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Who’s Next
Register: Monday, February 15, 2010
Submit: Monday, March 01, 2010
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The Challenge:

Freegreen.com is challenging you to develop affordable green home designs that fit contemporary lifestyles. There are a lot of people who want a new home but don’t want a generic suburban McMansion. The American dream is not one size fits all. Our dreams are changing, and FreeGreen is challenging, you, the residential design community, to develop new ideas for people who don’t dream of the generic. The single family home is the most commonly built building in America, but less than 5 percent of the homes built in America have direct involvement with an Architect. The challenge of the Who’s Next competition is to re-envision the typical suburban home in an ecologically conscious manner that also reflects today’s modern lifestyle. Competitors will select one of two user profiles (see right) and design a single family home that fits their chosen profile. All homes designed in this contest must be 1800 Sq. Ft. or less.

Why You Should Enter:

It’s Easy

All you have to deliver is nine images and image descriptions. No boards, no presentations, no complications. Just nine slides that will be uploaded in a Facebook style onto the competition website.

It’s Affordable

Our entry fee is just $50 prior to 12/31/09 2009 or $100 from 1/1/10 to 2/15/10. Our goal is to get, and promote as many entrants as possible so we created an entry fee that is manageable.

It’s Useful

There is of course a cash prize of $5,000. We expect to drive over 500K visitors to our contest viewing and voting site, on which you and/or your firm will be promoted. For the top three entries, FreeGreen will turn your designs into a house plan. FreeGreen will place this house plan on our Open Source Site for sale (at whatever price you want), and you will retain the rights to this house plan using it as you wish. You will also receive 70% of all revenue from sales made of your plan on the FreeGreen Open Source Site.

For full details please visit http://www.freegreen.com/whosnext/

Comments:
rolando
kentucky
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
the idea seems noble but the reality is that a good "GREEN" design should start with the site. to design in the "air" as it is proposed means to disregard what should be the foundation of any green design.

FreeGreen Whos Next Team
Charlestown, MA
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
To respond to Rolando's comment above, in general we agree. This is something that FreeGreen has struggled with from the start. We play in the house plan space where there is never a site to be studied and we discuss this often. The fact is that there are over 100,000 house plans sold each year, and over 200,000 used to build homes. To just ignore this issue and say: "well they should use a custom Architect to study their site" is impossible and impractical.

What we decided to do as FreeGreen (and with Who's Next) is to take a stand. There are a number of great improvements that we can bring to the house plan space including, proper building science, thought about passive solar strategies, and potential orientations for multiple lots, and encouraging house plan purchasers to work with a local Architect for Customization and Construction Administration. This is the challenge that we face each day, and the challenge that we pose to Who's Next Competitors. We will never stop people from using house plans, but we can make those house plans a whole lot better.

Dustin
Mexico
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Can the design be focused on a certain climate? Or does it have to be a general plan for all climates?

FreeGreen Whos Next Team
Charlestown, MA
Monday, December 07, 2009
The design can be focused on (and is encouraged to be focused on) a specific climate. You chose the climate and location for your design.

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