THE SMALL HOUSE OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN AWARD Student Architecture Competition

THE SMALL HOUSE OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN AWARD

BRIEF

The Small House of Universal Design Award aims at furthering this concept on a global scale. Universal Design calls out to architects, designers, entrepreneurs, students and all institutions throughout Europe to participate in a competition of a slightly different kind.

On the occasion of 100 years of German Bauhaus, the aim for participants of the award is to design a concept for a small house including the creation of a model, — following Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius’ original definition of a school of building pursuing a “total” work of art through
interdisciplinarity.

Its fundamental themes include a focus on simplifying and furthering artisanal
handicrafts. In a Universal Design, this also means to think of the human as the centre and beginning of all design originating from there. When creating a small house, this means to increase functionality through contemporary design, focused on ideal proportions and needs of the human to live in it.

SCHEDULE

The period for registration ends on October 15th, 2018.

AWARDS

A total selection of 20 of the most outstanding entries will be exhibited at the Ernst Neufert Box in Weimar, Germany. The top submission will be awarded 2,000 € price money. It is furthermore planned to realise and build the house in Japan following the design of the top submission

FEES

Company: 800,- €
Professional individuals: 500,- €
Start-ups (within 5 years after starting a business):
300,- €
University/School (group): 200,- €
Students: 100,-€

JURY

The jury consists of five multi-disciplinary experts,headed by its chair, Prof. Wolfgang Sattler (Bauhaus University Weimar and chairman of Universal Design Forum e.V.)

THE SMALL HOUSE OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN AWARD Student Architecture Competition