The Interior and Spatial Design master students of the University of Pécs have received one of the highest awards in the international Builder Architecture Competition. The “Las Vegas Affordable Housing Challenge” competition called for projects that create new ways to reduce housing prices.
The designers were asked to present a flexible, innovative, pilot-phase concept for affordable housing in Las Vegas. One team from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Pécs, MA in Interior and Spatial Design, received an honourable mention, and the projects of three teams were among the top twenty.
The participants in the competition were asked to provide solutions to the city's housing crisis - to design spaces of various sizes to accommodate families, single individuals, and couples in supported housing in the most creative way possible. Students who participated in the competition spent a semester in a workshop-style classroom environment developing their design proposal while attending lectures on sustainable architecture.
The Las Vegas Affordable Housing Challenge Architecture Competition Honorable Mention was awarded to a team of international architects and interior designers consisting of Gantumur Bujinlkham, Lujain Ahmad Mohamada-men and Sara Ardalan Hussein.
“When we first worked as a team, the differences in cultural backgrounds, design approaches and ideas helped us better understand the architectural challenge. As designers, we first look at the problem on a large scale, as a community issue, and try to find solutions on a smaller, individual scale. Our job as architects is to create safe and comfortable living conditions for members of the society so that they can live happily.”
Read more about the successful awardees HERE!
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