DSA Dominic Stevens wins IAF Housing Unlocked
''Our proposal Home4Community is quiet yet innovative, radical yet ordinary.
The Housing Crisis will not be solved by one new magical idea, it will be solved by a careful assemblage of the things we know already: The means to solve the housing crisis already exists.
Homes for people in our society are created through a complex mesh of operations and agencies – The ‘Housing System’. As architects we have existing working relationships with home owners, developers, building contractors, timber frame manufacturers, housing associations, and co-operatives.
With these stakeholders we have analysed each part of this system, re-used the functioning pieces, discarded many of the less than useful orthodoxies, added a piece of innovative design in the form of the 'Home4Community' and arrived at a straightforward method to deliver varied, wonderful, and affordable homes in well-designed neighbourhoods.''
