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Impact Design Competition announced winners of Micro Housing 2022 Architecture Competition.

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Designers from all over the world were invited to come up with innovative, experimental architectural ideas that would shock the current housing market and promote a sense of community living. A higher standard of living for the users must be improved by the design. It should be very practical and aesthetically appealing as well.

Impact Competition thanks all the competitors for participating in this competition and for contributing to this competition's research.

Participants from more than 100 countries contributed valuable concept ideas to the contest, which was evaluated by a panel of international experts. The winning projects have been awarded a total cash prize of $10,000 distributed to the first 5 team winner.

The esteemed jury for judging this competition consisted of Aristides Dallas (Aristides Dallas Architects), Doan Thanh Ha(H&P architects), James Shen(People's Architecture Office), Joe Chikamori(07BEACH), Liz Walsh (Cumulus Studio), Ludwig Godefroy(Ludwig Godefroy Architect), Mark Foster Gage(Mark Foster Gage Architects), Peter Pichler(Peter Pichler Architecture), Sebastian Irarrazaval(Sebastian Irarrazaval Arquitecto), Sun Dayong(Penda China).

The top five winners were awarded total prize money of $10,000 while ten entries received Honorable Mentions and two special mentions. Here are the winning entries. The full result for the competition MICRO HOUSING 2022 ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION can be found on https://impactcompetitions.net/result/2

See the top Three Winners below:

FIRST PLACE: OCCUPY THE STREETS

HENRY SMITH

United States

The bold proposition is to not use "land" at all. The city has 130 overly-wide streets. The design intension is to utilize a wide median sidewalk intended for parking for an elevated micro-housing project in conjunction with a linear public garden refuge positioned above the street.

There exists an over-abundance of wasted area that could inventively and while simultaneously contributing social equity via green space. With no cost of conventional land this concept could be replicated throughout the urban context. Previous Inhabitants could flock back and, again, occupy their streets and city.

SECOND PLACE: PIER HOUSE

LENNY LEE LIANG LEW - LIM JIAN JUN

United Kingdom

The Pier House unfolds the potential of repurposing urban derelicts and abandoned piers as area of opportunity for inventing micro homes

The proposal seeks to reconcile and to reanimate the abandoned pier structures across River Thames with integration of public realms and residential programs to meet new housing needs in the dense urban context of London.

The Pier House's strategy can be deployed across London's waterways and Thames River as a sustainable housing solution with ecological enhancement to the nature.

THIRD PLACE: GREEN CLOUDS

VITTORIA REZZONICO - GABRIELE SCIARESA - FEDERICO SCIARESA

Switzerland

The abstract vision developed in order to absolve this particular situation takes into consideration the great economic and social benefit of reusing already man-made spaces.

Therefore, the declination of the project is embodied in the conception of MACRO - STRUCTURES hanging in the streets of Hong Kong, consisting of two main levels:

1.A residential floor hanging on the main structure in which in addition to new housing will be introduced common space dedicated to the connected buildings,

2. A public floor above the structure, structured as a public park featuring community gardens.

This is a solution that not only limit the city’s increasingly complex sprawl, but at the same time ensures the addition of new surfaces capable of giving back for each new housing, space dedicated to society.