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Volume Zero Competition has announced the results of the EXTREME HABITAT 2022 ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION.

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Extreme Habitat 2022, challenged participants to explore site conditions and aspects wherein human inhabitation could get difficult to sustain. These design proposals are considered modern technological advancements in architecture to make the house adaptive to its surroundings, thus making it a comfortable home by eliminating any types of hazards. The winning proposals vary from sustainable and off-the-grid solutions to recycled-materials habitation.

The competition's jury included renowned designers Abraham Cota Paredes, Abin Chaudhuri, Nikhil Mohan, Shabna Nikhil, Harsh Vardhan, Lukas Rungger, Aristides Dallas, Andrea Tabocchini, and Francesca Vittorini.

FIRST PLACE: THE HEARTH OBSERVATORY
Jordan Lutren - Waylon Richmond

United States

Our ancestors gathered around their campfires and homely hearths for millennia, whose crackling flames and radiating warmth gifted comfort and wonder. Its Influence shaped our evolution, Its triks to human psychology and well-being run deep. The Hearth Observatory seeks to explore this relationship, between humans and flame. In a natural setting at the extremes of habilitation.

SECOND PLACE: LITTLE WANDERING HABITAT

Tony Liu - Ann Ren

United States

Living off the shores of the Philippines in stilt huts for the past century, the Badjao are a sea-dwelling tribe known as the "Sea Nomads" practicing traditional free diving for a living. However, to meet increasing fishing demands, some Badjao communities have been engaging in cyanide fishing practices that directly harm the coral habitat they rely on. As they have shifted their nomadic behavior into more permanent dwellings on land, they are put at risk of rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions.

THIRD PLACE: KHARGHAR

Darshan Lineswala - Shreyash Gupta - Sarthak Mohanty

India

Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, India is home to the Agartyas-Sat Farmers of India who produce 75% of the salt in the world’s 3 largest salt-producing countries. A harsh yet breathtaking story of a community living in extreme poverty and an unimaginable situation. This is an attempt to make their lives more livable through architectural intervention.

BEST STUDENT AWARD: DESERT FLOWER

Ning Xin Cheng - LU WAN TING

Taiwan

Madagascar is going through years of drought, with dust storms obscuring green islands with laterite, and is in a climate change-induced famine for the first time in global history. Climate change impacts temperature and precipitation.

On the global average, for every 1-degree Celsius increase, there will be 1% to 2% more precipitation. The weather will become more extreme and more frequent. Because the traditional buildings are not conducive to water storage, the incidence of malaria continues to increase every summer.