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Every Swiss architectural competition brings a familiar tension: tight deadlines, elevated expectations, and the reality that your existing team is already at full capacity. The stakes are high — competitions are how reputations are built — but the bandwidth often isn't there.
Hiring is slow. Freelancers are unpredictable. And pulling your core team off live projects is a risk you can't afford.
XY integrates directly into your competition process — working inside your systems, under your creative direction, as an invisible extension of your team.
Brief analysis and programme interpretation from day one Design development support across all key phases CAD, BIM, and visualisation production at competition standard
Our support spans the full competition arc. Each engagement is scoped to your precise needs — you decide where we plug in.
We dissect competition briefs with precision — extracting key constraints, identifying strategic opportunities, and preparing a structured programme summary that anchors your concept work.
Working directly under your creative lead, our architects develop plans, sections, elevations and 3D studies — advancing the design at the pace competitions demand, without diluting your vision.
Full technical production including CAD drawings, BIM models, spatial diagrams, and area calculations — prepared to the specification standard of any Swiss or European competition.
Compelling visualisations tailored to the panel — from atmospheric perspective renders to clean analytical diagrams. We design boards that communicate your proposal clearly and powerfully.
When the competition calls for a physical model or high-fidelity digital model, we coordinate production — whether fabricating in-house or managing specialist suppliers on your behalf.
We manage the final straight — compiling panels, writing competition texts, formatting documents to submission guidelines, and ensuring every file is delivered correctly and on time.
From first contact to final submission, our process is designed to minimise friction and maximise output. We mobilise fast and integrate cleanly.
You share the competition brief and your studio's initial thinking. We clarify scope, timeline, and the exact support required — typically within 24 hours of contact.
We prepare a clear project scope and fee proposal. Once confirmed, we sign a confidentiality agreement and you receive direct contact with your assigned XY team lead.
Our team joins your project environment — your file server, BIM model, communication channel. We work inside your workflow, not alongside it.
We deliver iteratively across the competition timeline, with structured review milestones and flexible capacity scaling as the deadline approaches.
Final documents are reviewed, formatted, and submitted. A full archive is handed back to your studio. Engagement closes cleanly with no ongoing obligations.
Competition timelines are compressed and unforgiving. Our service is specifically designed around those constraints — not adapted from a general consultancy model.
We work across Revit, ArchiCAD, Rhino, AutoCAD, and Vectorworks. Our team adapts to your tools — you never adapt to ours.
Your core team stays focused on live commissions. XY carries the competition load in parallel, protecting your project delivery pipeline.
Every engagement begins with a signed NDA. Your concepts, strategies, and project details never leave our secure working environment.
Need two people for a tight deadline or six for a major open competition? Our capacity scales to meet the moment — you pay only for what you use.
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Every competition support engagement produces a concrete, transferable set of assets — all of which remain wholly owned by your studio.
Plans, sections, elevations, and details at submission scale — formatted to competition specification and exported in required file formats.
Complete working model files handed back in your preferred format, fully editable and documented for ongoing development post-competition.
High-resolution competition panels and visualisations, sized and formatted to submission requirements, in print-ready PDF and layered source files.
Architectural descriptions, design rationale, and programme responses — drafted to competition word limits and edited to your studio's voice.
A complete record of production milestones, feedback cycles, and version history — useful for post-competition review and future engagement planning.
A signed NDA covering all concepts, drawings, correspondence, and deliverables — protecting your intellectual property throughout and after the engagement.
Tell us about your project. We'll assess your needs and respond with a clear proposal within 24 hours — no obligation, no generic pitch decks.
