Totally (Contemporary and Different) Housing
A few days ago, precisely on November 1st, our friends from Actar, together with Storefront and Architizer, released the first in a series of Total Housing tenders, whose goal is to create more contemporary housing typologies that go above and beyond the standardized and canonical models of today’s usual housing solutions.
The first tender is simply entitled Apartments and is about the most basic housing unit, the apartment.
As the organizers point out, in a contemporary city, bombarded with new technologies and socio-economical changes, traditional models of the urban way of living have become rudimental. Thus architects and designers have the obvious task of pushing boundaries, acting as bearers of new ideas in view of creating physical spaces of the future which has already arrived, providing a literal answer to such newly-formed conditions and contexts.
They hold that this tender is precisely the opportunity for discovering such concepts. Total Housing; Apartments requests residential projects from its contestants, projects that will reconcile and entwine the discrepancies between archaic ideas of perception and space in today’s households with the realistic and contemporary way of life. Smart and up-to-date program divisions, implementation of technological achievements and application of the most contemporary material, alongside radical conceptual suggestions are but a few of several segments for which the organizers believe will be the contestants’ features and answers to the task at hand. Categories in which contestants can submit their works are divided according to the number of sleeping units in the project, single, double, triple, triple + bed rooms, respectively, along with a fifth category which counts more than the aforementioned.
Participation in the competition is free of charge. For further details on other conditions, judges and deadlines, please click here.
