HOME OF 2030
CHALLENGE
WINNERS
ANNOUNCED

Rachael Milliner, a student at the University of Nottingham, is the overall winner of the Home of 2030 Young Persons’ Challenge. Rachael’s idea aims to reinvigorate sustainable urban living, bringing animals, urban farming and nature back into the built environment in a mutually beneficial way. Her submission entitled ‘Urban Co-Existing’ was inspired by the centenary of the Addison Act that introduced council housing into the UK and was produced in collaboration with Nottingham City Homes. The design focuses on the Meadows Estate in Nottingham, reinvigorating the area with urban farming spaces giving residents access to fresh, healthy food.

HOME OF 2030
CHALLENGE
SHORTLIST
SHOWCASE

We have now completed the awesome and enthralling task of creating a shortlist from all the entries we have received for the Young Person's Home of 2030 Challenge. We've been so impressed with the standard of ingenuity and innovation on display that we've felt compelled to share with you some of the shortlisted projects over the coming weeks. We never take for granted the enormous amount of time, thought and work that has to be channelled into producing a design proposal that answers a demanding and forward-looking brief such as this Home of 2030. The shortlisted teams will be invited to a grand showcase final we are hoping will take place in the Autumn. We hope you enjoy the projects as much as we have.

The complete shorlist can be viewed here on the Home of 2030 website.

Gerry Ruffles - MOBIE’s Head of Education

STUDENTS
SHORTLISTED STUDENTS UPDATED WEEKLY

TAKING THE ‘E’
OUT OF ELECTRICITY
AND PUTTING IT
INTO ECO...

STUDENTS FROM DARWEN ALDRIDGE COMMUNITY ACADEMY :
EVA ROBINSON
BETHANY WHITE
AVA SCHIEL
AILSA FOX


SHORTLISTED ENTRY 11-13 CATEGORY

About E-Home: We thought about how our Home of 2030 could be affordable and help people to stay in their home for many years. We have made sure our home is spacious and eco-friendly. Our Home of 2030 has many sustainable features which will help to keep costs down for the owners whilst helping the environment.

FLEXIBLE
SUSTAINABLE
AND COMMUNAL

STUDENT FROM DARWEN ALDRIDGE COMMUNITY ACADEMY :
ZOE PORTER


SHORTLISTED ENTRY 11-13 CATEGORY

About House for Life: For my project, I want to create the 'House for Life': the perfect family home which is adjustable through all stages of your life. Furthermore, this home will be suitable for those who want to expand a family and for those who do not. This house will be an affordable option and one in which members of society in 2030 over the age of 60 will not need to leave due to physical difficulty. As it will be a house in 2030, this house will be both eco-friendly and conserve maximum energy in order to forward the goal zero carbon emission by 2050, a greener future for everybody! I want to emphasise the minimalism of the Home of 2030; I feel as it should be realistic, not too extravagant where one may feel they cannot buy as it is out of their price range.

JUEXA House by Xavier Lester

The aim of our eco-friendly 2030 house is to be able to use resources that have been previously recycled and other salvaged materials. We want to make it modernised with all new technologies that are available currently and are being developed or will be developed soon. T is a self-sustaining design that will use compost waste as fertiliser for a small community farm that will support the people that live in this house.

S House by Anya Birch and Bisnukaa Ketharalingam

The home focuses on wellbeing and sustainability. It is bright and has lots of indoor planting such as kithen herb garden. We want there to be plant everywhere in the house because it will take in carbon dioxide. We have an open plan design because it's modern and we will have more natural light for the plants. Natural light also brightens up the house, making it look more appealing and illuminated.

Smart Homes by Joe Beard

Our house is going to be a SMART (meaning it runs off a voice controlled artificial intelligence, helping the owner of the hous) The house is also going to be completely energy efficient, in order to do this the SMART house will have solar panels on the roofs to create its own energy. The house will be planted with moss, this helps to improve the air quality around the house. The house will have special glass which is used as a heater and it can fog up (acting as a curtain).

PATHWAY TO
THE FUTURE -
SUSTAINABLE HOMES
FOR HEALTHY AGEING

STUDENTS FROM OXTED SCHOOL :
FREDDIE CHALMERS
OLLY GOOD
YASMINE HAYES
ANNABELLE SMITH
MARTHA SMITH


SHORTLISTED ENTRY 16-18 CATEGORY

About Honeycomb Housing: We have designed a modular housing system that stems from using the hexagonal shape that we derived from biomimicry in order to create the middle section and the overall shape of the building block. Eco-materials are the centrepiece of our building using materials including hempcrete, timbercrete, mycelium and ferrock. We also researched bamboo to use as the walls to the pods. The idea is that you can purchase more pods as your family grows and extend your home based on your needs. The house is also suitable for old people as it if filled with gadgets and easy use cupboards and doors in order to allow them to live in a house and feel independent rather than relying on homes. The housing pods will be prefabricate in order to reduce material wastage.

EMBODYING
THE NEEDS
OF THE FUTURE

HOMES DESIGNED
FOR RESIDENTS
OF ALL AGES

STUDENTS FROM LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY :
SIMRANJEET SINGH LIDHAR
MITCHELL KIRYCUK
ABIDEMI TEMIDIRE
JENKINS ENTEE
MATIAS GIRMAY
ABDIFATAH MATAN


SHORTLISTED ENTRY 18-25 CATEGORY

About Perfect Green Construction: Our design for the Home of 2030 is sustainable, practical and spacious as well as involving eco-friendly qualities; featuring solar panels and accessible zones for plant growth. The South elevation is inviting with a unique and stylish walkway leading to the entrance of the home, whilst the top half is equally as eye-catching.

FLOATING HOMES
RESISTANT TO
FLOODING

STUDENTS FROM UNIVERSITY OF WALES, TRINITY ST. DAVIDS, SWANSEA:
TEAM LED BY ANEURIN JAMES


SHORTLISTED ENTRY 18-25 CATEGORY

About FL-HEX: Following the recent flooding in the South Wales Valleys, we decided that our scheme should adopt flood resistance technologies that will allow for future proof dwellings near watercourses and in flood risk zones. The modular layout allows for adaptation and client personalisation, and the prefabricated nature will allow for an efficient, environmentally friendly construction process. The prefabricated octagonal forms provide an opportunity to respond to the site and orientation, best placing external openings to manage energy efficiency, heat loss and solar gain. The scheme lends itself to the use of integrated photo voltaic and transpire solar collector technologies with the view also to utilise nearby watercourses to generate electricity. We believe that our ‘FL-HEX’ concept would create thriving waterside communities for 2030 where numerous mix use ‘FL-HEX’ pods may be linked.

ACTIVE HOUSE
DESIGN
CONCEPT

STUDENTS FROM UNIVERSITY OF WALES, TRINITY ST. DAVIDS, SWANSEA:
BRANDON, OLIVIA, VIKTORIA, AND CJ


SHORTLISTED ENTRY 18-25 CATEGORY

About Poly Pods: Modular hexagonal pods create the individual spaces of this flexible home. Designed for a family from 3-5, the layout of the house can be customised as the pods are portable. A grid foundation allows for easy movement, position and orientation. The concept is driven by biomimicry, the hexagonal shapes are inspired by the efficiency of honeycomb. Planting is embedded into elements of the home for air purification as well as shelter and temperature control.

ELLEN EDWARDS
INGRID REHNSTROM
SHOUQ ALMUHAMMADI
JOSEPH NGOMA
GINTARE RAPOPORT
SHORTLISTED ENTRY 18-25 CATEGORY

About HUS: It is more crucial than ever for new developments to be built sustainably and mindfully. Our Hus design is based on 3x3m modules and can be easily built from standard materials, keeping cost and waste to an absolute minimum. This design also optimises the footprint area, and can include integrated outdoor spaces such as roof gardens and balconies, ensuring the resident plenty of healthy living space, whilst keeping the house affordable and accessible. The 'mix and match' modular style means each buyer can choose a living format that suits them best, such as our visualised family home, which supports the changing family dynamic, from growing children to living into retirement.

KYRA-MARIE WINFIELD
HARMANJEET KAUR
AMELIA-IRIS WOODWARD

SHORTLISTED ENTRY 14-16 CATEGORY

About Chainlink Communities: Each home is made out of fully recycled products. This material, also being extremely light, is perfect for manufacturing in factories and can be transported to site with no issue. Our interiors can be altered to suit the needs of each individual family; including the building itself. Walls within the building can be moved freely by hand and locked into place. Creating: Open plan areas, solid walls or even partial separation between rooms. By planting trees in carefully chosen places light can be preserved to each house whilst providing enough privacy so houses are not looking into each others’ windows. Our houses are modular. Each section optional dependent on family size and situations. Why should every home be exactly the same when every family is different?

HENRI KOPRA
SHORTLISTED ENTRY 18-25 CATEGORY

About Henri's idea: The stigma, that the notorious “Right to Buy” policy has created around social housing, needs to be addressed when designing the built environment. In my view, the Home of 2030 is one that is truly affordable for everyone, designed to grow and decrease according to its inhabitants’ needs and with minimal environmental impact, that is with zero lifetime emissions and designed for disassembly and reuse. According to Nottingham Post, more than 700 out of nearly 2400 homelessness cases in 2019 were single women with children. As such, the Meadows garage site infill scheme focuses on this demographic, providing a new beginning to single parents and their children, as well as enhancing the community with new semi-public leisure areas to tie the project into the mixed tenure estate. The design is solved in depth on the Oxbow Close garage site but is implementable on all other garage sites in the Meadows estate in Nottingham.

ELLA ROGERS
SHORTLISTED ENTRY 18-25 CATEGORY

About Ella's idea: "When approaching this design, I was keen to focus on tackling social isolation within older generations. My initial research highlighted the statistics that in the UK, 3.64 million people over the age of 65 live alone and that nearly 70% of these are women. This led me to explore this client group and the suitability of the atypical model of co-housing, particularly the opportunities this provides for fostering relationships and encouraging social interactions. I was mindful of the need to create positive and dynamic communal areas both indoors and outdoors whilst allowing the women to maintain their independence with their own bedsit units. Additionally, I found interest in studying circulation within the scheme; by exposing the stairways and entrances, the scheme embodied a sense of social security through the philosophy of 'eyes on me'. The potential to physically look out for each other reflects a true feeling of neighbourliness and collective care. With an extended reach into the public realm, I am proud of the potential this scheme holds and believe it demonstrates the power of architecture and its responsibility for creating relationships with the communities we live in."

RACHAEL MILLINER
SHORTLISTED ENTRY 18-25 CATEGORY

About Rachael's idea: I have a personal interest in sustainable urban living and passionately believe that social and environmental sustainability are intrinsically linked. This is a project that, over the centenary of the Addison Act, creatively explored how to reintroduce sustainability to housing design with social and environmental justice as the design driver. For me what makes this project special is that it is fun and optimistic whilst being grounded in a credible reality.