Bee Breeders Architecture Compeititons has announced new competition to fill Hong Kong's vacant pixel-sized spots of the land with designs for creative, yet feasible, residential buildings that could work to alleviate the city's affordable housing crisis.

Hong Kong Pixel Homes competition is live now with a total prize fund of US $6,000. With a total prize fund of US $6,000, the Hong Kong Pixel Home architecture competition is now calling for submissions with the final registration deadline of April 26.

Hong Kong is one of the most expensive and densely populated cities on Earth. With over 7 million people living on an island just 1,102 square km in size, where the population is constantly struggling for space. Like other major cities around the world, Hong Kong is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis. The strict limitations on space mean that there is a capped supply of housing on the island. A limited supply, paired with an ever-growing demand, has caused Hong Kong housing prices to skyrocket.

Helping to ease this problem The Hong Kong Pixel Home architecture competition participants are tasked to utilize the Hong Kong's last remaining pixel-sized spots of the land to design affordable residential buildings that will help alleviate the city’s housing crisis and support its low and middle class community struggle for accommodation.

There is no set competition site, but participants are limited to a single area of just 100 m2, a size that would be considered problematic for high-level construction in any city in the world other than Hong Kong – the land of tiny footprint skyscrapers!

Programme

Design a pilot-phase concept for affordable housing within Hong Kong, which can be easily rolled out to increase the capacity of housing stock and is minimal in its use of land and materials.

No minimum size or amount of residential units per block is defined. Proposals should be flexible enough to adopt to various sizes with multiple inhabitant capacity requirements.

Designs for the Hong Kong Pixel Homes should be versatile to adapt to different locations across the city and be flexible, allowing adjustments to be made in order to suit different residential capacity requirements.

Eligibility

Competition is open to all. No professional qualification is required. Design proposals can be developed individually or by teams (4 team members maximum).

Language

Correspondence with organizers must be conducted in English. All information submitted by participants must be in English. 

Prizes

Total prize for construction: US $6,000

1st prize: US $3,000 / Publications Certificate of Achievement

2nd prize: US $1,500 / Publications Certificate of Achievement

3rd prize: US $ 500 / Publications Certificate of Achievement

BB Student Award: US $ 500 / Publications Certificate of Achievement

BB Green Award: US $ 500 / Publications Certificate of Achievement

The competition will select 6 Honorable Mentions. The winners will get international art and design media coverage and will be featured on the Bee Breeders website and social pages. 

Jury members include John Paul Rysavy - Associate at SHoP Architects, Daniel Jacops, SHoP Architects, Brittany Utting from Thomas Phifer and Partners, Jenna Dezinski from University of Texas at Austin. See the full list of jury members. 

To download competition brief, images and see registration fees visit the competition website. World Architecture Community is Media Partner for the competition. See Bee Breeders' other competitions on World Architecture Community's Competitions page. 

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