The specific brief for the object to be designed will be announced on Saturday 24^th November 2018.

Roca’s aim is to engage with young designers to discover  original  and  innovative solutions for the bathroom. In supporting future design talent, Roca is offering a platform that provides designers with an opportunity to promote their creativity, through an intensive but exciting design challenge that focuses specifically on the bathroom space. Improving user interaction with bathroom products is paramount to Roca, as are the key areas including sustainability, personal wellbeing and accessibility.

Participants to register at www.onedaydesignchallenge.net until 24:00 on 26^th October 2018.

Roca reserves the right to close the registration once the designated capacity is full. They can also register in person at the contest reception that will be located at the entrance of at Scape Treetop, 2 Orchard Link, 237978, Singapore, on the day of the event itself, 24th November 2018 from 9:00 am and until 9.45 am. However, the event organizers retain the right to close the registration, once the number of participants reaches the venue capacity. 

When registering, participants should include the following information and documentation:

• Name and surname/s.
• School or company.
• Address (street number, town/city and postal code).
• Contact telephone number and e-mail.
• Copy of valid driving license, NRIC or passport, as an image file attached. The file name should use the format: SURNAME_NAME.

Participants registering in person need to bring along their valid driving license, NRIC or passport on 24^th November 2018 for registration.

Any registration without the above-mentioned shall be null and void.

Only one registration per person can be accepted and, once the registration number has been confirmed, it can no longer be changed. Duplicated registrations by the same person will also be considered null and void.

This competition is aimed at design students and young professionals living within Singapore and who are born on or after 25^th November 1988 until 24^th November 2000.

Participants can take part individually or in groups of 2 or 3 members. All members will still need to meet the aforementioned requirements.

Each participant will be provided a registration number. For groups of 2 or 3, participants will still need to sign up individually and received a registration number.

The following persons are excluded from participating:

• The winners of 1st, 2nd or 3rd prize of the previous editions of the competition.
• Employees of companies that form part of the Roca Group and their relatives up to 4th degree of consanguinity.

At 9.30 am on 24^th November 2018, the design topic will be announced live at the venue of the event and a written copy will be given to all of the attendees.

The design period for the competition will run from 9.30am to 4.00pm and participants can work on site or wherever they wish.

At 4.00pm, the jury will deliberate in order to choose the winning projects of the 1^st Roca One Day Design challenge Singapore edition.

The jury will also elect a first, second and third substitute winners just in case any of the awarded projects do not meet the conditions set out in these rules.

At 6.00pm, the award ceremony will take place and the jury will announce the winners of the first, second, third and the We Are Water Foundation (WAW) prize.

The members of the jury will evaluate based on the creativity and originality of the designs, as well as their viability, while also giving credit for the clarity, legibility and graphic design of the presentations.

The first prize-winner will receive a prize of SGD3,000 The second prize-winner will receive a prize of SGD2,000 The third prize-winner will receive a prize of SGD1,000 The WAW prize-winner will receive a prize of SGD500

After the award ceremony, participants are invited to stay for photography. The event ends at 7.30pm

Light food and drinks will be provided from 6.00pm to 7.30pm.

In addition, the jury may discretionally award a special prize of SGD500 provided by the We Are Water Foundation, to the project which significantly adheres to the value of sustainability.

The jury may leave the said prize unawarded if in their opinion none of the projects significantly adheres to the value of sustainability and / or has not enough quality.

Awards specified above shall be paid by bank check to the award winners.

In order to be eligible to receive the economic award corresponding to each position (first, second, third and WAWF prizes), the awarded person (and in case of groups, at least one of the members of the awarded group) shall be present in the Award Ceremony at 18:00 at Scape Treetop, 2 Orchard Link, 237978, Singapore, to collect the award. 

If the awarded person (or at least one member of the awarded group) is not present during the Award Ceremony he/she (the group) will lose its right to the economic award but will maintain its condition of awarded person/group on the Roca One Day Design Challenge Singapore 2018. 

If in any moment before the payment of the prizes the Organization detects that any of the awarded projects do not meet the conditions set out in these rules because it is not an original project or for any other reasons, the project affected by such circumstance will be disqualified and the following winners and substitute winners will upgrade one place in the winners classification. If any prize could not be awarded because there are no enough substitute winners, such prize will be declared as unawarded.

The projects can be submitted only in a digital form:

At the desk indicated for the purpose, presented o are excluded from an USB with the participant’s registration number written in marker on the outside. There should be no other files on the pen drive except the final competition files.

To design the projects, participants can use any manual or digital 2D, 3D tool, scale model, photograph, collage, etc. However, the concepts must be described and illustrated on two A3 sheets or less. 

The scape, Treetop will have limited charging points during the day. Participants are advised to bring a fully charged laptop with them.

The submission will be open from 2.00pm and close at 4.00pm.

Each participant or group is to submit only one (1) project.

Each participant or group should submit 2 digital files which must comply with the following specifications without exception:

• A single PDF file which may include up to two A3 sheets and must contain: the number assigned at registration, title and description of the project in 150 words or less (minimum font size 24 pt), image/s of the design.
• A JPEG file of 1280 x 720 pixels containing the most representative image of the project, as well as the title, without any type of additional information.
• The PDF and JPEG files should not take up more than 1,500 Kb each.
• The name of the files should be the registration number only without any additional characters.
  
  
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  To guarantee the confidentiality of the participants, the real name of the individual or group should not appear on any of the submission.

  Any entry that does not meet the abovementioned requirements will not be evaluated by the jury.

  The submission period for projects is from 14:00 pm to 15:59 pm on 24th November. This deadline applies both in the case of participants working on site and those who have worked elsewhere.

  In order to submit a project, it is essential that participants have enrolled previously within the established period. Only one project may be submitted by each participant or group registered.

  To guarantee the confidentiality of the participants, the real name of the individual or group participating should not appear on the A3 sheets submitted. The projects will be identified by the title and registration number.

The Scape and Roca are not responsible for damage to or loss of the participant’s belongings during the event.