The American Institute of Architect’s (AIA) Young Architects Forum (YAF) and Committee on Design (COD) have selected the recipients of the second annual YAF/COD Ideas Competition, sponsored by TOTO. Results in addition to images of the awarded projects with brief narratives from the designers can be found after the break.
Submitting teams were asked to explore the principles of Universal Design as well as their overlap with the values of social and environmental sustainability. The competition site is the same site proposed for the Olympic Village in the official Tokyo 2016 bid documents, 31 hectares of municipally owned land along Tokyo Bay, within the Ariake-Kita District. Historically, the Olympic Village has served first the Olympic and then the Paralympic athletes in sequentially staged games. Designers were asked to build upon the efforts of the past decade by proposing a vision for Tokyo’s bid for the 2020 Games that is guided not only by socially and environmentally-sustainable principles, but also by the principles of Universal Design. Successful designs would propose identical configurations for the Olympic and Paralympic athlete residences, with no modifications required as the Village transitions from Olympic to Paralympic mode.
