HOME Competition 2018

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?

[ JURY ]

Jimenez Lai - Bureau Spectacular

Liam Young - Tomorrow's Thoughts Today, Unknown Fields

Ivi Diamantopoulou - New Affiliates

Andrew Zago - Zago Architecture

Jason Payne - Hirsuta

David Benjamin - The Living

Anne Lise Kjaer - Kjaer Global

S/he_new-territories / Francois Roche

Carlo Ratti - Carlo Ratti Associati

[ REWARDS ]

OVERALL WINNER - $2,500 USD

INNOVATION AWARD - $1000 USD 

ADAPTABILITY AWARD - $1000 USD

PRAGMATIC AWARD - $1000 USD

TOTAL AWARDS PACKAGE - $5000 USD

[ 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.

[ REGISTRATION ]  

Registration is open to individuals and teams of two. 

$40   Advance Entry (Before 04/02) 

$60   Early Entry (Before 06/04)

$80   Final Entry (After 07/31)

Submission Deadline (08/01)

Results Announcement (08/31)

Visit thehomecompetition.com to learn more. Contact [email protected] with any questions.

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