THE NEXT GREEN

The Canada Council for the Arts has awarded Dubbeldam Architecture + Design the Professional Prix de Rome prize for our project ‘The Next Green - Innovation in Sustainable Housing', which entails travel to Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany to study and disseminate innovative sustainable housing prototypes and research on sustainable technologies for Northern climates, applicable to the Canadian context. Our program of study will include meetings with Scandinavia and Germany's leading architectural practices in sustainable design and architecture, visits to significant high-performance buildings, participation in conferences and symposia on sustainable architecture, and explorations of cutting-edge research on building-integrated sustainable systems and materials at research and academic institutions. We intend to explore how architects in these countries set new standards for buildings that surpass current protocols for sustainability, while developing a unique spatial and artistic..