BRIEF

“Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavor to build an
earthly paradise for people.” – Alvar Aalto

The Home remains the most significant architectural place we experience throughout our lives.
Home represents safety, ownership, privacy, and stability. Home is where we can be alone and
with people we care about most. Historically, the home has been a place of permanence. Despite
how chaotic our lives are, we cherish the consistency of sleeping in the same bed and performing
the same daily rituals here. Yet, new trends in digitalization and globalization continue to
reshape realms of everyday life and alter our physical environments, including our homes. It is
important to examine how we adapt our living spaces to these shifts.

Through the ages, architects have continuously investigated the role that homes play in our lives.
These investigations present us with new notions of home environments that are sometimes
wholistic, like Peter Eisenman’s House VI or Le Corbusier’s Unité d'Habitation, and sometimes
specific, like the elevator in OMA’s Maison Bordeaux.

The HOME competition invites all designers to explore ideas of domestic architecture for the
future. Designers may consider the impacts of global population shifts, proximity of major cities
to coastlines, new materials and building techniques, as well as the rise of co-housing, tiny
homes, smart houses and marketplaces like Airbnb. HOME creates a platform to speculate the
ways new technological, political, environmental and cultural changes can redefine the spaces
where we live.

What do you believe will be the future of home?