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Safe Trestles

Design Competition to Create Safe, Low-Impact Access to Trestles

Access to Trestles, one of North America’s most celebrated waves, is under threat due to safety and environmental concerns. In response, a coalition of concerned groups organized by Architecture for Humanity, are launching “Safe Trestles,” an open-to-all, two-stage design competition to create a safe pathway to serve surfers, the local coastal community and day visitors to San Onofre State Beach.
Submission Deadline: April 17, 2010
Award: up to 5 Finalists: awarded Phase 2 design stipend of $5,000.00+ each
Hosted by: Architecture for Humanity
Partners: San Onofre Foundation, The Surfrider Foundation, & Rebuild: San Diego
Sponsored by: Nike 6.0
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USGBC 2010 Natural Talent Design Competition: Small, Green, Affordable

Presented by Salvation Army’s EnviRenew Initiative

The U.S. Green Building Council wants you to help rebuild New Orleans sustainably and affordably. USGBC’s 2010 Natural Talent Design Competition, presented Salvation Army’s EnviRenew Initiative, is challenging Students and Emerging Professionals to design a small, green, affordable, LEED Platinum home for elderly residents of the Broadmoor neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans has seen a lot of reconstruction and regeneration, but the job is far from done. This is your chance to help rebuild a city the right way and change lives forever.
Final Registration Deadline: May 31, 2010
Sponsored by: U.S. Green Building Council and the Salvation Army’s EnviRenew Initiative
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Previous Competitions

Grand Acres Community Garden
The goal of this competition is to create an identity for Grand Acres, a community garden in the Fair Haven neighborhood of New Haven. Grand Acres is one of the community gardens owned and managed by the New Haven Land Trust (NHLT). The goal of this design competition is to create an identity and a sense of unity and permanence for Grand Acres that could also serve as a model for other community gardens around the city.
Registration Deadline: April 30th, 2010
Award: $100 cash prize, sponsored by Atelier Ten, New Haven
Hosted by: Architecture for Humanity New Haven
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The Community Prize

Create an entry with a purpose and really win the Design It: Shelter competition

In honor of Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday, Google SketchUp partnered with The Guggenheim Museum to launch a competition to design a simple shelter. While it is a great creative initiative, it could go one step further by challenging participants to design with purpose. Architecture for Humanity is upping the ante by urging entrants to add a social component to the competition and asking them to select a community that could utilize the developed design to improve their living standard.
Submission Deadline: August 23rd
Sponsored by: Architecture For Humanity
Award: $500 and a custom-made Moleskine Folio by Rickshaw Bagworks
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The First Annual Kids' Digital Design Contest

Design Aquatic: "under/over/within"

The First Annual Kids' Digital Design Contest is a digital design competition for ages 0-15. With the help of parents, the goal is to provide a venue for kids to demonstrate, develop and reveal their capacity for creative three dimensional thinking using the digital modeling tool SketchUp (free to download, simple to learn, and amazingly difficult to put down). The inaugural theme is: "under/over/within" and features an intertidal aquatic site.

Applicants are asked to challenge the idea of structure and permanence with a design by thoughtfully engaging an aquatic/intertidal site which is at once constantly changing due to factors that are both man made and of a natural consequence. Age based judging ensures fair competition and lots of cool prizes. Media sponsor: The Architects Newspaper. Prizes provided by Google Inc. and the California Academy of Sciences.

Submission Deadline: September 15th
Entry Fee: Free
Hosted by: Architect Mason Kirby Inc.
Award: Age group winners: SketchUp Pro Educational license. First 100 entrants: youth pass to California Academy of Sciences
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2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom


According to the World Bank, educating all children worldwide will require the construction of 10 million new classrooms in more than 100 countries by 2015. At the same time, millions of existing classrooms are in serious need of repair and refurbishment.

The 2009 Open Architecture Challenge invited the global design and construction community to collaborate with primary and secondary school teachers and students to create smarter, safer, and more sustainable learning environments.

2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Challenge Winner
Teton Valley Community School, Victor, Idaho, USA
Designed by: Section Eight [design], Victor, Idaho, USA

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Discarded Dreams: Used Mattress Design Competition

Every year in the U.S. 40 million mattresses get thrown in the trash. They often end up in landfills because they cannot be broken down and their component parts are hard to utilize. Discarded Dreams was an open international design competition for students and professionals, asking participants to create innovative ways of converting used mattresses into useful products.

First Place Second Place Third Place
Helix by Nicole Knox and Grace Dalman
Helix addresses the negative effects of noise on a person’s health
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Sleep by RHWL students
A design that aims to regenerate the abandoned mattress into a fluid landscape
Silk City by Romulus Sim
A model of sustainable urban agriculture through the collaboration of discarded mattresses and silk production.
Judges Choice: Chairtress by Nicole Jui, Brad Sherman, and Nicholas Skari
Judges Choice: Dream on by Rafael Roldao
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2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge: Digital Inclusion

The 2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge invited the global community to help address the digital divide. It challenged design professionals and others to develop not one but many solutions for building sustainable, multi-purpose, low-cost technology facilities for those who need them most.

Africa Challenge: SIDAREC Nairobi, Kenya
A media lab and library will serve a staff of 7 and 250 youth
First Place: The Global Studio
Second Place: Duvivier Architects
Third Place: KBAS
Asia Challenge: Nyaya Health Sanfe Bagar, Nepal
A clinic to serve a staff of 10 health care workers and 7,700 beneficiaries
First Place: Max Fordham, LLP
Second Place: Emre Can Yilmaz
Third Place/Founders Award: Studio Wikitecture
South America Challenge: Kallari Association Napo Province, Ecuador
A chocolate factory and satellite technology to serve over 5000 individuals
First Place: Igor Taskov, Fernando Pagan, ChunSheh Teo, Heather Worrell
Second Place: zerOgroup
Third Place: HdlT Collaborative
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Sportables Challenge

Nothing connects kids like the power of play. In areas of great need are opportunities to use sports as a catalyst for social change. Where resources are scarce, products can be distributed to deliver vital services. In many parts of the world sporting activities, especially local and traditional sports, are being incorporated into a variety of programs geared toward helping youth address a broad range of issues affecting their lives.

First Place Second Place Third Place
Toby R. Keeton
A compact module that provides incentives for participants to take ownership in a community resource
Joseph Ng &
Tino Chow

A compact cart creatively organizes and dispenses supplies while also harnessing solar power.
Chunsheh Teo
The flexible, adaptable system provides many configurations for various retail, educational and community events.
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OUTREACH: Mobile Health Clinics to Combat HIV/AIDS

The statistics are staggering. It is estimated that three-quarters of the world’s AIDS population lives in Sub-Saharan Africa; most have no access to lifesaving drugs, testing facilities or even basic preventative health care. One of the major factors inhibiting medical professionals in Africa from treating this disease is the inability to access vast areas of the continent with adequately equipped medical facilities.

First Place Second Place Third Place
KHRAS
A robust and quick deployable system provides a flexible and expandable setup
Brendan Harnett
Michelle Myers

Breaks health care facilities down into their smallest constituent parts for ease of transportation.
Heide Schuster
Wilfried Hofmann

Addresses temporary and long term medical services of a community
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Other Competitions

Transitional Housing for Returning Refugees in Kosovo (1999)
Siyathemba Youth Sports Facility and HIV/AIDS Outreach Center (2004)
Shelter in a Cart: designboom social awareness award (2006)



Nominations

Design Like You Give A Damn 2

Nominate a project that improves the lives of others

Nomination Deadline: September 1
Sponsored by: Architecture For Humanity
Award: First nominator of an included will be credited in the book.
Nominate today

RFP for Permanent Housing in Haiti

The Government of Haiti wants to provide alternative forms of permanent housing for its citizens displaced by the earthquake. Officials have enlisted our help and that of the British architecture firm Malcolm Reading to hold a RFP design competition Expo for prefabricated housing solutions. The deadline for submissions is July 19th.

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