Student competition proposes reimagining the notion of home

The 21st edition of the student competition was titled Home. The brief challenged participants to design a home for their family in their hometown, with the program, location, and project area decided by the competitors themselves. The competition stands out because participants have only 24 hours between the release of the brief and the project submission. The results were announced on January 30th.

We are our origins transformed by time and life experiences. We are always what is made of us and what we allow to be made of us. We are part of a team, a blood type, and a skin color that we are taught, from an early age, to call family. Over time, we learn to detach from it and let adventure take us far away, to another, less safe place, but full of new experiences. We transform ourselves to relearn everything anew, return to the land that cradled us, and once again be able to call it family. And if all of this can fit inside a house, beyond family, we will have a Home.

Discover the winning projects below:

1st Place

Team: Anna Maksimova, Anfisa Mishchenko
City: Moscow, Russia

2nd Place

Team: David Emmons, Claire Gaspin
City: Champaign, United States

3rd Place

Team: Seo Won Choi, Jiyun Jung
City: Cambridge, United States 

Honorable Mentions

Team: Mateusz Binkowski, Joanna Targowicz
City: Poznań, Poland

Team: Sanja Avramoska, Valbona Fejza
City: Skopje, Macedonia

Team: Aleksander Novoselov
City: Moscow, Russia

Team: Tong Shi, YuanYuan Yang
City: Shanghai, China

Team: Luiza Matias, Pedro Medina, Fernanda Frias, Julia Fonseca,  Margot Nouaille
City: Niterói, Brazil

Team: Tatiana Panchenko, Lidiya Pokrovskaya, Denis Chernov
City: Moscow, Russia 

Team: Arsen Sakhabutdinov, Alexey Kotelnikov
City: Ufa, Russia

See past and upcoming competitions organized by Ideasforward here.

Ideasforward is an experimental platform that seeks progressive ideas reflecting emerging issues. Ecological design, sustainable architecture, new materials, concepts, and technologies are crucial challenges for future societies, making the active involvement of the entire community essential. In an era of globalization, where communication is dominated by technological revolution, there is a pressing need to rethink cities and how people relate to a globalized world, as well as to reassess the economic, social, and cultural frameworks of contemporary societies.