d3 has just announced the winners of its annual Housing Tomorrow competition, a competition that urges its participants to "deploy innovative, socially- and environmentally-engaged approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects" in order to determine "new architectonic strategies for living in the future." As always, the results are fantastic, thought-provoking visions of a more sustainable world. See the winners, after the break.
The jury, consisting of Michael Gonzales, University of Houston; John Tsai, JT Arc Studio; Jonathan Wimmel, Prozign Architects; Ji Young Kim, Shigeru Ban Architects; and Gregory Marinic, University of Houston, awarded three prizes and fourteen special mentions this year:
First Prize
Aboveground Anomaly / Tiffany Szeto (Hong Kong)
Second Prize
Primitive Rise / Kwang Min Lee, Kenny Kim, Jae Hyun Kim, Hyung Gyu Kim (Korea-USA)
Third Prize
Trans-scraper 2050: Eco-Colonization / Yuen Fung Cheung, Artur Nitribitt (Hong Kong-Poland)
Special Mention: Infrastructural Housing
ScarCity / Haitham Nabil Mohamed Mousa (Egypt)
Special Mention: Landscape Intervention
Living in the Dunes / Amir Shahrad, Mehdi Panahi (Iran)
Special Mention: Medium-Density Housing
Mutant Housing: Temporal Living Adaptations / César Buquerín de la Iglesia (Spain)
Special Mention: Interior Architecture
High_Res / Andrew Isaac Ng, Max Obata, Daniel Kobran (Canada-USA)
Special Mention: Modular Housing
Cellular Life / Deacon Lee, Seounghoon Lee, Eunjoo Lee, Miyeun Oh, Sungsik Moon (Korea)
Special Mention: Deployable Housing
Return to Paradise / Emilia Cap, Aleksandra Gorzała, Marta Kapłan (Poland)
Special Mention: Extreme Environment
Fortress Barge: Housing for Tomorrow / Pierre Thach, Long Chuan Zhang (Canada-Denmark)
Special Mention: Sustainable Vernacular
Jakarta: A New Informalism / Eric Jap (Taiwan)
Special Mention: Adaptive Reuse
Adapted Living: New Housing for New York / Ji Hyun Han, Ju Eui Lee, Hyun Suk Lee (Korea)
Special Mention: Urban Intervention
Housing In-Between / Yike Peng and Youyi Wang (China)
Special Mention: Dystopian Vision
Rhizome: An Anti-Oedipus Manifesto / Hanis Abd Razak, Qaisy Jaslenda, Muhammad Hazim Azami, Nik Amirul Faiz (Malaysia)
Special Mention: New York Award
Eidos / Carlo Bailey, Lorenzo Villaggi (UK-Italy)
Special Mention: Directors’ Choice
Swarm Housing / Alireza Memarian, Mahsa Dehghani, Kiana Karimi (Iran)
Special Mention: Directors’ Choice
Architect for 15 Minutes / Christina Karamalli (Cyprus)
From d3. The d3 Housing Tomorrow competition calls for transformative solutions that advance sustainable thought, building performance, and social interaction through study of intrinsic geometries, social behaviors, urban implications, and programmatic flows. Special emphasis may be placed on housing concepts that investigate dialogues including engagement of socio-economic diversity, change and adaptability over time, public and private spatial connectivity, and temporality of materials. d3 challenges participants to rethink strategies for investigating residential design from macro-to-micro scales ranging from urban—promoting broader physical interconnectivity; communal—exploiting an interaction of units with shared facilities; and internal—examining the interior particularity of the unit, individual, or family in housing design toward promoting identity, ownership, and intimacy.
The Housing Tomorrow 2014 exhibition will be on view in the Atrium Gallery at the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture through March 17, 2014.
