International Architecture Design Awards for Residential buildings

Background

With the basic understanding of how architecture, as both an art and a science, relates to the wider culture, where design aesthetics and functionality come together to define and channel experiences and quality of life, residential architecture serves to be a tangible solution to questions of habitation and community.

Starting from the ground up, residential architecture is most people’s first interaction with carefully designed spaces and is arguably the most personal one. 

Additionally, even in times of drastically changing dimensions of human settlements, residential architecture has remained to be one of the most malleable of typologies, being able to evolve into a solution for everything ranging from accessibility, affordability, and sustainability.

Focusing on the most basic of frameworks (typologies) of built spaces, UNI introduces Architecture (A- Z).

Challenge

‘H for Habitat’ aimed to bring together global design talents that explored one of our most primary needs as a population.

This challenge invited entries of residences that ranged from modular to compact to sprawling to highrise, this theme aimed to recognize spaces that have evolved with the utmost understanding of its user groups, program, adaptability, and environmental responsibility.

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Some of the Best of competition projects are as follows:

Winning Project: CLEFT HOUSE

By: Anagram Architects

Description: It is a northwest-facing residence in Delhi, built on a narrow 326 sqm. plot for a joint family. The approach steps away from conventional circulation and spatial arrangements, typical to such plotted residences, by considering the built volume as a breached monolith rather than as a composition of fenestrated volumes and surface renders.

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People’s Choice: (pr)OpenCity

By: Shaurya Chauhan

Description: ‘(pr)OpenCity’ advocates a collaborative design method for future development: one that allows rapid application with its prototypical nature and an inclusive approach with mediation between the ‘user’ and the ‘urban’. Building upon the concepts of ‘open-sourcing’ in design, this experiment establishes a user-centric design approach to built interiors.

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Jury Commendation: Zamalka Into The Future _ Re-Coding Post-War Syria

By: Reparametrize Studio, Ziwar Al Nouri & Bilal Baghdadi

 

Description: As a part of Reparametrize Studio on going Research"Re-Coding Post-War Syria", this project is a proposal including renovation of six existing buildings and intervention of two destroyed buildings as well as the development of public spaces and infrastructure in Zamalka town. Proposing living spaces with levels of privacy and public access The “Social Rooftop”.

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Jury Commendation: Cube in cube

By: Jana Stachova

Description: How to ensure privacy in the rapidly growing and relatively dense development of solitary family houses? A simple cube with hanging wooden construction. Closed-up, practical layout utilizing views of the landscape. This is an exceptional residential complex built close to the spruce and pine forest in Dobris/Czech Republic.

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Jury Commendation: Building in Alferes Malheiro, Porto 

By: Ana Franca 

Description: Rehabilitation and expansion project of a residential building, in Porto, developed in accordance with its environment. Contributing to the consolidation of the character of the street between the new and the existing heritage in the city.

 

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Discover the design brief here: 

https://uni.xyz/competitions/habitats-residential-architecture-design/info/about

Discover the full results here: 

https://uni.xyz/competitions/habitats-residential-architecture-design/entries 

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