PHINMA PROPERTIES Design Team wins Citation Award in Asia's Leading Green Design Competition

April 5, 2010

PHINMA PROPERTIES' Design Team won a Citation award in the Professional category in the FuturArc Prize 2010 competition, Asia's Leading Green Design Competition. This year's theme was for the design of a sustainable home.

With over 800 competition registrations worldwide, PHINMA PROPERTIES can be very proud of its achievement in this international Green design competition.

The Competition had two objectives: first, to create a platform for talented individuals - professionals and students - who are keen on environmental issues; second, to encourage the construction industry as a whole to move towards sustainable design.

This year’s competition offers entrants a single brief, a hypothetical project set in the near future for which entrants may select a site in the places in which they reside.

sustainableHOME@Asia | a PROTOYPE for ecological living |

A ‘home’ is more than a house; it is a concept deeply rooted in our collective psyche encompassing physical and emotional well-being: shelter from elements, connectivity with family, community and nature, and – in a rapidly changing world – a sanctuary of sorts, recourse from uncertainty.

How we should be designing homes in Asia is far from understood. The real estate market seems to allow, with impunity, the right to transplant concepts of mass housing and lifestyle statements from one part of the world to another, leaving us socially alienated with expanding ecological footprints.

We need a new mindset to craft the new Home, one that addresses old challenges and new, embraces modernity and traditions, and offers us ways of coping with change.

The FuturArc Prize 2010 is a call to find new paradigms for designing the Home, as varied as the communities, climates and cultures in which they are situated. A home on the Mekong delta, for instance, must be fundamentally different from one in Hong Kong; its conceptualisation is no less challenging, no less important.

Congratulations to PHINMA PROPERTIES!