Introduction

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
RE-Stock
London Housing
Official partners
RE-Stock
London Housing RE-Stock
London Housing RE-Stock
London Housing

The RE-Stock London Housing Competition is part of Bee Breeders’ Affordable Housing competition series. Run in partnership with ARCHHIVE Books and the Bartlett School of Architecture, this competition tasked participants with submitting innovative design proposals for mitigating the affordable housing crisis in London. It is the second competition focused on this city following the London Affordable Housing Challenge.

The 2018 London Housing Strategy, issued by the Greater London Authority, in partnership with Mayor Sadiq Khan, calculated that only 13 percent of new homes given planning permission in 2016 were affordable. It assessed that number had risen to 30 percent after £4.82bn of affordable housing funding was secured for London from the government. Among the key points of the 2018 Strategy was “identifying and bringing forward more land for housing” by surveying the city for large sites to be adapted for housing and mixed-use development. The assessment identified the capacity and target for 65,000 new homes each year across London for the next 10 years.

The initiative was a good start, but even more must be done by architects and designers to creatively identify development opportunities within London. This competition sought to reconsider the use of existing London sites, as a means to jumpstarting the city of London once again as a hotbed of innovative housing. Participants were given the choice to rework existing housing schemes, extend and transform existing buildings, or design new buildings or strategies on sites of their choice within London. No minimum unit size or density was defined.

The jury sought proposals that intelligently adapted existing infrastructure, considered community cohesion, limited energy consumption, or put forth innovative construction methods. While this competition was conceptual in nature, weight was given to flexible schemes that could be feasibly adapted to various sites and residential unit types, and implemented to increase London’s housing stock.

Selected winning designs will be featured in the ARCHHIVE BOOKS’ forthcoming second edition of its publication, What is Affordable Housing? Bee Breeders would like to thank all participants for submitting their ideas for rethinking the all-important issue of affordable housing!

We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise

Tim Lowe

Founder, LOWE Guardians

United Kingdom

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1st Prize Winner +
BB STUDENT AWARD

Project name

Revival of the reservoirs

Participating in architectural vision competitions can extend and deepen your creative way of thinking regarding architectural issues that you may not be confronted with in your professional everyday life. They can be an occasion to deliberately express your very personal ideas and beliefs addressing a specific topic, without being limited to regulations but aiming to reveal the liberty of conception. Furthermore, vision competitions may raise relevant questions about current socio-political matters. Engaging in these matters from not only one point of view but connecting architects from different countries and cultures to work on one specific task may result in a more heterogeneous outcome and diminish boundaries.

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2nd Prize Winner

Project name

The two-up two-down

We are interested in experimenting with different architectural approaches and aestheticism throughout the design process of our projects, and we think we would grow as designers that have wider exposure in this creative field.

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3rd Prize Winner

Project name

Above The Grid

The housing shortage is one of the most important global social issues of today, and it was interesting to me to see how we could respond to it through the language of space. Architecture vision competitions provide a great opportunity and platform to see and learn a lot from other great works and ideas.

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BB GREEN AWARD

Project name

Garage Band Housing

We feel the need to prove ourselves as a young office. This is more difficult than it sounds and so we need to be recognised as young and energetic, but with design prowess capable of matching more conservative and established practices. If any discipline is judged on hours dedicated to your craft, we feel the ambitious designers within ZAP have accrued more than the fabled 10,000 hours. We also don’t always like to be pushed around by greedy developers looking for their pound of flesh. ZAP recognises that design is a valuable skill set and should be respected and paid for. ZAP actively discourages free internships or discriminating against graduates who cannot afford to live in London. ZAP promotes remote working from cheaper locales. Almost all of ZAP staff have had part-time jobs in university, bucking the trend of architecture being a rich kids’ sport for young people who can afford to not get paid much, live in London and suffer for their art. ZAP wants more diversity – in ethnicity and economic background in architecture. How can one design for a demographic whom they have no understanding of?

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Authors
Pol Gallagher
Andreas Schmid
Country
United Kingdom

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

Multi-Stories Housing

Project name

the social language

Authors
Michalina Dębska
Kaja Kirilenko
Jakub Biernacki
Weronika Dardzińska
Country
Poland
Project name

Affordable Framework

Authors
Gustava Grüntuch
Jakob Fischer
Country
Germany
+122 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

Stocking Up, Digging Down

University
Author
Luke Draper
Country
United Kingdom
+122 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

Common-Sky

Authors
Douglas Lee
Yee foo (Vincent) Lai
Country
United States
Project name

ReMaking the Street


Authors
Patrick Inglis
Kim Loddo
Jamal Badrashi
Country
United Kingdom

Shortlisted projects

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Low-Rise, High-Density: Reinventing/re-enacting the row house typology

Miltiadis filippos Christodoulakos
Greece

Tekton House

Dilara Murzagaliyeva
Kristina Goncharov
Kazakhstan

ReMaking the Street


Patrick Inglis
Kim Loddo
Jamal Badrashi
United Kingdom

Endless building

Yu-li Liao
Taiwan

Revival of the reservoirs

Elisabeth Loehr

University of the Arts Berlin

+222 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

On Private Property

Viktoria Bruns
Lilli Hanada
Hannes Hehemann

Universität der Künste Berlin

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Above The Grid

Jierong Lyu

Berlin University of the Arts

+122 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Living with More

Anders grivi Norman

Universität der Künste Berlin

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Affordable Framework

Gustava Grüntuch
Jakob Fischer

University of the Arts Berlin

+122 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Junyoung Hong
South Korea

Garage Band Housing

Pol Gallagher
Andreas Schmid
United Kingdom

LIMINAL HABITATS

Katie Kasabalis
Darius Woo
Kao Onishi
United Kingdom

Multi-Stories Housing

Ingrid Bjerkan
United Kingdom

The two-up two-down

Melody Chu
Deedee Chung

Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)

+144 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Co-habiting/ Sharing/ Creating: A new model for repurposing the old built stock

Maria Dimitroudi
Zoe Tzika
Greece

WEAVING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER

Florian Oberhuber
Jeff Goldberger
Penporn Teerasukprasarn
Salvador Delgado

Urban Edition

United States

Common-Sky

Douglas Lee
Yee foo (Vincent) Lai
United States

ReMAS- Restock Modular Adaptive System

Athina Athiana
Mario Santaniello
Evangelia Triantafilla
United Kingdom

the social language

Michalina Dębska
Kaja Kirilenko
Jakub Biernacki
Weronika Dardzińska
Poland

Anti-Follies

Heesuk Lee
Zeke Kan
Nick Fernando
Amy jung yun Lee

University of British Columbia

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Canada

Robin Hood Gardens: RE-Use, RE-Connect

Michael Grogan
Mahruf Kabir
Nazmun akter Pia
Marzia Chowdhury
United States

The Home-Office or the Office-home? The house as the new productive epicenter of the city

Sanjana Ahmed
Rebeca Costa camões rabello
Marcela Montalvao moreira
Bangladesh

Costa del Alexandra 2050

Victor Leung
United Kingdom

Stocking Up, Digging Down

Luke Draper
United Kingdom

REBALANCING LONDON

Ella Nystrom
Matilda Svensk

Umeå School of Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Sweden

ELEMENTAL

Seher Aziz
Fatima Afzal
Huzefah Haroon
Muhammad Mubarak
Pakistan

The City in the Sky

Walter Hjaltested
Caterina Decker
Switzerland

Adaptive Ecologies - Building a performative community

Zaneena Hyder
United Kingdom

The Roof

Adriana itzel Uribe ramos
Ariel Sarria gonzález
Javier Reyes garcía
Roberto Rodríguez bravo
Mexico

PLAN ZERO

Tommaso Rossi
Gianmarco Biasin
Luca Squarzoni

Università degli studi di Trento

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

Neo-Garden City

Varun Sharma
Austin Lightle
United States

VIAdwell

Jessica Hester
Anthony Cricchio
Dayton Castleman
Thomas Merritt
United States

Block Stock Housing

Nur Kayali
Melis Cetin
Cem Aydin
United Kingdom

Urban ecosystem

Ekaterina Luniakova
Valentina Kharlova

Moscow Architectural Institute - MARKHI

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Russian Federation

Common Ground

Felita Felita

Technische Universitat Berlin

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Half an apartment - DIY affordable housing using London's empty housing stock

Marcus Froste
Elin Delmar
Sweden

Terrace: copy-paste

Dmitry Burdin
Alena Markova
Russian Federation

Flatmade: the alternative housebuilding model

Alena Pichugina
Russian Federation

Homes on Tide

Chenyu Shi
Yisong Liu
Germany

Protopia - a different present for Robin Hood Gardens

Gennaro Finale
Vittoria Di giulio
Mario Galterisi

Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy