One designer reimagines affordable housing in Maseru, Lesotho and wins the "rise in the city" design competition

2019-03-14T15:47:00-04:00

This week the non-profit rise International (Relationships Inspiring Social Enterprise) announced its winner of the international architecture competition which focuses on affordable housing projects. During the 2018-2019 competition, designers were challenged to design high-quality, sustainable, and energy-efficient homes for Maseru, a capitol of Lesotho in South Africa. The competition's concept site is known for their cold winters and hot summers. According to the design brief the city of Maseru was split into 100 virtual blocks that were assigned to the competition applicants. Each applicant was provided a sponsor and a mentor from well known architecture firms to provide support. One last requirement was that each design would allow for the home to be scalable, meaning one family living within the home could incrementally add extensions or the home could be replicated as a larger building.

Winning Design: "Creating Spaces" by Tanmoy Dey

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One designer reimagines affordable housing in Maseru, Lesotho and wins the "rise in the city" design competition