The 10 Cubic Meter Challenge invites designers, architects, artists, makers, and creative thinkers to reconsider space, meaning, and experience through the discipline of a strict spatial boundary.
Participants are asked to design a spatial idea, structure, object, or installation contained entirely within a maximum volume of 10 cubic meters. Your micro-architecture may be functional, symbolic, emotional, speculative, portable, or expressive — a compact shelter, a ritual chamber, a sculptural monument, a portable module, or a conceptual spatial artifact.
This volumetric mandate changes the exercise from a simple task of making things smaller to a critical study of functional density and spatial optimization. To get the most use out of such a small space, you need to look into kinetic architecture, which means that things like walls, furniture, and storage spaces have to change and serve more than one purpose. The 10 m3 limit is the competition’s most important strategic asset because it makes sure that the solutions that come out of it are hyper-efficient, modular, and easy to replicate.
This competition is not about building big, but about thinking deep. A tiny space can be a vessel for memory, care, provocation, adaptation, or future possibility.
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LAST DATE OF REGISTRATION: 15th February 2026
LAST DATE OF SUBMISSION: 15th February 2026
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