RESILIENT HOMES CHALLENGE Free Architecture Competition

RESILIENT HOMES CHALLENGE

BRIEF

Natural disasters are on the rise. Since 1990, natural disasters have affected on average 217 million people every single year. Hundreds of floods, storms, heat waves and droughts have left about 606,000 people dead and 4.1 billion injured or homeless around the world since 1995. And it is often the poorest that suffer the most from these shocks.

As architects and engineers, we can design resilient and sustainable houses that both reduce the risk of damage and enable rapid reconstruction following a disaster.

The World Bank, Build Academy, Airbnb, and GFDRR are calling upon architects around the world to develop designs for resilient, modular and affordable homes that cost under $10,000.

Winning designs will be published and winners will be invited to exhibit at the World Bank in Washington DC, USA and other select global venues. Winning designs could also eventually inform resilient housing or reconstruction work for World Bank-funded projects in places like the Caribbean, South and East Asia, etc.

The competition calls for designing a modular house costing under $10,000 that should be easy to build.

The challenge has been designed for three scenarios. Design teams can submit designs for a single scenario or all three scenarios depending on their preference.

SCHEDULE

Submit your final proposal by November 30th, 2018, latest

A highly reputable Jury will select and announce the winners on December 14th, 2018

FEES

NO REGISTRATION FEE

JURY

Hashim Sarkis, PhD
Dean, MIT School of Architecture & Planning
Founding Principal, Hashim Sarkis Studios

Sonal Sancheti
Partner
Opolis Architects

Sameh Wahba
Director, Social, Rural, Urban and Resilience Global Practice, World Bank Group

Pablo Allard
Dean of School of Art and Architecture
Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile
Elizabeth Hausler, PhD
Founder & CEO
Build Change

Eric Cesal
Special Projects Director
Curry Stone Foundation