Who's Next

The Challenge:

Freegreen.com is challenging you to develop affordable green home designs that fit contemporary lifestyles. There are a lot of people who want a new home but don’t want a generic suburban McMansion. The American dream is not one size fits all. Our dreams are changing, and FreeGreen is challenging, you, the residential design community, to develop new ideas for people who don’t dream of the generic. The single family home is the most commonly built building in America, but less than 5 percent of the homes built in America have direct involvement with an Architect. The challenge of the Who’s Next competition is to re-envision the typical suburban home in an ecologically conscious manner that also reflects today’s modern lifestyle. Competitors will select one of two user profiles (see right) and design a single family home that fits their chosen profile. All homes designed in this contest must be 1800 Sq. Ft. or less.

Why You Should Enter:

It’s Easy

All you have to deliver is nine images and image descriptions. No boards, no presentations, no complications. Just nine slides that will be uploaded in a Facebook style onto the competition website.

It’s Affordable

Our entry fee is just $50 prior to 12/31/09 2009 or $100 from 1/1/10 to 2/15/10. Our goal is to get, and promote as many entrants as possible so we created an entry fee that is manageable.

It’s Useful

There is of course a cash prize of $5,000. We expect to drive over 500K visitors to our contest viewing and voting site, on which you and/or your firm will be promoted. For the top three entries, FreeGreen will turn your designs into a house plan. FreeGreen will place this house plan on our Open Source Site for sale (at whatever price you want), and you will retain the rights to this house plan using it as you wish. You will also receive 70% of all revenue from sales made of your plan on the FreeGreen Open Source Site.

For full details please visit www.freegreen.com/whosnext/