gorgon
05-02-2007, 02:22
INTRODUCTION
The Highland Housing Fair (HHF) will be a first for Scotland. It is based upon similar models found in mainland Europe, particularly Finland where historically the housing fair concept has proven very successful in stimulating quality design and innovation in Finnish housing. The HHF aspires to be a catalyst to prompt a similar kind of change within the Highlands and throughout Scotland. By creating an exemplar community, it will act as a model for future housing design and development.
The HHF is scheduled to take place in Inverness in August 2009. It will showcase in excess of 50 new homes with a diversity of housing types chosen by means of a competition. The Homes will be open to the public as a ticketed event that will run for a month. The Exhibition will be held on the Exhibition Site and it is expected that in excess of 30,000 visitors will attend the HHF.
Timetable.
Notes of Interest and Plot preference expressed by 28 February 2007
Plots Allocated and Competitors informed by 7 March 2007
Detailed information release 7 March 2007
Closing date for Submissions 4 May 2007
Competitors submissions displayed at
RIAS Convention /Six Cities Design Festival May 2007
More information at the RIAS (http://www.rias.org.uk/content/default.asp?page=s2_10&newsid=2280&back=home)
NB: you need to be or have on your team a registered architect from the UK
The Highland Housing Fair (HHF) will be a first for Scotland. It is based upon similar models found in mainland Europe, particularly Finland where historically the housing fair concept has proven very successful in stimulating quality design and innovation in Finnish housing. The HHF aspires to be a catalyst to prompt a similar kind of change within the Highlands and throughout Scotland. By creating an exemplar community, it will act as a model for future housing design and development.
The HHF is scheduled to take place in Inverness in August 2009. It will showcase in excess of 50 new homes with a diversity of housing types chosen by means of a competition. The Homes will be open to the public as a ticketed event that will run for a month. The Exhibition will be held on the Exhibition Site and it is expected that in excess of 30,000 visitors will attend the HHF.
Timetable.
Notes of Interest and Plot preference expressed by 28 February 2007
Plots Allocated and Competitors informed by 7 March 2007
Detailed information release 7 March 2007
Closing date for Submissions 4 May 2007
Competitors submissions displayed at
RIAS Convention /Six Cities Design Festival May 2007
More information at the RIAS (http://www.rias.org.uk/content/default.asp?page=s2_10&newsid=2280&back=home)
NB: you need to be or have on your team a registered architect from the UK