STEEL ARCHITECTURE DESIGN COMPETITION

PAM NORTHERN CHAPTER (PAMNC) in collaboration with NS BlueScope Malaysia Sdn. Bhd and Le Nam Megasheet is pleased to announce its inaugural “Steel Architecture Design Competition”. The brief is planned around the Annual World Architecture Day (WAD) theme “Design for Health” and Penang Green Connectors Project under Penang 2030 to promote good design and long-term wellbeing.

Steel offers a number of benefits in building design include the capacity to bear great loads in tension and compression, high resiliency and performance under harsh and difficult condition. Designing with steel requires an understanding of properties, details and data tables. The program is established around an idea of An Urban Bicycle Pavilion that act as a prototype, rest-stop for cycling enthusiast, and attention-grabbing urban element. Steel must be used as the primary material with emphasis placed on innovative use of lightweight steel with attention aesthetics.