An international ideas competition has launched, inviting tertiary students and graduates of urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture to propose a climate- sensitive urban design strategy for a particular site.
The Future Climate Future Home Competition was initiated by the Australian Urban Design Research Centre, part of the School of Design at the University of Western Australia. Conceived to promote better understanding of the design and planning implications of increasing temperatures on urban precincts, public open spaces and housing, it offers a total prize pool of $15,000 to be divided among the winners.
Participants are required to select a developed or undeveloped site, study its projected climate conditions using the Sixth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and propose suitable climate-sensitive urban design strategies.
Judging the competition will be Julian Bolleter, director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre; Silvia Tavares, founder and co-lead of the Bioclimatic and Sociotechnical Cities Lab at University of the Sunshine Coast; Billie Giles-Corti, director of the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab at RMIT University; Maria Ignatieva, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Western Australia School of Design; Andrew Lilleyman, a director at ARM Architecture; and Robert Cameron, associate lecturer at the Australian Urban Design Research Centre.
The judges will assess the entries based on their working knowledge of established climate-sensitive urban design strategies and their development of innovative approaches. Not just a purely technical exercise, the judges will also look favourably upon entries that demonstrate “creative engagement with increasing temperatures as a springboard to designing delightful, socio-ecologically enriching, innovative urban proposals.”
For more information about the Future Climate Future Home Competition, visit the Australian Urban Design Research Centre website.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
