House 2020: Student Ideas Competition for a Smart House of the Future
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Aug 22, 201411 PMEDT
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BRIEF
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Students in Ontario undergraduate and graduate architecture, architectural technology, engineering, and environmental science/design programs are invited to participate in an ideas competition for a smart house of the future. Sponsored and coordinated by workshop, inc., This two stage design competition seeks proposals that are innovative, pragmatic, and that could lead to an actual built prototype.
Competition participants are encouraged to think openly and broadly about a smart house and changing life styles. For example, there is no fixed notion of family, number of occupants, or number of units on the site. Competitors can focus on certain categories of “smart” such as a) innovative land use planning and the creation of a community, b) building science including intelligent use of resources, energy conservation/production, and long-term sustainability, or c) technological innovation, efficiency, and convenience. Or she/he can take an approach that is comprehensive, addressing all of these categories. The house should be approximately 250 square metres (2500 square feet) to 400 square metres (4000 square feet) and imagined on a flat suburban site in Southern Ontario, 16 metres by 40 metres (52.5 feet by 131.25 feet), with similar lots continuing on either side.
WORKshop, Inc. is seeking ideas that are realizable, pragmatic, and cost-effective. In Stage One, students are invited to submit their proposal both digitally and on one A-1 sheet by Friday, August 22, 2014. A jury will then select three finalist projects for further development in Stage Two, which will be due at a date in the fall of 2014 to be determined.
JURY
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TED J. KESIK
Ted Kesik is professor of building science in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. He entered the construction industry in 1974 and has extensive experience in building enclosure design, energy modeling, systems integration, quality assurance, and performance verification. His research interests include high performance buildings, durability, life cycle assessment, systems integration, and sustainability. He continues as a consulting engineer to leading architectural offices, forward thinking enterprises, and progressive government agencies. Dr. Kesik is the author of numerous books, reports, and articles.
CAROL MOUKHEIBER
Carol Moukheiber, a graduate of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, is an Assistant Professor at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. She is a partner in the design practice Studio n-1 and the founder and co-Director of RAD, Responsive Architecture at Daniels, probing the impact of ubiquitous computing on architecture. She is the co-author of the living, breathing, thinking, responsive buildings of the future [Thames & Hudson 2012]. Her work has been published widely in academic and mainstream media.
COLIN RIPLEY
Colin Ripley is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University. He is also a director of RVTR (www.rvtr.com), which operates as a bridge between academic research practices and professional practices in architecture. RVTR has been extensively published and was awarded the 2009 Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture. Colin Ripley holds a Bachelor of Engineering from McMaster University, a Master of Science in theoretical physics from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University.
KIN YEUNG
A Hong Kong-based businessman and real estate developer turned designer, Kin Yeung established the luxury fashion brand, Blanc de Chine, in the late-1980s. He has long standing interests in architecture and was pioneering in developing The Octavia, a slender residential tower in Manhattan that won a Progressive Architecture design award. Kin Yeung founded
Toronto’s WORKshop centre in 2009 and continues to promote smart, responsible design,
from the scale of the body to the scale of the city.
AWARDS
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Stage One: Three finalists will each be awarded $500 and invited to participate in Stage Two
Stage Two: First: $1000 Second: $700 Third: $500
More information at house2020competition.com
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