Transforming Seattle’s 520 Floating BridgeSponsor: Washington State University; NBBJ; KSI
Type: Open, ideas
Language: English
Fee:
Early Registration (June 5 to July 4, 2012): $40
Regular Registration (July 5 to August 10, 2012): $100
Eligibility: The competition is open to professionals and students of the international design and art communities over the age of 18. Participants may enter as individuals or in teams of up to four members.
Timetable:
5 June, 2012 – Competition Announcement; Early Registration Begins; Inquiry Period Begins 5 July, 2012 – End of Early Registration 20 July, 2012 – Inquiry Deadline 10 August, 2012 – Registration Closes 15 August, 2012 – Submissions Due 21 September, 2012 – Awards Announced at Seattle Design Festival and on Website
Awards:
First Place – $3,000 Second Place – $1,500 Third Place – $500 Best Student Entry – $500 5 Honorable Mentions – $100 each
Jury:
Robert E. Hull, FAIA, Architect – Founding Partner and Lead Designer of Miller|Hull Partnership, LLP
Ev Ruffcorn, FAIA, Architect – Design Principal at NBBJ
Shannon Nichol, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP, Landscape Architect – Director of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
Ellen Sollod, Environmental Artist and Designer – Principal at Sollod Studio
Mark Hinshaw, FAIA, FAICP, Urban Designer – Principal and Director of Urban Design at LMN Architects Moderator: Peter Steinbrueck, FAIA, Architect & Design Strategist, founding principal of Steinbrueck Urban Strategies, LLC Design Challenge:
The Transforming Seattle’s 520 Floating Bridge 2012 International Design Ideas Competition is challenging the design and art communities to envision new, innovative reuse strategies. The 520 bridge will be decommissioned in 2014 due to high maintenance costs, damage, and the need for additional lanes. The Washington State Department of Transportation is requiring of the new bridge’s design-build team that it be reused or recycled in a sustainable fashion; current trends for the reuse of pontoons have been floating docks, breakwaters and piers, but what else could be done with such a feat of engineering?
The Transforming Seattle’s 520 Floating Bridge 2012 International Design Ideas Competition seeks design proposals which either utilize the bridge in its current state or take the bridge apart and reuse its pontoons at a new site on Lake Washington, Lake Union or in the Puget Sound in Washington State. Designers need to constantly assert the need for advancement in creative reuse; our ideas drive design forward. What is a floating bridge when its function is no longer needed? What can designers do when faced with the design problem of reusing thirty-three floating concrete pontoons?
For more information, go to:
http://www.rethinkreuse.org/
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