Heal+ Regenerative Housing for Kerala , Kochi / Indien

Heal - Regenerative Housing for Kerala

Organizer
COMMUN
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E-mail: commun@uni.xyz

Premise
Urbanization, the key to the future – a good or a bad one at that? On August 2018, Kerala & some parts of Kodagu, India faced one of the worst Floods of the century, with 300+ deaths and infrastructure damages over Rs. 8,000 crores (1.1 Billion USD). Every time disaster hits, we as humans do everything in our power to suppress it, provide aid and rehabilitate. But even the most advanced prevention systems and methods fail. The only way out is to fold how humans grow and work together + towards living with the forces of nature collectively.

There are different levels of damages in a flood situation - ranging from a limited water logging to total wipe-out. This leads to transportation hamper, slow degradations of infrastructure and a lot more. Many people have to build their lives over again, with all their belongings lost. The damage can be of physical assets at the same time irreparable life losses which make things even tougher.

The Design Challenge
A ‘community housing’ proposition that is scalable, heals when damaged and regenerates faster than before when broken down.

The design problem is to build unit micro-neighborhood for 100 families, with a case of use established in Aluva.

Housing development in most of the peri-urban and rural Kerala is organic and spread out which cannot change. State government cannot bring forces to secure each of these households, with its limited funds/strength. The challenge is to gather 100 households that work together to make a habitat which stands/works together in a situation of a flood.

The problem is expected to be answered at a point of time in a post flood scenario, where people are rebuilding their partially damanged/wiped-out /degraded homes. The idea is not to spend all the private resources of a person on a planned cooperative housing redesigned from scratch, but on pre-conceived shared systems that help to sustain the direct (residents) and indirect population (marginalized communities, livestock, etc.) of this unit neighborhood which contains households/owned plots already.

The shared systems can help battle floods, or store essential items, or build places of refuge, or have a function designated to these colonies, etc. for 100 households at a time by the people. The next step would be how a top-down entity (government) help these unit neighborhoods and make them thrive at a large level integrating them into an action plan in the next hazard scenario.

Competition Type
Open ideas competition

Admission Area
International

Eligibility
The awards are open to students and professionals of all disciplines.
Team/Individual participation is permitted.

Termine
Early bird Registration Ends: 7th November 2018
Students 15$ | Professional 25$

Standard Registration Ends: 22nd December 2018
Students 25$ | Professional 35$

Late Registration Ends: 05th February 2019
Students 40$ | Professional 60$

Last Date of Submission: 10th February 2019
Public Voting begins: 11th February 2019
Display of shortlisted entries: 15th March 2019
Public Voting ends: 20th March 2019
Result Declaration: 30th March 2019

Awards
1st Prize:
80,000 INR
Trophy + Certificate + Publications
Open for both categories (Student and Professional)

Runner up:
50,000 INR
Trophy + Certificate + Publications
Open for both categories (Student and Professional)

2 x People‘s choice award:
25,000 INR
Trophy + Certificate + Publications
1 Student and 1 Professional

5 Honorable mentions:
12,000 INR
Certificate + Bi-Annual Digest of UNI
Open for both categories (2 Student & 3 Professional)

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