Zero Threshold Design Competition
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North Coast Community Homes is a charitable non-profit. For over 30 years we've provided safe comfortable, and affordable housing for individuals with developmental disabilities, severe mental illness, and other disabilities.
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Zero Threshold is an ideas competition for a real-world problem. In this first phase of the competition, entrants are encouraged to envision bold and innovative ideas for housing, public spaces, and neighborhoods that expand the practice of accessible design and barrier-free living.A later phase of the competition will advance the strongest ideas into implementation
The Zero Threshold design competition was inspired by (dis)ABLED Beauty, an exhibition at the Kent State University Museum in 2016-17. The exhibition presented beautifully designed prostheses, hearing aids, and mobility devices for people living with disabilities, (dis)ABLED Beauty aimed to change the negative stigma associated with disability by presenting fashion-forward adaptive devices that make a virtue of necessity.Zero Threshold applies a similar approach to the design of accessible housing. Instead of making accessible features as functional and invisible as possible, this competition challenges designers to celebrate the aesthetics of accessibility. The competition encompasses new residential construction, accessory dwelling units, interior design and retrofit of existing housing, accessible public space and landscape design, and holistic urban design strategies aimed at eliminating physical and social barriers in urban neighborhoods.
Zero Threshold uses a real neighborhood—Old Brooklyn in Cleveland, Ohio—as a stand-in for traditional urban neighborhoods throughout the United States and in other parts of the world. Competition entries are expected to respond to the local context while also expanding ideas about accessibility in ways that translate to other places.
The competition is open to students and professionals, working individually or in teams. Winning entries will receive monetary awards and be featured in an exhibition and publication. The most compelling and innovative projects may be constructed in a future second phase of the competition.
Join us in envisioning and building a barrier-free future.
Schedule
- Release of Competition Brief – 7 January 2019
- Question & Answer Period – 7 January – 31 May 2019
- Early Registration Deadline – 8 March 2019
- Late Registration Deadline – 28 June 2019
- Submission Deadline – 28 June 2019
- Awards Announcement & Event – 19 September 2019
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Rewards
Grand Prize
$8 000The grand prize winner also will win the cash award for the category they entered.
Those categories are: Retrofit - Colonial/Duplex, Single Family - New Construction, Accessory Dwelling Unit, Community Gathering Space, Holistic/Neighborhood Approach, Student Award
Retrofit - Colonial/Duplex
$2 000Single Family - New Construction
$1 000Accessory Dwelling Unit
$1 000Community Gathering Space
$1 000Holistic/Neighborhood Approach
$1 000Student Award
$1 000Timeline
Launch of the call for projects
Competition begins and brief is publically available.
Registration starts
Early bird (discounted) registration is available until March 08, 2019. Final registration deadline is June 28, 2019.
Submission starts
Submissions are made online only.
Registration ends
Early bird (discounted) registration is available until March 08, 2019. Final registration deadline is June 28, 2019.
Submission ends
Submissions are made online only.
Ceremony
The awards announcement and event will be September 19, 2019
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