Submission: January 21, 2014
Registration: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Location: Denver, Colorado
Prizes: 1st Prize $ 500 2nd Prize $ 300 3rd Prize $ 200
Type: Open competition for architects and architecture students
International ideas competition organized by Architecture for Humanity and Open Tech Forever that are demonstrating that it is possible to build an open source, compressed earth block (CEB) house that meets the Living Building Challenge 2.1 standard.
They invite you to join their international call to action. Enter the contest and help thrm design a CEB home that they will build in the Spring of 2014 on their 40 acre site in Denver, Colorado.
The program is a home for one to two people to live and sleep in, joyfully, for life – 500 interior square feet for one to two people (and demonstrate scalability to 800 maximum for 3 or 4 people) on a flat site of 2000 square feet, configured in any proportion to support design – please limit to a single story, but feel free to add a basement (for utilitarian uses) and/or loft – outdoor living spaces are desired and do not count against 500 sf maximum.
They will document each home design and the systemic body of knowledge that informs this process, so that anyone in the world can both learn from and contribute to the project. This is an open source house for the world. The Forever Home.
