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OPEN
DESIGN COMPETITION
COMMON GROUND AND THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW
YORK
Winning Designs to be Manufactured
and Installed in Bowery Lodging House
Design Jury includes Steven
Holl, Toshiko Mori and Julie Eizenberg
May 22, 2003, New York
Common Ground Community and The Architectural League of New York
are holding an open design competition for a new form of individualized
dwelling unit entitled First Step Housing. In addition to a $2,000
cash prize, it is also anticipated that up to four winners will
enter into an agreement with Common Ground to develop their projects
for production and installation at The Andrews House (Common
Ground's lodging house on the Bowery). Winners will also be paid
a design fee.
Competitors are asked to design a prototypical individualized
dwelling unit and the layout of 19 such units on a typical floor
of The Andrews.
First Step will offer private,
safe, clean and affordable short-term accommodations to individuals
who are transitioning to housing, facing homelessness, or who
have rejected or failed in other programs. It is Common Ground's
goal to seek out designs for First Step Housing that respond
to the ideas of context, prefabrication, modularity, individualization,
cost effectiveness and materiality while adhering to the building
codes and performance standards of the project.
Jurors for the competition include
Steven Holl, Architect and Professor of Architecture, Graduate
School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University;
Michael Bell, Associate Professor of Architecture, Graduate School
of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University;
Julie Eizenberg, Koning Eizenberg Architecture; Andrew Freear,
Director, Rural Studio, Auburn University; Toshiko Mori, Professor
in Practice and Chair, Harvard Design School; Rosalie Genevro,
Executive Director of the Architectural League of New York and
Rosanne Haggerty, Founder and President of Common Ground Community.
Competition registration opens
May 27, 2003. The registration deadline is July 11, 2003. The
design entry submission deadline is 10:00 am, August 25, 2003.
Full details on the competition (including registration and requirements)
are available on a dedicated website: www.firststephousing.org
The Architectural League is one of the country's leading forums
for the presentation and discussion of important work and ideas
in contemporary architecture and design. Through exhibitions,
lectures, competitions, publications and special events, the
League helps architects, designers and the public enrich their
understanding of architecture and its critical contributions
to public life.
Common Ground Community is a
non-profit housing and community development organization whose
mission is to end homelessness through innovative programs to
transform people, buildings and communities.
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