The City of Santa Fe and Enterprise Green Communities are sponsoring GreenWORKS, an open design competition in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The objective of the competition is to design a multi-unit, residential housing compound on a quarter acre city-owned vacant lot in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, that will provide a designated number of affordably-priced homes.

GreenWORKS challenges designers to

1. provide a site design that allows as many as six homes;
2. determine a realistic development budget that addresses the required affordability program as well as the costs of using cost-effective, sustainable design and building methods;
3. comply with a ‘green’ building checklist that incorporates Enterprise Green Communities Criteria and the City of Santa Fe’s proposed Green Building Code;
4. create a replicable development model to shape future land use policy in Santa Fe regarding infill projects and green-built projects;
5. integrate the historic character of the neighborhood in the design; and
6. incorporate community input into the design process.

http://www.greenworkscompetition.org/