Finalists of the Integrated Habitats Design Competition announced
RESET Development are pleased to announce that the eight finalists for the first ever UK Integrated Habitats Design Competition have now been announced. Submissions included entries from a variety of backgrounds including students, architects, ecologists, landscape designers and engineers. The judges were impressed by the diverse range of projects proposed and will be awarding prizes to the top three entries.
First prize of £2000, runner-up of £1000 and highly commended places will be presented as part of CIRIA’s bi-annual World Green Roof Congress at 6.00pm on Wednesday 15th September with the top three finalists also receiving a free ticket to the 2-day congress which is run in partnership with livingroofs.org. The eight finalist proposals will be published online and will also be showcased at the 5 week IHDC Exhibition will will open on Monday 13th September.
Based on a similar competition organised by the City of Portland in 2007, the IHDC emphasises the importance of biodiversity in the built environment. The competition invited holistic designs that integrate biodiversity, emphasising the value of good quality design that puts nature at its heart. Complete list of finalists after the break.
The IHDC Finalists in alphabetical order are:
City Park Hove
Maria Hawton-Mead, and Jon Turner and Fergus Carr of Turner Associates
Edge Hill Halls
Maria-Cristina Banceanu, Liverpool University architecture student
Happy Habitats
Phil Hampshire, Katherine Sydney, Aylin Ludwig, Laura Crawford, Celia Way, Victoria Wilson, Tamasine Scott, Buro Happold & Grant Associates
Matripolis
Paul Jones and David Dobereiner
National Wildflower Centre
Grant Luscombe, Ernst ter Horst, Julie Godefroy, Thomas Lefevre: Landlife with Ian Simpson Architects and Hoare Lea Engineers
Overflow Car Park
Claire Mookerjee and Mat Triebner
Satoyama
Hiroyuki Ichihara and Atsumi Sako
The Seed Catalogue
Susannah Hagan, Silvio Caputo, Mark Gaterell: Team RED
I think it`s really worthy to participate into the first ever UK Integrated Habitats Design Competition.
As the World Green Roof COngress is getting more interests….. will be helpfull to visit it.
Me and my colleagues are defenitely going to as part of our business
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