We’d like to take the opportunity to introduce you to the 3rd and Sustainability prize winner of our "Vancouver Affordable Housing Challenge" competition – Martin Chow from Canada!
Martin Chow from Canada
SvN Architects - Toronto (roughly 100 employees), previously Perkins + Will - Toronto (roughly 100 employees). Projects: Transit Oriented Communities (TOC), rezoning-level masterplans, institutional/higher-education, sports+rec centres, high-rise residential
Architects are both engineers and artists, giving the people what they need as effectively as possible, while also giving the people what they want, which is to surprise and delight
I usually don't participate in competitions, but the topic of solving affordable housing (simultaneously with the problem of sprawl) is near and dear to me as someone who values nature's role in cities, and wishes for everyone to be able to live with dignity and comfort. Affordability shouldn't be about living with less, but rather offering good value by reducing scarcity in an environmentally responsible manner.
Find the competition that allows you to present an idea that you've always wanted to explore anyway. Never do it for the sake of winning.
Submit a masterplan for an industrial park in Houston, Texas
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Design a movie pavilion set in the stunning scenery of northern Iceland
Design meditation cabins to help Tokyo citizens destress and reconnect
Design a structure that would function as a source of education on past events or a method of raising awareness of ongoing injustices
Use architecture to create different emotional states
Present your best work and submit your favorite architectural visualization
Design affordable housing in Las Vegas
Design a pavilion to exhibit rammed earth as a building material
Design a new concept of small-scale home
Share your views on architecture competitions
Design THE architect's t-shirt!
