Theme2023
Two Major Reversals Brought to Japan's Original Landscape -The Future of Mobility and Lifestyle in Ena City

Frankly speaking, Ena City in Gifu Prefecture is not a very famous place even within Japan. It may have some historical and natural features, but they are not as vivid as those found elsewhere in Japan. However, it may truly be the original landscape of the Japanese people because it is a common, rural landscape that can be found anywhere rather than a special tourist attraction. In Ena City, the song "Furusato (which means ‘Hometown’ in Japanese)" plays over the street speakers every evening at 5:00 pm. Almost all Japanese people know this children's song that makes them nostalgic for the rural landscape they ran around in back in their childhood days. Just like the lyrics of the song, the mountains and rivers of Ena, surrounded by mountain ranges and gently undulating terrain, are one of the places that makes every Japanese person feel nostalgic and a sense of familiarity.

2 great opportunities for reversal are about to be brought to such an ordinary Japanese mountain village. This year's VDWC will once again return its focus to Japan, the host country, and invite young people from around the world to consider the future brought about by the cooperation between Japan's original landscape and social development, and to address the global issue that focus on the relationship between technological innovation and the happiness of the human spirit.

The first major reversal is the Gifu Prefecture Station (tentative name) along the Maglev Chuo Shinkansen route currently under construction.
The second major reversal is the birth of new mobility through automated driving.

[Overview of town development plans in the area around Gifu Station and in Ena City, Gifu Prefecture]
To the north of JR Mino Sakamoto Station in Nakatsugawa City, next to Ena City, a large station plaza will be built, behind which the Gifu Station (provisional name) of the Maglev Chuo Shinkansen Line will open. According to the construction plan, the station square will include a building and car park between the two stations, facilities to bring the city to life, and a water park where visitors can experience Gifu, the land of clear streams.
As part of its urban development infrastructure arrangement plan, Ena City is promoting strategic road development that will lead to the attraction of businesses and the development of residential areas thanks to the Maglev Shinkansen, as well as infrastructure improvement to mitigate the impact on areas divided by the Maglev, maintain a good living environment and solve urban and regional issues.
On the other hand, Ena City has a rural landscape surrounded by gently undulating mountains, which can be described as the original landscape of Japan, and the beautiful terraced rice fields in the Tomida area have been hailed as the best rural landscape in Japan. In Iwamura Castle Town, the old townscape has been preserved as it was in the past.

The copyrights to all data, works, and products created through this competition shall remain the property of the authors.

FORUM8 shall have the right to edit and process the data, works, and deliverables created by the author, and shall have the right to use them for secondary purposes, such as publishing and distributing them on its website, e-mail news, PR magazines, books, magazines, newspapers, etc., as part of external announcements, research presentations, sales activities, and public relations activities.

The use of UC-win/Road is required for the production of the work. In addition, contestants must use at least one more FORUM8 software/solution to create their project. BIM/CIM data and posters explaining the results of these linkages and design/analysis will be submitted. Data and posters explaining these linkages and the results of design and analysis will be evaluated in terms of the degree of use of BIM/CIM and VR, creation period and quality, logic and technical skills, aesthetics and originality, and presentation techniques, and how the software was used to create a new design.

Date of event： Thu. November 9th, 2023
Venue: Shinagawa Intercity Hall (MAP)

Nominated teams will be asked to participate in the open judging and give a one-minute presentation. If you do not participate, you will not be eligible for an award.
The winning award works will be selected through the final judging committee and judge on cloud via VR-Cloud® and the Award Ceremony will be held.
The competition result will be also announced on the FORUM8 website.

Please register and submit your work plan in English during the registration period (Sat. April 1st – Fri. June 30th, 2023).
Judging will be conducted blindly. The name of the team or work should not identify the individual or group, such as the name of the country or school.
To register, please complete the page accessible from the button below with your team name, team members, etc.

Please download and fill out the form using the following link to present your work with an overview explanation (in 100 words in English) and any images and upload it using the Registration form below.

Entry form

The following information will be sent to you by e-mail after the entry has been accepted.

- Entry ID
- URL to download the data and materials provided for the production of the work
- Information on how to apply for seminars you wish to attend

Free rental of product licenses

The preliminary screening will be held on Tue. July 11th, and the selection results will be announced in the middle of July.

Only teams that enter before the deadline and pass the qualifying round will be allowed to submit their works. Please submit your work by the submission deadline on Fri. September 22nd, 2023 at the dedicated URL that will be separately announced at a later date.

[Documents to be submitted]

- Data created by the software solution used
UC-win/Road VR data (data that violates copyrights is prohibited.)
* Scripting (automatic presentation) settings are required for UC-win/Road VR data. Please observe the following points.
- Create a 30-second main script to convey the main idea of the work, like a commercial.
- In addition, you may optionally create multiple scripts of about 15 seconds each, but please make sure that your work can be recognized by looking at the main script alone.
- Give your script a unique name.
- Cloud screening will be conducted at a resolution of 768x432. Please note the font size.

How to make your script (PDF, 523KB)

- "Data" created with FORUM8 software (2 or more data files)

- PDF file of A1 sized poster (oriented horizontally)
* In English
Please create your poster with margin of 10mm on the left, right, top and bottom.

FORUM8 Co. Ltd. Tokyo Head office Virtual Design World Cup Section
Shinagawa Intercity A-21F, 2-15-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan 108-6021
TEL：03-6894-1888　FAX：03-6894-3888
E-mail：bim@forum8.co.jp
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Sat. April 1st to Fri. November 17th, 2023

* The rental duration, license restrictions and format provided will depend on the individual product.
* Rental licenses allow the use of all the functions that each applicable software offers, but they cannot be used for purposes other than the competition.

(Planned rental products) **Required software *At least 2 products shall be used.

**UC-win/Road
(including Aimsun Linkage, VISSIM Linkage, Micro Simulation Player, Parking Lot, Assessment, Tsunami, Debris-Avalanche, Point Cloud / As-built drawing management plugins)

Allplan
Integrated Civil Construction BIM Solution

* Engineer's Studio®
3D Plate Dynamic Non-linear Analysis

3DCAD Studio®

Shade3D

* UC-1 Series
Civil engineering design CAD
（Vehicle Trajectory Mapping System, Parking Drawing System, Pier 3D bar arrangement, Abutment design 3D bar arrangement, BOX Culvert, 3D bar arrangement CAD, UC-1 BIM/CIM Tool, etc.

* UC-1 Cloud Auto Design Series
BOX Culvert, Retaining wall, Temporary sheathing work design, Temporary piled jetty design, RC section, FRAME Manager, etc.) (Japanese only)

* DesignBuilder
Building Energy Consumption Calculation

EXODUS / SMARTFIRE Analysis Support Service, Evacuation Analysis Support Service 　*1

* Wind and Heat Movement Analysis Support Service 　*1

* Municipality solution　*2

* Parking solution　*2

* VR city planning system　*2

* Super computing cloud　*2

*1 Simplified analysis service with BIM data is provided.
*2 Various solution/service (analysis/rendering, etc) are available for a limited time for application in BIM. Advance counseling about the purpose of use is required.