The project site locates at the Meilin street, Futian district, Shenzhen, Guangdong province. Around the site, adjacent to Kaifeng Road on the east, Meiling Road on the south, Meifeng Road on the west and Linfeng Road on the north, it is only 150 meters away from Shangmeilin metro station and 350 meters from Maling metro station. In a regional view, it is about 600 meters away from Beihuan Avenue in the south, about 400 meters away from Caitian road in the east. Hence, its transportation is convenient.

The land has two plots, with an coverage of 8,773 square meters (4,456 square meters for 26-10 and 4,317 square meters for 26-12). It is pretty rare construction land to be developed in Futian District.

The project site of Futian International Sports and Culture Exchange Center has two plots, both adopted as cultural facility lands. The plot contains a high-standard Main Hall "IN Space" and related supporting facilities of the Main Hall (such as Exhibition Hall, Hall of the Fame, Press Conference Hall, Multi-Function Hall, indoor Sports Science and Technology Theme Park, Music Interactive Space, etc.), as well as service and supporting office areas (such as industrial incubation, office area, multi-function hall, restaurants, etc.). In addition, it is required to build Social Service Housings, together with public parking lot (garage) at the south plot (plot 26-10), Community Neighborhood Committee and Community Health Service Center at the north plot (plot 26-12), Community management house of 300 square meters and Community Health Service Centerof 1,000 square meters.

Fig.1 Site Location

Fig2. Buildings surrounding the site

1）The registration will be opened to design firms and design consortiums home and abroad, while personal registration is not accepted. Once registered as a design consortium, members of the consortium are not allowed to register the competition on its own name or with other design firms.

2）Contestants with relevant design experience will be prioritized.

3）Designers involved in the competition should be current personnel of the registered design firm. The chief architect shall have profound experiences in leading similar design projects and personally participate in the whole process of the competition. In order to ensure the accurate understanding of the project background and relevant requirements of the competition, each contestant shall include at least one personnel who is proficient in Chinese language.

4）Upon successful registration, contestants should submit pre-qualification documents according to the Competition Conditions.

Pre-qualification

Under the supervision, the host organizes a pre-qualification jury panel in accordance with the law. The jury panel is responsible to carry out assessment of the pre-qualification documents (details about pre-qualification documents can be found in term 5) submitted by contestants. Five (5) contestants will be shortlisted to move forward to Stage two of the competition. Two (2) alternatives will be selected and ranked by order, in case that any of the 6 shortlisted firms quits the competition.

The five(5) shortlisted contestants shall submit the Participation Confirmation Letter on time.

Once submitting the Participation Confirmation Letter, if any contestant withdrew due to non-force majeure, the host reserves the right to refuse the contestant’s participation in any other future competition held by the host.

Conceptual Design Scheme

The five(5) shortlisted contestants shall submit all the deliverables according to the Design Brief. The jury panel would review all the deliverables.

Each contestant shall only submit one design scheme.

The jury panel evaluates all the deliverables, sorts the five (5) shortlisted contestants through open ballot, and proposes optimization suggestions for the winning scheme.

If the winner quits, the remaining four shortlisted contestants will be substituted in turn.

The total bonus fee for the last four(4) shortslisted contestants is RMB 2 million yuan(￥200 0000). The specific distribution is as follows: the second prize is RMB 800,000 yuan (￥80 0000), the third prize is RMB 500,000 yuan(￥50 0000), and the fourth and fifth prizes are RMB 350,000 yuan(￥35 0000) each.

Conceptual design fee: Conceptual design fee is tentatively charged equal to 30% of the construction design fee.

The competition winner is the bidding winner and will be awarded the scheme design contract of the project. The winner will be fully responsible to the architectural design （the design scheme shall achieve construction depth; architects complete preliminary design, exterior and interior public space design and landscape architecture) and other cooperation work. The chief architect shall be responsible for the completed building’s effect and participate in coordination and control work throughout the entire process.