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International Design and Construction Competition Values Sustainable Practices
The First International Cradle to Cradle Housing Design and Construction Competition for excellence in building the highest quality affordable and market rate housing designs for a local community. The designs are to be developed around the principles and framework described in Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough FAIA and Michael Braungart. The first in the anticipated series of nationwide and international implementation markets will be Roanoke, Virginia, USA.
The two part competition will allow students and professionals to compete with their peers and offer solutions to the problem of designing buildable and sustainable housing. Winning design teams, representing accredited architecture programs from around the world, will be offered paid internships and room and board to participate in the process of building their designs with the assistance of the local design and construction community. Hosted by local businesses and other organizations and institutions, the selected design teams will take up residence in Roanoke, Virginia for three months during the summer of 2005.
The designs will serve to increase awareness of the availability and
limitations of the existing environmentally intelligent technologies
and strategies for building green, while introducing and implementing
new concepts for consideration and realization.
Work that begins in Roanoke, Virginia in 2004 and 2005 will be refined
and adapted for implementation for other markets in an effort to
address issues considered to be specific to each of these future
project locations. Anticipating that cities throughout the
country and ultimately around the world will understand the value of
this effort and look to host the event in subsequent years, we will
consider the project in Roanoke to be the first in a series of such
efforts.
For more information go to www.c2c-home.org