2009-2010
Steel Design
Student Competition

RE-LIGARE INSTITUTE

Reconnecting Mind And Body

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Judging

CRITERIA FOR JUDGING

Criteria for the judging of submissions will include: creative use of structural steel in the design solution, successful response of the design to its surrounding context, and successful response to basic architectural concepts such as human activity needs, structural integrity, and coherence of architectural vocabulary.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Each faculty sponsor is expected to develop a system to evaluate the work of the students using the criteria set forth in this program. The evaluation process should be an integral part of the design process, encouraging students to scrutinize their work in a manner similar to that of the jury. The final result of the design process will be a submission of up to four presentation boards describing the design solution. In addressing the specific issues of the design challenge, submissions must clearly demonstrate the design solution’s response to the following requirements:

• A strength of the argument and the proposal’s ability to support the concept for the design (Category I);
• An articulate mastery of formal concepts and aesthetic values;
• A mature awareness and innovative approach to environmental issues;
• An elegant expressive understanding of the material – Steel;
• A thorough appreciation of human needs and social responsibilities;
• A capability to integrate functional aspects of the problem in a architectural manner, and
• A capacity to derive the maximum potential afforded by the program.

JUdges

Initial judging will take place the month after submission, May 24th - June 24th. The final face-to-face judging will take place over the weekend of June 25th. Winners will be contacted directly and we expect to have a press release out by July 2nd to all participants.

Julio Bermudez, University of Utah
Ana De Brea, Ball State University
David Eckmann, Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Vincent Hui, Ryerson University
Ryan Smith, University of Utah
Nancy Gavlin, American Institute of Steel Construction

Competition Program (PDF)