The Arc. Eddy Eguavoen Foundation is a nonprofit organisation that aims to build sustainable housing for communities in need across Nigeria. The foundation was officially announced on January 11th 2020, one year after the passing of Arc. Eddy Eguavoen, an accomplished Nigerian Architect.
In August 2019, CNN published an article listing the top cities that are prone to excessive flooding due to the coming rise in sea levels. Lagos was one of them. One solution, which was mentioned by Andrew Yang during the American Democratic debate in 2019, is to move to higher land. In the case of Lagos, this would be the mainland in areas such as Ikeja, which is already densely populated. Rather than move away from the water, why not embrace it and continue to develop the city with the water? This is what led to the theme of the first Eddy Eguavoen Foundation Architecture Competition. Lagos: City on Water.
The Design Brief
For the design competition, you are asked to use your creativity to design a building, structure or masterplan that helps envision a future for Lagos on water. Your project should make significant use of water space, whether floating, submerged and/or built over water. You can focus on one architectural topic such as affordable housing, sustainable cities or others to act as a starting point for your project. We encourage projects of different scales as we want a large variety of ideas and concepts realised. Whether your submission is a single building that can be expanded using a modular method or your submission is a whole self-sustaining city, your project has the opportunity to win. The scale of your project is not a factor that contributes to winning the competition. Instead, the level of detail, development and innovation of your submission will contribute to your project winning. Your project can remain at concept level, but still present a detailed and developed solution to a problem. The competition is also relatively open in terms of context. Your project can be based on any part of Lagos, Nigeria whether Mainland Lagos, Lagos Island, Snake Island or Lekki.
For more information on the competition and to download the full design brief, visit the competition web page: www.voenassociates.com/foundationcompetition
Eligibility
The competition is open to students, recent graduates and young architects around the world. The competition allows groups (3 people max.) to submit projects and all group member names must be included when filling the registration form. If you want to add or remove group members after submitting the registration form, you can email us (contact@voenassociates.com) to make group member changes to your registration.
Prizes
- 1st Place Winner – International Contestant – €700
- 1st Place Winner – Nigerian Contestant – €700/₦175,000
- 2nd Place – €400/₦140,000
- 3rd Place – €200/₦70,000
- Honorable Mentions – 10 Contestants
- Finalists – 20 Contestants
- Founder’s Choice
All winners will be included in a competition publication and a Virtual Exhibition.
Key Dates
- June 5th – Official Announcement of Competition
- June 10th – Early Registration Begins – €5/₦1,750
- June 24th – Normal Registration Period Begins – €12/₦4,200
- July 20th – Late Registration Period Begins, Submissions Open – €20/₦7,000
- August 10th – Registration Closes
- August 25th – Submission Closes
- September 5th – Winners Announced, Virtual Exhibition Begins
- September 20th – Virtual Exhibition Ends
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