The purposes of the competition are three fold:

To generate ideas or a design primer to inform and inspire architects working in this field

To raise awareness about the problem of AIDS in Southern Africa and in general

To raise money towards the building of an AIDS orphanage in South Africa.

The competition submissions should be about how to enrich the provision of facilities for AIDS orphans with ingenuity, innovative uses of every-day and recycled materials and careful analysis of spatial and formal relationships that any facility would benefit from.

There are already talented and dedicated local architects working within this field in South Africa. The intention of the competition is to provide inspiration to these architects whilst keeping in mind the budget and logistical constraints that they are working within.

The result should therefore be a series of drawings and images that can serve as an inspirational design primer focussing on the possibilities of the best that a facility such as this could be.

The submissions for the competition should not necessarily be a design for a finished 'solved' project to be built, but rather a series of drawings visuals and studies that examine the variety, complexity, opportunities and possibilities that these challenging briefs present.

This design competition is intended to be a short project taking one or at the most two working days to complete.