The Basics
Timeline
December 1, 2017
Competition Announcement
Competition Announcement
January 17, 2018
Deadline for Submissions
February 1, 2018
Winning Design Announced
April 6-8, 2018
USA Science & Engineering Festival
Eligibility
Recognition/Award
ACSA will work with the winners to realize the design and provide up to $1,500 honorarium for travel to Washington, DC, to participate in the festival. Winning project will be featured on StudyArchitecture.com and #imadethat.
Background Information
About the Competition
Architecture is a bridge that connects the technical to the creative. It’s a field where imagination and reality become intertwined. Many students are simply not aware of the opportunities that an architectural education affords them. Moreover, those students that are aware lack a streamlined way to search for an architecture program that fits them best. The Study Architecture campaign addresses that need by exposing students to architecture as a potential career path and to provide them with the tools necessary to select the right architecture program. In addition to the StudyArchitecture.com portal is #IMadeThat a social media hashtag campaign and website to collect the diverse work happening in architecture schools around the world. The @IMadeThat_ audience has reached more than 33,000 followers on Instagram, and growing.
The growing importance of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines is an opportunity for the architecture profession. We believe that a degree in architecture provides many of the same critical skills. Architecture involves all of these subjects so naturally we have a responsibility to present architecture in the same space. To this end, we invite student and faculty to engage the USA Science+Engineering Festival through the design and installation of a Study Architecture Exhibit Booth.
About the Festival
The USA Engineering + Science Festival takes place in Washington, DC, every three years. Organizers anticipate more than 350,000 visitors over the three-day expo. Exhibitors report 5,000-12,000 visitors. The vast expo covers the gamut of STEM areas across multiple pavilions. Major corporations and government agencies provide impressively interactive experiences and demonstrations for visitors. Visitors—most of them K-12 students—thrive off the swag available from booths. Competition for attention is high.
Submission Requirements
Design Brief
A brief abstract, 300 words maximum, (in English) is required as part of the submission describing the most important concepts of the booth design. The names of participants, their schools, or faculty, must NOT appear on any of the submitted material.
Required Drawings + Digital Presentation Format
Each presentation must directly address the criteria outlined in the Call and Criteria for Judging and must include (but are not limited to) the following required drawings:
- Booth Diagram, Plan showing the surrounding booths, Elevations showing context and major elements;
- Large Scale Drawing(s), either orthographic or three dimensional;
- A three dimensional representation in the form of either an axonometric, perspective, or model photographs, one of which should illustrate the character of the project;
- Illustrate graphically, or otherwise, the Swag materials;
- Review the expected costs (fabrication, swag, technology & decoration);
- Incomplete or undocumented entries will be disqualified. All drawings should be presented at a scale appropriate to the design solution and include a graphic scale.
Submissions must be designed on no more than four 20” x 20” digital boards. The names of student or faculty participants, their schools, must NOT appear on the boards.
All boards are required to be uploaded through the ACSA website in Portable Document Format (PDF) or Image (JPEG) Files. Participants should not use text or graphics that cross over from board to board. The names of participants, their schools, or faculty, must NOT appear on any of the submitted material.
Online Project Submission
Entries must be uploaded through the ACSA Competition website at acsa-arch.org/competitions by 5:00 pm, Eastern Time, on January 17, 2018. If the Submission is from a team all team members will have the ability to upload the digital files. Once the final submit button is pressed no additional edits, uploads, or changes can be made. Once the final Submission is uploaded and submitted each participant will receive a confirmation email notification. A final Submission upload must contain the following:
- Completed online submission information including all Team Members
- Four 20” x 20” boards uploaded individually as a high resolution Portable Document Format (PDF) or Image (JPEG) files
- A Design Essay/Abstract.
Winning projects will be required to submit original files/images for use in construction and exhibit materials.
Judging Criteria
The ACSA will convene a group of faculty from its Leadership Committee to review submissions and determine one winning design.
Criteria include:
- Eye catching design
- Clear understanding of fabrication process and requirements
- Clear understanding of what visitors will learn and/or take away from the booth
- Clear understanding of how visitors engage in the booth
- A means to track attendees
- Special consideration will be given to projects that incorporate reusability
Contact
For questions please contact:
Eric Wayne Ellis
Director of Operations and Programs
eellis@acsa-arch.org
202.785.2324
Allison Smith
Programs Manager
asmith@acsa-arch.org
202.785.2324
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