The Davidson Prize — 2023

2023 RESULTS

The theme of the third £25,000 annual Davidson Prize is 'Somewhere to Call Home'. The brief asks multi-disciplinary teams to communicate innovative design solutions for a home community where people who have experienced the trauma of homelessness and housing insecurity are given time to settle, recover and find their bearings.

The People's Choice Prize

The winner of the People's Choice will be announced during The Davidson Prize award ceremony in June 2023.

THE FINALISTS

More Not Less

Re-Group: ZCD Architects with Madeleine Kessler Architecture and Datshiane Navanayagam, Architecture Doing Place, JCLA, Webb Yates Engineers, Charles Jegar

Design codes reinventing temporary accommodation for positive futures

Helping Hands

Studio MUTT and Neighbourhood with The Independence Initiative, Hugh Baird College, Islington Hostel Outreach, Amber Akaunu, Peter O’Neil and Dead Good Poets Society

A nurturing communal landscape in Liverpool co-created by residents, neighbours and specialist support organisations

Home Building

Harnessing learning, collaboration and sustainable production to generate a sense of belonging

THE LONGLIST

Neuronest London

Exploring relationships between homelessness, neurodivergence and architecture

The Mother’s House

Balaam Murphy, Platform Homes Self-Build, Social Action for Health, Single Parent Rights, Lucie Stroud, Circlus

A new typology forged from existing structures to support single mothers and children

Carpenters Estate

Building Trust International

Accommodation and support services integrated with training and employment

Homes on the High Street

A holistic high street place for recovery, support and opportunity – scalable across the UK

The Talbot Sisters’ Legacy

Footprint Architects with Hope for Food Charity, Tammy Woodward and Rebecca Smith of WDA

Reimagining the Victorian model village to tackle 21st century homelessness

An Unhostile Environment

Jas Bhalla Architects with All People All Places and Sheffield University

Creating unhostile environments for retreat, recovery and re-emergence

City Arcade

Patchwork with Coffee Tots

A lightweight modular timber frame adaptation of shopping centre typologies

More Not Less

Re-Group: ZCD Architects with Madeleine Kessler Architecture and Datshiane Navanayagam, Architecture Doing Place, JCLA, Webb Yates Engineers, Charles Jegar

Design codes reinventing temporary accommodation for positive futures

Switch

Repurposing a disused station with a linear modular design rooted in productive community

Rights of Passage

Soft Cities with Coffey Architects, Margaret Ravenscroft, Dion Barrett, Room for Refugees and Vanclaron CIC

A group-built community and scalable sanctuary for asylum seekers

Rhiz(h)ome

Studio idir with Me, Him & Her Design, Peter McKinney and Maura de Mello

Supported transitional homes for care-leavers in the heart of a new West Belfast
Community

Helping Hands

Studio MUTT and Neighbourhood with The Independence Initiative, Hugh Baird College, Islington Hostel Outreach, Amber Akaunu, Peter O’Neil and Dead Good Poets Society

A nurturing communal landscape in Liverpool co-created by residents, neighbours and specialist support organisations

Garden Family

Tonkin Liu, Studio Mama, Hildrey Studio and Under One Sky Together with Exmouth Market community

A hyper-local social infrastructure of guardians to protect and nurture care-leavers

Re-Focus E15

Tropisms, Eco-Responsive Environments, Elena Tamosiunaite, Yasmin Lennon Chong, Marie-Louise Jones and Focus E15 Campaign

Reinventing temporary accommodation for the needs of mothers and children

Home Building

Harnessing learning, collaboration and sustainable production to generate a sense of belonging

Space for Roots to Grow

Will King, Hari Kumar Studio, Amnesty Feminists, Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance

Secure intergenerational housing empowering domestic abuse survivors to recover

JUDGES

Sadie Morgan OBE, BA (HONS), MA, DU LSBU (HON.), FRSA, HON FRIBA (Chair) Co-Founder dRMM and Founder of the Quality of Life Foundation

Yemí Aládérun Senior Development Manager Meridian Water for Enfield Council

Osama Bhutta Director of Policy, Campaigns and Communications Shelter

Charles Holland Principal Charles Holland Architects

Priya Khanchandani MA (Cantab) MA (RCA) FRSA Head of Curatorial & Interpretation the Design Museum