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
competitions@acsa-arch.org
