2024 Lyceum Competition | Re-forming The Anthropocene: A Center For Regenerative Building , Falmouth / Vereinigte Staaten

 

Lyceum Fellowship

 

The 2024 Lyceum Competition explores the potentially regenerative symbiosis between the inevitable growth of human settlement—our buildings and infrastructure, our towns and cities—and the essential health of our terrestrial ecosystem. The program calls for a new, hybrid building type, a „maker space“ that functions as an essential component of a regional economic and ecological metabolism. The building itself will serve as a model of regenerative design and construction.

 

As a local resource with a global outlook, the Center for Regenerative Building seeks to demonstrate our agency as architects and builders in reining in and regionalizing our current global exchange of material and energy associated with our activities as builders. This expanded set of design objectives serves to reinforce the more traditional concerns of building joyfully, beautifully, and meaningfully for a convivial built environment and equitable society.

 

Three primary programmatic elements comprise the Center for Regenerative Building:

 

- a community building material “bank” with exterior and interior spaces for bio-based and salvage material collection, preparation, storage, exhibition, exchange, and reuse.

 

- a facility for building experimentation, vocational training, and demonstration to encourage new micro-economic business enterprise, create workforce employment opportunity, and empower citizen builders to construct, maintain, and repair their own homes and workspaces.

 

- a hostel (short-stay housing and shared facilities) for visiting vocational trainees.

 

Entry deadline: May 23, 2024

 

Elizabeth Gray, Principal, Gray Organschi Architecture

Alan Organschi, Principal, Gray Organschi Architecture

Michael Pardek, Vice President, Director of Design, SMMA, Director Lyceum Fellowship