NEW COMPETITION ANNOUNCED!
Our open design competition seeks to find well designed homes for the elderly or homeless within some of the World’s richest countries. The growing rate in single occupancy households has led to increased numbers of young and elderly people affected by poverty being forced to live in substandard living conditions and in the worst cases sleeping rough. We are asking designers, engineers, architects and house builders to provide a solution to the housing crisis by offering sustainable, affordable small homes that give those that are alienated or marginalised within society a safe place to live. We ask contestants to site their proposals in an urban area of a developed country, develop single occupant designs that are sensitive to the local context and keep to a budget of £20,000 ($30,000). Building Trust international will work with local government and community groups to seek funding and planning for the winning design. The design competition has the support of Habitat for Humanity and the YMCA.
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coming soon:
July 2012: CAMBODIAN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING
In partnership with Karuna Cambodia, Habitat for Humanity & the Cambodian Society of Architects (CSA) we are looking for designs that can provide a sustainable future for housing in the South-east Asian country. Any proposal will have to stick to a very low budget and deal with the yearly flooding of Tonle Sap, which the majority of Cambodia's 16 million inhabitants live in close proximity to. We will post more information closer to the launch date...
Past competitions
School 4 Burma: Competition to design a modular school for refugee and migrant communities on the border of Burma and Thailand. The main design challenge was to enable for deconstruction and reassembly due to restrictions on land ownership and the opportunity to one day move the school back over the border into Burma. The competition was a huge success with entries from over 30 countries, attracting widespread media coverage. The result culminating in;
- the construction of the winning design in Mae Sot, this summer 2012,
-the publication of a book entitled 'Moving Schools' available from the London Architectural Association bookshop, RIBA outlets and online,
-further interest in some of the running up designs from other schools and NGO's to be taken forward with additionally secured funding.
To see the winning designs and all the honourable mentions please click 'here'
Taking part
We would like to take the opportunity to thank all those that take part in our competitions. You provide a wealth of ideas that promote humanitarian design and support the idea that designers can influence positive social change and have a role in shaping our World. By taking part you also help to build the projects through donating. The construction of the 'School 4 Burma' project would never have been possible without the funding collected from the competition which goes towards buying materials and employing local labour.
THANK YOU
Winning professional design: [FLAT]HILLS, USA. BURMA [RE]FRAMED.
Winning Student proposal: Ms.Gauri Satam, Mr.Tejesh Patil. Sir J.J. College of Architecture, Mumbai, India
HOME Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):
My country is not on the list but I would still like to enter. Can I do this?
We welcome submissions from everyone, all over the world but only for the countries on the list. One of the main objectives of the competition is to shine a light on the fact that those countries that are supposed to be the worlds most developed and the richest often do not provide adequate housing for those that need it most. We had to think long and hard about which countries and cities to include and in the end used the UN's Human development Index. While we appreciate that this may be frustrating for you we do welcome submissions that cover the objective of the brief in a more generic capacity and that can be located in some of the countries that are on the list.
I am not a qualified architect but I am recently graduated, can I enter the student category?
The competition is open to designers, engineers and house builders as well as architects therefore professional status (registration as an architect) is not a necessity. It is however a necessity to be a student to enter the student competition. I hope you understand we have a commitment to work with academic institutions and promote social and humanitarian design agendas, it would not be fair on the students if we accepted graduates into the category. We would welcome your submission to the professional category.
