The Modern Collective Living Challenge is one of a series of Bee Breeders contests dedicated to the global housing crisis. The participants were tasked with designing modern affordable housing for Chinese citizens who move to cities from rural areas: the migration of residents from villages to megacities in China, going on in recent decades, is considered the most massive resettlement in principle in the entire history of mankind. The main thing for the contestants was to create an opportunity for the collective life habitual for the settlers. The organizers were waiting for the most versatile projects suitable for implementation in various regions of China.
The second place and the prize for the best student's work went to Ilsiyar Gabdrakhmanova, a second-year master's student at Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. The project was carried out under the guidance of teachers Ilnar and Reseda Akhtyamovs (studio TIArch). In the first place are architects from the Netherlands, and in third place are students of the Canadian University of Waterloo.
Below are the projects of the winners.
First place
21st Century Tulou
Misak Terzibashian, Anastasia Kalaicidou, Luigi Simone, Netherlands
Second place
Hive
Ilsiyar Gabdrakhmanova, Russia
Third place
One Grid One Community
Zihao Wei, Canada
