Created for students and professionals to inspire changes in how new buildings are designed and constructed, the Self-Sufficient competition challenged participants to design a self-Sufficient and ecologically oriented dwelling.
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) has collected a selection of entries presented during its 1st Advanced Architecture Contest: Self-Sufficient Housing..
Today, a century later, we face the challenge of constructing a sustainable or self-Sufficient dwelling, a living organism that interacts with its environment, exchanging resources, and which functions as an entirely independent entity.
In the early 20th century, the concept of "dwelling" was defined as a "machine for living," a reference to a new way of understanding the construction of inhabitable spaces that characterized the Machine Age.
Created for students and professionals to inspire changes in how new buildings are designed and constructed, the Self-Sufficient competition challenged participants to design a self-Sufficient and ecologically oriented dwelling
