07 Housing Competition

eVolo Architecture makes an international invitation to take part in its third architectural competition. eVolo encourages the exchange of architectural ideas amongst world designers on one of the oldest architectural genres: Housing.

The idea of the competition is to provide new housing ideas that will improve, adapt, and transform our society. Competitors are invited to re-think our needs for the XXI Century taking in consideration, economic, social, and cultural conditions. The architectural proposals should engage different scales, its integration to the urban fabric and its responses to domestic life. The idea is to produce new housing typologies that will blur the boundaries of our society. There must be a dialogue between the public and the private, permanent and temporal, wealthy and poor. Designs could explore the restoration and improvement of an old neighborhood or the development of a new one.

Participants should research on new technologies and materials that would make their proposals sustainable, ecological, progressive, and innovative. There are no restrictions on site, program, and size. The idea is to provide the maximum freedom to the designers to express their creativity and design the new housing for the XXI Century.

Registration
All students, architects, engineers, and designers are invited to participate. It is encouraged to have multidisciplinary teams. Participants must register by July 10, 2007. Registration fee is US $40 per team. Individual entries are accepted.

Schedule
March 5, 2007 Competition announcement, registration begins, acceptance of questions.
May 7, 2007 Acceptance of questions deadline.
May 21, 2007 Answers to questions will be posted on website.
July 10, 2007 Registration deadline.
July 17, 2007 Submission deadline. (23:00 hours US Eastern Time. UTC/GMT -5 hours)
July 31, 2007 Winners announced.

Submission Requirements
This is a digital competition and no hardcopies are necessary. Entrants will submit their proposal via email no later than July 17, 2007 (23:00 hours US Eastern Time) to the following email address: 07housing@evolo-arch.com.

The submission must contain the following files:
1. Two boards with the project information including plans, sections, and perspectives. Participants are encouraged to submit all the information they consider necessary to explain their proposal. These boards should be 24″ X 48″ in HORIZONTAL format. The resolution of the boards must be 150 dpi, RGB mode and saved as JPG file with compression level 3. The upper right corner of each board must contain the participation number. There should not be any marks or any other form of identification. The files must be named as the registration number followed by the board number. For example: 0101-1.jpg and 0101-2.jpg.
2. A .doc file containing the entrant personal information, including name, profession, address, email and telephone number. This file must be named with the participation number followed by the word “info”. For example: 0101-info.doc.
3. All the files must be placed in a .zip folder named after your registration number. For example: 0101.zip

Jury
Somnath Ray
José Muñoz-Villers
Yi Cheng Pan
Fernando Velasco

Awards and Regulations
1st place – US $2,000 2nd place – US $1,000 3rd place – US $500

Anonymity
This is an anonymous competition. The registration number is the only means of identification. The personal information files will be kept by the General Advisor and will not be opened until the Jury has selected the award winners.

Ownership and copyrights
Authors will retain ownership and copyrights of all the information submitted. eVolo Architecture, as the competition organizer, has the rights to publish in books, magazines and web-sites the results and images of the competition. The credits will include detailed information of the authors.

Notes
1. The official language of the competition is English and it is the only one accepted.
2. The registration fee is non-refundable.
3. Any participant contacting the members of the Jury will be disqualified.
4. Entrants will be disqualified if any of the competition rules are not considered.
5. Participation assumes acceptance of all the competition rules.

Contact
7housing@evolo-arch.com
eVolo Architecture
471 Central Park West, 5th floor.
New York, NY 10025 USA
evolo@evolo-arch.com