GreenWORKS Design Competition

The City of Santa Fe and Enterprise Green Communities are sponsoring GreenWORKS, an open design competition in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The objective of the competition is to design a multi-unit, residential housing compound on a quarter acre city-owned vacant lot in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, that will provide a designated number of affordably-priced homes.

GreenWORKS challenges designers to

1. provide a site design that allows as many as six homes;
2. determine a realistic development budget that addresses the required affordability program as well as the costs of using cost-effective, sustainable design and building methods;
3. comply with a ‘green’ building checklist that incorporates Enterprise Green Communities Criteria and the City of Santa Fe’s proposed Green Building Code;
4. create a replicable development model to shape future land use policy in Santa Fe regarding infill projects and green-built projects;
5. integrate the historic character of the neighborhood in the design; and
6. incorporate community input into the design process.

http://www.greenworkscompetition.org/