Submission: May 19, 2019
Registration: May 09, 2019
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open
Extreme Habitat Challenge 2019 is thrilled to invite architects, designers, engineers, student fraternity, and visualizers from around the globe to take part in the world’s first ever Sahara Habitat Challenge. The Extreme Habitat Challenge (EHC) is one of the world’s most coveted competitions for habitat design.
It recognizes exceptional ideas that redefine habitat design through the implementation of innovative ideas, techniques, construction, visual, programmatic and futuristic organizations through architecture as a tool. EHC embarks itself of technological and engineering innovations which are about to go big and sets architecture free to innovate more in these uncharted directions. It is a one of its kind platform that promotes the relationship between the habitat + technology + planet.
Premise:
Vision: Extreme Habitat Challenge pushes to explore habitat concepts that are responsible, yet brave to grow human civilization in synchronous with nature + technology + planet.
Design a concept habitat of 1,000 people within an area of 0.5mi x 0.5mi, which is able to expand itself to 100,000 (2.5mi x 2.5mi)as needed/desired by the population moving into the place. The challenge invites ideas that push the boundaries of design using innovative habitat working models, materials, technology, close to zero land costs, a nomadic yet rooted lifestyle.
This design exercise can be considered similar to colonizing a new earth with the technology of today. The first 1,000 people prototype habitat will house all the three elements of human life in it – Live, Work and Play.
The first ever Extreme Habitat Challenge competition chooses two major cities (New York, USA x Mumbai, India), connected via the fastest mode of land bound transit (Hyperloop). This site peculiarly with a very less human population density is a test bench for designing a new habitat will inspire how life should be in similar environments while balancing itself harmoniously between forces of nature.