Best Hybrid
Design and Grand Prize Winner: Side By Side
Brandt :
Haferd of NY, NY won the award for Best Hybrid Design and the overall Grand
Prize for Best Design, totaling $10,000. Jerome Haferd, a native Ohioan, was in
attendance to accept the award.
Side By Side
was a unique design that explored an intermix of public and private spaces.
Prominent features included a public promenade, an integrated ramped garden, a
roof top garden and a mix of private living and communal spaces in a home
connected through a central double decker lift.
The jury
felt the board presentation and the designers use of a highly detailed model,
was playful and accessible. The solutions themselves we’re interesting and took
an innovative look at how you might address the real complications and
limitation of making an existing two-story home accessible.
Throughout
the review of the competition, the jury was struck by how many of the
designers, Brandt and Haferd included, incorporated a component of community
into their designs. It’s a critical issue. There is a clear connection between
lack of accessibility and social isolation. The fact that so many designers
created the same connection is very promising indeed!
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