11-12 Laboratory Competition

Guidelines

schedule

Summer 2011	Developement of Competition Program and Details
March 28, 2012	Registration Deadline - EXTENDED
May 22, 2012	Submission Deadline
Summer 2012	Winners Announced

awards / benefits

The design jury will meet in June/July 2012 to select winning projects and honorable mentions. Winners and their faculty sponsors will be notified of the competition results directly. A list of winning projects will be posted on the ACSA web site at www.acsa-arch.org and the I²SL web site at www.i2sl.org. Winning students and their faculty sponsors will receive cash prizes totaling $14,000.

Additional Benefits:

Concepts and strategies contained in all submissions, not just winning submissions, have the opportunity of being applied at the actual MREC campus. Students' contributions would be recognized if this were to occur.
All concepts and strategies, including student contact information if provided, will be placed on the International Institute for Sustainble Laroratories website. This information will therefore be available to any marine, island, or laboratory project worldwide.
Winning students may be considered for internships with competition sponsors and other organizations involved in the sustainable laboratory community.
Winning groups and instructors may be flown to San Jose, California, USA for the Labs21 2012 Annual Conference. They will be recognized in the conference Opening Plenary, given an opportunity to present their projects during the technical sessions, honored during the conference awards luncheon or an evening reception, and photographed for publication.

Eligibility

Students from all Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture member schools around the world will be eligible to participate in the competition. Students may work individually or in teams and must work with a faculty sponsor on the submission. Teams must be limited to a maximum of five students. There will be no additional fee for eligible students to participate in the competition.

Language

The official language of the competition is English.

Registration

A faculty sponsor is required to enroll students by completing an online registration form (available at www.acsa-arch.org/competitions) by March 28, 2012-EXTENDED. Faculty may complete a form for the entire studio or for each individual student or team of students participating. Students or teams wishing to enter the competition on their own must have a faculty sponsor who should complete the form. There is no entry or submission fee to participate in the competition. Each registered student and faculty sponsor will receive a confirmation email that will include information on how the student(s) will upload final submissions online. Please add the email address competitions@acsa-arch.org to your address book to ensure that you receive all emails regarding your submission.

During registration the faculty will have the ability to add students, add teams, assign students to teams, and add additional faculty. Registration is required by March 28, 2012-EXTENDED, but can be changed, edited, and added to until a student starts a final submission; then the registration is no longer editable. Faculty may assign a "Faculty Representative" to a registered student. This "Faculty Representative" will have access to change, edit, and add to the registration.

Faculty Responsibility

The administration of the competition at each school is left to the discretion of the faculty sponsor within the guidelines set forth in this document. Work on the competition may be structured over the course of one or two semesters (Fall 2011 and/or Spring 2012).

Codes

Refer to the International Building Code for information on standard requirements. Participants should follow the principles of universal and sustainable design.

Submissions

All competition submission must include:

Four digital presentation boards for the laboratory sized at 20" x 30" each. The digital boards should clearly show the students response and design solutions, with one board dedicated to each of the following: the laboratory model, sustainable resolution and campus plan.
A 500 word maximum design essay that supports the above mentioned design presentation boards by describing the proposed campus infrastructure.

Incomplete or undocumented entries will be disqualified. All drawings should be presented at a scale appropriate to the design solution and include a graphic scale and north arrow.

Digital Presentation Boards

Submissions must be designed on no more than four 20" x 30" digital boards. The names of student participants, their schools, or faculty sponsors, must NOT appear on the boards. The digital boards should clearly show the students response and design solutions, with one board dedicated to each of the following: the laboratory model, sustainable resolution, and campus plan.

All boards are required to be uploaded through the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture website in Portable Document Format (PDF) or image (JPEG) files. Participants should keep in mind that, due to the large number of entries, preliminary review does not allow for the hanging end-to-end display of presentation boards. Accordingly, participants should not use text or graphics that cross over from board to board. The names of student participants, their schools, or faculty sponsors, must NOT appear on any of the submitted material.

The digital presentation boards must directly address the criteria outlined in the Evaluation Criteria section and must include (but are not limited to) the following elements.

For the laboratory

Floor plans and circulation patterns.
Elevations and building sections.
Laboratory module layout.
Building materials and application.
Building systems and system integration strategies within the laboratory.
Control strategies for daylighting, occupancy, air supply and exhaust, and energy management.
Large scale drawing(s), either orthographic or three dimensional.
A three dimensional representation in the form of either an axonometric, perspective, or model photographs, one of which should illustrate the character of the project.

For the campus

Site plan showing infrastructure systems such as energy generation, waste management and recovery, water treatment and recovery, transportation and accessibility.
Plan for managing proposed infrastructure services, such as energy distribution, throughout the campus.

Please note that the digital presentation boards should graphically convey the design solution and context as much as possible, and not rely on the design essay to convey a basic understanding of the project.

Design Essay

A 500 word maximum essay (in English) is required as part of the submission to support the campus schematic by describing the proposed campus infrastructure. Keep in mind that the digital presentation boards should graphically convey the design solution and context as much as possible and not rely on the design essay to convey a basic understanding of the project.

The names of student participants, their schools, or faculty sponsors, must NOT appear in the design essay. This abstract is included in the final online submission, completed by the student(s) in a simple copy/paste text box.

Online Project Submission

The student is required to submit final entries through the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture competition website at www.acsa-arch.org/competitions by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on May 22, 2012.

If the submission is from a team of students all student team members will have the ability to upload the digital files. Once the final submit button is pressed no additional edits, uploads, or changes can be made. Once the final Submission is uploaded and submitted each student will receive a confirmation email notification. The submission is not complete until the "complete this submission" button has been pressed. You may "save" your submission and return to complete it later. For team projects, any member of team may submit the final project.

A final submission upload must contain the following:

Completed online registration including all team members and faculty sponsors.
Each of the four 20" x 30" boards uploaded individually as high resolution Portable Document Format (PDF) documents or image (JPEG) files.
A design essay (500 word maximum essay).

Winning projects will be required to submit high resolution original files/images for use in competition publications and exhibit materials. Upon receipt, submissions become the property of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories.