SAMI CULTURAL CENTRE ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION PROGRAMME 13 April 2008 contents 1. INVITATION TO THE COMPETITION 1.1 Competition Promoter, Nature and Purpose 1.2 Eligibility of Entrants 1.3 Prizes and Purchases 1.4 Competition Jury 1.5 Competition Programme Approval 1.6 Delivery of Competition Programme Documentation 1.7 Languages of the Competition 1.8 Conclusion of the Competition’s First Stage 1.9 Competition’s Second Stage 2. COMPETITION PROCEDURES 2.1 Programme Documentation 2.2 Questions Concerning the Competition 2.3 Results of Competition, Evaluation, Announcement of Winners and Exhibition of Prize-winning Entries 2.4 Follow-up Actions Resulting from Competition 2.5 Competition Entry Right of Use 2.6 Return of Competition Entries 2.7 Insurance of Competition Entries 2.8 Competition Rules 3. COMPETITION TASK 3.1 Sami Cultural Centre 3.2 Sami Cultural Tradition and Its Interpretation 3.3 Competition Area 3.4 Target Cost and Scope 3.5 Design Guidelines for the Sami Cultural Centre 3.6 Objectives of the Competition 3.7 Room Programme 3.8 Judging Criteria Used to Evaluate Competition Entries 4. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PREPARATION OF SUBMISSIONS 4.1 Required Documentation 4.2 Presentation of Entries 4.3 Entrant Anonymity 4.4 Submission of Entries 1 1. INVITATION TO THE COMPETITION 1.1 COMPETITION PROMOTER, States, and to citizens from those divided among the winning entries and NATURE AND PURPOSE countries that have concluded the GP purchases. Agreement with the European Union, ac- Senate Properties is organising a gen- cording to each country’s currently val- According to its competition rules, the eral two-stage architectural competi- id agreements and laws. At least one of Finnish Association of Architects will tion for the design of the Sami Cultural the members participating in the design charge 7% of all prize and purchase Centre to be built in Inari, Finland. team preparing the competition entry money. Prizes will be awarded through must be legally entitled to practice the the Finnish Association of Architects. Facilities for the Sami Parliament, the profession of architecture in his or her The Finnish Association of Architects Educational Center of Sami Area, Sami respective country. has applied for tax-exempt status for Library in Inari, Sami associations and the entire prize sum in 2008. common-use activities will be built in 1.3 PRIZES AND PURCHASES the Sami Cultural Centre. 1.4 COMPETITION JURY The total sum of money for prizes and The purpose of the architectural com- purchases will be EUR 100,000, distrib- Members of the Competition Jury: petition is to fi nd an architectonical- uted as follows: Senate Properties: ly high-level solution for the Sami - Managing Director Aulis Kohvakka, Cultural Centre that will be located in 1st Prize EUR 35,000 Chairman the village of Inari along the shore of 2nd Prize EUR 25,000 - Director Risto Rautiola, the Juutuanjoki River. 3rd Prize EUR 20,000 Deputy Chairman 2 purchases, each EUR 10,000 - Chief Architect Marjatta Erwe, The competition is being arranged in Architect SAFA two stages. The purpose of the 1st stage By unanimous decision, the Competition - Facilities Manager now being announced is to fi nd archi- Jury may revise these denominations Tanja Rytkönen-Romppanen, tectonic and functional concepts capa- according to the competition rules of Architect SAFA ble of further development; it is there- the Finnish Association of Architects - Budget Counsellor Pekka Pelkonen, fore an ideas competition. (SAFA). Ministry of Finance Approximately 3-5 feasible entries will Entrants invited to the 2nd stage will each Sami Parliament: be invited in the 2nd stage, in which par- be given an equal share from a sum to- - Administrative Manager ticular attention will be paid to the de- talling EUR 75,000. Prizes and purchas- Juha Guttorm velopment of the entries’ functional es will be distributed at the conclusion - Member Pekka Aikio and economic characteristics. of the entire competition. Municipality of Inari: 1.2 ELIGIBILITY OF ENTRANTS By unanimous decision, the Competition - Technical Director Arto Leppälä Jury may decide not to organise the 2nd The competition is open to all citizens stage of the competition. In that case the Appointed by the Finnish Association from the European Union’s Member entire prize sum of EUR 175,000 will be of Architects: 2 - Professor Juhani Pallasmaa, proved this competition programme 15/08 of the European Community’s Architect SAFA and its appendices. offi cial bulletin according to the GP - Architect SAFA, Anssi Lassila agreement. 1.6 DELIVERY OF COMPETITION Expert advisors: PROGRAMME DOCUMENTATION 1.7 LANGUAGES OF THE COMPETITION - Counsellor of Construction Tuulikki Terho, The competition programme’s appen- The languages of the competition are Ministry of Education dices will be available as of 15 April Finnish and English. - Ministerial Counsellor 2008 from the following address: Mirja Kurkinen, Ministry of Justice 1.8 CONCLUSION OF THE - Professor Veli-Pekka Lehtola, Finnish Association of Architects COMPETITION’S FIRST STAGE Giellagas Institute, (SAFA) University of Oulu Runeberginkatu 5 The 1st stage of the competition will - Real Estate Manager FI-00100 Helsinki, Finland conclude 30 June 2008. Lasse Porsanger, Fax: +358 9 5844 4222 Senate Properties E-mail: kilpailut@safa.fi 1.9 COMPETITION’S SECOND STAGE The Secretary to the Competition Jury www.samediggi.fi / kilpailu and The competition’s second stage will be- is Architect Katriina Jau ho la-Seitsa lo, www.samediggi.fi /competition gin 1 September 2008 and conclude 3 ISS Proko Oy. ISS Proko will prepare October 2008. the cost and scope calculations. The competition programme and its ap- pendices are free of charge. The com- The professional members of the Jury petition programme and its appendices according to SAFA’s competition rules can be ordered on a CD-ROM disc from are Marjatta Erwe, Tanja Rytkönen- the address of the Finnish Association Romppanen, Juhani Pallasmaa and of Architects shown above. Anssi Lassila. The competition programme, appendi- The Competition Jury also reserves ces, questions submitted by competi- the right to consult other experts as tors and the answers to them provid- it sees fi t. ed by the Competition Jury, a list of the coded pseudonyms received, and infor- 1.5 COMPETITION PROGRAMME mation about the competition’s results APPROVAL can be obtained free of charge from the above Internet addresses. The Competition Jury and the Competition Committee of the Finnish There has been an announcement of the Association of Architects have ap- competition’s organisation in issue No. 3 2. COMPETITION PROCEDURES 2.1 PROGRAMME DOCUMENTATION Reference in subject line: “Sami dress. The competition proposals will Cultural Centre” be displayed at the above-mentioned This competition programme, including Internet addresses as soon as possible the following appendices: Questions and the Competition when they have been received. 1. Map of Inari Jury’s answers will be posted at the 2. Excerpt from the map of the town competition’s Internet address on 2.4 FOLLOW-UP ACTIONS RESULTING plan ratifi ed 10 December 1987 15 May 2008 (See Section 1.6). FROM COMPETITION and boundary of competition area 3. Base map with surface level control 2.3 RESULTS OF COMPETITION, The Competition Jury will recommend information EVALUATION, ANNOUNCEMENT that the design commission be award- 4. Photographs of the competition area OF WINNERS AND EXHIBITION OF ed to the competition winner based on 5. Aerial photographs of the area PRIZE-WINNING ENTRIES the competition results. 6. “Sami Visual Landscapes, Construction and Form Language” The Competition Jury will attempt The design of the Sami Cultural Centre Veli-Pekka Lehtola, Giellagas Institute, to reach a decision within two will begin in early 2009 and construc- University of Oulu months following the conclusion of tion will begin during 2010. The plan- the competition’s 2nd Stage. ning will utilise product modelling and 2.2 QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE the designing language will be Finnish. COMPETITION All competition entries will be judged The chief designer responsible for the and divided into classes. Although implementation design shall have the Competitors may request clarifi cations every eff ort will be made to provide AA competency defi ned in Part A2, and additional information concerning written assessments for all compe- Section 4.2 of the Finnish Building the competition programme. Questions tition entries, the Competition Jury Regulations as well as suffi cient expe- shall be addressed to the Competition shall reserve the right to provide rience as a chief designer. Jury and shall be submitted in writing to only a limited number of written as- the Secretary of the Competition Jury by sessments if the number of submis- 2.5 COMPETITION ENTRY 30 April 2008 (postmark) to the following sions is exceptionally large. RIGHT OF USE address: Following the conclusion of the Prize-winning and purchased compe- Katriina Jauhola-Seitsalo competition, all competition en- tition entries will remain the property ISS Proko Oy tries will be exhibited publicly at of the Competition Promoter; the copy- Takomotie 8 the Sami Museum and Northern right will reside with the author of the FI-00380 Helsinki, Finland Lapland Nature Centre SIIDA in entry. The Competition Promoter and Envelopes should be marked: “Sami Inari. Immediately following the SAFA may use the competition entries Cultural Centre” conclusion of the competition, the for research and communications pur- competition results and the minutes poses only. or by E-mail: of the Competition Jury will be post- katriina.jauhola-seitsalo@iss.fi ed at the competition’s Internet ad- 4 3. COMPETITION TASK 2.6 RETURN OF COMPETITION ENTRIES 3.1 SAMI CULTURAL CENTRE performances. In terms of their content and spatial confi gurations, these over- Competition entries will not be re- The Sami are the European Union ar- lapping sub-functions will be mutually turned.