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Missing Middle Infill Design Competition / Concours d'aménagement de la zone intermédiaire Missing Middle

Stage 1

Part & Parcel, Studio North, Gravity Architecture (First Prize)

Leckie Studio Architecture + Design Inc. (Second Prize)

RedBrick Group of Companies et SPECTACLE (Third Prize)

Primavera Development Group Inc., RPK Architects Ltd., McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd., et Synergy Projects Ltd. (Honourable mention)

Postmark Development Co., Holo Blok Architecture Inc., Ground3 Inc., Design Works Engineering & Inspections Ltd., et Rahmaan Hameed Studios Inc (People's Choice Award)

TransGlobe Holdings Ltd. et BIOS Architecture Corp.

Veneto Homes, Planworks Architecture, et Donna Brown Landscapes

VNC Homes Ltd. et Kelvin Hamilton Architecture Inc.

CDR/Alair Homes Edmonton, Norbom Architect Ltd., Planterra Landscapes, TWS Engineering Ltd., Pals Surveys & Geomatics Corp., et Enviromatics Group

Todd Brooks

MIZA Architects Inc.

Davignon Martin Architecture + Interior Design

Abbey Lane Inc. et Barry Johns

Maclab Development Group et Next Architecture

Mark Woytiuk et Armen Mamourian

Tamon Architecture Inc.

Mick Graham (Singletree Builders), SAS Architecture Ltd. 1080 Architecture, Planning and Interiors, Rockel Designs, Kira Homeak, Meagan Florizone et Jessica Gibson

Brad Kennedy, Joao de Deus, Janick Biron, Shea Gibson, et Jonathan Lawrence

Mick Graham (Singletree Builders), SAS Architecture Ltd. 1080 Architecture, Planning and Interiors, Rockel Designs, Kira Homeak, Meagan Florizone et Jessica Gibson

Dan Rusler

Bolt Offsite Ltd., Jayson Hood, Fedir Trokhymenko, et Jordan Konopasky

JAG Form, Jon Astolfi, Mark Porter, et Marlon Joseph

Ed Gooch (EFG Architects Inc.), Kevin Eidick et Ryan Eidick

DIALOG et Equity Residential

Michael Wieczorek, Marc Boutin, et Yves Poitras

winner

Part & Parcel, Studio North, Gravity Architecture

GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITION

Year	2019
Location	10524 - 112 Avenue NW Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Stage	One stage
Competitors	25

Price by stage	First prize: $8,000 Second prize: $5,000 Third prize: $3,000 People's choice award: $500

Professional advisor	David Murray
Doc. level	75%

Description

Launched in 2016, the Edmonton Infill Design Competition provides an opportunity to encourage productive conversations about infill and help the public and development community envision what's possible for infill design and inspire builders and architects to create out of the box designs that enrich our city. The competition's overarching goal is to showcase improved aesthetics of the community and how good designs can bring neighbours together.

The 2016 competition sought ideas for low-density residential infill on a hypothetical site, showing how infill could add to the character of our mature and established neighbourhoods. The 2019 competition was an opportunity to test innovative new housing forms that will be integral to the future of Edmonton. It focused on demonstrating how medium-density 'missing middle' housing can be both economically-feasible and well designed to work in Edmonton. Designs were solicited Canada-wide or internationally from multidisciplinary teams of architects and builders/developers for medium density, 'missing middle' housing on a site of 5
lots currently owned by the City of Edmonton at the northeast corner of 112 Avenue and 106 Street in the Spruce Avenue neighbourhood. The winning team will be given the opportunity to purchase the site and build their winning design conditional upon rezoning approval. Once constructed, the prototype will be used to inspire innovative 'missing middle' infill development in other parts of the city.

(From competition brief)

Jury comments

An increase in infill development in Edmonton over the past few years has sparked significant discussion around the look of new housing and how it fits within our existing neighbourhoods. Questions that seek to define "character" and "contextually appropriate" designs have become front and centre. Does "contextually appropriate" mean emulating the existing vernacular of Edmonton's post war neighbourhoods? Do contemporary designs in fact celebrate the old, by providing stark contrast of what is seen today and what was built yesterday?

Launched in 2016, the Edmonton Infill Design Competition provides an opportunity to encourage productive conversations about these questions
and help the public and development community envision the possibilities for infill design. The 2016 design competition sought ideas for low-density
residential infill on a hypothetical site, showing how infill could add to the character of mature and established neighbourhoods.

This year's competition turned its gaze to mediumdensity, or 'missing middle', housing and how to make it both economically-feasible and well designed to work in Edmonton. Increasing the city's housing choices, particularly how to integrate more housing in the 'missing middle' range, is an important part of the City Plan -- Edmonton's future growth strategy for a city headed towards a metropolitan area of two million people.

This year's competition also shifted from an ideas competition to a design-build competition. Endorsed by The Alberta Association of Architects, the 2019 competition drew proposals from teams of architects and builders/developers from across Canada and abroad. Their task: design a 'missing middle' housing development on five City-owned parcels of land at the northeast corner of 112 Avenue and 106 Street in the Spruce Avenue neighbourhood. Their prize: the opportunity to purchase the site and build their winning design, subject to rezoning approval.

The finished development will be used to help inspire what's possible for 'missing middle' housing in other parts of the city, helping to realize the
"Partner to pilot innovative housing" action in Edmonton's Infill Roadmap 2018.

As the initiative advanced, what was most interesting was the relationships that formed between builders, developers and architects, and the proposals they came up with together that pushed the envelope for design and building
creativity. The City of Edmonton firmly believes that architecture plays a critical role, not only in the design of our urban fabric, but even in the very policies that regulate our built forms.

Built environments are physical manifestations of a city's values, ideologies, traditions and cultures. How these values are translated into what people see today in their daily lives is part of the delight (and often, frustration and complication) of design.

As new plans and policy initiatives begin to contemplate the types of urban spaces and places that are needed to help people live prosperous lives, design remains a fundamental pillar in the ways in which these spaces and places are used, enjoyed, and accessed. It will be one of the cornerstones on how Edmonton is marketed and perceived by city visionaries, builders, architects, and developers from around the world.

The submissions from across the country and the range of aesthetics and uses they proposed are helping the City of Edmonton get to the heart of these discussions.

Jury commentary
- Top submissions used rational planning techniques, integrating clarity of
form and space to create a simple design solution with an impactful message to the community.
- While the competition brief set a minimum of 15 dwelling units, preferred
submissions featured a range between 30 and 60 that were sensitively integrated to create a respectful relationship with the community.
- Proposals that featured housing typologies like row houses, garden apartments, courtyard housing and cottage courts, were considered to have massing that responded effectively to the neighbourhood context of adjacent single-family homes.
- Favoured schemes created a strong connection to the streetscape by
positioning buildings closer to the public activity on the sidewalk and maintaining multiple entry points into the site.
- Favoured designs featured a combination of well-conceived semi-public and private
"people places" such as courtyards, outdoor kitchens, and community gardens for tenants to convene.
- Top submissions responded to local demographics and neighbourhood features,
considering criteria such as accessibility, affordability, intergenerational housing, access to community amenity spaces, and sustainability.
- Architectural quality including the use of high quality, durable materials and thoughtful landscaping were thoroughly considered and were highlighted as continued areas of focus for the next phase of the design competition.
- The competition was a well-intentioned, well-executed process that brought developers, builders and architects together to propose creative ideas to advance the City's goal of enabling and encouraging 'missing middle' housing.

(From jury report)

List of Competitors

Competition staff and jury

Jury	Hazel Borys, Urbaniste
	Alex Bozikovic, Critique en architecture
	Renée Daoust, Architecte
	Gene Dub, Architecte
	Talbot Sweetapple, Architecte



Technical Commitee	Shamim Begum
	Daniel Boric
	Michael Doyle
	Ken Morris
	Patrick Nha Nguyen
	James Sande
	Kenneth Yeung

Calendar

Open for submissions: December 19
Registration deadline: February 4
Submission deadline: March 1st
Technical Committee review: March 1st to March 14
Jury Review: April 3 and 4
People's Choice Award (online voting opens and close): April 15 to May 3
Awards Reception: May 29
Sale/transfer of the land, rezoning process begins: May 29 to December 31

(From competition brief)

Press Review

‘Missing middle’ competition winner to mix housing for seniors and children, 2019

Stolte, Elise, Brilliant and truly awful infill designs pitched in Edmonton design competition, 2019

Frey, Warren, Edmonton design competition to fill ‘missing middle’, Journal Of Commerce, 2019

Sutherland, Dave, Finalists Selected in Missing Middle Infill Competition, 2019

Kindleman, Tricia, 'Infill can be beautiful': City announces winner of 'missing middle' design competition, CBC, 2019

The City of Edmonton announces the winners of its Missing Middle Infill Design Competition, Canadian Architect, 2019

List of general documents

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Programme
Rapport du jury (global)
Communiqué

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