Yarışmalar-Competitions

Ecohouse Student Designs Wanted from around the Globe.

Architectural Press and Teachers in Architecture in conjunction with Circle 33 Housing Group, are proud to present the 2004 Design Competition For An Ecohouse. This competition is running for the second time in 2004; last year over 100 entries from 30 countries saw a winner from Scotland defeat entries from Argentina in second, Libya in third, USA, Turkey, Russia and Vietnam, as well as other fine submissions from Western Europe and the rest of the world.

The Competition
The challenge we are setting you is to design an Ecohouse for your own home
town, wherever it is.
The two key aims are to make it:
a) Comfortable, with areas of real 'thermal delight'
b) A real 21st century building, safe from climate change, able to survive
without relying on a great deal of fossil fuels.

Design Specifications 
You are to design an Ecohouse for a family of two adults and two children.
The house should have three bedrooms.
The site and location are of your choice but should be concisely described
on your entry
The site should be in your own home area so you understand the climate and
the local architecture instinctively
The house should be around 180 square meters in floor plan size for
internal rooms and any height, form, materials and style you like can be
used
The submission must explain the 'Ecodesign' ideas on which the design of
the house is based
The house should be demonstrably comfortable in summer and winter

Who İs Eligible  
A student, or group of students in a School of Architecture.

The Prizes
The prizes for the Competition have been generously donated by Circle 33
Housing Group and will include:
1st prize: 500 GBP
2nd prize: 300 GBP
3rd prize: 200 GBP
10 copies of ECOHOUSE 2, signed by the authors
Winning designs will be placed on www.architecturalpress.com.

The Judges
The international panel of judges will include at least five leading practitioners and academics in the field of environmental architecture.

The  Process of Entering
The last date for the delivery in Oxford for the submission of an entry will be on the 31st August 2004. The prizes will be judged in Oxford in September 2004. The organisers reserve the right to use competition entry designs for competition publicity after they are submitted to us. For examples of last years competition please visit www.architecturalpress.com and click on the competition link. Entries will not be returned.

The Form Of Entry
The entry sheets should be no more than 2 x A1 sheets of paper and sent to:
Professor Susan Roaf, School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University,
Oxford
OX3 OBP, UK
Fax: ++44 1865 483298 
Email: [email protected]
Please make sure names, addresses and an email contact for all the entrants
are on the back of your entry.
More information about this, and about the 2003 competition, is available
at:
http://www.architecturalpress.com/companions/ecohouse