Innovative design concepts win the Los Angeles Affordable Housing Challenge
The Los Angeles Affordable Housing Challenge ideas competition has presented its winning entries. Participants were challenged with designing "flexible" solutions to the city's ongoing housing crisis. Each concept design was submitted without limitations of site or scale and judged based on its practicality and aversion away from standard-fare notions of housing, design, and community.This year's contest, the 16th iteration of Buildner's affordable housing competition series, was juried by an eight-member panel that included architects working in the LA market and on other housing projects elsewhere in the United States, joined by academics, policy experts, and other design professionals. Each Prize winner received cash awards of €3,000, €1,500, and €1,300, respectively, for their designs, joined by the €500 Buildner Sustainability Award winner and six honorable mentions. The Student Award winner receives an additional €1,000 as well.The competition is presented in partnership with ARCHHIVE BOOKS. An introduction to each winning concept can be viewed below.1st Prize: Remedy Towers by Jihoon Kim and Brenna Elise Fransen (United States)Read the full post on Bustler
The Los Angeles Affordable Housing Challenge ideas competition has presented its winning entries. Participants were challenged with designing "flexible" solutions to the city's ongoing housing crisis. Each concept design was submitted without limitations of site or scale and judged based on its practicality and aversion away from standard-fare notions of housing, design, and community.
This year's contest, the 16th iteration of Buildner's affordable housing competition series, was juried by an eight-member panel that included architects working in the LA market and on other housing projects elsewhere in the United States, joined by academics, policy experts, and other design professionals.
Each Prize winner received cash awards of €3,000, €1,500, and €1,300, respectively, for their designs, joined by the €500 Buildner Sustainability Award winner and six honorable mentions. The Student Award winner receives an additional €1,000 as well.
The competition is presented in partnership with ARCHHIVE BOOKS. An introduction to each winning concept can be viewed below.
1st Prize: Remedy Towers by Jihoon Kim and Brenna Elise Fransen (United States)Read the full post on Bustler
