Deadline: 01 March 2010 (For Submissions)
Freegreen.com is throwing the challenge of developing affordable green home designs that fit contemporary lifestyles. There are a lot of people who want a new home but do not want a generic suburban McMansion. The American Dream is not one size fits all. Dreams are changing, and FreeGreen has this challenge for the residential design community to develop new ideas for people who do not dream of the generic.
The single family home is the most commonly built building in America, but less than 5 percent of the homes built in America have direct involvement with an architect. The challenge of the “Who’s Next” competition is to re-envision the typical suburban home in an ecologically conscious manner that also reflects today’s modern lifestyle.
Competitors will select one of two user profiles and design a single family home that fits their chosen profile. All homes designed in this contest must be 1,800sqft or less.
All participants are required to produce nine images and image descriptions. No boards, no presentations, no complications. Just nine slides that will be uploaded in a Facebook style onto the competition website.
A cash prize of $5,000 awaits the winner. Over 500,000 visitors are anticipated to view this contest and vote and this is just one more channel of publicity. For the top three entries, FreeGreen will turn them into a house plan and place it on Freegreen Open Source Site for sale (at the entrant‘s desired price). The rights use this house plan in any way will be retained by the entrant on top of 70% of all revenue from sales made of the plan on the FreeGreen Open Source Site.
For more information, visit www.freegreen.com/whosnext/.
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