Micro Housing Architecture Competition, 2019

Since the beginning of time, a HOME has continued to be an entity that is intimate to all living beings on the planet. Apart from being a physical shelter for humans and their daily lives, a home forms a distinct, intimate connection with its users. Today, across the globe, we are experiencing a rise in densely populated urban areas, along with a lack of land resources to provide sufficient housing for the masses. This phenomenon has given rise to a new movement of Micro-Housing; one that commands the idea of simple but inventive living in today’s urban areas. The concept of these revolutionary homes focusses primarily on the inno-vation of maximum functional area in a minimum footprint, thus redefining the perception of sustainability in urban dwellings.With the idea of Micro-Housing, designers are now coming up with various, inventive solutions to solve the persistent issue of ‘space crunch’ in cities to provide the imperative requirement of ideal housing to as many people as possible.

The participants are to design a prototype of a micro-housing unit that reflects the personal needs and culture of the residen-tial community chosen. A suitable aggregation of these micro-housing units should be done in an urban context, mirror-ing the communal needs of the group of users. A total of 100 users should be considered for the design. Partic-ipants are to choose a site relevant to the topic, in the urban context. The design has to serve as an upgrade to the standard of living of the users. While being very functional in nature, it should also be aesthetically pleasing. The built-up area of each residential unit should not exceed 350 sq.ft. and should house up to 4 individuals. The unit should be a prototype, making the optimum use of space, and it needs to be explained in detail.The designed units should cater to the individual’s personal needs (rest, bath, cook, and work) and community requirements (interact). As per their preferance, the participants are free to add more spaces required in their designs. The design of the micro-housing residential complexshould also provide solutions for circulation such as staircases, passages, etc.

Site Selection
The partcipants are to choose a site in an Urban context.With the urban population constantly on the rise along with an increase in high densi-ty metropolitan areas, there is an immediate need to address the housing crisis in these locations.Many urban cities like Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, Mum-bai,etc,are coming up with innovative solutions to solve this problem. The participants are free to select their own site.

Submission
The entrants must complete the online registrations and the submission must include, (but are not limited to) the following required drawings.

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Micro Housing Architecture Competition, 2019