2007–2008 ACSA/AISC Student Design Competition

2007–2008 ACSA/AISC Student Design Competition

Assembling Housing & Open Category

Open, international, student, RfP

Not Site Specific

08 Feb 2008 – Registration Deadline

28 May 2008 – Submission Deadline

SPONSORS:

The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)

TYPE:

Open, international, student, RfP

LOCATION:

Not Site Specific

LANGUAGE:

English

TIMETABLE:

08 Feb 2008 – Registration Deadline

28 May 2008 – Submission Deadline

Jun 2008 – Winners Announced

Summer 2008 – Publication of Summary Book

ELIGIBILITY:

Students, working individually or in teams, with faculty sponsor

JURY:

Not Announced

AWARDS:

Category I and Category II:

First Prize – Student $2,500; Faculty sponsor $1,000

Second Prize – Student $1,500; Faculty sponsor $750

Third Prize – Student $750; Faculty sponsor $500

FEE:

None

THE COMPETITION:

CATEGORY I – ASSEMBLING HOUSING

Assembling Housing. The eighth annual ACSA/AISC competition will challenge architecture students to design ASSEMBLING HOUSING in an urban context of the students and sponsoring faculty selection. The project will allow the student to explore the many varied functional and aesthetic uses for steel as a building material. Steel is an ideal material for multi-story housing because it offers the greatest strength to weight ratio and can be designed systematically as a kit of parts or prefabricated to allow for quicker construction times and less labor, thus reducing the cost of construction. Housing built with steel is potentially more flexible and adaptable to allow for diversity of family structures and changing family needs over time.

CATEGORY II – OPEN

Open. 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 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.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

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)

Fax: 202.628.0448

[email protected]

https://www.acsa-arch.org/competitions/0708aisc.aspx