2022 Student Competition
Webinars & Workshops: Jan - Mar 2022
Southside Hereford: University Design Challenge 2022
After running six Passivhaus Student competitions, the Trust is expanding to a format that will enable us to reach more students. The Passivhaus Trust is partnering a 2022 national student competition led by Timber Development UK*, alongside New Model Institute of Technology and Engineering (NMITE) and Edinburgh Napier University.
Student teams are invited to design a community building and 'skills hub' to the Passivhaus standard, with access to interactive webinars and workshops in January and February 2022.
*the organisation formed from the merger of TRADA and Timber Trade Federation.
The challenge
Southside Hereford University Design Challenge is based on a live project to design a community centre out of timber to meet Passivhaus Standard. Built environment students and 2021 graduates from UK universities were invited to take part in the challenge to design Southside Hereford, a detached single-storey building to accommodate three diverse partners with net-zero aspirations.
Providing a vibrant, inspiring, and inclusive sports, food and skills community focal point for the people of South Wye. Southside is a collaboration between two highly energised established community organisations Growing Local CIC and Belmont Wanderers CIC, and NMITE, all of whom share a common goal to improve the future health, wellbeing, life chances and employment skillset of the people of South Wye and Hereford.
Student teams had to produce designs that sites the community centre within the local context and landscape, integrating the clients’ and community's interests.
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Each of the detailed designs for Southside is ‘net zero’, creatively employing energy and resource efficient building materials and construction methods, focusing on the health and wellbeing of people, the community, and the planet. The designs were judged for longevity, desirability, adaptability, circularity, and a warming climate, as well as producing more energy from renewable sources than required.
Team work was a core element of the free to enter competition, and students were encouraged to form multi-disiplinary teams of 4-8 people. All teams must have included:
- Architect or Architectural Technologist
- Engineer
- Quantity Surveyor
- Landscape Architect.
The competition will inform the clients, and their partners, as they bring together a professional team to design and deliver a community centre in 2023.
Exclusive interactive webinars & workshops
Watch a recording of the launch event that took place on the 30th November at The Building Centre, London. An exciting programme of talks and events followed during January to March 2022, covering the lastest topics to improve students climate literacy. The webinars aim to aid the design process and enable students to form teams. The comprehensive series will introduce students to associations, professionals, resources, research and products in order to increase knowledge and confidence. All events are recorded and available to all for viewing at convenience.
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Shortlist
After 150 students registered from 57 Universities and nine months of webinars, workshops, & interdisciplinary teamwork, congratulations to the 6 shortlisted designs. All finalists presented their proposals, at a live two-day event at NMITE, to a diverse judigng panel representing both local clients and leading figures in UK sustainable construction.
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Winners
1st place: Wye not Wood - Team 7
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A huge congratulations to Team 7: Wye not wood who took first place. The team consists of: Alice Senior (University of Portsmouth), Malwina Bartoszewicz (Edinburgh Napier University), Johanna Schwarting (Swansea University), Kyle Henderson (Robert Gordon University), Daniela Lopez (University of Gloucestershire), Ali Uddin (University of Edinburgh), and Deepak Sadhwani (Cardiff University). Discover more about the winning design & runners up here.
Up Next
The competition will return with a retrofit competition brief to start in the 2022 Autumn term - completing before the end of the 2023 academic term. Watch this space for more!
Timeline
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30 NOV 2021 |
Official launch of the competition | Watch a recording. |
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14 DEC 2021 |
Construction in a Climate Crisis | Watch a recording. |
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21 DEC 2021 |
Clients and challenge brief | Watch a recording. |
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04 - 14 JAN 2022 |
Student engagement evenings and team forming. |
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21 FEB 2022 |
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18 JAN - 22 MAR 2022 |
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12 JUN 2022 |
Team submission deadline |
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17 JUN 2022 |
Longlist announced |
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04 JUL 2022 |
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21 - 23 JUL 2022 |
Final judging & Awards Ceremony in person @NMITE, Hereford |
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25 JUL 2022 |
*programme subject to slight changes
Further Information
Southside Hereford: University Design Challenge - Flyer
Previous Passivhaus Student Competitions
Previous 2021 Riverside Sunderland: University Design Challenge
