ReSpace Design Competition 2014
The Respace competition is an effort to raise awareness of reuse materials while showcasing creative and successful small space designs inspired by their use. This exciting design competition draws creative designs from students and professional designers from around the world. The major theme of the competition is keeping materials out of the landfill. Participants in this competition design a small outdoor community gathering space that can be built using exclusively reused materials.
A panel of judges have judged this year’s design competition entries, and awarded a grand prize to the “inside-out porch” design by Chad Butterworth, Michael Mills, Jose Noya, Nilam Patel, Carrie Strayhorn and John Whitaker. Click here to see the winning design.
Habitat Wake, ReSpace and the Hope House
As a ReSpace project community partner, Habitat Wake helps bring the ReSpace design competition to life! Using reused building materials from the Habitat Wake ReStore, and volunteers like you, Habitat Wake will build this year’s winning design.
The “inside-out porch” will be used by the Hope House, one of Habitat Wake’s community partners in Wake Forest, to solve a need for space, and increase their connection to their neighborhood. Hope House’s Vision is for “a space to help our community…to provide a comfortable outdoor space for our seniors to sit and be a part our annual events…a place for seating and a screen for outdoor movies…storage for our clothing giveaway, we get clothes year round and are forced to donate them to other charities because we don’t enough room to store them… to expand our participation in the Read and Feed program that provides books, food, and tutors to children who need them...” – Norma J. Bennekin, Hope House Community Projects Assistant.
How to get involved
Habitat Wake and the ReSpace team need volunteers to help us build the “inside-out porch!” Construction begins on July 30th! If you would like to join Habitat Wake and the Wake Forest community in constructing this one-of-a-kind space, click here!
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