Tamayouz Excellence Award is a growing awards and scholarships program that was launched in 2012. It was founded by Mr Ahmed Al-Mallak, Lecturer at Coventry University which is the main award sponsor, the award started with only two student categories and has since grown to a global competition with 7 categories and competitions that is aimed at tackling global issues and enhancing the built environment for inhabitants. Tamayouz Award is open for architects,students,academics and architectural technology engineers worldwide to present their ideas and be rewarded and recognized for their effort.
Every year Tamayouz Award team organize an awards ceremony to celebrate the achievements of the participating winners, honorable mentions, students and their supervisors. It also celebrates the achievements of architecture schools who's students shown significant progress compared with their peers.
The Orange Book - Volume One is a collection of winning projects for the biggest global competition organized by Tamayouz Award so far which is The Rifat Chadirji Prize - The Mosul Housing Competition.
The Orange Book - Volume One is a collection of winning projects for the biggest global competition organized by Tamayouz Award so far which is The Rifat Chadirji Prize - The Mosul Housing Competition.
In 2017 The Rifat Chadirji Prize was established as part of the Tamayouz Excellence Award program of championing and celebrating the best of Iraqi architecture.
The prize is named after Dr Rifat Chadirji, the great Iraqi Architect whose influence and importance is far beyond built work. The award will be officially launched in January 2017, celebrating the 90th Birthday of the great architect. The Rifat Chadirji Prize is a thematic open international prize focuses on proposing designs responding to local challenges in Iraq. This prize aims to introduce Iraq and its challenges to the world and invite them to submit their ideas and to establish an uncompromising open source of ideas tackling social issues in Iraq through design.
Tamayouz launched the Rifat Chadirji Prize as part of its program of championing and celebrating the best of architecture worldwide. The prize is named after Dr. Rifat Chadirji, the great Iraqi Architect whose influence and importance are far beyond built work.
The Rifat Chadirji Prize is a thematic open international prize which focuses on proposing designs and responding to local challenges in Iraq. This prize aims to introduce Iraq and its challenges to the world, invite architects and designers worldwide to submit their ideas and to establish an uncompromising open source of ideas tackling social issues in Iraq through design.
This year’s competition theme is “Rebuilding the Liberated Areas: Mosul’s Housing” to introduce to theworld the scale of thecrisis facing communities in Iraq and to present innovative ideas and practical solutions that can be used as primary studies by the governmental organisations responsible for the reconstruction of the liberated areas.
The participation of 223 firms and individuals from 42 countries, all contributing ideas responding to the humanitarian crisis are heart-warming. This competition had the value of reflecting difficult and controversial situations but through a reasonably positive lens. Although the competition finished, our work starts now to urge the responsible organisation to speed up the reconstruction effort.
The winner selected by the judging panel will receive the Rifat Chadirji Prize trophy (designed by the Dia Al-Azzawi a pioneer of modern Arab art and one of the most prominent artists in the Middle East) at the Tamayouz Award Ceremony in Amman – Jordan, December 2017, where the first exhibition of the shortlisted project will be held.
On behalf of the Tamayouz Excellence Award Team I would like to thank the judging panel of the Rifat Chadirji Prize, represented by the Arab Architect Dr. Rasem Badran, Iraqi Architect Mr. Mohamed Al-Assam, Professor Wendy Pullan, Engineer Ali Naji and Ms. Angela Brady OBE for their role and contribution in the success of the first year of the award, and I would like to thank the sponsors of Tamayouz Excellence Award for their continuous support that allowed us to grow and constantly develop the award.
We present this book as an opensource of ideas hoping it would one day contribute to ideas responding to humanitarian crises which we face on a daily basis and a reminder of our social and humanitarian responsibilities towards refugees and internally displaced.
The Rifat Chadirji Prize is a thematic open international prize which focuses on proposing designs and responding to local challenges in Iraq. This prize aims to introduce Iraq and its challenges to the world, invite architects and designers worldwide to submit their ideas and to establish an uncompromising open source of ideas tackling social issues in Iraq through design.
This year’s competition theme is “Rebuilding the Liberated Areas: Mosul’s Housing” to introduce to theworld the scale of thecrisis facing communities in Iraq and to present innovative ideas and practical solutions that can be used as primary studies by the governmental organisations responsible for the reconstruction of the liberated areas.
The participation of 223 firms and individuals from 42 countries, all contributing ideas responding to the humanitarian crisis are heart-warming. This competition had the value of reflecting difficult and controversial situations but through a reasonably positive lens. Although the competition finished, our work starts now to urge the responsible organisation to speed up the reconstruction effort.
The winner selected by the judging panel will receive the Rifat Chadirji Prize trophy (designed by the Dia Al-Azzawi a pioneer of modern Arab art and one of the most prominent artists in the Middle East) at the Tamayouz Award Ceremony in Amman – Jordan, December 2017, where the first exhibition of the shortlisted project will be held.
On behalf of the Tamayouz Excellence Award Team I would like to thank the judging panel of the Rifat Chadirji Prize, represented by the Arab Architect Dr. Rasem Badran, Iraqi Architect Mr. Mohamed Al-Assam, Professor Wendy Pullan, Engineer Ali Naji and Ms. Angela Brady OBE for their role and contribution in the success of the first year of the award, and I would like to thank the sponsors of Tamayouz Excellence Award for their continuous support that allowed us to grow and constantly develop the award.
We present this book as an opensource of ideas hoping it would one day contribute to ideas responding to humanitarian crises which we face on a daily basis and a reminder of our social and humanitarian responsibilities towards refugees and internally displaced.
The Challenge and The Response
THE CHALLENGE
Mosul city suffers from a chronic housing shortage. The deficit in housing units in Nineveh is estimated to have reached 172,000 units in mid-2016, with a 53,000 units’ deficit in Mosul alone. The major contributing factors to this shortage can be defined as 1) the scarcity of tracts of land for new housing projects; 2) the failure to update the city’s 1973 master plan and create formal urban expansion zones for housing development (Un-Habitat, 2016).
Only three housing complexes were built in Al-Yarmuk, Al-Arabi, and Al-Karama neighbourhoods in the 1980s. The Al-Hadbaa project near Tal Al-Ruman is the only recent public residential project (although only partially completed).
New housing provision was limited to the private sector. The housing demands of poorer members of society were mainly met in the old city of Mosul where existing buildings became cramped with families living in shared accommodation (Un-Habitat, 2016).
After 2003, informal settlements became a housing solution and a lucrative business, causing additional pressure on public utility networks and services. Before the fall of Mosul, there were no national policies in place to regularise informal settlements.
An estimated 900,000 internally displaced returned / will be returning to their homes following the liberation of the city, many of those returnees will find nothing but complete desolation.
THE RESPONSE
Participants were asked to design a prototype for affordable housing for the post-Daesh Mosul, which can be easily replicated with the objective of increasing the capacity of housing in the city and providing a practical and inspiring solution for returnees.
Mosul city suffers from a chronic housing shortage. The deficit in housing units in Nineveh is estimated to have reached 172,000 units in mid-2016, with a 53,000 units’ deficit in Mosul alone. The major contributing factors to this shortage can be defined as 1) the scarcity of tracts of land for new housing projects; 2) the failure to update the city’s 1973 master plan and create formal urban expansion zones for housing development (Un-Habitat, 2016).
Only three housing complexes were built in Al-Yarmuk, Al-Arabi, and Al-Karama neighbourhoods in the 1980s. The Al-Hadbaa project near Tal Al-Ruman is the only recent public residential project (although only partially completed).
New housing provision was limited to the private sector. The housing demands of poorer members of society were mainly met in the old city of Mosul where existing buildings became cramped with families living in shared accommodation (Un-Habitat, 2016).
After 2003, informal settlements became a housing solution and a lucrative business, causing additional pressure on public utility networks and services. Before the fall of Mosul, there were no national policies in place to regularise informal settlements.
An estimated 900,000 internally displaced returned / will be returning to their homes following the liberation of the city, many of those returnees will find nothing but complete desolation.
THE RESPONSE
Participants were asked to design a prototype for affordable housing for the post-Daesh Mosul, which can be easily replicated with the objective of increasing the capacity of housing in the city and providing a practical and inspiring solution for returnees.
The Judging Panel
The Rifat Chadirji Prize 2018
Rifat Chadirji Prize is an annual open-ideas architectural competition For students and professionals. It is part of Tamayouz Excellence Award. Below is a Photo of some of the winners at The Awards Ceremony in Amman ,2017.
Applications are now open; please visit the Awards website for more information:
http://www.rifatchadirji.com/the-rifat-chadirji-prize.html
Applications are now open; please visit the Awards website for more information:
http://www.rifatchadirji.com/the-rifat-chadirji-prize.html
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