Architectural competitions offer opportunities to the participants which are both, individual and collective in nature. For the individual, it is an exercise in the ability to crystallize ideas and communicate them clearly - often exclusively through graphic means. Competitions are also a means of further developing one’s pre-existing ideas, as well as, investigating new ones. Collectively, they provide the opportunity of seeing the work and thoughts of others on a level which is, otherwise, rarely possible. It offers the combined aspects of: concentrated effort; demand of various architectural tools; diversity of thought and its equally diverse interpretation on a single theme.

The work herein represents submitted entries to competitions through which these general observations were made.