Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This competition focused on small lot interventions, with each entrant working on one of four sites in Vancouver, Port Coquitlam, Surrey or Burnaby in British Columbia, Canada. The sites each consist of four city blocks, two blocks away from major arterials with bus routes and each site is two lots long. Entrants proposed detailed options for redevelopment of 1-2 lots in the assigned neighborhood and a master plan for the 4-city block context area.

This was not about density alone, but rather generating inspiring neighbourhood possibilities for a single lot landowner or a pair of neighbours to create affordable, higher density, low rise options that support socially contributing housing.

(From competition brief)