Calling All Architects and Designers! Create a Universal Design Home for Growing-in-Place
Architects and designers are invited to present concepts to model the future of housing with the new Re-defining Home: Home Today, Home Tomorrow design challenge, presented by the AARP, AARP Foundation, Home Matters® and the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation. The competition opens today and closes on April 29, 2016.
The Re-defining Home: Home Today, Home Tomorrow winning entry’s designs will be integrated into an actual home. The competition challenges architects and designers to create new standards in housing design so people can stay in their home as they travel through various life stages: from entering the workforce, getting married, having a family, sending kids to college, becoming a grandparent, following their passions with new careers and hobbies, and considering retirement. The goal of the design challenge is to generate universal design elements and build an attractive, adaptable, and affordable home of the future that allows people to grow-in-place.
Monetary awards will be made to three juried winning entries. The first place winner’s designs will be incorporated into a real-life home, which will be publically unveiled to provide an experiential learning opportunity for the general public. This home will also be offered to a family.
Architects and designers can download the brief and enter, starting from today until April 29, at http://bit.ly/1jg5R1t
Thirty-three architectural, design, university partners and other organizations are supporting this competition - from our lead partner AIA San Francisco to AIA Austin, AIA Atlanta, AIA California Council, AIA New York, AIA Los Angeles, AIA DC, AIA Houston, AIA New Orleans, AIA Memphis, AIA Seattle, AIA Tennessee, American Architectural Foundation, American Society of Interior Designers, New York School of Interior Design, Boston Society of Architects, Caring Across Generations, Design Corps, Enterprise Community Partners, Habitat for Humanity, Journeyman International, Leading Age, Make Room, National Low Income Housing Coalition, National Organization of Minority Architects, NeighborWorks America, Public Architecture, Syracuse Architecture, Texas Society of Architecture, Rice School of Architecture, SPUR, Urban Land Institute (Terwilliger Center for Housing) and The Autodesk Foundation.
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