d3 HOUSING TOMORROW - The 2013 Competition Winners

15/03/2013. Competition
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO

The winning entries of the 2013 Housing Tomorrow competition have just been announced, awarding three prizes and sixteen special mentions to design concepts that "explore, document, analyze, transform, and deploy socially‐ and environmentally‐engaged approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects."

First Place.- Life on the Ropeway by Die Hu, Boji Hu, & Yang Zhou (China). Click above to see larger image.

First Place.- Life on the Ropeway by Die Hu, Boji Hu, & Yang Zhou (China). Click above to see larger image.

Second Prize.- Biking/Living by Liu Qicai, Yue Kang, & Zuo Long (China). Click above to see larger image.

Third Prize.- City Nomadism by Xijie Ma (China). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- CONSTRUCTED ECOLOGY: Mangrove Village by Gun Ho Min, Young Baum Oh, Seung Il Kim, & Byung Woo Ahn (Korea). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- ALTERNATIVE TYPOLOGY: Catena Hereditatis: The Ring of Heritage by Lukasz Brzozowski, Barbara Grzywa, Mateusz Klepadlo, Katarzyna Kuczynska, & Weronika Salach (Poland). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- URBAN/SUBURBAN INTERVENTION: The Urban Sub‐Urban by Tiffany Lau (Canada). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- LAND DEPLOYABLE: Relocatable Housing by Yoon Ji Lee, Seock Young Lee, & Yu Bi Lim (Korea). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- ALTERNATIVE HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE: Floating Nets by Ci Chen, Youchun Shi, Wenjuan Zhou, & Wenhan Hu (China). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- SEA DEPLOYABLE: Bubble Breath I by Marta Borowik, Malgorzata Czarny, Agata Olga Rakowska, & Katarzyna Sosinska (Poland). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- AIR DEPLOYABLE: Up in the Air by Chu Ziyuan, Li Hanwei, Pei Zhao, Wang Moze, Yang Xiaodan, Zhang Wenjie, & Zhang Ranran (China). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- ADAPTIVE RE‐USE / VISUALIZATION: Value Added Landscapes by Marc Medland & Steven Rabet (UK). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE: Underlivable City: The Day After Desertification by Jaeho Kim, Hyung Chul Lee, & Jong Eun Lee (Korea). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- SUSTAINABLE VERNACULAR: Screens as Ladders. Nets as Beds. by Alistair Reid, Camilla Pitt, Ross Perrett, Toby Ewert, & Will Leaf (Australia/UK). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- RURAL TYPOLOGY: Water Cell: Green Ecological Residences on Loess Plateau by Yunsheng Chen, Ran Tao, & Lili Xia (China). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- CLIMATE ADAPTATION: Living on Memories by Hou Zinjue, Guo Zhuang, Sun Qiuying, Xiong Ran, Cao Xiaoyu, & Qiu Shi (China). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- DYSTOPIAN VISION: One Home for All the Homeless by Andela Karabašević & Vladislav Sudžum (Serbia). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- NEW YORK INTERVENTION: New York Low Line by Fangshuo Liu, Jiajian Min, Mengshi Sun, & Zhekun Xiong (China). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- DIRECTORS’ CHOICE: Township Housing: Hybrid Typology by Walter Raubenheimer (South Africa). Click above to see larger image.

Special Mention.- DIRECTORS’ CHOICE: Hurricane Arc by Wang Yeran, Zhang Yuanjun, Zhu Hao, & Chen Hongkai (China). Click above to see larger image.

This year's first prize was presented to Die Hu, Boji Hu, and Yang Zhou for their extreme environments housing proposal, 'Life on the Ropeway.'

The winning projects are.-

First Prize: Life on the Ropeway
Die Hu, Boji Hu, & Yang Zhou (China)

Responding to villages threatened by flooding in the rural valleys of Sichuan, China, Life on the Ropeway suspends these villages onto cable systems above their original locations. This alternative housing system is based on the ropeway—it conforms to the natural features of the valley and supports social needs.

Second Prize: Biking/Living
Liu Qicai, Yue Kang, & Zuo Long (China)

The top‐down development of China has given rise to the mass production of low‐quality housing. Architects are increasingly losing their ground to real estate developers. Residential corridors are an extension of public life and play an important role in dwelling space and society. Biking/Living adapts Shanghai’s historic Longchang Apartment Building into nine new unit types which propose an adaptive and alternative bike‐focused lifestyle.

Third Prize: City Nomadism
Xijie Ma (China)

City Nomadism compresses living spaces into a compact living machine, integrating a vehicle with living spaces and adapting to the needs of the user. The concept offers an innovative lifestyle alternative, allowing urbanites to live in nature while participating freely in city life.

d3 Housing Tomorrow is co‐directed by Gregory Marinic and Ji Young Kim. Gregory Marinic is director of d3 and principal of Arquipelago, and serves as Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of Interior Architecture at the University of Houston’s Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. Ji Young Kim is a New York‐based researcher at Columbia University’s Japan‐Lab and designer in the office of Shigeru Ban.

In March 2013, d3 Housing Tomorrow 2013 winning submissions and special mentions were presented by Maki Iisaka and Gregory Marinic in their collaborative research presentation at the Seventh Annual Design Principles and Practices conference at Chiba University in Tokyo. The d3 Housing Tomorrow 2013 international architectural design exhibition will be held in Houston in March/April 2013. Sponsored by d3 and hosted by the Mashburn Gallery at the University of Houston’s Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, the exhibition will feature a broad range of winning projects, special mentions, and other notable projects.

All images courtesy of d3.