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Can a building clear the air? |
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Type:
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Open International
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Registration Deadline:
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26/3/2016
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Submission Deadline:
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26/3/2016
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Open to:
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All
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Entry Fee:
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$1,000 cash prize
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Jury:
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ate Wallace – Journalist, Writer, Founder of Ignite SJ, ohn Leroux - Architect, AANB, Nathan Fisher – Architect, Judith Mackin – Founder and Creative Director of Punch Productions, Craig Applegath - Architect, Estelle Drisdelle – CFI Co-founder
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Community Forests International [CFI] is excited to announce its second architectural design competition for the backwoods cabin of the future. Bringing together visionary architects, artists, green builders and DIYers, this new challenge addresses the climate crisis and will help transform the organization’s 235 hectare [580 acre] organic farm and forest outside of Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada into a Rural Innovation Campus.
The winning design will be constructed in the summer of 2016 and will accommodate students, guests, and innovators-in-residence on campus. The winning team will receive a $1,000 cash prize.
Program Conceive and design a small all-season shelter for backwoods accommodation of one or two people. The shelter will be used primarily as sleeping quarters for students, workers, dreamers, and guests. The overall user experience of this unique retreat-like accommodation should be a central design consideration.
Compact size and efficiency are important. Although there is no minimum size in this challenge, the shelter’s ground level footprint must not exceed 17.09 square meters [or 184 square feet]. It should sleep at least two and provide for a woodstove. Loft accommodation may be considered, and additional features such decks, tables and seating are optional. A composting toilet will be located in a separate shelter ‘on site but out of sight’. Primary cooking and washing facilities will accessed at communal infrastructure nearby [i.e. no washroom, plumbing or kitchen necessary in the shelter design].
Competition Website: http://forestsinternational.org/innovation/post/can-a-building-clear-the-air
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