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ProPEL Submission Deadline: May 22, 2019
2019 Concrete Competition
Built2Last Resilience Design Challenge
Rules (FAQ)
Eligibility
The competition is open to all ACSA member schools (full, candidate, and domestic or international affiliates). All student entrants are required to work under the direction of a faculty sponsor. Entries will be accepted for individual as well as team solutions. Teams must be limited to a maximum of five students.
Faculty Responsibility
The administration of the competition at each institution is left to the discretion of the faculty sponsor(s) within the guidelines set forth in this document. Work on the competition should be structured over the course of one semester during the 2018-2019 academic year.
Registration
Faculty who wish to enroll students must complete an online Registration Form (available at www.acsa-arch.org/competitions) by April 3, 2019. Complete a form 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 required to participate in the competition. Each registered student and faculty sponsor will receive a confirmation email that will include information on how to upload your final submission online.
Evaluation Criteria
Each faculty sponsor is expected to develop a system to evaluate the work of the students using the criteria set forth in this program. In addressing the specific issues of the design challenge, submissions must clearly demonstrate the design solution’s response to the following requirements:
- The skill to integrate portland cement-based materials to achieve resilient design objectives;
- An original design innovation;
- A response to central architectural concepts such as human activity needs, climatic considerations, structural integrity, site planning, creative insight, coherence of architectural vocabulary;
- Clear and comprehensible design.
Online Project Submission
Entries must be uploaded through the ACSA Competition website at www.acsa-arch.org/competitions by 11:59 pm, Pacific Time, on May 22, 2019. 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.
A final submission upload must contain the following:
- Completed online submission information including all team members and faculty sponsors;
- Each of the four 20”x20” boards uploaded individually as a high resolution Portable Document Format (PDF) or Image (JPEG) Files;
- A Design Essay.
Winning projects will be required to submit original files/images for use in competition publications and exhibit materials.
Digital Presentation Format
Submissions must be designed on no more than four 20” x 20” digital boards.
All boards are required to be uploaded through the ACSA 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 the boards.
Design Essay
A brief essay, 500 words maximum, (in English) is required as part of the submission describing the most important concepts of the design project. Keep in mind that the presentation 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.
Required Drawings
It is required that each presentation address, but not be limited to, the specific criteria outlined in the design challenge through the following required drawings:
- Site plan showing the surrounding buildings and streets, topography and circulation patterns;
- Floor plans;
- Elevations and building sections sufficient to show site context and major program elements;
- Drawings that best show the relationship between portland cement-based materials and resilient design objectives, such as floor plans, elevations and sections;
- Detail drawing(s), either two or three-dimensional, illustrating the key elements of infrastructure and building systems;
- A three-dimensional representation in the form of axonometric, perspective, or model photographs.
Edwin Hernández
Programs Coordinator
ehernandez@acsa-arch.org
202.785.2324
Eric W. Ellis
ACSA, Director of Operations and Programs
202-785-2324
eellis@acsa-arch.org
