Concrete Design Competition Brief
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce the 2018-2019 Built2Last | Resilience Design Challenge, International Student Concrete Design Competition. Administered by ACSA and sponsored by the Portland Cement Association (PCA), the program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to investigate an innovative application of portland cement-based materials to achieve resilient design objectives.
Opportunity
This Concrete Design Competition offers students the opportunity to design an environmentally responsible RECREATION CENTER that integrates a secondary purpose of post-disaster neighborhood support for community continuity through the inherent attributes of concrete applications.
Concrete
In its simplest form, concrete is a mixture of paste and aggregates. The paste, composed of portland cement and water, coats the surface of the fine and coarse aggregates. Through a chemical reaction called hydration, the paste hardens and gains strength to form the rock-like mass known as concrete.
Within this process lies the key to a remarkable trait of concrete: it’s plastic and malleable when newly mixed, strong and durable when hardened. These qualities explain why one material—concrete—can build high-rise skyscrapers and houses, bridges and basements, sidewalks and superhighways. You can find more information on concrete and portland cement by visiting the Portland Cement Association’s Web site at www.Cement.org.
Resilient Design
The Resilient Design Institute states, “Resilience is the capacity to adapt to changing conditions and to maintain or regain functionality and vitality in the face of stress or disturbance. It is the capacity to bounce back after a disturbance or interruption.
Resilient design is the intentional design of buildings, landscapes, communities, and regions in response to these vulnerabilities. As used by the Resilient Design Institute, resilient design focuses on practical, on-the-ground solutions.”
Design Focus
The focus of this concrete design competition is to craft an investigation, identify a design improvement and create a solution containing concrete or concrete products as key building materials.
Eligibility
The competition is open to all ACSA member schools (full, candidate, and domestic or international affiliates). All student entrants are required to work under the direction of a faculty sponsor. Entries will be accepted for individual as well as team solutions. Teams must be limited to a maximum of five students.
Concrete Design Awards
The design jury will convene in Summer 2019 to select winning projects and honorable mentions. Winning students, their faculty sponsors and schools will receive cash prizes and software totaling nearly $37,000. A total of $10,000 in cash prizes will be distribution in the following manner:
| First Prize | Student/Team $3,500 | Faculty Sponsor $1,100 | |
| Second Prize | Student/Team $2,500 | Faculty Sponsor $850 | |
| Third Prize | Student/Team $1,500 | Faculty Sponsor $550 |
In addition, each winning school will receive a complete package of PCA’s StructurePoint software, a retail value of $8,900.
StructurePoint combines concrete design software with an array of structural engineering resources to offer a convenient single point of access for design software, support, product specifications, educational tools, and technical information. The software productivity suite provides programs for the analysis and design of reinforced concrete buildings and structures. More information is available at www.StructurePoint.org.
Winners and their faculty sponsors will be notified of the competition results directly. A list of winning projects will be sent to all participating faculty sponsors, as well as posted on the ACSA website at www.acsa-arch.org. Prize-winning submissions will be exhibited at the ACSA Annual Meeting and the AIA National Convention and posted on the ACSA and Portland Cement Association websites.
Schedule
Registration Deadline : 03 April, 2019
Submission Deadline : 22 May, 2019
Announcement of Winners : Summer 2019
Publication of Summary Book : Fall 2019
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