Exploration of contextual, cultural, and life cycle flows offers a critical lens for visualizing new housing strategies for living in the future.  The d3 Housing Tomorrow competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore, document, analyze, transform, and deploy innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects.

Established in 2010, the annual d3 Housing Tomorrow competition has grown to become a leading voice in alternative residential architecture and one of the most notable international awards in speculative, performance-based housing design. The d3 Housing Tomorrow competition for 2015 invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore, document, analyze, transform, and deploy innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects.  The competition calls for transformative solutions that advance sustainable thought, building performance, and social interaction through study of intrinsic environmental geometries, social behaviors, urban implications, and programmatic flows.  Special emphasis may be placed on housing concepts that investigate dialogues including engagement of internal/external socio-economic diversity, change/adaptability over time, public/private spatial connectivity, and permanence/impermanence of materials.  d3 challenges participants to rethink strategies for investigating residential design from macro-to-micro scales ranging from urban—promoting broader physical interconnectivity; communal—exploiting an interaction of units with shared facilities; and internal—examining the interior particularity of the unit, individual, or family in housing design toward promoting identity, ownership, and intimacy.

An architecture of emergence suggests that design expression requires purpose beyond formal assumption and aesthetic experimentation itself.  Concurrent with sustainable thought, the d3 Housing Tomorrow competition assumes that architecture does not simply form, but rather perform various functions beyond those conventionally associated with residential buildings.  Accordingly, design submissions must be environmentally responsible while fostering inventive conceptual living solutions for today and tomorrow.  Although proposals should be technologically feasible, they may suggest fantastical architectural visions of a sustainable residential future.

The d3 Housing Tomorrow competition allows designers freedom to approach their creative process in a scale-appropriate manner, from large-scale master planning endeavors, to individual building concepts, to notions of the interior realm.  Although there are no restrictions on site, scale, program, or residential building typology, proposals should carefully address their selected context.

Registration Begins:September 23, 2014

Registration Deadline:January 20, 2015

Submission Deadline:February 1, 2015

Jury Convenes:February 2015

Results Announced:March 2015

Summary Publication:TBD

Jury

AZAROFF_illya

Illya is a registered architect, artist, and Director of Design at the  LAB, an experimental arts group that works across multiple disciplines.  Illya's cross-disciplinary design approach has given him opportunities to write and lecture extensively on collaborative processes and his work.  He is currently a faculty member at CUNY and SVA-School for Visual Arts, and has lectured at Pratt Institute, NYIT, and Penn State.  His award-winning work has been shown in Austria, Germany, Korea, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, and throughout the United States.  His critical essays and projects have been published in the New York Times, The Village Voice, and Oculus Magazine.  Illya serves as Vice President for Design Excellence at the AIA New York Chapter. He is a member of the advisory board for Fulcrum magazine and co-chairs the Exhibitions Committee at the Center for Architecture in New York City.

MANACK_marc
Since 2001, Manack has worked with Robert Maschke Architects in Cleveland where he has been responsible for the design and realization of numerous award-winning projects. In 2006, Manack co-founded SILO ARD to explore architectural projects with an experimental approach, employing the unique qualities of site and context with functional, budgetary, logistical, and aesthetic demands to create unanticipated results.  Manack currently teaches design studios at Ohio State University’s Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture.  He previously taught at Kent State University's College of Architecture and Environmental Design.

MASCHKE_robert
Robert Maschke established Cleveland-based RMA in 1997, and since, has been responsible for the delivery of numerous arts, commercial, and residential projects worldwide.  RMA has cultivated  a design sensibility that is timeless, articulated, and meticulous.  Maschke believes that engaging current issues allows for a fuller participation in the dialogue that shapes built culture.  As a member of the American Institute of Architects, Robert Maschke has been the recipient of several honors and awards.  He serves as lecturer, design critic, and curator of the 1point618 Gallery in the historic Gordon Square neighborhood in Cleveland.

McKEE_sandra
Sandra McKee is a principal of the New York- and Tokyo-based firm Yoshihara McKee Architects.  Prior to establishing her own practice, she was project director at Rafael Vinoly architects where she collaborated on various projects including the Tokyo Forum, Lehman College Sports Facility, Philadelphia Kimmel Center, Carl Icahn Laboratory at Princeton University, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and the City College School of Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture. She is a graduate of the University of Waterloo, Canada.  Sandra teaches at Columbia University and Fordham University and acts as a visiting critic at design schools including Yale, Columbia, Pratt Institute, and CUNY.  Sandra is a registered architect in New York State and a member of the American Institute of Architects.

SCHLACHTER_mary-jo
Co-founder of d3, has been based in New York since 1999.  Mary-Jo holds the Bachelor of Science degree in Design of the Environment and the Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania.  She is a registered architect in New York and committee member of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) Green Codes Task Force.  Prior to independent practice, Mary-Jo worked extensively in affordable housing and high-end residential in various New York architectural firms including Beth Cooper Lawrence, Raffaella Bortoluzzi, and Bruno Kearney .  Mary-Jo teaches graduate-level courses in architectural design at Pratt Institute.  Her architectural and installation work has been exhibited in Philadelphia, New York, and Savannah.

SIEWEKE_jorg
Jorg Sieweke is a German urban designer and landscape architect.  He joined the faculty of the landscape architecture graduate program at the University of Virginia in 2009.  Sieweke has taught design studios and undertaken research at various universities and academies in Dresden, Berlin, and Stuttgart.  For the past decade, Sieweke has engaged in the fields of urbanism and landscape design and practiced at several firms in Berlin.  Sieweke earned a diploma in landscape architecture and a Master of Urban Design from the Berlin School of Art.  He is the recipient of numerous awards, as well as the author and subject of magazine articles and co-author of the book Atlas IBA-Hamburg. Along with his teaching, Sieweke was successfully invested in design competitions in his own firm, _scapes, founded in 2001. His on-going dissertation work reflects methodologies inherent in design by identifying criteria that address implicit concepts of design, as well as contemporary notions of landscape.  His focus in design theory is centered on the implications of modernization in urban landscapes and the agency of landscape architecture toward mediating these processes. Jorg Sieweke is director of ParadoxCity, a design-research initiative investigating a series of delta cities including New Orleans, Venice, Baltimore, and Hamburg.

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