Introduction

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
San Francisco 
Affordable Housing 
Challenge
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San Francisco 
Affordable Housing 
Challenge San Francisco 
Affordable Housing 
Challenge

The San Francisco Affordable Housing Challenge is part of Bee Breeders’ Affordable Housing competition series. Run in partnership with ARCHHIVE Books, this competition tasked participants with submitting innovative design proposals for mitigating San Francisco’s affordable housing crisis. 

This design series above all poses that there is no one solution to making housing affordable. Today, a host of new ideas and platforms – especially those from companies emerging in and around the Bay Area – are enabling people to own or purchase homes. These creative methods include community co-living facilities, 3D-printed homes, crowd-funded home rehabilitation investment platforms, group home-ownership contracts, stackablemodular homes, planning amendments for municipally owned sites, and more. 

There were no specific design or site requirements for this competition. Project designs were requested to be flexible, enabling accommodations for a variety of inhabitant types: single professionals, couples, families, or group living.

The jury gave weight to designs that challenged standard housingtypologies, while at the same time incorporated practical design elements or means of implementation that could feasibly enable these projects to offer real solutions to San Francisco.

Selected winning designs will be featured in the ARCHHIVE Books’forthcoming publication, What is Affordable Housing?Bee Breeders thanks all individuals and teams that submitted proposals.

1st Prize Winner

Project name

RETHINKING ROW-HOUSES / APARTMENTS BLOCKS

Architectural competitions are a representation of freedom where you get to explore your creative ability. An ability which should be exercised on a regular basis and used in practice. Designers face unique challenges in architectural competitions that might be uncommon in the area they practice, which helps an individual to learn the skill of adapting to change.

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Authors
Martin Pretorius
Raphael Trischler
Country
South Africa

2nd Prize Winner +
BB STUDENT AWARD

Project name

Living Room, The Policy of Living Space in San Francisco

We are restless architecture students who are on a quest to learn and we welcome the opportunity to use a platform that supports innovative ideas which influence the future. Competitions are carte blanche for dreams.

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Authors
Arseny Pekurovsky
Chon Fai Kuok
Megan Gahlman
Country
United States
+146 points Buildner University Rankings

3rd Prize Winner

Project name

Home sweet Home

We both enjoy participating in architecture vision competitions and have be doing it together for the last couple of years. We believe these competitions are the perfect platform to be critical of normative frameworks, to dream about unforeseen possibilities, and to explore radical visions that can inform our profession.

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Authors
Monica Lamela Blazquez
Sofia Betancur Velasquez
Country
Spain

BB GREEN AWARD

Project name

Timber Town

We learn so much from participating in competitions. This vision competition allowed us to collaborate in an interdisciplinary way. It also gave us the opportunity to address the affordability crisis right outside our doors and on our sidewalks in San Francisco.

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Authors
Bob Baum
April Philips
Jeff Brink
Peter Rumsey
Country
United States

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

Hidden Village

Author
Thomas Melville
Country
United States
Project name

Garage Machine Accessory Dwelling Unit

Authors
John Shapiro
Jason Vigneri-Beane
Marcel Negret
Country
United States
Project name

LIMBY : Live In My Back Yard

University
Authors
Hyeonseok Kim
Heegon Kim
Donghwa Kim
Country
South Korea
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

Interlaced Village

Author
Andy Chen
Country
United States
Project name

The Permanent and the Transient

Author
Jee Hyung Park
Country
United States
Project name

Revolving Home

Authors
Taiming Chen
Zhendong Long
Country
United States

Shortlisted projects

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Home sweet Home

Monica Lamela Blazquez
Sofia Betancur Velasquez
Spain

Bubble Bay

Aniko Nebozuk
Canada

Blended Living

Shengchieh Lin

California College of the Arts

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Kitchen Living

Gareth Marriott
United Kingdom

Haight's Living Society

Michael Min

California College of the Arts

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Timber Town

Bob Baum
April Philips
Jeff Brink
Peter Rumsey
United States

IMBY

Chad Wright
United States

Evolving Pods

Sidhant Seth
United States

Interlaced Village

Andy Chen
United States

seed

László Belkovits
Attila Batári
Bernadett Krizsó
Gergő Bauer
Hungary

Revolving Home

Taiming Chen
Zhendong Long
United States

Living Room, The Policy of Living Space in San Francisco

Arseny Pekurovsky
Chon Fai Kuok
Megan Gahlman
United States

SF FLOATING EXTENSION

Luis alejandro Morales mendoza
Patricio andrés Zamora montes
Leandro leonel Quilodrán mendoza
Chile

Spot Transformation

Timothy Owen
United States

LIMBY : Live In My Back Yard

Hyeonseok Kim
Heegon Kim
Donghwa Kim
South Korea

RETHINKING ROW-HOUSES / APARTMENTS BLOCKS

Martin Pretorius
Raphael Trischler
South Africa

OutFill City

Z. Sunderland
John Durkee
United States

Accessory Dwellings

Spencer Mcneil
United States

San Francisco Vertical Village

Daniele marco Marchesin
Italy

Crisis Housing Single Room Ownership

Jeff Gard
United States

Hidden Village

Thomas Melville
United States

California Roll

Olle Johnsson
Sweden

Garage Machine Accessory Dwelling Unit

John Shapiro
Jason Vigneri-Beane
Marcel Negret
United States

Superfaçade

Eugene Ong
Singapore

San Francisco Built Trusts

Bryan Alcorn
Chelsea Raflo
United States

Coming home

Kerstin Wanke
Sophie Michel
Germany

Triptych Housing - Affordable Housing for Multi-Generational Families

Jamilla Afandi
Ashish Bhandari
United States

San Joser !

Jue Wang
Qiaoqi Yin
Zizhen Zhou
China

M.U.D.

Milica Roycroft
United States

IGLU-Innovative Global Living Unit

Kimberly Butt
Chris Birkenmaier
United States

URBAN PLUG-IN MODULE

Verl arvin Dela cruz
Philippines

The Permanent and the Transient

Jee Hyung Park
United States

Balboa Valley Housing

Robert Cody
Angela Amoia
United States

THE ABACUS

Furkan Avcı
Özüm ezgi Satılmış
Turkey

+ - Housing

Şeyma Çimen
Turkey

The Merge

Sheldon Eaton
United States

S+2 HOUSE

Vladislav Kusenkov
Аnna Zhurko

Belarusian National Technical University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Belarus

The Ship Yard

Evangeline Logan
United States

Stadium Housing

Alexander Weiss
Austria