Title: The New Dwelling
Theme: Collective housing with lockdown cell
Location: The arq@challenge Virtual City (available in participants page)
Jury: J. M. Carvalho Araújo, Luca Donner, Luís Angel-Dominguez, Camilo Rebelo, Massimo Imparato
Arq@challenge is launching a competition for architects and architecture students from around the world to design a new housing model that could respond to the current and future challenges of living.
In times of pandemic, the world is at an impasse. And architecture resents that. Architecture today is changing - technology are changing it; the job market is changing, the studios are changing, but the pandemics are changing the core of the most essential function of architecture - thinking spaces for man to inhabit. All of a sudden, we were all faced with the need to the isolate ourselves or isolate people from our closest household when we are hit by a virus with name - SARS CoV2 - which had other names before, with other characteristics and most likely will have another name in the near future. A new housing model need to be invented - a New dwelling - integrating this new confining function. More versatile, probably more sustainable, but DIFFERENT.
The new housing model will be integrated on the arq@challenge virtual city, which is a non-site. It is a continuous construction. The arq@challenge virtual city does not have a topography yet, does not have houses yet, does not have public spaces yet, does not have public facilities, yet, does not yet have gardens. It has no place for now. But it will start by having different housing buildings. A model of New Dwelling. And the place can be built from this model. By the designers.
OUR VIRTUAL CITY:
Who can apply:
Architects, designers, students, or anyone interested, individually or in teams of a maximum of 2 elements
Registration fees:
60€ (including VAT) up to August 1, 2021
70€ (including VAT) from August 2, up to October 15, 2021
80€ (including VAT) from October 16 up to November 27, 2021
Calendar:
Deadline for delivery: November 29, 2021 (24 GMT)
Result announcement: December 17, 2021 (24 GMT)
Awards:
1st prize : 2000€ (including VAT)
2nd place: 1000€ (including VAT)
3rd place: 450€ (including VAT)
The 3 awarded projects will be permanently integrated in the arq@challenge virtual city and will be published both on the arq@challenge website and on the magazine Arqa - Arquitectura e Arte. All projects admitted to the competition will be listed on the arq@challenge website with the names of the participants. The winner project will also be presented in a video that will include an interview with its authors. That video will be published and promoted on arqchallenge’s website.