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HOME competition 2018

Organizers
The Home Competition 2018 by arch out loud

Competition Contact
General Inquiries:
info@thehomecompetition.com

Competition Assignment
“People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They’re thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.” – Tom Kundig

The Home remains the most significant architectural place we experience throughout our lives. Home represents safety, ownership, privacy, and stability. Home is where we can be alone and with people we care about most. Historically, the home has been a place of permanence. Despite how chaotic our lives are, we cherish the consistency of sleeping in the same bed and performing the same daily rituals here. Yet, new trends in digitalization and globalization continue to reshape realms of everyday life and alter our physical environments, including our homes. It is important to examine how we adapt our living spaces to these shifts.

From Reyner Banham’s critique, “A Home Is not a House”, to Wallace Neff’s Bubble Homes, architects and designers have continuously investigated the role our homes play in our lives. The HOME competition invites all designers to explore ideas of domestic architecture for the future. Designers may consider the impacts of global population shifts, proximity of major cities to coastlines, new materials and building techniques, as well as the rise of co-housing, tiny homes, smart houses and marketplaces like Airbnb. HOME creates a platform to speculate the ways new technological, political, environmental and cultural changes can redefine the spaces where we live.

What do you believe will be the future of home?

Competition Type
Open ideas competition

Admission Area
International

Participants
Architects and designers

Schedule
Competition Release: Feb. 01, 2018

$40 Advanced Entry Begins: Feb. 01, 2018
$40 Advanced Entry Ends: Apr. 02, 2018

$60 Early Entry Begins: Apr. 03, 2018
$60 Early Entry Ends: Jun. 04, 2018

$80 Final Entry Begins: Jun. 05, 2018
$80 Final Entry Ends: Jul. 31, 2018

Submission Deadline: Aug. 01, 2018
Results Announced: Aug. 31, 2018

Jury
- Jimenez Lai, Bureau Spectacular
- Liam Young, Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, Unknown Fields
- Ivi Diamantopoulou, New Affiliates
- Andrew Zago, Zago Architecture
- Jason Payne, Hirsuta
- David Benjamin, The Living
- Anne Lise Kjaer, Kjaer Global
- On behalf of S/he_new-territories / François Roche
- Carlo Ratti, Carlo Ratti Associati

Awards
Overall Winner: $2,500
Innovation Award: $1,000
Adaptability Award: $1,000
Pragmatic Award: $1,000
Total Awards: $5,500

Requirements
The only requirement of the Home competition is that proposals must examine the performance of a single unit. Designers can propose a unit that is part of a larger system or structure but their submission must detail how that single unit will be used.

Proposals can create a small single family home, multi family building, or adaptable structure, but no matter the scale, they must clearly represent the experience of one unit for living within the project.

Designers can propose any geographical location for their home design but should consider the relationship between their proposal and its siting. Additionally, designers can propose siteless homes.

Submission Materials: (4) 12″ x 12″ graphic representations submitted as a combined PDF document. (1) 200 word maximum project summary, submitted as PDF document. Graphic representations may not include bodies of text but may include titles, labels, minor descriptions, etc. Graphic representations may include, but are not limited to, axons, perspectives, renderings, plans, sections, elevations, etc.

More information and details at
thehomecompetition.com