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The d3 Housing Tomorrow 2012 competition challenges architects, designers, engineers and students to develop innovative approaches to residential living, including urbanism, architecture, interiors and designed objects.
 
As d3 explains on the competition website, “The competition calls for transformative solutions that advance sustainable thought, building performance, and social interaction through study of intrinsic environmental geometries, social behaviors, urban implications, and programmatic flows.  Special emphasis may be placed on housing concepts that investigate dialogues including engagement of internal/external socio-economic diversity, change/adaptability over time, public/private spatial connectivity, and permanence/impermanence of materials.  d3 challenges participants to rethink strategies for investigating residential design from macro-to-micro scales ranging from urban—promoting broader physical interconnectivity; communal—exploiting an interaction of units with shared facilities; and internal—examining the interior particularity of the unit, individual, or family in housing design toward promoting identity, ownership, and intimacy.”
 
Entrants are given a considerable degree of freedom in terms of scale, site, program or residential building type. All building designs will be entered into one general category for sustainable residential design proposals, but will also be eligible for special mention in the following categories: High-Density Housing, Medium-Density Housing, Low-Density Housing, Deployable Pod, Modular Interior, New York City.
 
The first, second and third place winners will be awarded cash prizes of $1,000, $500 and $250 respectively. The deadline for registration is January 6, 2012 and projects must be submitted by January 20, 2012.

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