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ACSA/AISC Student Design Competition
AISC is pleased to announce the seventh annual student design competition for the 2006-2007 academic year. Sponsored by The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to explore a variety of issues related to the use of steel in design and construction.
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CATEGORY I -Museum of Steel
The 2006-2007 ACSA/AISC competition will challenge architecture students to design Museum of Steel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The project will allow the student to explore the many varied functional and aesthetic uses for steel as a building material. Students will be exploring the ways in which the reclamation of an underdeveloped waterfront is a prime opportunity for the designer to create a city focal point. The student must keep in mind the current needs of the city, the compatibility of the new structures with their historical neighbors, and the buildings ultimate acceptability into the existing urban fabric.
CATEGORY II - Open
For the third year the ACSA/AISC Competition will offer architecture students the opportunity to compete in an open competition with limited restrictions. This category will allow the students, with the approval of the sponsoring faculty member, to select a site and building program. The program must contain at least one space that will require long span steel structure. The Open Category program should be of equal complexity and comparable size and program space as the Category I program. This open submission design option will permit a greatest amount of flexibility with the context.
STRUCTURAL STEEL - For both categories of the competition, steel should be used as the primary structural material with special emphasis placed on innovation in steel design. Structural steel offers a number of strengths in building design, including high resiliency and performance under harsh and difficult conditions (e.g., earthquakes and hurricanes). It offers the ability to span great distances with slenderness and grace. Steel can be shaped to achieve curved forms and can be raised quickly to meet tough construction schedules in almost any weather conditions. Steel can be easily modified to satisfy changing requirements. With virtually all of today’s structural steel produced in the U.S. made from recycled cars and other steel products. It is the environmentally sound choice for a building material.
AWARDS - Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive cash prizes totaling $14,000.The design jury will meet June 2006, 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 website (www.acsa-arch.org) and the AISC website (www.aisc.org).
SCHEDULE
Registration Begins: December 5, 2006 (there is no fee for registration)
Registration Deadline: February 8, 2007
Submission Deadline: May 30, 2007
Winners Announced: June 2007
Summary Publication: Summer 2007
INFORMATION
The summary book will be published in fall 2006. Additional questions on the competition program and submissions should be addressed to:
Eric W. Ellis/AISC Competition
Association of Collegiate
Schools of Architecture
1735 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006
tel: 202.785.2324 (ext 8, Competitions Hotline)
fax: 202.628.0448
email: competitions@acsa-arch.org
Winners Announced in the 2005-2006 6th Annual ACSA/AISC Steel Design Student Competition
June 2006 – Designs from Lawrence Technological University and Woodbury University were awarded top prizes in the 2005-06 6th Annual ACSA/AISC Steel Design Student Competition. The competition is sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and is administered by Association of Collegiate School of Architecture (ACSA). Students had the opportunity to compete in two separate categories. Category I challenged architecture students to design a Community Aquatic Center on a specifi c site. Category II was an open competition with restrictions. Open to students in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, the winners were chosen from among 400 submissions from over 50 universities. First, second, and third prizes along with one honorable mention were awarded in each category.
“Collective [Social] Landscape“ by Steve Sauer & Galina Mihaylova, is a showcase of steel with a lightness of structure including steel in both the structure and cladding. Jurors’ commented that Jesie J. Kelly & Daniel Schrobilgen’s design “ARC Transportation Hub for Gaza, Palestine”, shows a formal elegance with an appropriate use of materials and systems with a clarity of presentation.
A total of $14,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to winning students and their faculty sponsors. Prize winning projects will be exhibited at the 2007 ACSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, the 2007 North American Steel Construction Conference, and the 2007 American Institute of Architects Convention in San Antonio. In addition, they will be published in a competition summary catalog, available from ACSA in summer 2006.
PANEL OF JUDGES:
The design jury convened June 3, 2006, in Washington, D.C., to select the winning projects and honorable mentions. The design jury consisted of the following individuals:
Category I – Community Aquatic Center: Professor David Thaddeus from University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Professor Mitra Kanaani, AIA, from New School of Architecture and Design; and Joanne Aitken, AIA, an architect from Kieran Timberlake Associates based in Philadelphia, PA.
Category II - Open: Professor Harry Kaufman, AIA, from Southern Polytechnic State University; Professor Phoebe Crisman, RA, from Univeristy of Virginia; and Thomas Vonier, FAIA RIBA, architect in private practice with bases in Barcelona, Paris, and Washington DC.
6th Annual ACSA/AISC Student Winners, Category I – Community Aquatic Center
First Prize - Steve Sauer & Galina Mihaylova, Lawrence Technological University; Faculty Sponsor - Erik M.Hemingway; Project Title: Collective [Social] Landscape
Second Prize - Rebecca L. Roberts, University of Washington, Seattle; Faculty Sponsor - Rick Mohler; Project Title: Adaptability
Third Prize - Alan Thomas, Grant Waggenspack, Shannon Debenport, & Mike Wynne,Louisiana Tech University; Faculty Sponsors - Robert Fakelmann & Michael Williams;Project Title: Illuminating the Wave
Honorable Mention - Patrick Flynn & Joseph Barajas, California College of the Arts; Faculty Sponsors - Charles Dilworth & Sarah Wilmer; Project Title: Billboard
6th Annual ACSA/AISC Student Winners, Category II – Open
First Prize - Jesie J. Kelly & Daniel Schrobilgen, Woodbury University; Faculty Sponsor - Gerard Smulevich; Project Title: ARC Transportation Hub for Gaza, Palestine
Second Prize - Janet Corzo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Faculty Sponsor - Stephen Zdepski; Project Title: Crossing the Arno
Third Prize - Jiten Ragha, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Faculty Sponsor - Stephen Zdepski; Project Title: Da Vinci Libraries
Honorable Mention - Benjamin Saks, Carnegie Mellon University; Faculty Sponsors - Steven Lee, Kevin Gannon, & Jeff Davis; Project Title: Free Flight Facility
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