Decoding Timber Towers is the fourth competition presented by Urbanarium to encourage dialogue and design investigations to promote housing affordability and address the effects of climate change. Entrants are asked to consider design solutions for mass timber residential and mixed-use buildings that, as with the earlier Missing Middle, Mixing Middle, and Decoding Density competitions, also explore how housing innovations and higher densities are constrained by building code, zoning, and other regulations.

This competition explores the challenges facing designers, builders, and developers in replacing concrete residential high-rise buildings with an industry-wide approach to deliver low carbon buildings more competitively, while maintaining a high standard of comfort, sociability, and connection to land. It highlights a systems-thinking approach to optimize the use of BC timber, prefab and modular buildings in the 8 to 20+ storey range.

Compete in Decoding Timber Towers. $50,000 in cash prizes! Competition results will be shared widely through videos, a publication, a press campaign, various websites, Urbanarium Studio workshops and Woodrise 2025, a global congress on mid and high-rise timber construction and buildings coming to Vancouver in September.

登録締切　2025年5月2日（金）
提出締切　2025年8月25日（月）
表彰式　　2025年9月15日（月）

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7ebh1MOf2rLQdoXKtgjT_YDrqutBWKlf-cE8GxLnKEAwHQw/viewform

【Overall Prize Awards】
First Prize $15,000 CAD
Second Prize $10,000 CAD
Third Prize $5,000 CAD
5 Honourable Mentions $2,000 CAD ea.

【Digital Award】
Innovation in Systemization and Standardization Award $10,000 CAD

Urbanarium
https://urbanarium.org/program/urbanarium-competitions

competition@urbanarium.org

https://urbanarium.org/decoding-timber-towers