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Low-cost housing is an issue of huge social relevance in South Africa, and indeed globally. 50% of the world’s population reside in urban areas. The impact of this is particularly visible in the townships and urban sprawl of informal settlements around South African cities. \ \ The Design Indaba 10 x 10 Housing Project challenged 10 architectural teams to provide dynamic design solutions for the low cost housing sector (on a completely pro-bono basis), with the intention of creating 10 distinct designs that would change the perception that low-cost housing is outside the realms of design innovation and architectural significance.\ \ We paired ten hand-picked local architects with ten international alumni from previous Design Indaba conferences. The objective was to come up with affordable, innovative responses to the very pressing issue of low-income urban housing. Sustainable, energy-efficient design, construction and operation principles were to be incorporated. \ \ Experiences and outputs are to be compiled and ultimately presented to the Minister of Housing as an open source manual, a contribution to the public pool of knowledge available to all interested in the design or construction of low-cost housing. \ \ In this way, the 10 x 10 Housing Project’s aim is truly to “create a better future, by design”. Not only will some of Cape Town’s most impoverished families benefit directly, but the project seeks to stimulate a wider debate and creative thought around the delivery of low-income housing.\ \ Please visit www.designindaba.com/10x10 for more details.

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