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Home for the Blind

Architectural Competition: Home for the Blind

Engineering and configuration are essentially considered as visual mediums, with visual style at the core of numerous parts of current structural plan for home and work environments. In any case, more than being interesting to the eye, incredible engineering should be practical. Nobody knows this better than those with practical varieties that mean they have restricted detects and depend on great engineering and extraordinary plan consistently.

The Home for the Blind contest is the first in the Bee Breeders open design series which centers around investigating the connection among engineering and openness. Engineers and originators have an interesting chance to rethink available design by putting openness at the cutting edge of plan, instead of leaving it as a bit of hindsight. How might design impact how an individual maneuvers through a home? How might it assist individuals with having a sense of security, agreeable and free?

For the Home for the Blind contest, members are being approached to submit plans for a semi-confined house for a solitary visually impaired tenant. The property would have to incorporate every one of the fundamental conveniences of an average home like a kitchen, room, lounge, and restroom just as a little yard.

Members are being approached to make plans that upgrade the daily routines and experiencing experience of the occupant. Materiality, dissemination, and drafting are only a couple of the things that members should zero in on in their venture entries.

There is no predetermined site for this opposition, so members are approached to choose a hypothetical site from their own nation of origin.

PRIZES

3 winning proposals, 2 special award recipients and 6 honourable mentions will be selected. Bee Breeders will award a total of 6,000 € in prize money to competition winners as follows:

1st Prize – 3,000 €
2nd Prize – 1,500 €
3rd Prize – 500 €

+ 6 honourable mentions

ARCHHIVE Student Award – 500 € + 50 € gift card at ARCHHIVE BOOKS
Bee Breeders Green Award – 500 €

COMPETITION SCHEDULE

Advance Registration: JULY 6 – SEPTEMBER 7
Last Minute Registration: SEPTEMBER 8 – NOVEMBER 2

Final registration deadline: NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Closing date for submission: DECEMBER 7, 2021 (11:59 p.m. GMT)
Announcement of the winners: FEBRUARY 16, 2022

More: https://architecturecompetitions.com/blindhome/

JURY:

Jos Boys, The DisOrdinary Architecture Project
Maya Mahgoub-Desai, OCAD University
Chris Downey, Architecture for the Blind
Rosa Lorenzo Downey, Architecture for the Blind
Alan Dunlop, Alan Dunlop Architects
Anonymous, So & So Studio

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