This year’s competition offers entrants a single brief, a hypothetical project set in the near future for which entrants may select a site in the places in which they reside.

sustainableHOME@Asia | a PROTOYPE for ecological living |

A ‘home’ is more than a house; it is a concept deeply rooted in our collective psyche encompassing physical and emotional well-being: shelter from elements, connectivity with family, community and nature, and – in a rapidly changing world – a sanctuary of sorts, recourse from uncertainty.

How we should be designing homes in Asia is far from understood. The real estate market seems to allow, with impunity, the right to transplant concepts of mass housing and lifestyle statements from one part of the world to another, leaving us socially alienated with expanding ecological footprints.

We need a new mindset to craft the new Home, one that addresses old challenges and new, embraces modernity and traditions, and offers us ways of coping with change.

The FuturArc Prize 2010 is a call to find new paradigms for designing the Home, as varied as the communities, climates and cultures in which they are situated. A home on the Mekong delta, for instance, must be fundamentally different from one in Hong Kong; its conceptualisation is no less challenging, no less important.

Share with us your vision of a Home for ecological living in a part of Asia

Deliverables

The competition calls for a prototype for single or multiple family units amounting to no more than 10,000 m2 in total built-up area.

Site selection is at the entrant’s discretion and should be explained clearly in the submission. Only sites in Australia and Asia will be considered.