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DWA
Architects Caring for Older People
International
Student Design Competition
The RIBA are working with DWA
Architects to launch the DWA Architects Caring for Older People
Design Competition. DWA Architects are one of the leading designers
of Care Homes in the UK and are currently celebrating their 20th
Anniversary.
DWA Architects are organizing
this ideas competition, open to all architectural students, to
mark this event. The competition is jointly sponsored by DWA
Architects and BUPA Care Homes.
The winning entries will be selected
by Professor June Andrews of The Dementia Services Development
Centre of Stirling University, Neil Hunt the Chief Executive
of the Alzheimers Society, Lyth Watson the Director of Business
Development of BUPA Care Homes and David Ward the Chief Executive
of DWA Architects.
The theme of the competition
is designing for older people in 60 to 70 years time. DWA Architects
have been designing care homes for older people for 20 years,
but how will they look in the future? Will the care home concept
be similar to that of today? Will care homes still be located
predominantly in built up areas? Will the facilities provided
be the same? How will social, economic and environmental sustainability
affect the design? Will the current culture be the same? We have
seen design standards for the physically disabled develop and
become the norm. Design standards for those who live with other
forms of disability, including Dementia are now being formulated.
What form will these take and how will these shape the care home
of tomorrow? How will furniture and landscape design be affected?
None of us can see into the future,
but we can all imagine. We therefore invite you to use your imagination
and show us your ideas. Furthermore, you can ignore the tangle
of legislation and just base your concept designs on your ideas
of what form care for older people should take in an ideal world.
Winning designs will receive
awards of £3,000 (1st), £1,500 (2nd); and £1,000
(3rd). All architectural students may enter. Entries should be
anonymous and comprise no more than 2 x A1 boards with an accompanying
design statement.
Full details will be available
on the RIBA Competitions Office website from the launch date
of 5 January 2009 with entries to be submitted to the RIBA Competitions
Office by 6 March 2009. The judges will assess the entries and
the winners will be notified by 16 March 2009. An awards ceremony
will be held at the RIBA HQ, London at the end of March 2009
and an exhibition will follow.
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