On September 14, the winners of the BuildReady Design Competition were announced and officially awarded.

The Awards Ceremony was held at Memorial Hall and recognized nine winners in the main categories (best two-, three-, and four-family submissions recognized by each of the three panels: professionals, community members, and online voting), one student winner, and five honorable mentions. The winning submissions were as follows:

Professional Jury Panel Awards

• Best 2-family: Submission 2.23 – “The Gable” by Maria Jose Ponce de Leon of Ponce de Leon Design LLC, Cincinnati, OH
• Best 3-family: Submission 3.31 – “Cincinnati 3-Way” by Jonathan Bolch, Colin Christensen, Madeline Peck, Matthew Stoll, Willis DeWitt, and Miles Woofter of Woofter Bolch Architecture, Portland, OR
• Best 4-family: Submission 4.26 – “House for All Ages” by Ian Ting and Hannah Terry of TATA Design Workshop, Houston, TX

Community Stakeholder Jury Panel Awards

• Best 2-family: Submission 2.14 – “The Seamless Two-Family” by Garland Harris Jr & Umesh Warge of Middle Housing Design Co., Houston, TX
• Best 3-family: Submission 3.31 – “Cincinnati 3-Way” by Jonathan Bolch, Colin Christensen, Madeline Peck, Matthew Stoll, Willis DeWitt, and Miles Woofter of Woofter Bolch Architecture, Portland, OR
• Best 4-family: Submission 4.15 – “The Modern Foursquare” by Garland Harris Jr & Umesh Warge of Middle Housing Design Co., Houston, TX

People’s Choice Award (Online Voting)

• Best 2-family: Submission 2.29 – “WestLake” by William Smith, Morgan Morse of the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
• Best 3-family: Submission 3.7 – “3-Z House” by Eileen Trimbach, Olivia Bates, Veronica Martin, Michael Prince of FFE, Inc., Blue Ash, OH
• Best 4-family: Submission 4.29 – “Stairloom” by Jonathan Rieke, Clayton Taylor, Keegan Hebert, Jess Hadley of West of West Architecture + Design, Los Angeles, CA & Portland, OR

Best Student Entry

• Submission 2.18 – “Accessible and Affordable” by Emma Daddabbo & Mike Pachan of Miami University, Cincinnati, OH

Honorable Mentions

• In Recognition for Scalability
  • Submission 2.10 – “The Guardian” by Zack Miller & DJ Keehan of Guardian Structural Technologies, Cleveland, OH
• In Recognition for Contextuality
  • Submission 2.6 – “Context Versatility 2-Family” by Jeff Raser of CUDA Studio, LLC, Cincinnati, OH
• In Recognition for Storytelling
  • Submission 2.5 – “Living Framework” by Rishi Tej Aritakula, Stephan Inabnit of Champlin Studios, Cincinnati, OH
• In Recognition for Neighborly Spaces
  • Submission 4.7 – “Between Our Homes” by Mitchell Hoffman, Junting Ying, Ryan Kennedy, Nicole Lanese of Champlin Studios, Cincinnati, OH
• In Recognition for Sustainability
  • Submission 3.24 – “Passive Design: Equitable Housing to Last a Lifetime: Three Family” by Carl Sterner, Maia Davidson, Aerin Goldman, Darby Brenner of Sol Design, Cincinnati, OH

 

Winning submissions exemplified the three goals of the BuildReady Initiative: Contextuality, Attainability, and Scalability, while also providing creativity, innovation, and incorporating community feedback gathered by the BuildReady team.

The competition saw 92 submissions from 63 teams across 29 cities, 16 states, and two countries. To learn more about the winners, finalists, and Design Competition, visit bit.ly/Build-Ready.

BuildReady is a long-term project to develop pre-approved housing plans for small multi-family homes; preapproval can expedite the development process by several months, meaning this much-needed type of housing can be built more quickly.

The design competition is intended to spark ideas and invite conversation about what attainable, contextual housing could look like. Winning and finalist designs will inform the development of the pre-approved plans through a City-led procurement process this fall.

BuildReady is supported by a $2 million Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO Housing) grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In addition to the open call design competition and development of pre-approved plans, the BuildReady initiative will subsidize the construction of at least two real-world buildings that use the plans.