Tree housing International Wood Design Competition – $USD11,000 in Cash Prize

July 24, 2015

Application Deadline: August 31, 2015, 5pm CET

Housing for the world’s growing urban population and the threat of deforestation are two of the

most significant issues facing humanity today. TREEHOUSING challenges students, professional

architects and engineers around the world to develop innovative wood housing and urban building solutions through two distinct open competitions:

COMPETITION 1: TREEHOUSING DURBAN
Design Challenge | Tall Wood Housing
COMPETITION 2: TREEHOUSING GLOBAL
Design Challenge | Affordable Wood Housing

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has sponsored this ideas competition to offer unique insights into how these two global issues intersect.

Judging Criteria:

Criteria for the judging of submissions will include:

• Wood as the primary structural material.

• Creative and innovative use of wood in the design solution

• Successful response of the design to its surrounding context, and successful response to basic architectural concepts such as human activity needs, structural integrity, and coherence of architectural vocabulary.

• Demonstration of the overall environmental benefits including carbon sequestration using wood in the design, plus any other strategies to reduce the design’s carbon footprint.

ELIGIBLE ENTRANTS

COMPETITION 1: TREEHOUSING DURBAN

Students of Architecture, Professional Architects and Designers

THE CHALLENGE

TREEHOUSING DURBAN challenges participants to design a residential and/or mixed-use complex on a site in Durban, South Africa

COMPETITION 2

TREEHOUSING GLOBAL

ELIGIBLE ENTRANTS

Students of Architecture, Professional Architects and Designers

THE CHALLENGE

TREEHOUSING GLOBAL challenges participants to design affordable housing on a site of their choosing, anywhere in the world, with a focus on improving and providing global housing solutions in wood.