Building Trust international have just announced a new open design competition, which 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. Building Trust international 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 alongside 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.
The competition brief can be downloaded from below:
http://www.buildingtrustinternational.org/competition.html
http://www.buildingtrustinternational.org/HOMEbrief.pdf
Final date for registration - 30th June 2012 Closing date for all submissions - 31st July 2012
Announcement of winners to be posted on www.buildingtrustinternational.org - 15th August 2012
