Introduction

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Paris Affordable Housing Challenge
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As the average price for housing within central Paris crosses the threshold of €10,000/m², long-time residents and newcomers alike find themselves wondering how anyone can afford to own or rent within the City of Lights.

Paris is no stranger to housing shortages. The 20 arrondissements defined by the vehicular Périphérique ring road has protected itself with building codes that limit construction heights and density - a great success for maintaining urban and architectural identity, but also a constraint on the population's long-term housing demands. To counter this, large residential developments have been constructed in the surrounding banlieues. Many new projects are currently under construction, and several others are planned in the future to meet growing demand and in preparation for, among other things, the 2024 Paris Olympics. Paris also can lay claim to benefitting from a strong network of local and regional train systems that provide easy access to the city from towns located along its RER and TER lines. But the skyrocketing square meter prices for housing within Paris' large urban center are evidence enough that more must be done to maintain a balanced population of residents from all income levels.

This competition has been run in partnership with ARCHHIVE BOOKS as part of Bee Breeders' Global Housing Availability Challenge series. The series seeks unique ideas for cities around the world facing housing shortages, and the corresponding exacerbation of social and economic imbalances. The Paris Affordable Housing Challenge is tasking participants with designing a sustainable solution to Paris’ affordable housing problem. It was a conceptual call for ideas. Implementable, novel, and thought-provoking solutions were sought. No specific location was defined, as the competition sought ideas versatile enough to be adapted to multiple locations in or around Paris. Participants were asked to consider designs flexible enough to accommodate families, couples, single professionals, and mixed residence types.

Designs that responded to Paris uniquely were judged positively, in particular those that showed an advanced level of urban, social, or political analysis. What aspects of Paris' urban composition might be utilized to accommodate additional housing? The response was varied, with proposals tackling ideas for new housing types, others re-thinking the utilization of the existing housing stock, and many focused on identifying underutilized spaces within Paris for new construction.

1st Prize Winner +
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Monumental Housing

What I find most beneficial about architecture vision competitions is the interchange of ideas. Not only do you get to exercise your way of thinking, you also get an insight into how other people approached the same problem.

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2nd Prize Winner

Project name

Urban Infill - 1037 New Housing Sites in Paris

I believe participating in architecture vision competitions should be an integral part of architecture, it's an exercise in the most important topics that we face or will face as a society and thus should be the ones that get the most attention and work.

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3rd Prize Winner

Project name

9.000 New Social Houses for Paris

We believe that competitions are an opportunity to deal with architectural issues with which not all architects have the opportunity to face in their professional lives. It is an occasion to express our opinion and propose the best of our ideas, without limits to our creativity.

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Authors
Chiara Quintanal Rivacoba
Bianca Ludovica Palmieri
Country
Italy
+74 points Buildner University Rankings

BB GREEN AWARD

Project name

La Ceinture Vivante - The Living Belt

We encourage you to enter and also to challenge yourself, develop new skills and teamwork.

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Authors
Matt Sterne
Oscar Clarke
Ingrid Schwalm McEwan
Kate Schoonees
Country
New Zealand

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

Full steam ahead

Authors
Sebastien Labbe
Nicolas Delucinge
Country
Canada
Project name

GREEN HOUSE

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Authors
Yoan La Selva
Adrien La Selva
Damien Fraulob
Sisley Carnus
Country
France
Project name

Roofers

Authors
Jaewon Lee
Suk Lee
Woowon Chung
Country
United States
Project name

Paving the Palimpsest

Author
Mujung Ryan Chiu
Country
United States
Project name

Parisian Landcapes

Author
Noam Hazan
Country
Canada
Project name

THE VILLAGE

Authors
Aubéry De Bretteville
Sophie Ponthieu
Country
France

Shortlisted projects

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Living In The Cloud

Haozhou Zeng

Southern California Institute of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Monumental Housing

Neno Videnovic

Southern California Institute of Architecture

+172 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

[PARIS(site)]

Navid Simanian

Southern California Institute of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Le Long du Canal

Pei-Shin (phoebe) Ou-Yang

Southern California Institute of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

AQUEDUC HABITATION

Blake Minster

Southern California Institute of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Urban Infill - 1037 New Housing Sites in Paris

Lourenço Vaz Pinto

Southern California Institute of Architecture

+92 points Buildner University Rankings!
Portugal

The New French Formal: Carrying on the Legacy of Paris' Gardenscapes

Dutra Brown

Southern California Institute of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Seine je t'aime

Paula Imperatore
Luke Olsen
Argentina

THE BIG FLAT THEORY

Evgenii Koriukin
Dmitry Astrakhancev
Anastasia Korotaeva
Anastasia Kizima

ESCHER

Russian Federation

DRAWER CABINET

Fabio Kahn
Rafael Kern
Michel Schoor
Israel

Seine Living

Zhengda Hou
Kuan-yi Ho
Dichen Ding
Hsin-han Lee
United States

Paving the Palimpsest

Mujung Ryan Chiu
United States

Roofers

Jaewon Lee
Suk Lee
Woowon Chung
United States

(RE)HOUSEMANN

Antonio Sollo
Federica Gallucci
Italy

'Les Clip-Maison pour Paris'

Milos Nikolic
Kaushambi Mate
Alejandro Cruz nacher
Germany

Logis-tic

Mario Galterisi
Gennaro Finale
Vittoria Di giulio

UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

Christina Kavoura
Ellie Athanasiadou
United Kingdom

B.Y.O.B. _ Bring Your Own Building

Adonis Algianakoglou
Alexandros Achniotis
United Kingdom

CubeHouse

Joanna Kowalska

Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

GREEN HOUSE

Yoan La Selva
Adrien La Selva
Damien Fraulob
Sisley Carnus

SQUAD

France

Paris +1

Jiri Kugl
Stepan Kotous
Natalie Novakova
Czech Republic

Nomad's Den

Sharad Maithel
Puneet Dua
Rameez raza Gesawat

m a architects

India

9.000 New Social Houses for Paris

Chiara Quintanal Rivacoba
Bianca Ludovica Palmieri
Italy

Full steam ahead

Sebastien Labbe
Nicolas Delucinge
Canada

John 3:17

Sumiya Ochirbat
Mongolia

La Maison de L'Arche

Philippe Le quellec
Stephanie Janeiro

University of British Columbia

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Canada

Never Not Produce Space

Lars Raattamaa
Anna Teglund
Mia Åberg

Equator Stockholm AB

Sweden

E-Co Blocks - Equitable Community City Making

Peter Willett
Cindy Lin
Sarah Gan-brown
Jess yue Wang

PWA

Australia

Affordability & Comfort

Alexander Zaytsev
Nikita Zaytsev
Yulia Olofinskaya
Russian Federation

HabitLib' - Biosourced Linen Housing

Nicola Casini
Stefano Antena
France

PARIS AFFORDABLE HOUSING CHALLENGE - THE SEINE WALLS

Gaby Khoriaty
Lebanon

DRIVEN

Nicolas Warrant
Giulia Devis

Université catholique de Louvain

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Belgium

Qu'ils Mangent [Les Riches]

Adam Johnson
Taro Matsuno
United States

THE PAVILLION

Cheng hou Ho
Macao

La Ceinture Vivante - The Living Belt

Matt Sterne
Oscar Clarke
Ingrid Schwalm McEwan
Kate Schoonees
New Zealand

Anastas Meshkov
Zornitsa Puleva
Seydahmed Myumyun
Boyan Dimitrov

University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG)

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Bulgaria

Parisian Landcapes

Noam Hazan
Canada

COVER-FACADE

Hoyeon Hwang

École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-Malaquais

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
South Korea

Unité d'habitation 2.0 | What is self-tailored housing?

Răzvan Vingan
Laura elena Cana
Belgium

Paris Affordable Housing Challenge

Suneela Ahmed
Ahmed Khan
Pakistan

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS: [HOUSING]

Michael O'reilly
Jingsi Sun
Yingying Zhou

Manchester School of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United Kingdom

THE MESH

Joanna Loubly
Olivier Loubly
Claire Richeda
Nuria Gambin Esteban
France

Do you know your neighbour?

Attila Máthé

Vienna University of Technology

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Slovakia

Bio-threshold Affordable Housing

Yixin Ren
Na Wang
China

Socius

Youngil Kim
South Korea

INCREMENTAL LIVING

Andrea Sichi
Sara Orlando
Beatrice Paludi
Italy

Re thinking of urban block

Alireza Kamali
Hamed Forouzandeh shahraki
Italy

AFFORDABLE MODULAR HOUSING WITH GOLDEN RATIOS

Shema John
Murugan A
India

The Genius, the Tunnel and the Carpenter

Ana Claudia Correa Diaz
Bruno Marot
Julien Gervais
Pierre Georgin
France

THE VILLAGE

Aubéry De Bretteville
Sophie Ponthieu
France

A City of Life in the Garden of Death

Yasmin Al-jafari
Jonathan Delcambre
Lexie Armand
Thomas Nguyen

BKV Group

United States

Les arches de l`humanite

Abdulrhman Ajinah
Ola Almulla essa
Nujood Alobied
Tarik Ajinah

Kaf Design & Development

Turkey