arch out loud is calling for ideas for its new competition called "HOME". “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," said 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?

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.

Jury

Jimenez Lai

Liam Young

Ivi Diamantopoulou 

Andrew Zago 

Jason Payne 

David Benjamin

+ More to Come

Schedule

Competition Release: Feb 1, 2018

$40 Advanced Entry Begins: Feb 1, 2018

$40 Advanced Entry Ends: April 2, 2018

$60 Early Entry Begins: April 3, 2018

$60 Early Entry Ends: June 4, 2018

$80 Final Entry Begins: June 5, 2018

$80 Final Entry Ends: July 31, 2018

Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018

Results Announced:  August 31, 2018

Register to HOME via competition's website.

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