ESP-sim is launching an international open ideas competition to assemble an on-line pattern-book of housing designs suitable for ‘self procurement’ in the UK.
The ESP-sim project sets out to illustrate ‘enabled self procurement’ (ESP) for UK housing. Offering a fresh alternative to UK volume housing procurement, ESP is explained in detail on the project’s website at http://www.esp-sim.org.
Pattern book housing is suggested to be a key feature of the ESP process.
The purpose of the competition is to find pattern book designs which can be self procured. Entrants are asked to submit a single digital format A3 board describing their idea for a pattern book design or for a range of pattern book housing for the UK context. The submitted designs will appear on an on line voting gallery.
The UrbanBuzz community, including all the participating designers, will be able to vote for five of their favourite pattern book designs submitted. The competition seeks up to 10 winners, and has set aside a £15K prize fund.
To enter the competition you must be a member of UrbanBuzz. Once you have registered with UrbanBuzz, you can register for the competition, simply follow the link above. Registration is free. Following registration, instructions will be emailed to the registrant’s email address.
It is the promoter’s intention to build the winning pattern book designs into the project’s innovative multi user 3d design software called ‘Youcanplan’. Winners of the design competition will therefore have their pattern book houses showcased through the software.
More Information:
http://ns5.meganexus.com/scommunities/
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