The design of a house constructed from earth, wood and potato cork by students of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology (PW) has been awarded a double prize in the fifth MICROHOME competition.

The competition is organised by the Buildner platform, in cooperation with Archive Books. Its aim is to highlight the importance of small architecture in the face of the housing, economic and climate crisis.

A proposal by PW students Aleksandra Musiał and Alicja Adela Jarochowska won third prize and the Buildner Student Award.

“Our project Grounded House, of, about and for the earth, is a house designed for rural areas in temperate terrain. We focused on this location not only because it is close to us, but also to take on the challenge of an unpopular climate zone in the competition – most participants design in warm climates, thus bypassing the topic of energy and building insulation”, say the competition winners.