Terraces ambiances
2025 EditionThe teams are invited to conceive and draw original forms of terraces for cafe or restaurant, conciliating comfort for users and tranquility for neighbors .
Edit a video (5 min max) exposing an existing terrace and the furniture project that enhances it. It relates the sound atmosphere perceived inside and outside. The choice of the place, an existing public one, is up to the candidates.
Cécile Regnault and Gilles Paté contest organizers
The
competition Place for sound propose to imagine phonically sustainable
terraces where we can listen and talk to eachothers without raising
voice. Find a rhythm between day and night activities. Design
original spatial devices and choose materials that will contain noise
levels within an acceptable perimeter. Find forms that can regulate
sound propagation, reduce sound levels and counter the rise of
sound volumes in night time to habitations above. Think about the
comfort of both consumers and local residents.
The summarized document about Place au Son 2024 here.
The summarized document about Place au Son 2024 here.
The competition is opened to all students enrolled in higher education (Grandes Ecoles and universities), during their studies and including three years after graduation: architecture, urban planning, landscape, geography, design, arts, music, theatre, cinema, engineering are the main disciplines targeted
The team is made up of at least two students from the above-mentioned specialities; it chooses a representative who will be the main contact with the organisers. Registration for the competition should be made by e-mail to :
concoursplaceauson@lasemaineduson.org
The representative sends the team's identity form in the form of a PDF file including copies of the student cards of all the members of the team (Last nameFirst name of the representative.pdf).
When the team's application is accepted, the organizer will assign a team number to ensure the anonymity of the competition.
The team is made up of at least two students from the above-mentioned specialities; it chooses a representative who will be the main contact with the organisers. Registration for the competition should be made by e-mail to :
concoursplaceauson@lasemaineduson.org
The representative sends the team's identity form in the form of a PDF file including copies of the student cards of all the members of the team (Last nameFirst name of the representative.pdf).
When the team's application is accepted, the organizer will assign a team number to ensure the anonymity of the competition.
The competition report consists of two files:
File 1 Audiovisual present-future: production of a double portrait of the chosen public square. This sound portrait consists of a present-future soundtrack, accompanied by a series of still images (drawings, photos, virtual images, etc.).
-The "present" part expresses the state of the square as it exists today, with its surroundings, and make us listen to a terrace found in a specific part of the place
-The "future" part stages the fiction of the square tomorrow, with drawings of the design of the projected terrace and insertion in the site, plans, animation, photomontage...
-Length of the video: 5 minutes maximum-Video format: .mov or mp4, in full HD (1920x1080 pixels) with the understanding that the audio of the file (mono or stereo) will be of 48 kHz, 24 bit quality.-
Title of the video:
teamnumbervideotitle.mov
(example 23larepubliquesonnante.mov)
File 2 Project brief :
on A4 landscape format
to be downloaded from www.placeauson.org including-team number (given at registration) only (without the names of the participants)
-view of the square in the city, specifying the name of the square, the city, the country
-a text of 300 words maximum specifying the title of the project, a brief description of the existing sound environments and the bias of the future projection
-an emblematic image of the project (300 dpi)
-digital format of file 2.pdf-title of file 2 n° teamtitleofthevideo.pdf
(example: 23larepubliquesonnante.pdf)
-Choice and quality of the acoustic caracterisation of a terrace and its sound effects in the urban space chosen for the project.
-Quality of the video realization
-Acoustic and architectural quality of the terrace design and creativity in its sonic device
-Visibility of the transdisciplinary team
• mid june 2024 : launching the competition.
• November 30, 2024: limit date for team inscriptions
• December 10, 2024 midnight (Paris) : limit date for films delivery
• end December 2024 : jury and decision of winners
• January 2025 : price ceremony during the Week of Sound with the laureates and participants
• Year 2025 exhibition of winners projects and preparation of prototypes
1st prize :help to realize scale 1 prototype of the designed object
2nd prize : help to realize scale 1 prototype of the designed object
3rd prize : audio equipment
4th prize : audio equipment
2nd prize : help to realize scale 1 prototype of the designed object
3rd prize : audio equipment
4th prize : audio equipment
Michel Risse, composer, Paris
Nicolas Misdariis researcher sound designer (Ircam, FR)
Nadine Schütz architect, sound artist (CH)
Stéphane Mercier acoustician, Paris
Fred Fradet acoustician, Structures Baschet association
Scientific Committee : Cécile Regnault (sound designer, Professor at ENSA Lyon), Frédéric Fradet (acoustician, Director of Structures sonores Baschet), Gilles Paté (videographer, lecturer at ENSA Versailles), Christian Hugonnet (acoustics engineer, President of La semaine du Son), Laurence Bouckaert, composer, Professor of electroacoustics at the Villeurbanne School of Music,Catherine Guastavino (psychoacoustician, Professor at Mc Gill University, ca), Pascal Amphoux, architect, Franck Faucheux (engineer-architect, Eiffage immobilier),
Nicolas Misdariis researcher sound designer (Ircam, FR)
Nadine Schütz architect, sound artist (CH)
Stéphane Mercier acoustician, Paris
Fred Fradet acoustician, Structures Baschet association
Scientific Committee : Cécile Regnault (sound designer, Professor at ENSA Lyon), Frédéric Fradet (acoustician, Director of Structures sonores Baschet), Gilles Paté (videographer, lecturer at ENSA Versailles), Christian Hugonnet (acoustics engineer, President of La semaine du Son), Laurence Bouckaert, composer, Professor of electroacoustics at the Villeurbanne School of Music,Catherine Guastavino (psychoacoustician, Professor at Mc Gill University, ca), Pascal Amphoux, architect, Franck Faucheux (engineer-architect, Eiffage immobilier),
Submissions that do not meet the terms will be disqualified. Although participants retain the copyrights to their projects, submitting projects in the competition allows La Semaine du Son to use the submitted videos at any public presentations (evening, exhibition, publication). The names of the participants will be mentioned for any use of the videos, images and texts, the authors remaining the owners of the intellectual value of their projects.
For practical information contact :
"La Semaine du Son" :
52, rue René Boulanger, 75010 Paris
Tél.01.42.78.10.15
concoursplaceauson@lasemaineduson.org
www.lasemaineduson.org
Other correspondents :
Cécile Regnault, professor (National school of architecture of Lyon); Gilles Paté, associate professor, (National school of architecture of Versailles)
Access to the competition rules :
here
"La Semaine du Son" :
52, rue René Boulanger, 75010 Paris
Tél.01.42.78.10.15
concoursplaceauson@lasemaineduson.org
www.lasemaineduson.org
Other correspondents :
Cécile Regnault, professor (National school of architecture of Lyon); Gilles Paté, associate professor, (National school of architecture of Versailles)
Access to the competition rules :
here
Initiator : UNESCO’s Week of Sound
Institutional Partners
National school of architecture of Lyon + UMR CNRS 5600 EVS University of Lyon, National school of architecture of Versailles, Music School of Villeurbanne, IRCAM
Companies
Real estate Eiffage
Cities-communities
BruitParif Acoucité
Institutional Partners
National school of architecture of Lyon + UMR CNRS 5600 EVS University of Lyon, National school of architecture of Versailles, Music School of Villeurbanne, IRCAM
Companies
Real estate Eiffage
Cities-communities
BruitParif Acoucité
Contact
Cécile Regnault : cecile.regnault@lyon.archi.fr
Gilles Paté : gillespate@gmail.com
concoursplaceauson@lasemaineduson.org
+33 (0)1 42 78 10 15
Cécile Regnault : cecile.regnault@lyon.archi.fr
Gilles Paté : gillespate@gmail.com
concoursplaceauson@lasemaineduson.org
+33 (0)1 42 78 10 15
