CABIN FEVER - Hello Wood Summer School 2018

Register/Submit Deadline: Sunday, Apr 22, 201811:59 PMCEST

Hello Wood is looking for proposals that aim to uncover the hidden root causes of the cabin fever phenomenon. Using the typology of cabins as the platform for expression, and collaborative building as a self-analysing group therapy.

The urge to create one’s own cabin has reached a truly wide range of devotees, from those who followed Rousseau and reconnected to nature by building their own huts, through the urban nomads of today, or people for whom minimal living space is not a choice but a survival necessity, to even industrial giants as MUJI or IKEA.
We’ve all got the cabin fever.
How could one architectural typology serve so many, often contradictory conditions? To explore this, we have gathered a wide range of possible approaches to address this complex topic of the “cabin fever” phenomenon. See more about the topic here: www.hellowoodfestival.com/topic

ABOUT HELLO WOOD
Hello Wood is a 9 day long event where academics, practicing architects and students from all over the world come together in the scenic countryside of Hungary to collaborate on projects for a week. It's a learning environment where the ethos of "thinking with our hands" meets critical thinking.
In the past 8 years we have had the honour of welcoming professionals and practices like Alfredo Brillembourg (Urban Think-Tank), Andres Lepik, Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT) or Kosmos Architects and students and academics from universities around the world such as Columbia GSAPP, TU Delft, ETH, the Architecture Association, University of Liverpool, to just name a few, who contributed to our educational initiatives.

WHAT SHOULD YOU DESIGN?
We are looking for spectacular designs of your interpretations of the topic, using cabins as the method for expression.

successful proposals will be:

inhabitable all year round
addressing the topic
sustainable (mainly timber construction)
incorporating the available materials
possible to build during summer school
transportable
with max estimated cost: 12,000 EUR

For the complete list of criteria, please refer to the Open Call document

WHAT DOES HELLO WOOD OFFER?

accommodation and food
travel from Budapest
work equipment
professional consultation
prefabrication
2m³ planed wood
team of selected architecture students and a carpenter
international publications
high quality documentation

COMPETITION JURY:
Javier Villar and Máté Mészáros - Kengo Kuma & Associates, Tokyo
Markus Bader, Raumlabor, Berlin
Theodore Molloy, PUP Architects, London

SCHEDULE
March 2018 application to architectural competition opens
22nd April 2018 competition deadline for submitting proposals
29th April 2018 announcement of winning proposals
April - 30th May 2018 developing proposals to final plans
8th June 2018 deadline for submitting final plans
7th - 16th July 2018 CABIN FEVER Hello Wood Summer School 2018