Transitional Housing for Returning Refugees: Finalists
Finalists
The Tree of Life Prototype by Basak & Mark Altan Schrimer of San Diego, CA:
"Extreme Housing" Proposal by Deborah Gans & Matt Jelacic which was awarded a $100,000 grant by the Johnnie Walker 'Keep Walking' Fund (article in Fast Company, May 2002):
Air Pipe House by Hattori & Aihara of Tokyo, Japan:
Entry by LA Architects with Whitby Bird & Partners of London, England. This was the first finalist to be transformed into a full-sized prototype. This design used a remarkable cage-like structural system which utilized rubble from destroyed homes to create a new brick-like building material:
Entry by Maeda & Yonekawa of Paris, France and Tokyo, Japan:
Nakamura & Koike of Tokyo, Japan ask, "Why shouldn't housing for refugees be beautiful?"
Simplicity reigned with this entry by Ruimtelab, Linders & Van Dorssen of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The designers proposed giving a kit that included a mobile phone (to set up a communication network) and tools to help rebuild destroyed homes:
The Paper Loghouse by Shigeru Ban of Tokyo, Japan is a revised design for the cardboard tube homes he built for the earthquake victims of Kobe and refugees in Rwanda. As you can see in the image to the right this updated design included insulation and waterproofing to deal with the weather in Kosovo:
The Low-Tech Balloon System by Technocraft received a lot of attention due to its use of hemp as a building material:
Entry by Wonderland Productions of Paris, France (website):
