The partnership of AIA Newark and Suburban and the Young Architects Forum invites international designers to find innovative, visionary and compelling proposals for container constructed multi-family mixed-use project.

The competition is entirely presented and managed via the website, www.livethebox.org.

PURPOSE:

Thousands of unwanted shipping containers clog our ports and the land around them. AIA Newark and Suburban challenges the world’s most innovative thinkers and designers to re-invent the box with their most inspired and creative utilizations of shipping containers as the primary construct of an urban multi-family mixed use project.  The selected site is adjacent to a major train station and walking distance to the downtown major cultural centers of Newark, New Jersey. (The site originally contained a large brick manufacturing building. This building is not to be considered as part of your proposal.)

MATERIALS:

Designs must utilize standard height shipping containers 8'-6" exterior height, in either 20'-0" or 40'-0" nominal lengths as the main building block of the structure. These containers may be utilized in any configuration or quantity and may be cut or solid.