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Arcbazar Support Service The ultimate solution to assist in design competition website and self-assessment.  Price Quotation needed. Release not decided Support/Service

FORUM8 has entered into a business alliance agreement with the world-acclaimed crowdsourcing architecture website, Arcbazar and has expanded Arcbazar-ProjectVR. FORUM8 starts "Arcbazar Support Service" to support holding competitions.

Arcbazar Support Service : Arcbazar-ProjectVR to support holding competitions

FORUM 8 will act as a sponsor to assist Arcbazar's hosting of competitions through the newly established Arcbazar Support Service. Prize Setting Through Arcbazar competitions, total prize is decided first and then proposals are evaluated and ranked by points. 60% of reward will be paid for the 1st place, 30% for 2nd and 10% for 3rd place. Therefore considerations of scale, number of drawings and design period are necessary to decide prize. Arcbazar Support Service supports this prize settings. Creation of Application Guidelines Next, we organize the aim of this project, dimension or structure of each part, budget, legal restrictions, and other highly important matters. Then, we give advice to decide kinds of required views like plan view and elevation view, number of perspective view, or necessity of other material list. ProjectVR use and Evaluation By using Online Simple Self-Assessment Service you can get the information of required assessment depending on the conditions and scale of the land in advance, and you can add them to the requirements of your competition or use them as the criteria to evaluate proposals. Service Flow   3DVR simulation service makes it possible for distant applicants to experience VR data of the site via VR-Cloud®. Evaluation of the landscape with proposed models in VR and judgement from a distance are also possible by the use of 3DVR simulation. This will be sophisticated when combined with traffic analysis, wind analysis and noise analysis. These processes give high quality to works and projects.

Test Case - Future of Competition

3 Test Cases FORUM8 has held the 3 competitions as test case. We have got the evaluation from external advisors by use of the function of demanding it to family and friends, and the final proposals which are described in the next section has been decided by combining their evaluation with the results of popular vote. Review Process We could get high-quality ideas in a short time, especially 29 proposals came to Facade Design competition in spite of the short application period less than 10 days. Each work's points can be calculated by entering points of "AESTHETICS", "FUNCTION", "BUILDABILITY", and "GRAPHICS", and the host can decide the ranking by reference to these scores and the result of voting of family / friends and popular vote. Screen of Evaluation(left) and Ranking(right) Future of Competition In the past, it cost more than $10,000 as prize, reward for juries, venue fee and advertising costs to host an idea competition. In this test case, we could get many applications as stated above at a cost of about $1,000. In this way, Arcbazar-ProjectVR is the new type of competition which can make projects high-quality. You can drive down the cost and collect many proposals quickly with the open world democratic evaluation method. Please review Arcbazar Support Service for the planning project or town development in the future. Advanced applications for the difficult task of exhibition space Applications : 8 Plan of flow line through the exhibition space is well thought out. Unity of curve shaped exhibitions and the reception is eye-catching. 2nd: High quality-design by the concept of Origami. Flow line plan and zoning are also elaborate. 3rd: Simple and beautiful coloring of floor. The idea of making steps and setting indirect lighting under foot is good. Top designer on Arcbazar has participated in (3rd place) Applications : 13 The path expresses the piano in this joyful design. Gardening plan and detail view give this plan high feasibility. 2nd: Design with relaxing atmosphere with piled straight woods including benches. 3rd: Amusing design filled with a lot of ideas. Dry garden style is drawn in the part of the design. Top designer on Arcbazar has participated in (3rd place) Applications : 13 Part of the logo of FORUM8 and images of bamboo and a book shelf has summarized vertical slit-shaped design beautifully. 2nd: Layer-cut exterior plan is expressed in this drawings. (illustration and drawings of the concept can be submitted) 3rd: Innovative idea of edible green wall. (material idea can be expressed too)

Price - 50% off as a promotion price!

Total amount of cost is total prize money plus 40% of prize as Arcbazar fee and 30% of prize as Arcbazar Support Service fee. We provide the service deducting 50% from the total price as a promotional price now. (Ending time period of this promotional price is undecided.)

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