Theme2024
A City Living with Non-Human Agent

An era is approaching in which a variety of small robots, called N H A s, will live and work alongside humans. Some of them have already come to fruition, delivering meals or acting as remote attendants at meetings. They will also be able to carry shopping packages, help care for the sick, and offer rides to destinations in a variety of ways. Automated driving is not just for cars and roads so far; if we can move quietly and cleanly in buildings with stairs and obstacles, our lifestyles will change, and architecture and cities will change as well. But what we must not forget at that time is coexistence with human beings. Unfortunately, this is something that has not been fully achieved with conventional automobiles, but the new mobility provided by the NHA should also improve the safety and comfort of pedestrians. This assignment asks you to envision a future city that will coexist with the NHA.

The site envisioned is the South Boston Harbor District in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston is the oldest city in the U.S. and a popular place to live, as well as a city of innovation with a high concentration of world-class research and educational institutions. The South Boston Harbor District is undergoing redevelopment from an old port industrial area to a mixed-use neighborhood with improved access since the construction of an underground highway that once divided the area. The Boston Convention Center and the Preservation Canal, a waterfront area with older residential neighborhoods, are still dominated by large warehouses, parking garages, and distribution centers. In the future, it is anticipated that development will take advantage of access to the waterfront while also taking flood control measures in consideration of climate change. Please envision, not only through images, but also through simulations of the movement of people and NHA, the transformation of this area from a city of automobile freight transportation to a city where people and NHA live in abundance, as the means of transportation from the outside to this area are smoothly connected to a system that coexists with NHA.

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: Thu. November 14th, 2024
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 (Mon. April 1st – Fri. June 28th, 2024).
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.

Entry/Register
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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 Wed. July 10th, and the selection results will be announced on Fri. 12th 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 20th, 2024 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
URL：http://www.forum8.co.jp/english/

Sat. April 1st to Fri. November 15th, 2024

* 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
○：Please select at least two software products with a white circle in front.

◎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

Shade3D

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

○UC-1 Cloud Auto Design Series

○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.