project in such a way that it can become and Halabyan street is owned by an entity affiliated operational ahead of the other components. with TUMO and will be developed in the future as a That way, it can house some of the functions of logical extension of the Convergence Center and TUMO Labs, the 42 Coding Boot Camp and the the TUMO Building. The Car dealership located administrative offices of the Convergence Center within that plot is owned by a third party that has while construction is still in progress on the rest expressed interest in relocating it in exchange for of the project. Once the other components are participation in the development of the plot. A constructed, these functions can move out of possible extension of the TUMO Building (TUMO the Conference and Convention Facility and it Building 2) was planned at some point and might can operate according to its main function. be built in the future at the edge of the project site. RETAIL COMMERCE UNITS (3,000 sqm) THE FUTURE METRO STATION Like the Office Facilities and the Conference and Convention Facility, the Retail Commerce Units of The Municipality of Yerevan has announced that the project are meant to enrich the Convergence it will extend the city’s metro system via a rail Center ecosystem with needed functions and bridge over the Hrazdan River gorge to reach a facilities while generating revenue towards the new station at Halabyan street adjacent to the projects self-sustainability. These units will be edge of the Convergence Center project site. It rented out to and operated by third parties, and is possible that the Halabyan street metro station are likely to include some or all of the following. will be combined with a commercial center or mall • Gym in a public-private partnership model to offset the • Restaurant/cafeteria cost of extending the metro. The metro project’s • Café start date or possible completion date are not • Daycare center clear but will likely take several years more than • Clothing, electronics and other stores the construction of the Convergence Center.

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TUMANYAN PARK AND TUMO PLAZA RELATIONSHIP AMONG

Tumanyan Park is Yerevan’s largest public park. COMPONENTS It extends from the TUMO building to Kievyan Bridge and is bounded by Halabyan Street to the West and the Hrazdan River gorge to the East. The TUMO Labs is the heart of the Convergence park is managed and maintained by the TUMO Center, along with the Shared Hub and the Coding Center for Creative Technologies and includes Boot Camp. These three core components a basketball court, football (soccer) field and can be interconnected and can share common children’s playground. TUMO Plaza is a private services. hard landscape extension of the park, bordering the TUMO building and the Convergence Center All components, as well as the TUMO building, site. should have easy access to the Commercial Units. These should also be accessible from TUMO STUDIOS Halabyan Street and from Tumanyan Park so that they can serve the general public, generate revenue and become the main interface between TUMO Studios is the extension of the TUMO the Convergence Center and the general public. Center of Creative Technologies’ design focus beyond teenagers to university age students As a less critical requirement, TUMO Labs would and young professionals, with a focus on analog ideally be seen in relation to the adjacent TUMO products – “things you can touch, ware, eat and Center for Creative Technologies as its logical sit on.” The construction of a 4,000 sqm TUMO extension. Studios building located across Tumanyan park from the Convergence Center park, adjacent to Vehicular access is required to all components. Kievyan bridge, is expected to begin in early 2020 Surface parking can be available on the and is to be completed around the same time as Convergence Center site or on the adjacent site the Convergence Center buildings: https://tumo. next to the TUMO building. In the future, as these org/en/the-faith-of-the-heart-2/. sites develop, surface parking could be replaced by parking structures and/or underground parking.

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COMPETITION THE COMPETITION WILL FOLLOW A TWO STAGE APPROACH. STAGE ONE: SUBMISSION OF PREQUALIFICATION INFORMATION. STAGE TWO: SITE VISIT AND 2 DAY WORKSHOP

The prequalification phase (Stage I) will allow ELIGIBILITY the organizer to select three firms based on their cover letter, portfolio, CVs and financial health. The competition is open to all architecture firms These three firms will then compete in a finals that are: stage (Stage II): They will be invited to visit the site and to take part in a 2 day workshop with the 1. In good financial standing client team and the jury. 2. A private legal entity 3. Licensed in their country of practice One of the three firms participating in Stage II 4. Not be targeted by the EU’s sanctions list will be announced the competition winner and https://www.sanctionsmap.eu/#/main will be awarded the architectural design contract 5. Be eligible according to the EU’s Rules on for the Convergence Center. The winning firm participation in procurement procedures and will be contracted to (1) develop the project grants (Annex 1 for list of eligible countries) through schematic design, to then (2) work with 6. Not involved in criminal proceedings or tax the TUMO Engineering team who will provide evasion design development, production of construction documents, and engineering services including TUMO is looking for firms that can propose project structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing solutions combining exceptional design quality under the supervision of the winning firm, and with a pragmatic and cost-effective approach, to (3) supervise the design and construction and that has experience in developing complex process through completion. projects from initial design through construction.

ORGANIZING ENTITY

The competition is the initiative of the Simonian Educational Foundation (the Organizer), a non- profit foundation based in Yerevan, Armenia and operating under the brand of TUMO Center for Creative Technologies.

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Hashim Sarkis is Dean of the School of Archi- tecture and Planning at MIT, curator of the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale, and director of Hashim Sarkis Studios. He holds Architecture de- grees from the Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard University and has authored and ed- ited several books on architectural theory.

Marie Lou Papazian is the founding CEO of the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies and pre- viously led the Education for Development Foun- dation. She holds a degree in Computing in Ed- ucation from Columbia University. She is trained as an engineer and has been lead construction manager on major building projects in New York City.

Raffi Krikorian is a former VP at Twitter, Engineer- ing Director at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center in charge of self-driving cars, and Chief Technology Officer of the National Democratic Committee. He is currently Managing Director at the Emmerson Collective and a member of the board of TUMO Center for Creative Technolo- gies.

Jean-Marc Lavest is the Rector of the French University in Armenia. He has initiated the expan- sion of the university into a new campus and has led the creation of its new computer science and mathematics department. He has held leadership positions in various academic institutions and holds graduate degrees in engineering, machine vision and robotics.

Soh Yeong Roh is the founder and director of the Art Center Nabi, an institution in Seoul which pioneered the new media art scene in Korea and is specialized in media arts in the fields of robot- ics, artificial intelligence and conceptual art. She holds graduate degrees from Stanford University in education and from Yonsei University in media communication.

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PROCESS 5. Financial capacity statement Please provide in the format provided in Annex 4. Applicants are requested to register for the competition by June 23, 2019 by following the 6. Availability for 2 day workshop “Register” link/button on the project website at www.convergence.center and to submit by June Confirm the availability of the team to participate 30, 2019 the documents required for Stage I as in a 2 day workshop if selected for Stage II. Please listed below. fill out Annex 5.

STAGE I – EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 7. Human resource capacity Please fill out form on human resource capacity Firms are invited to submit information about their in Annex 6 indicating your available human experience and the assigned team members, resources in general. along with a financial statement and fee structure as specified below. Please note that design 8. Estimated costs of architectural fees in the concepts will not be accepted at this stage but form of a financial proposal firms are encouraged to present in a brief cover letter their vision for the project as well as why Participants should provide information about they are a good fit for it. Three firms from among their fee structure in addition to other costs. the Stage One candidates will be shortlisted to When calculating the financial proposal the participate in Stage Two. following should be taken into account: • Cost for design work from concept preparation Submission requirements: to schematic design. • Follow-up fees for a duration of up to 3 years 1. Cover letter starting from the winning publication until end of construction. As described above, design Introducing the firm and the design team and development and production of construction outlining the firm’s vision and fit for the project. documents as well as all engineering This document must contain the Team’s contact (Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, details and be signed by a legally authorised etc.) design will be executed in Armenia representative. by the TUMO Engineering team under the 2. Registration form and copy of trade register supervision of the winning firm. The winner will have access to construction and planning In addition to filling out Annex 2 applicants should documents and will be able to follow the submit a copy of their trade register in order to construction through regular photo/video prove their nationality. In case of consortia, all uploads and periodic site visits. members should provide both documents. • Please also provide daily fees for site visit for different levels of personnel, as the winner will 3. Team composition and qualification be expected to schedule site visits throughout the development and construction phases. Describe the composition of the team that will be Please fill out Annex 7 - Financial Proposal, assigned to the project and that will participate providing the above-mentioned information. in Stage II if selected, and list the team members and their roles. Provide team member CVs. 9. Further declarations

Please fill out the annex on No Conflict of Interest 4. Company presentation (Annex 8), Joint Ventures (if applicable) (Annex 9) and the Declaration of Undertaking (Annex Provide any information or material that can 10). present the firm, its experience, expertise and reputation. Please provide list of project All of the above documents must be submitted experience the format provided in Annex 3. digitally in A4 (portrait) PDF format and uploaded into the relevant folder on the competition website. CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE 41 INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION BRIEF STAGE II – DESIGN DEVELOPMENT • • Reference checks to be conducted by the Three shortlisted firms will be invited to visit the Organizer as needed site and to take part in a 2-day workshop with After the evaluation and potential clarification the client team and Jury members during the discussions, the three shortlisted firms will be second half of July. During this time, workshop announced on the competition website and participants will explore project requirements and through other channels. The Jury’s decision will ideas, and develop sketches for an architectural be final and not subject to appeal. concept and expression, as well as massing and layout studies. One of the three shortlisted firms STAGE II will be commissioned to execute the architectural design project. The Jury will evaluate each firm after their participation in the 2 day workshop based on the following criteria. COMPETITION SCHEDULE • Quality of the design ideas and concepts generated during the workshop in terms of originality and feasibility • Responsiveness to the project’s architectural STAGE I characteristics, program requirements and urban context • Competition launched: 10 June, 2019 • Effectiveness of the collaboration between • Registration closes: 23 June, 2019 the design team and the client team based on • Deadline for submission : 30 June, 2019 the workshop dynamics • Announcement firms shortlisted for Stage II: • The fee structure and timeframe proposed 12 July, 2019 by the firm for the design deliverables and supervision in case of award STAGE II After the evaluation and potential clarification discussions, the winning firm will be announced • Workshops period: July 15-31 on the competition website and through other • Jury deliberation: August 15-31 channels. The Jury’s decision will be final and not • Winner announced : September 1-15 subject to appeal.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

STAGE I

The Jury will evaluate all submissions of expressions of interest to ensure that the selected firms meet the pre-qualification requirements and will assess qualifying firms on the following: • Evidence of the firm’s understanding of the project vision • Fit of the firm’s portfolio and experience with the project requirements • Qualifications and seniority of assigned team members • Correspondence of the firm’s free structure to reasonable industry standards • Availability of the assigned team for the site visit and 2 day workshop

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The competition jury, their associates, employees PRIZES and direct family members, are not eligible to enter the competition. An honorarium of 20,000 EUR will be paid to Direct family members, associates and employees each of the three shortlisted teams participating of the Organizer are also ineligible to participate in the 2-day workshop during Stage II of the in this open call. competition. Participants are requested to declare any conflict The winning team will be commissioned to of interest that may compromise the competition develop the design of the project from concept procedure and the overall completion of the through schematic design and to supervise project. the work of TUMO Engineering from design The Organizers reserve the right to dismiss development through construction (conditions proposals from participating teams where actual and fees to be determined under the contract or potential conflicts of interest do indeed exist. formalized between the winning team and the All competitors are expected to notify the TUMO). Organizers of any change of circumstance during Travel and Accommodation costs incurred for the the competition process. 2 Day Workshop, for two people will be covered The Organizers holds no liability for any costs by TUMO. incurred by the competitors during their There will be no compensation for participation participation in the competition. Likewise, the in Stage I. Organizers accepts no liability for additional costs that may be caused due to modification or cancellation of the competition. COMPETITION LANGUAGE

English is the official language of the competition. Proposals submitted in any other language will QUESTIONS, ANSWERS AND not be admitted. UPDATES ELIMINATION Competitors may address enquiries relating Bidders will be disqualified if they fail to provide to the competition process and brief to the the required legal, technical and financialOrganizer prior to the deadline, as defined in the documentation. competition schedule. The organizer may post such questions and the corresponding responses RELEASE to the competition website. Questions should be e-mailed to: design. Firms participating in the competition automatically [email protected] grant the Organizer the right to disseminate Participants should also bear in mind that the list of participating, shortlisted and winning telephone enquiries will not be accepted. All firms and to document the competition process, issues related to this project must be addressed including photos and videos of workshops, for directly to the Organizer. Under no circumstances promotional purposes. should competitors contact any member of the jury to discuss aspects of this competition. Contacting members of the jury will result in automatic disqualification. The Organizer may introduce changes to the competition schedule. Modifications will be published on the competition website. Participants are responsible for checking updates on the competition website on a regular basis. on the competition website on a regular basis.

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