AIA Ohio Affordable Green Home Design CompetitionSponsor: AIA Trust Type: open, 1-stage Language: English Registration fee:
AIA Associate Member – $25 (early registration)/$50 (late registration)
Non-AIA unregistered – $35 (early registration)/$70 (late registration)
AIA Member – $50 (early registration)/$100 (late registration)
Non-AIA registered architect – $75 (early registration)/$150 (late registration) Eligibility:
All design professionals who have graduated from a school of architecture and have been out of school 10 years or less. Entrants that are not licensed to practice architecture in the State of Ohio are required to partner with an Ohio licensed architect or firm. Awards:
1st Prize in category – $1,000
2nd Prize in category – $500
3rd Prize in category – $250 1st Prize overall – $2,000
2nd Prize overall – $1,000
3rd Prize overall – $500 Timetable:
31 July, 2009 – early registration deadline
14 August, 2009 – late registration deadline
28 August, 2009 – submission deadline
21 September, 2009 – category winners announced
1-3 October, 2009 – overall winners announced Jury:
American Institute of Architects: TBD
Habitat for Humanity: TBD Design Challenge:
A new prototypical house design based upon identified Habitat for Humanity considerations and the AIA Committee On The Environment green design principles. After the competition, the intent is to develop construction documents and build each of the winning designs. Habitat homes are built by volunteers (essentially unskilled labor), and thus the construction documents should be considerably more extensive than typical drawing submissions. The construction drawings must be thorough, fully detailed, and able to receive municipal approval with little to no additional effort required by Habitat for Humanity.
Designs should be region-specific but not site-specific. Priority will be given to flexible designs that are applicable to various site conditions such as lot sizes, topography, orientation, etc.
The home shall be judged on its integration of environmental strategies concerning their impact on the site, water efficiency, energy use, material use, and indoor environmental quality. More specifically in regards to energy use, the minimum energy performance level of the home shall meet the Architecture 2030 Challenge 2010 target of 52 on the HERS index.
entries are expected to address specific issues as it relates to the following:
Affordability – The home shall be affordable to build and maintain.
Context – The design shall reflect the social and economic character of the communities in which the home will be built.
Energy Efficiency – The minimum performance level of the home shall meet the Architecture 2030 Challenges 2010 target of 52 on the HERS index.
Occupant Health – VOC and other know harmful products are to be avoided in the home.
Sustainability – The design shall consider the home’s impact on the immediate and surrounding environment by taking into consideration the use of resource efficient building materials, and resource conserving features. For more information, go to: http://www.aiaohiogreenhome.com/index.html
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SWA/Balsley Wins Paveletskaya Plaza Landscape Competition 
Aerial view at night – courtesy SWA/Balsley 5+ Design
Of the nine railway stations in Moscow, Paveletskaya is the largest and one of the last of those that opened around the turn of the century. Compared to other Moscow stations, Paveletskaya, designed by Alexander Krasovsky and opened in 1900, represented a lower-key presence in its sprawling configuration, similar to palaces such as a Sans Souci without the ornamentation. The original site for the recent competition included a small park facing the station, bordered on one side by the Ring Road. Post WWII, the site was bifurcated by a road, thus separating the front entrance of the station from the grassy area facing it. Read more… Young Architects in Competitions When Competitions and a New Generation of Ideas Elevate Architectural Quality
by Jean-Pierre Chupin and G. Stanley Collyer
published by Potential Architecture Books, Montreal, Canada 2020
271 illustrations in color and black & white
Available in PDF and eBook formats
ISBN 9781988962047
What do the Vietnam Memorial, the St. Louis Arch, and the Sydney Opera House have in common? These world renowned landmarks were all designed by architects under the age of 40, and in each case they were selected through open competitions. At their best, design competitions can provide a singular opportunity for young and unknown architects to make their mark on the built environment and launch productive, fruitful careers. But what happens when design competitions are engineered to favor the established and experienced practitioners from the very outset? This comprehensive new book written by Jean-Pierre Chupin (Canadian Competitions Catalogue) and Stanley Collyer (COMPETITIONS) highlights for the crucial role competitions have played in fostering the careers of young architects, and makes an argument against the trend of invited competitions and RFQs. The authors take an in-depth look at past competitions won by young architects and planners, and survey the state of competitions through the world on a region by region basis. The end result is a compelling argument for an inclusive approach to conducting international design competitions. Download Young Architects in Competitions for free at the following link: https://crc.umontreal.ca/en/publications-libre-acces/
Image Courtesy Network Rail
From Grand Central Station to King’s Cross in London, railway stations have often represented some of the major architectural accomplishments of our times. But those edifices have been primarily located in great cities. In the U.K. there are over 2,000 stations located in medium-sized, small, and rural communities. Most of those are ‘quick stop’ locations, and not the destination terminals where space requirements often result in state of the art design. In July of last year, U.K.’s Network Rail, in collaboration with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) launched a competition to identify a concept for a design that would be suitable for the medium to small-sized rail stations, at the same time updating the program to fit the modern needs of such a facility. The competition was open internationally and received 213 entries from 34 countries last September. Read more… The Urban Confluence Silicon Valley Competition
Urban Confluence Silicon Valley winner: ©SMAR Architecture Studio
After several stops and starts over an extended period of time, the winner of the Urban Confluence Design Competition was named in early March, 2021. SMAR Architecture Studio’s The Breeze of Innovation, which prevailed over two other shortlisted finalists from the original 963 entries, won with a novel tower-like structure consisting primarily of hundreds of rods, generating energy while swaying in the wind. Read More…
Pedestrian perspective
The result of an effort from a professor at the TUM (Technische Universität München) to restore the Budludzha Monument in Bulgaria, located in a remote location on a mountain top in that country, we discovered that it originally was the result of a 1959 design competition won by the young Bulgarian architect, Georgi Stoilov. Read more… A Flawed Plan Leads to Budget Issues
Competition rendering of project looking south to Mies museum ©Herzog de Meuron
Once considered on the forefront of modern architecture in post-WWII Europe, Berlin has had its share of questionable decisions concerning important urban projects in recent history. Beginning with the rebirth of the Berlin Palace (Humboldt Forum) on the Spree by Italian architect, Franco Stella, and now followed by Herzog de Meuron’s controversial addition to Mies’s 20th Century Art Museum, the times when one could look to Berlin as a signpost of architectural innovation can only be viewed in the rear view mirror.
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