Parck Design

Subject of request for proposals

The present bargain concerns a request for proposals for the design and prototyping of urban furniture to be installed in the location chosen by the candidate in one of 3 proposed sites (Parvis de Saint Michel et Gudulle cathedral square, Square de la Putterie, Jardin de l'Albertine garden – situated in the centre of Brussels) for a minimum period of 3 years.

1. Conditions of request for proposals

The request for proposals is open to any person with the qualities required to design and then follow through his proposal to prototyping and installation in the urban green space.

This request for proposals is notably open:

To professionals:

• Industrial designers, architects, landscape architects, town planners, interior designers...
• Multidisciplinary teams comprising, for example, industrial designers, architects, landscape architects, town planners, interior designers or plastic artists...

To non-professionals:

• Students in schools of art, design and architecture …

The following are excluded from this request for proposals:

• The winners of Parckdesign 2006 & 2007
• The members of the professional jury.

The languages used are French, Dutch and English.

2. Composition of proposals

The candidates shall send their dossier in a sealed envelope with the wording “PARCKDESIGN 2008” itself containing two envelopes:

1st envelope: “Administrative Documents”

The candidate must complete the attached information sheet (Appendix 1 for professionals, Appendix 2 for non professionals). They must sign it and so accept the rules of the Parckdesign 2008 competition and the execution agreement.

2nd envelope: “Anonymous Proposal”

The opening of the second envelope will only take place if the required documents, in the first envelope, are all present and compliant. The name of the candidate or the team shall be written in an envelope that is closed and stuck to the rear of the document so as to guarantee anonymity to the jury.

The documents to be submitted by the candidates shall be unidentifiable, under pain of exclusion, and must not exceed A3 format.

The document shall include:

• Personal reading of the chosen site(s) Note stating the personal reading of the chosen site(s) and the link with the proposed prototype(s) (max. 2 pages A4 format).
• Written statement of intention A note describing the furniture project design and its integration into the urban green space (max. 2 pages A4 format) A resume describing the essence of the project, a half page A4, in order to be inserted in the website for the public vote.
• Technical file
  • Short text (A4 format) that shows production competence in detail.
  • Graphic representations (A3 format) necessary for a good understanding of the project, including the details relating to the installation and anchoring of the furniture prototype(s) into the ground (plan, elevation, section, axonometric projection, proposal for the installation of the prototype(s) in the chosen site(s). The scale of the representation shall be 1/50th, 1/20th and/or 1/10th.
  • An image in .jpg format at 300 dpi, max. 1 MB representative of the project presented and able to be placed, free of all rights, on the www.parckdesign.be Internet site.
  • Precise budget for the production of the furniture (Ceiling of 10,000 € Excluding VAT) + estimated installation budget.
• Production and implementation file
  • Precise furniture production planning, taking into account the date of inauguration of the furniture in the park on 10 July 2008 (See timing in point 10).
  • Name and complete contact details for the selected producer(s) or prototyper(s), and a complete description of their tooling and technical capabilities.
  It is obligatory that the whole file shall be prepared in French, Dutch and English and bound so as to avoid loss of any part of the documents. It shall carry a title that could, for example, be the name of the proposed furniture.

It is imperative that the proposal must be supplied in two paper copies and a copy on CD in this second closed envelope. The complete file must be found on the CD as well as all the graphic documents in high resolution. These electronic documents, free of all authors rights, could be used on any media whatsoever for the promotion of the Parckdesign operation.

3. Admissibility – reasons for exclusion

Recyclart and Designed in Brussels will analyse all the files received to check their admissibility :

• Compliance of documents submitted and respect for these present rules.
• Technical feasibility within the stated schedule.
• Checking of budget supplied: Respect for the maximum budget and realism of the estimate.
• Compliance with standards.
• The proposed furniture must be specially designed for the present request for proposals and must not be subject, in any case, to a patent or any prior marketing. (See the request for proposals rules on intellectual property).
• Public conveniences and drinking fountains and all projects requiring planning permission are excluded from the competition.

Only proposals complying with all these criteria will be submitted to the jury and to the public vote.

4. Jury

The files will be evaluated by two juries:

1. The members of the professional jury will be :

• Moniek Bucquoye Advisor Vitra, Design Museum Ghent, e.o. – Belgium
• Luc Deleu – Urbaniste/Artiste - Belgium
• Richard Hutten Designer – Netherlands
• Jean-Pierre Charbonneau – Expert Urbaniste – Lyon/France
• Jozef Legrand – Landscape designer - Belgium
• Jakob & Mac Farlane – Architects/Designers – Paris/France

This list is indicative: If one of the members has to withdraw, Bruxelles Environnement reserves the right to replace them by someone with equivalent professional qualifications and public recognition.

Evaluation criteria of the jury :

The three main criteria are :

• Consistency between the reading of the site(s) and the proposed prototype(s)
• Choice of materials
• Innovation and creativity of the proposed uses and forms

In addition the following criteria will be taken into consideration :

• Originality
• Durability
• Ergonomics, comfort
• Interactivity, user friendliness
• Solidity, resistance to vandalism, safety

2. Public vote :

Open to all through an electronic vote on the www.parckdesign.be internet site.
On the advice of the professional jury, Bruxelles-Environnement reserves the right not to construct the prototype selected by the public or to disqualify it if it does not comply with the admissibility criteria.
The selected candidates will be invited to an obligatory preliminary interview. The others will be informed by letter of the result of the request for proposals.

5. Last date for reception of files

The files must arrive at Bruxelles-Environnement by any means convenient to the candidate, before 19 February 2008 at 5pm.

6. Address for reception of files

For the attention of M. Axel DEMONTY
Bruxelles-Environnement (IBGE)
« Division des Espaces Verts »
Gulledelle 100
1200 Brussels
Belgium

7. Intellectual property

All the documents supplied or generated by the initiative in the present request for proposals remain the property of Bruxelles-Environnement (IBGE). They can be used, free of author’s rights. Bruxelles-Environnement, Designed In Brussels and Recyclart agree to inform the candidate and mention their name clearly on all communication media related to the promotion and development of the Parckdesign initiative.

The prototypes constructed by the winners of the request for proposal, in the event that they are accepted and implemented, remain their intellectual property.

8. Winners price and prototyping budget

A price is set at a fixed sum of 2,000 € per selective creator or collective as a reward for their talent and creativity in addition to the cost of making the prototype(s) with a ceiling of 10,000 € Excluding VAT.

9. Additional information

- To obtain general information on the competition and the 3 sites, candidates can visit the following Internet site and download the Parckdesign 2008 request for proposals documents: www.parckdesign.be

Other useful links :

• www.ibgebim.be
• www.recyclart.be
• www.designedinbrussels.be
• www.parckdesign2007.be

Administrative, technical and artistic information can be obtained from the following e-mail address: parckdesign@ibgebim.be On the following telephone number: +32(0)2.775.77.99 of Mr Axel Demonty.

10. Timing

The request for proposals comprises two main phases from proposal deposition to the selection of the 5 winners, followed by the construction and development of the prototypes for the consumer.

December 2007 : Launch of the request for proposals via various media (Internet, press, design networks, architecture, schools…) and the “Moniteur Belge”.

Phase 1

19 February 2008 : Last date for reception of files at Bruxelles-Environnement before 5pm.

From 11 to 19 March 2008 : Public jury by electronic vote on www.parckdesign.be: Selection of a winner.

19 March 2008 : National and international professional jury: Selection of 4 winners.

Phase 2

24 March 2008 : Obligatory assistance meeting for the implementation of the five selected proposals. Individual interview with the five winners.

10 July 2008 : Furniture inauguration.