WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE WILL BE THE FUTURE OF HOME ?
How do we define “home”? Although our ideas about home are constantly being rethought, the careful examination of “home” has recently come to our attention for architects and nonarchitects alike. Nearly everyone has to confront their perspective of “home” as they have adapted work places, social gatherings, fitness routines, and everyday life.
The HOME Competition 2021 invited all designers to explore ideas of domestic architecture for the future, creating a platform to speculate the ways new technological, political, environmental and cultural changes can redefine the spaces where we live. |
2021 WINNER |
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REFUGEE CAMP |
Bingyu Guo - Zhan Shi
This Project focuses on the basic principle of designing and constructing a shelter in a climate crisis, based on developing refugee camps in the Central Sahel area, middle Africa. To relieve refugee pressures and difficulties in migrating, living, and responding to other basic requests, challenges from various aspects such as climate changes, social unrest, and resource shortages are considered and reacted comprehensively through designing proposals and operations. Values of human rights and equality are emphasized due to questions of keeping a balance between long-term sustainable developments and short-period current urgencies. This Project investigates maximizing the knowledge of Matter + Energy for designing, constructing, and operating ecologically appropriate building skins and systems. Building foundations, walls, and roofs can be designed, detailed, and fabricated to withstand or respond to the various forces of environmental trauma. Mycelium-based material will be applied based on the study of our site conditions, considering the structure strength of the material and how the material’s building performance interacts with the humidity, heat, and sound. Material can be transformed from organic waste into applicable biomaterials.
Honorable Mention |
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JONES RESIDENCE |
Logan West - Justin Levelle - Dominic Holiday - Logan Ali
Amidst our aesthetic culture and the ever-growing struggle to “keep up with the Joneses,” we have become unhinged.Though shielded by white picket fences and lush hedges, digital media and artificial intelligence effortlessly puncture through the seemingly impermeable walls of our homes. This phenomenon is occurring as we are simultaneously experiencing a paradigmatic shift: the voyeuristic notion of gazing through an open doorway has subverted itself into the fear that nobody is watching at all. Fueled by our insatiable craving for attention and material items, we reveal even our most intimate spaces like film sets via the interface of online platforms.This proposal investigates the shifting relationships between digital media, contemporary culture, and the built environment. The Jones Residence seeks to respond to these tumultuous relationships by forfeiting the sanctity of the home in an outward display.
Honorable Mention |
EARTHBOUND |
HALF-CIRCUS [Konstantin Kim - KaWai Cheung - Aleksa Milojević]
A collective Home stands amid a rural area of Sub-Saharan Africa.
An open structure, as a resource & a stage for collective day-to-day activities, carries on & eases compound mode of living. Enfolding traditional forms of craftsmanship such as thatching, weaving, earth building & working with clay, the Home becomes a canvas for communal self-expression & its occasional maintenance becomes a shared ritual.
Soft edges, fragmented topography of a mound & adjustable elements on one side & a clean geometry of an all-embracing roof on the other form a compositional dichotomy, suggesting free choices of occupation as a joint endeavor of those who chose to remain on a fringe.
An open structure, as a resource & a stage for collective day-to-day activities, carries on & eases compound mode of living. Enfolding traditional forms of craftsmanship such as thatching, weaving, earth building & working with clay, the Home becomes a canvas for communal self-expression & its occasional maintenance becomes a shared ritual.
Soft edges, fragmented topography of a mound & adjustable elements on one side & a clean geometry of an all-embracing roof on the other form a compositional dichotomy, suggesting free choices of occupation as a joint endeavor of those who chose to remain on a fringe.
Honorable Mention |
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COOPERATIVE CACHE |
Elizabeth Feltz
Our current technological condition, saturated with extractive digital infrastructure and invasive personal data collection, compels a consideration of collective living as a renewed mode of resistance. With the escalation of the current surveillance economy, our digital conveniences have amplified desires to accumulate personal property and cultivate a distinct digital identity. Through cooperative living, there are opportunities to reconstruct identity through collective means instead of the digital profiles that simultaneously commoditize us.
This project obfuscates the user’s identity from data collection through the distortion of household products and systems that have formed the structure of conventional domestic spaces. Within the existing structure of a former big-box retail space, areas previously designated for consumption become spaces of collectivity. Each living unit redeploys the qualities of a household object into a flexible unit for shared living and working. As a toolkit to empower residents, a small publication was created to introduce common cooperative structures, new media terminology, and concepts such as “algorithmic bias” and the “quantified self.”
Through the reconfiguration of the space, intermixing of sensory information from participants, and defamiliarization of domestic architectural elements, the resident is able to exchange participation in the cooperative for digital ambiguity.
This project obfuscates the user’s identity from data collection through the distortion of household products and systems that have formed the structure of conventional domestic spaces. Within the existing structure of a former big-box retail space, areas previously designated for consumption become spaces of collectivity. Each living unit redeploys the qualities of a household object into a flexible unit for shared living and working. As a toolkit to empower residents, a small publication was created to introduce common cooperative structures, new media terminology, and concepts such as “algorithmic bias” and the “quantified self.”
Through the reconfiguration of the space, intermixing of sensory information from participants, and defamiliarization of domestic architectural elements, the resident is able to exchange participation in the cooperative for digital ambiguity.
Director's Choice |
LONELY HEARTS CLUBHOUSE |
John Hilla
There is little difference between being alone and feeling lonely.
Isolationism is increasingly becoming a palpable part of our society, and all indications are that this oppugnant will not be retreating anytime soon. Given the current trajectories in global health, the logic of the future may likely view reclusion as way of avoiding potentially unhealthy interactions and illness, though this practice will certainly be accompanied by strong feelings of alienation. The home has always been seen as a shelter, and even a haven in troubled times, but it is now becoming our only intimate friend.
The story of the Lonely Hearts Clubhouse, is that of a companion who will join us on our journey to redefine our relationship with ourselves, our homes, and each other. Photographer Gregory Crewdson has famously explored themes of personal despondency in a way that may be resonating with us now more than ever. It therefore seemed critical to represent the Lonely Hearts Clubhouse within a Crewdson depiction of an alienating moment in American life. The beauty of this imagery comes from a timeless depiction of a momentary despair, wherein the Lonely Heart Clubhouse fits perfectly.
Isolationism is increasingly becoming a palpable part of our society, and all indications are that this oppugnant will not be retreating anytime soon. Given the current trajectories in global health, the logic of the future may likely view reclusion as way of avoiding potentially unhealthy interactions and illness, though this practice will certainly be accompanied by strong feelings of alienation. The home has always been seen as a shelter, and even a haven in troubled times, but it is now becoming our only intimate friend.
The story of the Lonely Hearts Clubhouse, is that of a companion who will join us on our journey to redefine our relationship with ourselves, our homes, and each other. Photographer Gregory Crewdson has famously explored themes of personal despondency in a way that may be resonating with us now more than ever. It therefore seemed critical to represent the Lonely Hearts Clubhouse within a Crewdson depiction of an alienating moment in American life. The beauty of this imagery comes from a timeless depiction of a momentary despair, wherein the Lonely Heart Clubhouse fits perfectly.
Director's Choice |
LAPUTA SKYHOME |
Gabriele Filippi
This is a dystopian vision in the near future: the earth, helpless, is witnessing the sequence of long pandemics and is constantly upset by the meteorological phenomena of a crazy climate.
Towns are abandoned: men seek shelter in new spaces and preserve their existence by changing their lifestyles and way of living.The conquest points to the sky, in vertical ascent, where the air is less polluted and far away from the violent action of water on the ground: man refuges at the top.
New forms of light and transparent houses rise to high heights, just above the clouds, almost suspended: the tie with the earth becomes increasingly thin, threadlike. The structure is thinned and becoming a sort of anchor. Small houses with a circular plan deployed on several levels are protected by a thin glass bell whose internal partitions, made of fabric, allow a flexible management of the rooms: it is a space, made of air, light, color. It is a delicate but sustainable mechanism, in an advanced nervous system,in which energy is self-produced by filaments waved by the wind and the water collected through a surface capture system.The dawn is closer, as in a dream.
Towns are abandoned: men seek shelter in new spaces and preserve their existence by changing their lifestyles and way of living.The conquest points to the sky, in vertical ascent, where the air is less polluted and far away from the violent action of water on the ground: man refuges at the top.
New forms of light and transparent houses rise to high heights, just above the clouds, almost suspended: the tie with the earth becomes increasingly thin, threadlike. The structure is thinned and becoming a sort of anchor. Small houses with a circular plan deployed on several levels are protected by a thin glass bell whose internal partitions, made of fabric, allow a flexible management of the rooms: it is a space, made of air, light, color. It is a delicate but sustainable mechanism, in an advanced nervous system,in which energy is self-produced by filaments waved by the wind and the water collected through a surface capture system.The dawn is closer, as in a dream.
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OPEN ROOM/OPEN INHABITATION |
Edgar Rodriguez
This project speculates on two fundamental aspects of domestic spaces: the preconception of a room as a regular, closed, and defined spatial unit; and the idea of privacy considered inherent to the practice of inhabitation.
The proposed structure is built entirely of CLT panels, each measuring 9x50'. These panels intersect to generate a series of irregular rooms and consequently a grid of rigid elements that stabilize the structure. Through strategically located slots, the panels fit together and aggregate into a completely prefabricated building. The resulting egg crate incorporates wide openings that allow multi-directional flow through the rooms.
In terms of the program, the house operates as an open infrastructure. The specific arrangement of furniture, appliances, toys, supplies, clothing, etcetera; define the building programmatically. The role of these objects is twofold, first, to determine the activities on each floor of the house, but also to provide domestic character to what would otherwise be spatially similar rooms.
The fragmentary nature of the project generates formal and spatial complexity from a modular and industrially standard constructive element. The systematic deployment of these design strategies results in an infinite number of possible outcomes; this is just one of them.
The proposed structure is built entirely of CLT panels, each measuring 9x50'. These panels intersect to generate a series of irregular rooms and consequently a grid of rigid elements that stabilize the structure. Through strategically located slots, the panels fit together and aggregate into a completely prefabricated building. The resulting egg crate incorporates wide openings that allow multi-directional flow through the rooms.
In terms of the program, the house operates as an open infrastructure. The specific arrangement of furniture, appliances, toys, supplies, clothing, etcetera; define the building programmatically. The role of these objects is twofold, first, to determine the activities on each floor of the house, but also to provide domestic character to what would otherwise be spatially similar rooms.
The fragmentary nature of the project generates formal and spatial complexity from a modular and industrially standard constructive element. The systematic deployment of these design strategies results in an infinite number of possible outcomes; this is just one of them.
INNOVATION AWARD |
THE HOME PLAY |
Daphné Garon-Rioux
PROLOGUE
Our modern life is a spectacle. Our society of capitalism alienates us in a tendency to consume appearances and to display narcissistically ours in response. We multiply contemplative interactions with the exterior and virtual social world but tend to isolate ourselves behind walls and shut doors within our home. What if home boundaries were then reinterpreted with theatricality?
Through a misty veil, shadows flutter, peeping through here and there. Brightly delineate at daylight and translucent at night, curtains twirl within a glass stage gazed by the passers-by.
ACT I – choreography
Space waltz and whirls, as it shrinks and expands, curtains flow as they follow a winding path. Through this dance, rails approach and embrace.
ACT II – lighting
Filtered and smooth, or bright and crisp, lights complement the fluctuating barriers to portray varying schemes, personifying each act at play.
ACT III – dialogue
Sometimes whispered, sometimes proclaimed, in bright sight or in dimmed privacy; dialogue connects. Talked, gestured, heard or felt, interactions move freely through this textile set.
EPILOGUE
Boundaries through adaptation and change should unify as they divide, allowing every life scene to be performed. Here is how the home should be staged: a place to express, connect and evolve.
Our modern life is a spectacle. Our society of capitalism alienates us in a tendency to consume appearances and to display narcissistically ours in response. We multiply contemplative interactions with the exterior and virtual social world but tend to isolate ourselves behind walls and shut doors within our home. What if home boundaries were then reinterpreted with theatricality?
Through a misty veil, shadows flutter, peeping through here and there. Brightly delineate at daylight and translucent at night, curtains twirl within a glass stage gazed by the passers-by.
ACT I – choreography
Space waltz and whirls, as it shrinks and expands, curtains flow as they follow a winding path. Through this dance, rails approach and embrace.
ACT II – lighting
Filtered and smooth, or bright and crisp, lights complement the fluctuating barriers to portray varying schemes, personifying each act at play.
ACT III – dialogue
Sometimes whispered, sometimes proclaimed, in bright sight or in dimmed privacy; dialogue connects. Talked, gestured, heard or felt, interactions move freely through this textile set.
EPILOGUE
Boundaries through adaptation and change should unify as they divide, allowing every life scene to be performed. Here is how the home should be staged: a place to express, connect and evolve.
Honorable Mention |
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REFUGEE CAMP |
Bingyu Guo - Zhan Shi
This Project focuses on the basic principle of designing and constructing a shelter in a climate crisis, based on developing refugee camps in the Central Sahel area, middle Africa. To relieve refugee pressures and difficulties in migrating, living, and responding to other basic requests, challenges from various aspects such as climate changes, social unrest, and resource shortages are considered and reacted comprehensively through designing proposals and operations. Values of human rights and equality are emphasized due to questions of keeping a balance between long-term sustainable developments and short-period current urgencies. This Project investigates maximizing the knowledge of Matter + Energy for designing, constructing, and operating ecologically appropriate building skins and systems. Building foundations, walls, and roofs can be designed, detailed, and fabricated to withstand or respond to the various forces of environmental trauma. Mycelium-based material will be applied based on the study of our site conditions, considering the structure strength of the material and how the material’s building performance interacts with the humidity, heat, and sound. Material can be transformed from organic waste into applicable biomaterials.
Honorable Mention |
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JONES RESIDENCE |
Logan West - Justin Levelle - Dominic Holiday - Logan Ali
Amidst our aesthetic culture and the ever-growing struggle to “keep up with the Joneses,” we have become unhinged.Though shielded by white picket fences and lush hedges, digital media and artificial intelligence effortlessly puncture through the seemingly impermeable walls of our homes. This phenomenon is occurring as we are simultaneously experiencing a paradigmatic shift: the voyeuristic notion of gazing through an open doorway has subverted itself into the fear that nobody is watching at all. Fueled by our insatiable craving for attention and material items, we reveal even our most intimate spaces like film sets via the interface of online platforms.This proposal investigates the shifting relationships between digital media, contemporary culture, and the built environment. The Jones Residence seeks to respond to these tumultuous relationships by forfeiting the sanctity of the home in an outward display.
Honorable Mention |
ALL FACADES NO FACADE |
Thomas Marineau
Is there more than curb appeal behind these homes for sale ? Through their facades, they exhibit their owners’ ideals and aspirations, becoming a display of material success. Homes, dissolved into their facades, are merely consumed as images, status symbols and fictions.
Is the home of the future a layering of these facades we wish we owned ? While looking through them, we wonder what our lives would look like behind these facades.
The project emerges from the sampling and re-combining of facades. Through deliberate exaggeration, superficial layers are accumulated. Openings are extruded and materialized from structural glass, at times intersecting with one another and the facades themselves. From these manipulations, the facades’ potential comes to life. Artifice becomes space.
All Facades No Facade suggests learning from the domestic facade to re-examine its role. It is through simple manipulations (sampling, layering and extruding) that the potentials and qualities, of what could otherwise be considered a superficial layer, emerge.
Is the home of the future a layering of these facades we wish we owned ? While looking through them, we wonder what our lives would look like behind these facades.
The project emerges from the sampling and re-combining of facades. Through deliberate exaggeration, superficial layers are accumulated. Openings are extruded and materialized from structural glass, at times intersecting with one another and the facades themselves. From these manipulations, the facades’ potential comes to life. Artifice becomes space.
All Facades No Facade suggests learning from the domestic facade to re-examine its role. It is through simple manipulations (sampling, layering and extruding) that the potentials and qualities, of what could otherwise be considered a superficial layer, emerge.
Director's Choice |
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Exterior Perspective
Sequential Readaptation of Existing Structure Site Plan Exterior Axonometric Longitudinal Section Morphological Adaptation of Tulou Typology Part-to-whole Relationship of Units and Clusters Organization of Units, Clusters and Public Commons |
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Legal Aid Office for the Community Cluster Communal Space between Units Unit Interior toward Balcony Unit Interior toward Entrance Market Entrance Exterior Plaza Cantilevered Public Common Space with Panoramic Views |
CLOUD TOWER |
Yuxuan Xiong
Cantilevered from the structural skeleton of the West Park Tower, this proposal aims to subvert the high-rise typology that is commonly seen in public housing projects of the late 20th century. Their failure can be attributed to the lack of autonomy, the absence of public commons, and the scarcity of natural resources. To address these issues, the Tulou Typology, or “earthen building” is used as the morphological and spatial foundation for the proposal. By pushing all the units to the periphery of the structural frame, the building forms a protective, vertical ring of apartments, and an open, public space at the heart of the tower. Between the cantilevered units and the central public commons, is a series of semi-open spaces which reconnect the scattered residential units at a communal, neighborhood scale. Not only are the spaces within the high-rise handed back to the residents, natural resources such as rainwater is also purified and recycled within the building to allow the residents to take more control of their life above the earth, and in the clouds.
Director's Choice |
KINETIC HOUSE |
Yuxuan Tu - Rui Qi
In the post-pandemic era, we are spending a longer time than ever in the domestic space, getting tired of the same day-to-day experience. ‘ Kinetic house” proposes an alternative to a fixed living environment-- a home that is ever-changing and adapting to our everyday uses. By questioning the static nature of architectural elements, the boundary between nature and interior becomes vague-- the sky could be your bathroom ceiling, the lawn could be your living room carpet, the trees could be your bedroom facade- Your home becomes boundaryless, and the inhabitants could use their home as a laboratory of daily life.
This scheme challenges the traditional description of a house: A facade is also a roof plan, a canopy framing plan is also an interior elevation, a re ective ceiling plan is also a terrace plan…….The dual roles of these elements bring new challenges to the design-- direction of gravity, interior and exterior, cavity and enclosure. As individuals de ne their house from the bottom-up, the relationship between di erent household also is also being de ned, nudging the daily dynamics within the neighborhood.
This scheme challenges the traditional description of a house: A facade is also a roof plan, a canopy framing plan is also an interior elevation, a re ective ceiling plan is also a terrace plan…….The dual roles of these elements bring new challenges to the design-- direction of gravity, interior and exterior, cavity and enclosure. As individuals de ne their house from the bottom-up, the relationship between di erent household also is also being de ned, nudging the daily dynamics within the neighborhood.
Director's Choice |
FLOATING PARASITE |
Shin Jeong Sub - Kim Geon Woo
Cities have many opportunities, so people head to cities. In the coming future, more and more people will head to the city for their own purposes. As a result, Mega City, whose population has increased rapidly, will no longer have enough land to build buildings. What solutions can be prepared in future cities where there is not enough space for people to live? We propose one way. Floating Parasite can fly freely in the sky, and parasitic building, which can be docked anywhere.
To create a floating parasite, We reduce the weight using air-filled furniture, folding structures, and empty walls. Gas is injected into the S.O.F.U(Structure of Fold-Unfold) through an empty wall and rises. When the floating parasite is docked, the gas escapes and the slab hanging from the ceiling comes down. When the S.O.F.U is folded, it provides a more spacious living environment. S.O.F.U takes up less space in Mega City and can accommodate more populations.
To create a floating parasite, We reduce the weight using air-filled furniture, folding structures, and empty walls. Gas is injected into the S.O.F.U(Structure of Fold-Unfold) through an empty wall and rises. When the floating parasite is docked, the gas escapes and the slab hanging from the ceiling comes down. When the S.O.F.U is folded, it provides a more spacious living environment. S.O.F.U takes up less space in Mega City and can accommodate more populations.
ADAPTABILITY AWARD |
RE COLLECTIVE HOUSE |
Zeyu Yang
By the end of 2021, the elderly population aged over 60 in China accounted for more than 18 percent of the total population and more than 110 million of them chose to live in ordinary communities. Most of these old people have unique collective living habits formed in their youth. As elderly people grow older, old apartment buildings can hardly cope with their new problems such as memory decline, mobility inconvenience, loneliness, etc. As the pandemic has led to more closed spatial boundaries, these contradictions have become more prominent, which makes carrying out adaptive improvements to the homes of such people becomes more and more necessary.
This scheme is providing the possibility to reproduce collective life modes of mutual assistance through the deconstruction of the spatial boundary to alleviate the inconvenience and realize the spiritual comfort of the elderly. The images depict a three-scale renovation plan that refactors the backyard, the anti-theft window wall, and the public corridor in the old apartment in the community landscape, building facade, and indoor public area respectively. Structural modules (9 in total) for collective use are prefabricated and assembled into new gathering places, transforming boundary space into a collective home for the elderly.
This scheme is providing the possibility to reproduce collective life modes of mutual assistance through the deconstruction of the spatial boundary to alleviate the inconvenience and realize the spiritual comfort of the elderly. The images depict a three-scale renovation plan that refactors the backyard, the anti-theft window wall, and the public corridor in the old apartment in the community landscape, building facade, and indoor public area respectively. Structural modules (9 in total) for collective use are prefabricated and assembled into new gathering places, transforming boundary space into a collective home for the elderly.
Honorable Mention |
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Rainwater, itself a local material, can be collected and distributed to the planting systems or stored for later.
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The shared community labor of waste and material extraction is extended into the kitchen, which is removed from the house to create a common space between neighbors.
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UNFAMILIAR FAMILY |
Martin Carrillo - Tyler Krebs
Unfamiliar Family: A Typology for Communal Housing in Obsolete Office Buildings
While there has been a shortage of real estate dedicated towards housing in New York City's history, there has been a surplus dedicated to spaces of economic production. As the lines between living and working continue to blur, it is imperative to reevaluate the spatial binaries that we have taken for granted. The image of the commuter salaryman in his midtown office is an image of the past which begs to be updated.
We propose a typology of affordable cooperative housing in Midtown's iconic Lever House.The project challenges conventional ownership models by allowing residents to own the building communally and negotiate space, programming, and social contracts amidst a series of occupiable walls. Spaces within the poche are reserved for the activities of daily reproduction that require privacy, and the interstitial spaces between walls can accommodate varying degrees of living, working and pleasure. Through their rhythm, these walls can
be aggregated laterally and create different apartment configurations. An operable skin facade gives each resident agency over the building's iconography and helps control flows of light and air. The project presents a replicable strategy to give another life to the obsolete office building as communal housing.
While there has been a shortage of real estate dedicated towards housing in New York City's history, there has been a surplus dedicated to spaces of economic production. As the lines between living and working continue to blur, it is imperative to reevaluate the spatial binaries that we have taken for granted. The image of the commuter salaryman in his midtown office is an image of the past which begs to be updated.
We propose a typology of affordable cooperative housing in Midtown's iconic Lever House.The project challenges conventional ownership models by allowing residents to own the building communally and negotiate space, programming, and social contracts amidst a series of occupiable walls. Spaces within the poche are reserved for the activities of daily reproduction that require privacy, and the interstitial spaces between walls can accommodate varying degrees of living, working and pleasure. Through their rhythm, these walls can
be aggregated laterally and create different apartment configurations. An operable skin facade gives each resident agency over the building's iconography and helps control flows of light and air. The project presents a replicable strategy to give another life to the obsolete office building as communal housing.
Honorable Mention |
THE 4 CORNER HOUSE |
David Young - Viviana Velasquez - Laura Guerra
The world is constantly changing. Hence, the tide rises, and residential spaces
decrease. Our future housing should evolve. ''The 4 Corner House'' accommodates a single-family into a home that adapts to land and water. Moreover, it provides a sustainable lifestyle. The house incorporates a filtration system to change rain into drinkable water. It further includes a hydraulic energy system and a green garden. The residents will enjoy the commodity of a viable life recreation to the family.
Besides, it grants connection with nature in a strategic way for the family. The house’s principal feature is its four walls, which provide intimacy to the family. Yet, the wall’s corners leave an open space between them, giving views of nature. The house’s wooden structure is designed with a 45-degree angle. It forces the family to interact with the four open corners. Further, the corners provide cross ventilation throughout the house. Because the house is fully open, across each floor natural light and breeze run through. The lowest level considers the importance of recreation. The following floors favor the family for online working and social interaction. ''The 4 Corner House'' provides sustainability, privacy, and recreation to the family.
decrease. Our future housing should evolve. ''The 4 Corner House'' accommodates a single-family into a home that adapts to land and water. Moreover, it provides a sustainable lifestyle. The house incorporates a filtration system to change rain into drinkable water. It further includes a hydraulic energy system and a green garden. The residents will enjoy the commodity of a viable life recreation to the family.
Besides, it grants connection with nature in a strategic way for the family. The house’s principal feature is its four walls, which provide intimacy to the family. Yet, the wall’s corners leave an open space between them, giving views of nature. The house’s wooden structure is designed with a 45-degree angle. It forces the family to interact with the four open corners. Further, the corners provide cross ventilation throughout the house. Because the house is fully open, across each floor natural light and breeze run through. The lowest level considers the importance of recreation. The following floors favor the family for online working and social interaction. ''The 4 Corner House'' provides sustainability, privacy, and recreation to the family.
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COOPERATIVE CACHE |
Elizabeth Feltz
Our current technological condition, saturated with extractive digital infrastructure and invasive personal data collection, compels a consideration of collective living as a renewed mode of resistance. With the escalation of the current surveillance economy, our digital conveniences have amplified desires to accumulate personal property and cultivate a distinct digital identity. Through cooperative living, there are opportunities to reconstruct identity through collective means instead of the digital profiles that simultaneously commoditize us.
This project obfuscates the user’s identity from data collection through the distortion of household products and systems that have formed the structure of conventional domestic spaces. Within the existing structure of a former big-box retail space, areas previously designated for consumption become spaces of collectivity. Each living unit redeploys the qualities of a household object into a flexible unit for shared living and working. As a toolkit to empower residents, a small publication was created to introduce common cooperative structures, new media terminology, and concepts such as “algorithmic bias” and the “quantified self.”
Through the reconfiguration of the space, intermixing of sensory information from participants, and defamiliarization of domestic architectural elements, the resident is able to exchange participation in the cooperative for digital ambiguity.
This project obfuscates the user’s identity from data collection through the distortion of household products and systems that have formed the structure of conventional domestic spaces. Within the existing structure of a former big-box retail space, areas previously designated for consumption become spaces of collectivity. Each living unit redeploys the qualities of a household object into a flexible unit for shared living and working. As a toolkit to empower residents, a small publication was created to introduce common cooperative structures, new media terminology, and concepts such as “algorithmic bias” and the “quantified self.”
Through the reconfiguration of the space, intermixing of sensory information from participants, and defamiliarization of domestic architectural elements, the resident is able to exchange participation in the cooperative for digital ambiguity.
Director's Choice |
THE FORREST FACTORY |
Avery Seip
Earth is home.
Home of the past.
Home of the future.
Home to all things living and dead.
The air is warm. A fog drifts swiftly inland, engulfing the ‘plug-and-play’ designed temporary dwelling / research facility. This area once hosted dense mangrove forests and a beautifully diverse ecosystem of plants and animals, now washed away--leaving only a barren seascape behind.
Eagerly, two bioengineering / environmental researchers begin their work taking note of young mangrove trees growing on a buoyant platform of mycelium beneath the pods. As the days pass, the duo assists in nurturing the mangrove patches’ growth and the slow decay of the mycelium which provides nutrients and a framework for the young roots.
Weeks have passed. The mycelium has decomposed and fueled the new patch of mangrove trees destined to reinvigorate the local ecosystem. Now strong and dense enough to survive uninterrupted, the researchers are joined by a small team to begin the process of deconstructing the modular facility.
The team drifts away. They look back to see--what once was a barren seascape--is now a thriving new habitat working tirelessly to rebuild and protect this beautiful earth that was, and forever will be, home.
Home of the past.
Home of the future.
Home to all things living and dead.
The air is warm. A fog drifts swiftly inland, engulfing the ‘plug-and-play’ designed temporary dwelling / research facility. This area once hosted dense mangrove forests and a beautifully diverse ecosystem of plants and animals, now washed away--leaving only a barren seascape behind.
Eagerly, two bioengineering / environmental researchers begin their work taking note of young mangrove trees growing on a buoyant platform of mycelium beneath the pods. As the days pass, the duo assists in nurturing the mangrove patches’ growth and the slow decay of the mycelium which provides nutrients and a framework for the young roots.
Weeks have passed. The mycelium has decomposed and fueled the new patch of mangrove trees destined to reinvigorate the local ecosystem. Now strong and dense enough to survive uninterrupted, the researchers are joined by a small team to begin the process of deconstructing the modular facility.
The team drifts away. They look back to see--what once was a barren seascape--is now a thriving new habitat working tirelessly to rebuild and protect this beautiful earth that was, and forever will be, home.
Director's Choice |
FARNSWORTH RECONSIDERED |
Zane Mechem
At the center of Mies’s Farnsworth plan isn’t a place for people at all — instead lie two bathrooms, a galley kitchen, a fireplace, and some built-in cabinets. By reinterpreting the Farnsworth, distributing the contained volume of the core around the house, an emerging nested spatial configuration allows differentiation at a small scale. While open floor plans dominant hegemonic real estate markets and the collective idea of the home shifts towards hiding the utilities for flat uninterrupted floor grids — unpacking Mies’s tightly packed Farnsworth core questions these values, producing scrambled, broken, and informal demarcations for corridors and bathrooms, water closets, kitchens. These new distributed cores can be traveled through or around, and are somewhat exterior and interior; they are places to perform within an interior rather than hidden away. Liberated from Mies’s details, hacked prefabricated cheap materials, sliced quonset shed kits and aggregated unfinished concrete masonry units create a new type of Farnsworth prototype which adds a sidedness to each of the volume due to the how lines of the quonset roofing shape the ceiling and interior.
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NO NAME (POST GLOBALIZATION) |
Abezivanov Temirbulat - Vakula Vera
Housing is a reflection of a society structure. We are modeling an alternative future scenario that is the forth paradigm shift in the series of pre-industrial – industrial – post-industrial world order. We admit the collapse of globalization and the return to the form of primitive state in the conditions of the already formed context of the present.
The home in the proposed setting is a house commune stretched along the river bank - this location refers to the ancient settlements formed by water reservoirs. Each residential unit is unique because it is designed and built according to the personal project of every homeowner. Industrial shutdown provokes people to integrate some parts of the remaining elements of post-industrial society into their homes and transform them for the needs of local production. Housing includes the agricultural and manufacturing sectors aimed to provide livelihoods in this closed system.
The chosen building material is a complex of destroyed industry elements. Using them for the building construction is a metaphor. We form a house from unused technologies that don't fulfill their function anymore, but become a building material – a symbol of the past that forms the future.
The home in the proposed setting is a house commune stretched along the river bank - this location refers to the ancient settlements formed by water reservoirs. Each residential unit is unique because it is designed and built according to the personal project of every homeowner. Industrial shutdown provokes people to integrate some parts of the remaining elements of post-industrial society into their homes and transform them for the needs of local production. Housing includes the agricultural and manufacturing sectors aimed to provide livelihoods in this closed system.
The chosen building material is a complex of destroyed industry elements. Using them for the building construction is a metaphor. We form a house from unused technologies that don't fulfill their function anymore, but become a building material – a symbol of the past that forms the future.
PRAGMATIC AWARD |
EARTHBOUND |
HALF-CIRCUS [Konstantin Kim - KaWai Cheung - Aleksa Milojević]
A collective Home stands amid a rural area of Sub-Saharan Africa.
An open structure, as a resource & a stage for collective day-to-day activities, carries on & eases compound mode of living. Enfolding traditional forms of craftsmanship such as thatching, weaving, earth building & working with clay, the Home becomes a canvas for communal self-expression & its occasional maintenance becomes a shared ritual.
Soft edges, fragmented topography of a mound & adjustable elements on one side & a clean geometry of an all-embracing roof on the other form a compositional dichotomy, suggesting free choices of occupation as a joint endeavor of those who chose to remain on a fringe.
An open structure, as a resource & a stage for collective day-to-day activities, carries on & eases compound mode of living. Enfolding traditional forms of craftsmanship such as thatching, weaving, earth building & working with clay, the Home becomes a canvas for communal self-expression & its occasional maintenance becomes a shared ritual.
Soft edges, fragmented topography of a mound & adjustable elements on one side & a clean geometry of an all-embracing roof on the other form a compositional dichotomy, suggesting free choices of occupation as a joint endeavor of those who chose to remain on a fringe.
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THE BRONX CULTURE CONTAINER |
Kevin Hai Pham
The Bronx Culture Container is an initiative that reassesses the dual problems of affordable housing and cultural production in New York City. The project, simultaneously a housing system that can be replicated elsewhere and a site-specific counterproposal to the City’s transition from a locus of cultural production to one of cultural consumption, utilizes typologies of housing (co-living, live-work spaces, etc.) combined with cultural spaces to instigate a commoning of arts programming. The project thus serves as a model for collective living that is integrated into the cultural milieu of the Bronx and Upper Manhattan.
Situated adjacent to the Bronx Documentary Center, the Culture Container juxtaposes housing typologies (towers, courtyard housing, etc.) to create idiosyncratic moments that imbue variety and complexity into forms created by repeated, modular units. The organization of these units result from a reexamination of their internal logics and the redistribution of their internal programming (kitchens, dining and living areas) to larger, collective spaces that are meant to be shared between inhabitants. The intention of this redistribution is to simultaneously create greater housing density in the stressed housing fabric of New York City while creating a new cultural commons while simultaneously producing truly “public” housing.
Situated adjacent to the Bronx Documentary Center, the Culture Container juxtaposes housing typologies (towers, courtyard housing, etc.) to create idiosyncratic moments that imbue variety and complexity into forms created by repeated, modular units. The organization of these units result from a reexamination of their internal logics and the redistribution of their internal programming (kitchens, dining and living areas) to larger, collective spaces that are meant to be shared between inhabitants. The intention of this redistribution is to simultaneously create greater housing density in the stressed housing fabric of New York City while creating a new cultural commons while simultaneously producing truly “public” housing.
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THE FUNCTIONLESS SPACE |
Jonathan Yeung
What is a living room in our post-2021 home? Certainly the most essential yet We loosely defined domestic space, it never had a set function like the kitchen, the bathroom, or the bedroom. The pandemic way of life has further challenged the boundlessness of its multiple identities. The post-2021 home’s living room is a space to work professionally, to dine properly, to socialize dynamically, or even to quiet down insulatively.
This design redefines our post-2021 home by completely rethinking our living room, as a functionless space. The proposal considers 2 typical shared-living typologies - a narrow ‘townhouse’ and a square ‘single family house’. In both scenarios, the living space is being shaped into an amorphous being, flowing through floors and stitching together rooms while being a celebrated space itself. Its non-linear spatial configuration therefore encourages indirect exchanges among cohabitors and minimize awkwardWe confrontations that happen in narrow hallways or enclosed rooms, all while finding spatial cavities to satisfy our new needs. The redesigned functionless “space” then becomes the most functional “room” in our post-2021 home.
This design redefines our post-2021 home by completely rethinking our living room, as a functionless space. The proposal considers 2 typical shared-living typologies - a narrow ‘townhouse’ and a square ‘single family house’. In both scenarios, the living space is being shaped into an amorphous being, flowing through floors and stitching together rooms while being a celebrated space itself. Its non-linear spatial configuration therefore encourages indirect exchanges among cohabitors and minimize awkwardWe confrontations that happen in narrow hallways or enclosed rooms, all while finding spatial cavities to satisfy our new needs. The redesigned functionless “space” then becomes the most functional “room” in our post-2021 home.
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RE USE THE MACHINE |
Les Catalans - Swann Catalan - Emmanuel Hamelin
Fifty years ago, the GEAI group architects designed an office building in Marseille, which they intended to be evolutive thanks to a modular structure (assemblies approach). Today, the landowner is thinking of demolishing it so as to build dwellings in its place. This brings up questions about the relevance of demolishing, in a context of material shortage and ecological crisis, added to difficulties for modest households to acquire property. Therefore, we decided to answer using the potential of the former building, instead of tearing down its specific qualities.
Against and within the regularity of this modern machine, fitting the grid, we intent (poetic) housing diversity. Future residents acquire one or several shell and core housing units fitted with minimum technical equipment. A system of suspension hooks allows to easily implement and modify the partition. Thus, the units are free of appropriation meanwhile their sale price is reduced to a minimum.In addition, half of the basement is removed to make room for a large workshop, directly connected to each level. The inhabitants can use it to craft or transform parts of their house. This space extends to a wooded park where vegetation replaces the old parking lot concrete.
Against and within the regularity of this modern machine, fitting the grid, we intent (poetic) housing diversity. Future residents acquire one or several shell and core housing units fitted with minimum technical equipment. A system of suspension hooks allows to easily implement and modify the partition. Thus, the units are free of appropriation meanwhile their sale price is reduced to a minimum.In addition, half of the basement is removed to make room for a large workshop, directly connected to each level. The inhabitants can use it to craft or transform parts of their house. This space extends to a wooded park where vegetation replaces the old parking lot concrete.
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RURAL CITY |
Fangzhou Ni - Yufei Wang - Mengrui Zhang
City has become a predominant context in building projects for a long time, while the potential of countryside has always been overlooked. Rural City is a paradigm for future living condition. Abundant rural land makes it possible to overturn high-rise apartments to single-story row houses, where resources are equally possessed, and personality is dissimilarly developed. The optimized circular form creates two different environments and experiences on both sides of the community: an idyllic rural landscape with open, endless fields, and a more familiar city park surrounded by the transparent façade and distinct skyline.
This atypical deurbanization process is not just a reflective response to the increasingly congested urban built environment and high-pressure lifestyle of citizens. Social attributes and effective agglomeration of cities are reserved in form of row houses, assembly workspace and various communal spaces. The definitions of citizens and villagers are vague here. By approaching the two different contexts within a single home unit, a binary space of urban and rural, and a better balance between ease and efficiency are able to be realized.
This atypical deurbanization process is not just a reflective response to the increasingly congested urban built environment and high-pressure lifestyle of citizens. Social attributes and effective agglomeration of cities are reserved in form of row houses, assembly workspace and various communal spaces. The definitions of citizens and villagers are vague here. By approaching the two different contexts within a single home unit, a binary space of urban and rural, and a better balance between ease and efficiency are able to be realized.
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THE CARETAKER HOUSE |
Yunchao Le - Owen Xie
The Caretaker House is a proposal that explores the synthesis of people, environment and home. It is a hub which cultivates caretaking professionals such as arborists and ecologists, whose work involves an extensive relationship with nature.As a form of replacement to monetary ownership of property, the right of occupancy is acquired by completing caretaking tasks, and educational programs. The melding of work and home aims to stimulate a mutual support between people and nature.
Situated in a pine forest, this particular house sits on piles to minimize its interference with the underground ecosystem, while allowing wildlife to roam freely under the structure. The house is programmatically reinforced by a tree nursery and a mushroom research farm to further develop the connection between the house, home for humans, and the forest, home for trees. The two-story structure contains the living quarter on the bottom and research lab on top.The interior courtyard is built to act as the hearth of the home, allowing its inhabitants to establish a visual connection with another from anywhere inside the house.
The Caretaker House is an instrument that enhances the lives of both the inhabitants and its neighboring wildlife by resonating their support and care for each other.
Situated in a pine forest, this particular house sits on piles to minimize its interference with the underground ecosystem, while allowing wildlife to roam freely under the structure. The house is programmatically reinforced by a tree nursery and a mushroom research farm to further develop the connection between the house, home for humans, and the forest, home for trees. The two-story structure contains the living quarter on the bottom and research lab on top.The interior courtyard is built to act as the hearth of the home, allowing its inhabitants to establish a visual connection with another from anywhere inside the house.
The Caretaker House is an instrument that enhances the lives of both the inhabitants and its neighboring wildlife by resonating their support and care for each other.
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URBAN PICNIC |
Liu Yimin - Xiang Xiaopeng
'Urban Picnic' represents a beautiful hope and expresses our pursuit of poetic life.
With the development of urbanization, many job opportunities are concentrated in urban centers where housing prices are too expensive to afford for the young. Consequently, many young people face the awkward situation of working in the city center while living in the suburbs. In this project, we focus on this social phenomenon, hoping to fully excavate the remaining space in the city center and place our custom units so that young people can better cope with this awkward time. In addition, considering the complex and diverse urban environment, we adopted a modular framework structure for customization and replacement.
In order to improve the quality of life within the limited living space, we designed a flexible furniture module and a custom garden module. The garden serves as a boundary between living and working while meeting the diverse needs of its occupants. Self-defined gardens can grow rich plants and act as an extension of living space and even a picnic spot. It is hoped that this garden can help users to get a respite from busy work and find inner peace in the noisy city.
With the development of urbanization, many job opportunities are concentrated in urban centers where housing prices are too expensive to afford for the young. Consequently, many young people face the awkward situation of working in the city center while living in the suburbs. In this project, we focus on this social phenomenon, hoping to fully excavate the remaining space in the city center and place our custom units so that young people can better cope with this awkward time. In addition, considering the complex and diverse urban environment, we adopted a modular framework structure for customization and replacement.
In order to improve the quality of life within the limited living space, we designed a flexible furniture module and a custom garden module. The garden serves as a boundary between living and working while meeting the diverse needs of its occupants. Self-defined gardens can grow rich plants and act as an extension of living space and even a picnic spot. It is hoped that this garden can help users to get a respite from busy work and find inner peace in the noisy city.