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Saturday, 13 October 2007 | Levent OZLER
Living Steel Honours Sustainable Arcitecture in UK Winning Designs
Living Steel's 2nd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing UK winner, Cartwright Pickard and short listed finalists will be honoured at a UK winners event on the 18th October 2007.
London firm, Cartwright Pickard will showcase its winning design at the event hosted by steel manufacturer Corus and taking place from 7pm at The RIBA Headquarters. Living Steel announced the winners of its 2nd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing in Brussels last month and Cartwright Pickard was awarded €50,000 and a contract to construct its steel housing design.
Cartwright Pickard's design utilised a flexible kit of standardised parts that can be arranged in a series of unique formations. The pre-fabricated modules are factory built and can be fully fitted out prior to delivery to the building site.
The International Competition for Sustainable Housing is a key activity for Living Steel, the International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI) worldwide programme developed to stimulate innovation in the design and construction of residential steel housing.
Launched to develop innovative approaches to meet sustainable housing needs, underlying the competition is a desire to address the economic, environmental and social aspirations of a growing world population. The Living Steel competitions have required architects to respond to burgeoning cities located in Poland, India, China, Brazil and the UK for a €50,000 prize and a contract to construct their design on location. The Cartwright Pickard entry was the winning design for a Thames Gateway, United Kingdom location. Construction of its design is set to begin construction in 2008.
The evening's keynote speaker is prominent architect, and chair of the competition's International Union of Architects approved judging panel, Andrew Ogorzalek.
"The judging panel appreciated Cartwright Pickard Architects concentrated effort to design a comprehensive family of suitable dwellings using offsite modular construction. We are looking forward to acknowledging Cartwright Pickard and the short-listed finalists for their contributions to sustainable architecture," Ogorzalek said.
Also on display at the event, will be the 2nd Competition winning entries for China and Brazil as well as the UK short- listed finalist.
Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados Ltda, Brazil, were awarded the top prize for designing in Brazil, while David Knafo Tagit Klimor, Architects And Town Planners, Israel, won the design competition for China. The UK short-listed finalists included designs from Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects LLP, Hide to Horike and Urtorpic Inc, Icesa S.A, Mei Architectern En Stedenbouwers and Roccateiler Associati.
Living Steel, a worldwide programme to stimulate innovation in the design and construction of housing, was launched in February, 2005. The International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI) provide project management of the five-year Living Steel programme. The programme comprises three key initiatives including market research, knowledge management and the competition and demonstration building to promote steel-based solutions for sustainable housing.
Members of Living Steel include Arcelor Mittal, Baosteel, BlueScope Steel, CELSA Group, Corus, Erdemir, IMIDRO, Posco, Ruukki, SeverStal, Tata Steel and associate member Saint-Gobain Gypsum.
Living Steel's International Competition for Sustainable Housing was launched to develop innovative approaches to meet sustainable housing needs. Underlying the competition was a desire to address the economic, environmental and social aspirations of a growing world population. The Competition was developed with the guidance of the International Union of Architects (UIA) and consequently follows the provisions of the International Recommendations for Competitions in Architecture and Urban Planning adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 27 November 1978.
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