Romanian architecture students can register for the International VELUX Award 2024 competition

The VELUX Group invites students from Romanian architecture faculties to enter the International VELUX Award 2024 competition, organised on the theme “Light of Tomorrow”. The competition registration period is open until 1 April 2024. The 2024 competition will be in its 11th edition, and previous editions have received entries from more than 6,000 architecture students worldwide.

Since its first edition in 2004, the International VELUX Award has become a benchmark competition for students, future architects who will shape the buildings of the future. The competition invites students to explore the role of natural light in architecture and aims to stimulate innovation in this field. At the same time, the aim of the competition is to encourage and challenge them to develop interesting projects that contribute to a deeper understanding of the essential role that natural light plays in our lives.

In this competition, students will organise themselves in several teams and work on their projects in one of the two available categories: ‘Daylight in buildings’ or ‘Daylight investigations’.

To participate in the competition, the first step for students is to register with an email address and phone number. After completing the registration process, they are encouraged by the organisers to form teams, connect with their guiding professors, and start working on the project. This gives students a few months to develop their ideas into innovative and creative projects. Register for the competition via the following link.

Key dates for the competition

As of 1 September 2023, registration has opened for the competition scheduled to take place in 2024. The deadline for registrations is 1 April 2024 at 23:59. Subsequently, on 15 April 2024, the submission platform will open, giving participants the opportunity to submit their creations. The deadline for uploading projects is 30 May 2024, 23:59. In the summer of 2024, the jury will meet to evaluate the projects and announce the regional winners. Then, in the autumn or winter of the following year, the regional finalists will attend a dedicated workshop where they will present their entries to the jury. At the end of the workshop, the global winners will be announced.

Detailed information about the award and participation in the International VELUX Award 2024 can be found here. Also, for all news and updates related to the competition, you can follow the International VELUX Award Instagram and Facebook pages.

The International VELUX Award is part of the Daylight and Architecture community initiated by VELUX. Complementing a wide range of unique content created by architects, journalists and researchers, daylightandarchitecture.com website offers a rich library of recorded conferences, discussions on natural light, and relevant articles. These materials are particularly valuable for students participating in the competition, both to find inspiration and to expand their knowledge of the importance of natural light to life on Earth.

About the International VELUX Award

The overall theme of the International VELUX Award 2024 for Students of Architecture is “Light of Tomorrow.” Launched in 2004, and held biennially, the award seeks to challenge the future of daylight in the built environment by inspiring creative explorations on the themes of daylight in buildings and daylight investigations from the world’s leading future architects.

The Award is organised in close collaboration with the International Union of Architects (UIA) and is acknowledged by the following educational organisations; The European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE), The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). For more information about the International VELUX Award, visit daylightandarchitecture.com/iva/.

About the VELUX Group

For the past 80 years, the VELUX Group has created better living environments for people around the world; making the most of daylight and fresh air through the roof. Our product programme includes roof windows and modular skylights, decorative blinds, sunscreening products and roller shutters, as well as installation and smart home solutions. These products help to ensure a healthy indoor climate, for work and learning, for play and pleasure. We work globally – with sales and manufacturing operations in more than 40 countries and around 11,500 employees worldwide. The VELUX Group is owned by VKR Holding A/S, a limited company wholly owned by non-profit, charitable foundations (THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS) and family. In 2020, VKR Holding had total revenue of DKK 22.6 billion and THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS donated EUR 142 million in charitable grants.