MIcro Housing 2019 Architecture Competition

Call For Ideas: MIcro Housing 2019 Architecture Competition, Micro Housing 2019 Architecture Competition invites you to rethink and reimagine the idea of urban dwellings and come up with inventive solutions to the persistent issues of space crunch and growing population in our cities.

Since the beginning of time, a HOME has continued to be an entity that is intimate to all living beings on the planet. Apart from being a physical shelter for humans and their daily lives, a home forms a distinct, intimate connection with its users.

Today, across the globe, we are experiencing a rise in densely populated urban areas, along with a lack of land resources to provide sufficient housing for the masses. This phenomenon has given rise to a new movement of Micro-Housing; one that commands the idea of simple but inventive living in today’s urban areas.

The concept of these revolutionary homes encourages making the innovation of maximum functional area in a minimum footprint, thus redefining the perception of Sustainability in urban dwellings. With the idea of Micro-Housing, designers are now coming up with various, inventive solutions to solve the persistent issue of ‘space crunch’ in cities to provide the imperative requirement of respectable housing to as many people as possible.

Opportunity

People today are facing financial and environmental concerns along with the aspiration to improve their standard of living and have more freedom in the realm of urban housing. This has led them to follow modest and efficient ways of living.

The world now, with development in technology and smart living concepts, is looking at innovative design ideas to create residential spaces that offer suburban serenity and urban energy while optimizing the functionality of the habitable areas. The users looking for residences today know the value of space and want sustainable, safe and functional homes. We now have a golden opportunity to bring innovative, unconventional design concepts for creating resourceful spaces complete with the personal touch of homeliness to the otherwise conservative world of residential architecture. We invite designers around the world, belonging to various factions, to create inventive, experimental architectural solutions which would surprise today’s housing market and call for a sense of living based on community spirit.

Arranged in self-contained, integrated communities, the residential units would be representative of innovation and creativity in the modularity of spaces. It’s time to design novel residential communities that reflect the ideology of ‘less is more’.

“It is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need.
Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. The reason is simple: without stable shelter, everything else falls apart.” -

Mathew Desmond
American Sociologist

submission deadline:

27 sep 2019

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