The competition is to compile a Design Guide to innovate solutions for purpose built housing with care in Lincolnshire. The competition brief asks that the task is approached in three steps. Step 1 is to outline the changing needs of housing with care from an Architecture and, Design, Health and care and Management perspective in a national and local context. Step 2 is to build an evidence base of separated and integrated needs and challenges in these three areas. In step 3 we ask that students translate the needs/challenges to Design principles for housing with care resulting in a Design Guide. The aim is for entrants to consider the problem field of housing with care and to identify themes to explore in existing knowledge and to translate such knowledge to design principles. What is important is to identify the needs to create a vision for the future. This is an opportunity to influence thinking on Housing with care in Lincolnshire.
The competition is open to all registered degree, master, diploma and PhD students from the School of Architecture and Design, School of Health and Social Care, and Lincoln School of Business. There will be three workshops, mentors from the three schools working with student groups, organised visits to Housing with Care and access to an evidence base facilitating entrants to reach the goals of the competition.
The competition is organised by the University of Lincoln and LACE Housing Association with the support of South Holland District Council, Boston Saunders Architects, Lincolnshire County Council, Thornton Firkin Surveyors and the Lindum Group.
