The Scotswood Expo Architectural Competition is a new international design contest promoted by Newcastle City Council for one of the country’s largest regeneration projects. Run by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Competitions Office, the competition seeks fresh thinking in the design of new housing.

Our aim is to select six design teams to develop innovative housing designs which respond to the challenges of environmental sustainability, adaptability, new ways of living and designing beautiful buildings. The Competition seeks to develop designs for plots to create a family of demonstration houses or prototypes that will be built for the Expo event and sold on thereafter.

The competition site is the centerpiece street (the ‘Expo Link’) in the Scotswood Masterplan. It comprises 60 plots arranged in four terraces around a new linear park. The six design teams will be selected to develop their concept designs for a single house and apply them throughout the four terraces in a number of different ways.

The Competition Preliminary Brief provides further information (Adobe PDF 128KB). The Pre-Qualification Questionnaire is available from the RIBA Competitions Office.

In parallel to this we will be launching an open student competition in August to run alongside the design stage of the professional competition. This will be an interactive competition based on the submission of 3D digital models for cash prizes.