Yarışmalar-Competitions

The new housing competition based on a revolutionary idea.

No matter how you look at it, the C2C Home design and construction competition is different. Design will lead to actual construction. Judges will include William McDonough and Randall Stout. And homes will be built with a goal of achieving the new standards of sustainability set up in Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Register now to turn your ideas into reality—and turn the world of design and construction upside down.

Awards: Up to $5,000 in cash
Professional registration: $85 before July 15; $150 after
Student registration: $35 before September 15; $50 after

Design Assignment
As specifically as possible, for one of the given sites, design a home applying the ideology described in Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. For more information about Cradle to Cradle concepts, visit GreenBlue.org.

The Issues
Creating a new “machine”
To paraphrase Le Corbusier in Towards a New Architecture, the home has become a machine for consuming in. In our homes, we process an increasing quantity of consumer goods – bringing them in one end and discarding them at the other. As we consign the Earth’s valuable and finite material nutrients to landfills, we perpetuate the modern invention of “waste” which is unknown in nature. How will the implementation of your design for the C2C Home adapt our modern lifestyle to the model of natural systems?

Using Resources Effectively
The “cradle to cradle” paradigm recognizes that while our energy resources are abundant, our material resources are finite, and must be used and re-used without degradation in either technical or biological cycles. The C2C Home will move beyond strategies of efficiency to invent strategies of effectiveness which allow for complete separation and reuse of all construction materials and anticipate and encourage adoption of technologies that glean energy from the sun in clean and abundant forms. How does your design eliminate the concept of waste?

Celebrating Context
At the heart of the cradle to cradle paradigm is the celebration of life in all its abundance and variety. The building site selections for the C2C Home highlight the variety of neighborhoods which create Roanoke, Virginia’s own vibrant and unique character. Successful designs will strengthen the neighborhoods’ identities by respecting and celebrating life in the existing context. How will your design express both your original vision and a kinship with the residents and neighbors of the C2C Home?

Engaging Industry
Designers of the C2C Home will consider material selection to be more than a multiple-choice problem. In addition to considering the construction process of the house itself, we must rethink the design of all of the component products as well. Only through participatory innovation by industry can the C2C Home become a reality. How will your specification requirements help them to create the materials we need to achieve the C2C Home?

Awards
Awards will be made to winners selected by Jury as follows:
Professional Architects and Designers:
First Place: $5,000.00
Second Place: $3,000.00
Third Place: $1,000.00
Students of Architecture and Design Students:

First Place: $5,000.00 + 1 Internship Including Room and Board
Second Place: $3,000.00 + 1 Internship Including Room and Board
Third Place: $1,000.00 + 1 Internship Including Room and Board
University Teams:

First Place: 7 Internships Including Room and Board
Second Place: 5 Internships Including Room and Board
Third Place: 3 Internships Including Room and Board
Special Recognition Awards will be made to other entries of outstanding merit. Projects will be chosen from the pool of all Award-winning entries for construction.
All jury decisions are final.

Jurors
Alexander Garvin, Director of Planning for NYC2012, the city's bid to bring the Summer Olympics back to the United States, New York City Planning Commissioner, professor for over 30 years at Yale University, and author of The American City: What Works, What Doesn't ­ the seminal text of urban planning and development and winner of an AIA book award. Mr. Garvin has described our event as "the first new idea in community building in nearly 100 years."

Daniel Libeskind, winning designer of the project for the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero as well as the award-winning Berlin Holocaust Museum.

Bill McDonough, co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, 1999 Time Magazine "Hero For The Planet," and a recipient of Presidential Awards for Sustainability from both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Randall Stout, internationally respected "green" architect and former associate with Frank Gehry, and the designer of Roanoke's new Art Museum of Western Virginia.

Sarah Susanka, author of The Not So Big House series. Sarah Susanka is a cultural visionary leading a movement that is redefining the American home. Today, her "build better, not bigger" approach to residential architecture has been embraced by homeowners, architects and builders across the country and her Not So Big philosophy has sparked a national dialogue.

As a leading advocate for the re-popularization of residential architecture, Ms. Susanka has improved the quality of home design while countering the elitist image of architects so commonly held by the public.

Competition Process
Registration will open May 3, 2004. Registrations will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. EST November 15, 2004.

Access to specific project site information including zoning requirements, context, neighborhood demographics, and topography will be provided on the competition web site and related links.

Submission deadline is 5:00 pm EST, December 15, 2004.

Submissions will be juried in January, 2005. Final announcement of the list of jurors, and final jury dates will be provided on the competition web site.

Winners will be announced on this website.

Construction Process
Selected submissions will be posted on this website, constructed as funding allows, and published in the competition catalogue.

Partnerships between the members of local professional construction organizations, local business, government, and community groups and university-sanctioned design teams will provide the framework for the construction to occur during the summer of 2005.

Calendar
Early Registration by July 15
Entry Deadline December 15
Judging January 2005
Exhibition of Winners January 2005 at The Art Museum of Western Virginia
Construction Phase May 2005

Space Requirements
Rooms (the following areas are minimum requirements, and may be manipulated as needed to allow for design innovation):

Living areas – Kitchen, Dining Room, Living Room, Entry Foyer
Sleeping areas – 3 bedrooms total, 1 bedroom with adjacent bath
Bath/toilet areas – 2 full bathrooms
Storage areas – bedrooms, bathrooms, and Entry Foyer should have storage areas
75% of the homes in the City of Roanoke are valued below $100,000. The successful designs for each of the selected sites will offer real potential for the increase in the values of adjacent properties.