Parasitic structures, 3D printed houses, floating architecture and even flying houses are featured on the shortlist published today by Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home.
Fifteen designs were nominated in the competition, which called on readers of Dezeen to design a home for 100 years.
The competition challenged readers to rethink the challenges of cities in the next century and propose innovative solutions for urban housing to meet these challenges.
The competition also requested submitted designs to respond to the MINI Living maxim "Big Life, Small Footprint" by optimizing the available space in cities.
We have received over 400 submissions from around the world. 15 designs by readers from nine different countries are on the shortlist.
A jury consisting of Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs and editor-in-chief Amy Frearson, along with MINI Living, creative boss Oke Hauser and designer Corinna Natter, will select the top three designs from this selection.
Final winners will be announced on January 17, 2019 with £ 10,000 in prize money: £ 5,000 for the winner, £ 3,000 for the runner-up and £ 2,000 for third place.
Read below all designs in the shortlist. More pictures and drawings of each concept can be found at the end of this story.
William Maddinson, an architectural student at the University of Edinburgh, has proposed a system for building watercourse houses in cities, combining two traditional typologies - the bridge and the terraced house.
Its anti-urban monument concept draws power from the flow of the river and offers innovations such as an inflatable facade. The design seeks to address issues such as extreme land value increases and floods, which Maddinson believes will affect many cities in the future.
Architect Jonathan Hellsten believes that urban green spaces will almost disappear in the future due to rising housing needs. He has not only included plants in his design, but proposed a new architectural structure based on how trees lie in a forest.
Hellsten plans to build the buildings that house a series of taller houses in remaining urban spaces. He points out that this would be one way to increase the density of cities while creating an urban environment that preserves some features of the natural environment.
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