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DESIGN COMPETITION FOR STUDENTS AND NEW GRADUATESOF ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING PROGRAMMES

INSTANTHOUSE
TEMPORARY HOUSING UNITS
FOR EXPO 2015' S YOUNG GUESTS

1. Foreword
On the occasion of MADEexpo 2010 (Milano Architettura Design Edilizia), the tradefair event which will take place between 3rd and 6th February 2010 at the Fieramilano exhibition centre in Rho, FederlegnoArredo srl intends to promote a competition aimed at selecting projects which highlight architecture which is sensitive to the environment and territory, to sustainability and the need for human wellbeing and quality of life.

A 1:1 scale prototype will be made of the winning project, to be displayed at the international MADE EXPO 2010 event.

The competition is aimed at students and new graduates from the faculties of architecture, engineering and industrial design (Italian and foreign), in possession of the requirements referred to in this announcement.

2. Promoter
The competition is a FederlegnoArredo srl initiative for MADEexpo, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano.

3. Theme and specific objectives of the competition
Environment and soundscape of contemporary metropolises.
One of the most significant aspects of new urban settlements is the congestion which originates from the necessary cohabitation of functions which are often in conflict with each other.

In particular, in the Milan metropolis, the need to introduce infrastructural systems into a highly anthropised territory requires us to rethink not only the technical and morphological properties of the networks, but above all the ways of designing existing and future life in relation to the possibility of living side by side with the constant noise pollution and harmful CO2 emissions. The environment becomes one of the fundamental paradigms for the formulation of new residential hypothesises which originate from a more structural relationship with the context in which, on the protective green belt, a landscape is created in which to live (in the widest sense). Nature and topography try out new urban possibilities in contexts which are today considered marginal and extreme.

The theme is that of the instant house, A TEMPORARY RESIDENTIAL MINI-UNIT linked to the presence of young people with high levels of territorial mobility connected to particular metropolitan events.

The project envisages the search for locations in the vicinity of important infrastructure systems (bypasses, motorways, airports, railways and new routes etc.) in which to locate groups or individual elements of temporary residential units and their services. The response to noise and atmospheric pollution will give shape to new settlements, not only through the correct application of new technologies but also through the shape and position of the manufactured articles, the use of open space and the relationship with the landscape and the infrastructure. The new material must also contribute to an experimental strategy.

PRIZES
1st:1500 euros + 1:1 prototype
2nd: 1000 euros
3rd:750 euros

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