Habitat for Inhabitants Lima's Human Right to Housing STUDENT ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Habitat for Inhabitants
Lima’s Human Right to Housing

BRIEF

Lima is undergoing a continuous change even though its biggest contradiction remains unchanged: a three meters wall that runs over ten kilometers separates people of different social states. Thus, on one side of the wall, the barren landscape dominates, showing no green areas and only a few streets. This area is barely/rarely reached with water supply and electricity, and many small houses have been manually built, up to the top of the mountain. Conversely, on the other side of the wall luxury residences can be seen surrounded by thriving
vegetation, in addition to pools, high rises and many infrastructures for the population.
The division is strong.

By trying to improve internal safety, people follow the logic of exclusion.

Techo Perù is a non-profit association aimed at reducing poverty that affects millions of people in Perù by employing the combined action of the young volunteers and inhabitants.
DNADD and Techo share the same mission: transform the Right to Housing in the right of living in a decent house. Develop a new type of house that should be easily reproduced, satisfy the basic needs of Lima’s population and offer them a new place worthy to be called “home”.

Techo Perù aims at tackling this problem in Perù, providing a model of house which is donated to those families living in the most extreme conditions.
This competition proposes a redesign of the Techo’s model with the aim of improving those features of the house that are impaired at the moment.

Participants should develop a housing unit that is obtained from the combination of four different modules: family module, kitchen, bathroom, garden. After having evaluated the conditions of the houses owned by each family, it will be decided whether to build the entire house “ex novo” or just add the missing modules.

The house should be developed so that it can be self-constructed in a few days by volunteers.

SCHEDULE

9 August 2018
Early registrations start
27 September 2018
Early registrations end
28 September 2018
Standard registrations start
Period of questions ends
9 October 2018
Publication of answers in “Faq” section
9 November 2018
Standard registrations and material submission deadline
22 November 2018
Jury summoning
29 November 2018
Results announcement

Dnadd is a nonprofit association, therefore the competition is based on a fund-raising formula, necessary for the construction of the project in Lima, Peru.

AWARDS

1° PRIZE

1000€

possibility to take part, as a volunteer, in the construction in Lima, Perù
possibility to see the project published on architecture magazines
publication of the project on the website of the association and social networks
free partecipation to another DNADD competition

2° PRIZE

700€

publication of the project on the website of the association and social networks
free partecipation to another DNADD competition

3° PRIZE

300€

publication of the project on the website of the association and social networks
free partecipation to another DNADD competition

FEES

EARLY REGISTRATION: 60€
from 09/08/2018 to 27/09/2018

STANDARD REGISTRATION: 80€
from 28/09/2018 to 09/11/2018

JURY

José Roberto Paredes
Cincopatasalgato
El Salvador

Gonzalo Talavera
TECHO
Perù

Paolo Robazza
BAG Studio
Italia

Walter Juan Pablo Soto Barrenechea
Urban 95 Lima
Perù

Maria Antonia Barucco
IUAV
Italia

Habitat for Inhabitants Lima’s Human Right to Housing STUDENT ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION