Community-led housing
Housing designed, built, and held by the people who live in it.
Criteria & scope →
Focus — Category 02
HOUSING, MATERIALS & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT.
Ideas about how people are housed and what they build with — materials, methods, and knowledge that make shelter affordable, durable, and appropriate to place.
Areas in this category
HOMES, MATERIALS, AND THE STRUCTURES A COMMUNITY SHARES.
Regenerative building materials
Materials that are local, low-carbon, and durable.
Criteria & scope →Construction and material innovation
Better ways to build, at cost, with local labour.
Criteria & scope →Culturally relevant architecture
Buildings that fit how people actually live.
Criteria & scope →Indigenous and traditional building knowledge
Building knowledge held by communities, kept in use.
Criteria & scope →Green and energy-efficient homes
Homes that cost less to run and are healthier to live in.
Criteria & scope →Climate-resilient construction
Building for flood, heat, wind, and fire.
Criteria & scope →Local manufacturing
Making things near where they are needed.
Criteria & scope →Adaptive reuse
Putting existing buildings and structures back to work.
Criteria & scope →Community infrastructure
The shared structures a place needs to function.
Criteria & scope →Every area has its own criteria. Read them before you write to us.