The 2024 Davidson Prize longlist explores the theme ‘Rethinking Home — Adapt and Reuse’

The 2024 longlist for the £25,000 (USD $31,600) Davidson Prize has been announced for its third edition. Responding to the theme of ‘Rethinking Home — Adapt and Reuse,’ entrants were asked to create new homes using recycled materials and/or retrofitting existing structures. The contest is aimed at designing solutions to help address the UK's housing shortage within the context of climate change.

According to the competition organizers, judges are “looking for cross-disciplinary approaches that advance discussion around sustainable solutions to the housing crisis, innovative ways of communicating these ideas to non-architectural audiences, and an awareness of viability, and how projects might engage with communities, social enterprises, local authorities, housebuilders and/or developers.”

A desire to incorporate the principles of co-design and co-building, skills and materials exchange, education and workshops, on-site food production and urban farming, urban and rural wilding, and local circular economies were present throughout the longlisted submissions.

Speaking in a press release, Duncan Campbell, Director of Atelier Ten and member of the judging panel, said: “The 2024 Davidson Prize longlist demonstrates the diversity of ideas around the future of housing in the UK. As an engineer focusing on sustainable solutions, it has been brilliant to see teams thinking creatively about regeneration and bringing nature back into urban and industrial settings through the use of clever design with exciting and interesting approaches to communicating their ideas.”

The 2024 Davidson Prize longlisted finalists are:

GROUND Practice (Tropisms / German Nieva, Yasmin Lennon-Chong, Elena Tamosiunaite) – The Pylon Network (cover image)

Alma-nac, Constant SD, Eric Guibert, Mark Blackwell – Robin Hood Co-Living Community

Artefact, Albion Stone, Civic Square, JCLA, Webb Yates, B-Side – Bedrock

Ben Taylor with Line Undrawn, Dr Matthew Creasey and Charlotte Airey – Regeneration Rent

Biomimicry Atelier – CHUTE

Gatti Routh Rhodes (with St. Anne’s Hoxton, Bernadette Cunningham and Webb Yates) – Heavenly Mansions

Goldstein Heather, Civic Engineers and Jessica Davey – PLATT-PACKA HUS

Hewin, Rizzle + Baise – The Flax Works

Hope, Hummocks & Flarks – Hope Point Neighbourhood

Intervention Architecture with Birmingham School of Architecture and Design, Save Smallbook Ringway, Zero Carbon House, Webb Yates Engineers and Sean Burns – QWEENsway Ringway

Leep Class Q – Agri-Fabric

Loyn + Co Architects –Inside + outside

NewCommon – The Food Collective: A Hundred Year Cookbook

OEB Architects / Yaa Projects / Nick Bano / Dominic Humphrey / Stuti Bansal – Harlow Re-New Town

Pollard Thomas Edwards, Material Index, KNArchitects – The Exchange

Studio Saar, Landstory, Stories, BAS, Megaphone Media – Apartment Store

Tuckey Design Studio, Office Sian, Poplar HARCA, Studio Knight Stokoe, Webb Yates Engineers, Jane Derges – The Nest