ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 294

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SUSTAINABLE HOUSING PROTOTYPES
    by ArchitectureWeek
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	At the United Nations Habitat World Urban Forum in
	Vancouver, British Columbia, in June 2006, Living Steel
	announced the results of its International Competition
	for Sustainable Housing. Living Steel is a consortium
	of steel companies and associations that has teamed
	with the UN to find solutions to worldwide housing
	shortages.
	
	The competition called for designs for two very
	different locations: Warsaw, Poland and Kolkata
	(formerly Calcutta), India. Competitors were asked to
	design buildings that advanced the concept of
	sustainable housing in each location. The British firm
	Piercy Conner Architects won for their prototype for
	Kolkata, and Architectenbureau cepezed from the
	Netherlands won the competition for the Warsaw design.
	
	Jury chairman Glen Murcutt said both winning entries
	"displayed the potential for steel construction to
	provide light-weight, open, flexible, and refined
	spaces responding to contemporary urban living."
	
	"Housing a developing global population that is growing
	at the rate of a small city every day poses a unique
	set of challenges," explains Carl Perry, Chairman of
	the Living Steel Steering Group. "Flexible,
	sustainable, and cost-effective housing solutions must
	be found." He added that the use of steel can speed
	construction and improve design flexibility.
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Metal Stud Precast
    by Michael Chusid
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	Although precast concrete is an outstanding
	architectural material, its heavy weight can limit
	where and how it's used. A recently completed project
	demonstrates how a relatively new type of
	lighter-weight hybrid wall system combining cold-formed
	metal studs and precast concrete can expand
	opportunities to apply precast technologies.
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