The World Habitat Award is an initiative by the Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) of United Nations.The World Habitat Awards were established in 1985 by the Building and Social Housing Foundation as part of its contribution to the United Nations International Year of Shelter for the Homeless worldwide.
Any individual, team or organization can participate in the award program from any part of the world. Participants can submit more than one project at a time. And can resubmit their upgraded design in the next session of award.
The intension of this program is to derive some innovative, practical and sustainable design solutions for the homeless people. The design should comprise with the quality of practical implementation in a particular community or may be a prototypical idea which may be used anywhere.
An award of £10,000 is presented to the winners at the annual United Nations global celebration of World Habitat Day every year.
ArchSociety members are encouraged to participate in this prestigious program with innovative design solutions. People who are interested in housing design or who are already working on it may easily go for this award competition.
This will also bring an opportunity to everyone to work for the poor homeless or slum-dweller people of our communities. If anyone has already any previously done design solution which goes with the requirements can easily submit after some modification according the rules of BSHF.
ArchSociety will perform as an ultimate helping assistant for any participants providing with helpful discussions, information and architectural resources.
The competition will be held in two phases. In the first phase:
Submissions will require only a concise summary of all aspects of the project. From these initial submissions, 12 entries will be selected by an Assessment Committee to go forward to Stage II of the competition.
Stage 1 submission can be done online (click HERE to apply online) or may be used an application form (click HERE to download) and by sending by post, fax or email.
The deadline of the First Phase submission is 1st June 2007.
All detail information and online registration regarding this award is available BSHF official website for Habitat Award 2007.
