Open Source House Design Competition

Deadline : May 17th, 2010

Our Design Competition starts on January 15th, 2010 and is open for team or individual participation. The challenge is to design a sustainable house in an expandable way. The modular construction should be suitable for local implementation and affordable for its future owners. The winner will have his/her design built in Ghana.

Design Competition Brief
1. The first step is to Sign Up for the competition.
By doing so, you'll automatically become a platform member and will be kept up to date with:
• Latest news regarding the Design Competition
• Workshops
• Interactive sessions
• Research Findings
• 8 principles
• Activities in congresses and Universities

2. Discover the OS House platform while becoming an active member
Once inside you'll rapidly get familiar with the intuitive environment we have set for you. By clicking through our 100% sustainable architecture content you'll find ready-to-download designs and information created during our workshops and creative sessions.

This content is our open knowledge database. To keep it growing os-house's platform is currently open to receive any material you have. So, if you have any sketch ideas, drawings or vision on sustainable housing, upload it and share it.

To start building your personal network, whether you invite a friend to become a member and/or contact members for a chat session to exchange each other’s point of view on sustainable housing.
We also strongly recommend to post comments on the frequently uploaded articles, news and trends on sustainable housing.

3. The Design Competition starts January 15th, 2010
The challenge will be to design an eco-affordable house according to 8 eco-architecture principles which stimulate:
1. Affordability
2. Exchangeability
3. Sustainability.

All the detailed information such as judging criteria and the Design Case will be published on the platform as soon as the competition kicks-off. These are some of the criteria that will be taken into account to evaluate all submitted designs.
• Affordability
• Contextual fit
• Uniqueness of idea
• Technical viability

Background information
OS-house conducted a research in Ghana to get a better understanding of Ghana's housing situation. These research findings contain essential information that will help you create a design with a higher social, technical and economical viability.

During this research many Ghanaian students got involved in the project and will join the competition. Imagine using Ghanaian input in your design phase. The input you received during a chat session with an architect student or a local builder who not only lives in Ghana, but is also interested in creating housing solutions in his/her neighborhood. That unique country knowledge and involvement is nowhere else available and will definitely help you submit a tailored-environment house design.

4. Deadline and submission format.
May 17th, 2010. Before this date all designs must be submitted digitally. The Design Case, which will be published on the 17th of January, describes the format and drawings to deliver. Contestants are asked to deliver designs considering all house components -foundation, structure, floor, facade, roof- and its set of connections.

5. The winning design
To test the technical and economical feasibility as well as the social perception, the winning design will be build in a pilot project in Ghana. Joining the competition is your chance to establish your name as an architect while witnessing your design being built and used by its new residents.
Also the design of the best University and Design Agency will be awarded.

6. The Open Source Phase
After the Design Competition all submitted designs will be published on the OS-house platform. Here they are available for further improvement as well as for local builders, who can implement them. Whether from a western, eastern, northern or southern country, everyone will be invited to bring in new designs and improvements to designs already available.

Source : http://www.os-house.org/

Republish by : NORBERTUS CITRA IRAWAN, SP - www.competitions.co.nr

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