The top 12 ideas from the RETHINK: 2025 post-pandemic design competition
After revealing a longlist of 32 proposals imagining our post-pandemic world last week, RIBA's Rethink: 2025 international design competition announced the twelve shortlisted entries this morning. The brief tasked architects and students to envision what our built environment after Covid-19 might look like in 2025 taking into consideration one or several of these areas: healthcare spaces, remote learning, high-density living, public transport, high streets vs online shopping, international travel, and the use of technology to monitor and control populations. These are the shortlisted ideas: Get Everyone In by Benjamin Holland, Olivia Dolan, Katie Williams (cover picture) "The project proposes reusing empty office space to house the homeless. Through the redesign of office towers, it suggests the inclusion of communal health facilities on ground level, bringing nature into the space with gardens at the mid-level and translating a deep plan office floor into hostel-style bedrooms on upper floors, with space left to accommodate some office workers." Read the full post on Bustler
After revealing a longlist of 32 proposals imagining our post-pandemic world last week, RIBA's Rethink: 2025 international design competition announced the twelve shortlisted entries this morning.
The brief tasked architects and students to envision what our built environment after Covid-19 might look like in 2025 taking into consideration one or several of these areas: healthcare spaces, remote learning, high-density living, public transport, high streets vs online shopping, international travel, and the use of technology to monitor and control populations.
These are the shortlisted ideas:
Get Everyone In by Benjamin Holland, Olivia Dolan, Katie Williams (cover picture)
"The project proposes reusing empty office space to house the homeless. Through the redesign of office towers, it suggests the inclusion of communal health facilities on ground level, bringing nature into the space with gardens at the mid-level and translating a deep plan office floor into hostel-style bedrooms on upper floors, with space left to accommodate some office workers."
Read the full post on Bustler
