In Iraq, as an estimated 900,000 people return home to the city of Mosul after liberation, many of the returnees will only find desolation. The Tamayouz Excellence Award, Rifat Chadirji Prize focuses on bringing global awareness as well as global talent toward addressing the social issues Iraq faces through design.
This year’s theme, “Rebuilding Iraq’s Liberated Areas: Mosul’s Housing Competition” asked applicants design prototypes for affordable housing. The winning housing proposals selected by the jury are practical, inspiring, and scalable, while adding capacity and density. The competition received 223 submissions from 42 countries. The Top 20 entries will be featured in a traveling exhibition that will visit Amman, Baghdad, Boston, Beirut, Milan, and London. Read on to learn more about the three winning proposals and seven honorable mentions.
This year’s theme, “Rebuilding Iraq’s Liberated Areas: Mosul’s Housing Competition” asked applicants design prototypes for affordable housing. The winning housing proposals selected by the jury are practical, inspiring, and scalable, while adding capacity and density. The competition received 223 submissions from 42 countries. The Top 20 entries will be featured in a traveling exhibition that will visit Amman, Baghdad, Boston, Beirut, Milan, and London. Read on to learn more about the three winning proposals and seven honorable mentions.
If we consider a destroyed city as a deeply damaged skin, we might start to think in a different, more vital way of its treatment. To induce and catalyze self-recovery process of a suffering skin, a large scale performance is needed. When it limits to small area only, the spread may be to slow to work properly, or may not work at all. The very same thing seems to stand for a suffering city.
The project of Mosul housing recovery is based on an even action in the whole city area and consists of multiple ‘injections’ to the urban housing tissue formed as partly-filled and partly-designed multifamily structures. Although every unit provides at the same time total minimum to live ‘ad hoc’ and a large space to arrange in various ways. The general idea – self-recovery process – is to stimulate people to fill or rearrange the basic spaces into individual, dense forms of local architecture.
Every housing unit is designed to create a shelter from unsafe surroundings by creating an inwards-faced structure with traditional courtyard. Basic structure is to be built of steel and reinforced concrete frame, but all the future inhabitants arrangements may consist of any locally available material such as used bricks, stones and generally – rubble.
Due to water and power shortage, new buildings are aimed to provide water from wells placed in the courtyards and solar energy from panels placed on the roofs or, hopefully in the near future, panels to be printed and placed on windows.
The Rifat Chadirji Prize for Architecture
Rifat Chadirji Priza is an annual open-ideas architectural competition For students and professionals. Applications are now open; please visit the Awards website for more information:
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