Results - Living Steel 2nd International Competition



Living Steel 2^nd International competition Second international competition for sustainable housing

Living Steel, a world programme to stimulate innovation in the design and construction of housing, has announced the results of the second international architecture competition for sustainable urban housing, which offers efficient and innovative solutions using steel performance. Over one thousand one hundred teams from eighty-eight countries replied to the call for expressions of interest from which eighteen teams were selected and invited to design a project for one of the three sites proposed in Brazil, China and the United Kingdom. The international jury, under the presidency of Andrew Ogorzalek, was composed of Glenn Murcutt, Jaime Lerner, James Barry, Cui Kai, Roberto Loeb and Nicholas de Monchaux, and met in Sao Paulo on 11 and 12 June 2007. The results were announced publicly in Brussels, on 17 September 2007. Winners: Récife, Brazil: Andrade Morettin arquitetos associados Ltda (Brazil) Han Yang, city of Wuhan, China: David Knafo Tagit Klimor, architects and town planners (Israel) London, United Kingdom: Cartwright Pickard architects (United Kingdom). Each short-listed firm provided their most creative work, addressing issues like energy conservation, rain water capture, and efficiencies in heating and cooling. Steel is the right material for meeting the world housing shortage, particularly in that it facilitates speed of construction and design flexibility to provide durable and comfortable living spaces. The project by Andrade Morettin arquitetos associados Ltda, for Brazil, impressed the jury by its simplicity and elegance and its appropriateness to the culture and place. For China, the project by David Knafo Tagit Klimor, architects and town planners, introduced greenhouse spaces as an integral part of the high-rise, high density development, adapting traditional models of communal space to a high-rise topology. The project by Cartwright Pickard architects for the United Kingdom offers a comprehensive family of suitable dwellings using offsite modular construction. Living Steel is currently considering a third edition of this competition for 2008. See all the results online on the Living Steel site: http://www.livingsteel.org/new-competition