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Housing Plus Services: Affordable Housing for Seniors

Housing Plus Services: Affordable Housing for Seniors

Sponsor: Atlantic Seniors Housing Research Alliance (ASHRA)
Type: Open, International
Language: English
Fee: none
Eligibility: Open to any professional architect and any student registered in the final year of a recognized School of Architecture.
Awards:
1st Place – $5,000
2nd Place – $3,000
Best student entry – $2,000
Timetable:
2 March 2009 – Registration Deadline (12:00 AST)
15 March 2009 – Q & A period ends
31 March 2009 – Submission deadline
1 May 2009 – Winners announced
Jury:
The jury will be chaired by Victor Regnier, FAIA, Kansas State University
Design challenge:
Seeking design ideas/concepts that embrace the following best practices and think about what can be added beyond these. The question is, “If this is what current ‘best practice’ looks like, what would ‘best practice’ look like 20 years from now?” Will we change? Will our housing needs be different? In what ways will our housing have to exceed current ‘best practices’?
The designed environment should support the desires of people to age in the familiar
neighborhoods in which they have spent their lives. We need to find ways to nurture people’s sense of being part a larger “community” with a sense of shared identity and mutual support. Future senior housing should be able to flex between assisted living and independent living to avoid unnecessary relocation.
To encourage innovative ideas rather than formulaic solutions, the architectural
program will be relatively open providing general direction rather than room titles and square footages. Solutions will be encouraged to represent “housing plus services.”
Submission guidelines:
All entries must be submitted in a bound ideas book on 11×17 inch paper, fold-out format
with the binding on the 11 inch side. The bound ideas book must not exceed 20 pages in length and each page must be page numbered. Sketches and drawings are encouraged.
Entries submitted to:
ASHRA Project Office
Mount Saint Vincent University
166 Bedford Highway
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3M 2J6
Canada
For more information and to enter, go to:
www.msvu.ca/ashra
Email: Design.Competition@msvu.ca