[deadline: 17/05/2010]
The design competition starts on January 15th, 2010 and is open for team or individual participation. The challenge is to design a sustainable, flexible and locally embedded one family house for a specific location in Ghana. The modular construction should be suitable for local implementation and affordable for its future owners. The winning design(s) will be built in Ghana. Sign up The first step is to sign up for the competition. By doing so, you’ll automatically become a platform member and will be kept up to date with the latest news regarding the Design Competition, the research findings and activities like interactive sessions, activities in congresses and universities, etc. Pilot The winning design(s) will be built in a pilot project in Ghana, to test the technical and economic feasibility as well as the social perception. Joining the competition is your chance to establish your name as an architect while witnessing your design being built and used by its new residents. The Open Source phase To generate content for the OS-House platform we start with the Ghana design competition. However the aim of OS-House is to provide knowledge and choice. Therefore all submitted designs are published on the OS-House platform after the competition. After this first competition and pilot project OS-House will continue to promote the implementation of more OS-Houses, challenge platform members to improve available designs, organize new competitions and stimulate local parties to take designs and adapt them to their local conditions. Our goal is to realize a 100.000 OS-Houses before the year 2020. Info: tel +31 010 2887970 fax +31 010 2887988 e-mail: oshouse@enviu.org - www.os-house.org