#challenge2020august
Theme: Future of Work
COVID-19 has uprooted almost every aspect of our lives in the first half of 2020. With our collective efforts, are beginning to adapt to this new reality of post pandemic economy.
60% of work force in North America responded that their work can be done remotely, and top companies are offering employees to work remotely indefinitely if preferred.
Shift to work from home
Adapting to the New Reality
Technology played a critical role in allowing workers to transition to remote work. Attached graph indicates a dramatic shift in the use of video conferencing platforms and the fierce competition to dominate the market during this moments of uncertainty.
“Rarely is architecture more impactful in shaping our livelihoods than in the times of uncertainty.”
One may dare say that this kind of upheaval in society has never happened since the World Wars. During the post war period, the combination of housing shortage and industrial manufacturing process influenced the minimal and modular looks of Modernism, which came to dominate the present world. Of course, much has changed since then, and perhaps the old ways are ill-suited to respond to the current events.
How does the future of office look?
Two Categories
Entrants may choose one topic from the following choices:
Future of Office
While technology allows us to bridge some gaps when working remote, some aspects of face-to-face work stays invaluable. If most of day-to-day tasks are executed in isolation, how would collaboration look like?
Entrants in this category is asked to design the collaborative environment of the future which satisfies safety standards while endorsing all the unique benefits of face-to-face interaction.
Future of Live-Work
A large number of jobs are going remote. In this scenario, workers have to establish a healthy boundary between work and life. In this isolated settings, how will our future living space look once we add a new space to our day-to-day housing typology?
Design a house or an apartment with ‘work’ added to the mix, in addition to the existing regular programs.
Winners
FUTURE OF OFFICE CATEGORY
Forgotten Office
A home-office for a writer.
Do we really need new offices? Do we need to expand our cities over their exploded and scattered borders, while our authentic villages crumble under the weight time on amusing and forgotten landscapes? What if what we are looking for was already there, waiting for us to see it?
Technology is giving us the chance to go back living where we used to belong. The recent situation we are now living in could be the key to start such a change; it may have taught us that the life of megalopolis is a possible choice, but that a more sustainable future is possible. That what we think we need can be actually reduced to a chair, a laptop, a screen.
FUTURE OF LIVE-WORK CATEGORY
Utopian Housing for Dystopian Future
Authors: Keshav Jasoriya @tosstumble, Yogesh M Singh @____skeptic____,
The last few months have witnessed many changing paradigms in the field of design in general and architecture in particular. The world tends towards a dystopian era for humanity.
The design tries to explore isolated living as distancing from the endless chaos of the outside world by means of existing technologies and speculates over the possibility of the rise of a socialist utopian architecture as the means to take people away from other people and help them dissolve their sense of self, experiencing solitude and changing seasons by simple elements like courtyards.
Prizes
All the awarded proposals (winners and honorable mentions) will be published on architectural magazines and websites for international exhibitions (see partners). In addition, the winners from each category will receive a copy of the Competition Yearbook.
Winners will be announced at the end of the month on our website and social media. Make sure to follow and subscribe so you don’t miss any announcements!
Q&A
Scale and sites are open to the designer’s discretion. We look favorably upon creative applications.
Absolutely. As long as it is relevant to the given topic.
There is no limit on the size of the team, but we recommend small teams
For the first time, we are now accepting multi-images for entries. You may add minimum of 3, and maximum of 10 slides in a single post for consideration.
There is no restrictions on the type of drawing. Choose the formats that best represents your project!
There is no special registration steps. You can simply post your images on your Instagram with the quote shown above to be eligible.
Make sure to list all team members’ accounts/names in the description. More than one person in the team can post on their account as long as they follow the same conventions.
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Inspirations
The Architecture of Productivity – research shows that open offices have actually had lowered the productivity of office workers. Now that the new norm mandates separation, we have effectively returned to closed offices. How can we maximize the benefits of closed offices that has not been re-evaluated since the mid 1900s?
The Eudaimonia Machine: A Space Concept for the 21st Century – This sequence of spaces have become a template for open offices across the globe. Can this organizational logic be applied to self-isolated offices?