Can a building blur the lines between humans and nature?

カナダ、ニューブランズウィック州の森林地帯に1〜2人用のシェルターを作る実施コンペ。

Description
Community Forests International (CFI) is hosting a crowd-sourced architectural design competition for the backwoods cabin of the future. Bringing together visionary architects, artists, green builders and DIYers, the competition is CFI’s first step towards establishing a Rural Innovation Campus at its 235 hectare farm and forest outside of Sussex, New Brunswick.

CFI plans to bring people into the forest, to live, learn and innovate, and as part of our mission we want to demonstrate how humans can dwell in the world without destroying life sustaining ecosystems. More than that, we want to push the envelope and discover how our buildings can be designed to have a positive impact on the landscapes we live in. CFI is asking designers, architects, builders and DIYers to help us design a shelter for the future – a shelter that blurs the lines between humans and nature.

In the interest of making this exercise as free and accessible as possible, CFI has adapted the conventional architectural design competition. We hope that our architect friends will forgive us for taking liberties!

Jury
Craig Applegath - Architect, PPOAA, AAA, Architect AIBC, NSAA, FRAIC, LEED® AP
John Leroux - Architect, AANB
Paul Henderson - Director of Thunder & Lightning Ideas Ltd.
Marc Spence – Green Builder, VW Chop Artist, and Acadian Forest Steward
Zach Melanson – CFI Co-founder, Permaculture Designer, and Graphic Artist

Prize
Winner: $1,000
The winning design will be constructed at CFI’s Rural Innovation Campus in the summer of 2014.

Entry Fee
None

Entries
Each proposal can consist of up to six (6) 8.5” x 11” illustrations documenting the design strategy at a regional and architectural scale.

Timetable
Winner Announced: March 1st, 2014

Organizer
Community Forests International (CFI)

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