2002
2002 Challenge of the Architectural CADD Cup
Categories :
1. Architectural Firms
2. Sole Practitioners, Interns, Young Architects
3. Interior Designers
4. Students
5. Faculty
6. Software Developers
Our jury of distinguished architects will choose grand prize, first, second and third place prizes for Architectural CADD Awards plus honorable mention prizes in each of the six above categories, as well as prizes for most inspiring, most energy/resource conscious, most emotionally moving, and more, as well as awards for the best in each of the 20 Challenges. Also see below on other prizes and benefits of participating.
Design Shootout staff are allowed to submit designs but not eligible for prizes.
Registration Fee : click here for Registration Form
Preliminary Images are due October 31
These will be judged to organize the presentations
Teams may continue to refine their work right up until they send in work to be presented on November 12
What you can win :
AIA Learning Credits
4 hrs x (3) = 12 AIA LU credits provided through the Boston Society of Architects
Architectural CADD Awards
Our jury of distinguished architects will choose grand prize, first, second and third place prizes plus honorable mention prizes in each of the six above categories, as well as prizes for most inspiring, most energy/resource conscious, most emotionally moving, and more.
The privilege of having your work presented and published
The forum amphitheater on November 14 will hold 450 architects at one of the premiere architectural trade shows in the world. We have plans to broadcast the event worldwide on the web. The results also get published also on CD and the web.
Sponsors Prizes
Past sponsors of this event have been plotter and monitor manufacturers such as Hewlett Packard and Sun, software companies such as Autodesk, and Graphisoft. Over the next few months we will announce what prizes the jury will award to the various winners.
Being Published
The drawings, and perspective renderings and images of all of the competitors is published on the web as well as distributed via CD-ROM.
Digital Movie Profits
See the other information on the Screencam movies, but essentially each competitor (not just the winners) could easily earn money for their work on this competition. Such profits can be contributed towards disaster relief funds.
Direct Sponsorship
Additionally, the various CADD software developers, who make the software you use in the competition, may wish to sponsor you in several other ways, since, at least indirectly, you are representing their software. Contact both the Design Challenge staff as well as those software developers for more information on these potentially significant benefits.
Design in Virtual Reality for Fun, Fame, Public Service
... and even help the profession while you are at it
Think you could do a better design on the Design Challenge with your favorite CADD software than we have seen in the past ? This year you have your chance. The Designers 3D CADD Shootout last year morphed into a more traditional architectural design competition format - open to everybody, including students for the first time, you have months instead of hours, and you do the design at home without anyone looking over your shoulder (sort of, more on that later) - and we need individual architects to come forward for a chance at fame, dollars, and helping out your profession, as well as providing a service not just to New York but the world community.
As with other design competitions, you know the project going in, there is a jury, prizes, and perks, and the prizes are based on design evaluation. There are seperate categories for Design Firms, Students, Young Architects, Software Developers, Faculty, BSA CADD user groups, and more.
What is different about this competition is that we will see HOW you did the design with that CADD software. You, or a colleague, present not only the finished work in front of the World Trade Center Amphetheater filled with hundreds of architects, but you also show digital movies (we help you with that) of how you did the various parts of your design. The audience of architects will learn something about how to do complex roofs, unusual stairs, custom windows and more in each particular CADD software - useful techniques, but also valuable for CADD comparisons. The CADD software developers also carefully watch this event to guide how they will develop architectural design software in the future.
The mission of this challenge event is to advance the state of the art in architecture. Over the past 5 years it has done that, and made thousands aware of the new generation of smart 3D object oriented architectural CADD software, by doing schematic designs in only 3 hours. Now we take the mission to the next step and tackle real design. Each team (one or two people) must do all the plans, sections, elevations, and some specific details, perspective renderings, and walk-through animations. They also make screen recordings of some of their work process that shows various techniques. Those screen recordings will then be available for downloading in the future by designers who want to learn those techniques or compare CADD softwares - generating an income for each contestant continuing long after the prizes.
The format changes will make the Design Challenge even more interesting and useful for our audience, even more relevant and useful to the profession, and easier for the contestants to participate, but, since we don't have big software companies giving demos, we need architects to come foward to the challenge.
We want to make sure that every architectural CADD option is used by at least one contestant, so we encourage every single BSA CADD user group, as well as every design school to put forward at least one entry.
Registration Deadline : October 31, 2002
Preliminary Submission Date : October 31, 2002
Final Submission Date : November 12, 2002
Presentations : November 12, 2001 in WTC Amphitheater at Build Boston 2002
Web site : http://www.architecturalcadd.com/cup.htm
Still not sure if you can or should participate ? Have Questions ? Just email us here questions@architecturalcadd.com