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Yarışma Özeti(Summary):
Accommodating Change, Circle 33's Innovation in Housing Competition, run
by The Architecture Foundation, aims to explore the possibility for
development of new house-plan typologies. It has been argued that current housing in general does not adequately reflect the needs of the heterogeneous range of lifestyles that are actually lived in the post-modern and multi-cultural age.

Tip (Type):
Açık (Open)

Kimler katılabilir (Open to):
Participation in the competition is open to British and foreign architects.All candidates must be professionally certified according to the laws of their country and therefore authorised to practise their profession and to participate in
architectural design competitions at the time of this announcement.

Katılım ücreti (Entry Fee):

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Juri (Jury):

İletişim Bilgileri (Contact):
Tamzyn Emery
60 Bastwick Street
London EC1V 3TN
Tel: +44 (0)20 7253 3334
Fax: +44 (0)20 7253 3335

E-mail:  [email protected] or
[email protected]
Web address: www.architecturefoundation.org.uk

Applications will be accepted from single individuals, incorporated firms or design teams; in the latter cases a team leader must be designated who complies with the above conditions. The competition will be formally announced in the British architectural press. The competition brief asks 
* Is it possible to identify "core" or immutable elements in a dwelling as separate from those that can change over time, over generations?
* How does the design and layout of individual spaces in a dwelling accommodate diversity of use and change over time?
* Do designs to the current standards adequately fulfil the functional and emotional needs of diverse occupants in the twenty-first century?
* What ideas govern internal spatial organisation? 
* Is it possible to provide more space in houses and is there a new way to measure it?
* What layouts are dictated by current space standards, building regulations and the financial demands of subsidies and lending institutions and to what extent should they be challenged?
* Does the open plan afford greater or lesser flexibility than a series of separate rooms?

It is hoped that the challenges of this competition, which is intended to be the first of a biennial initiative, will not only generate innovative design ideas but will also look further into the use of urban space and improving environmental quality
more generally. It is intended that the winning design will actually be built on a site in Bow, in East London.