Yarışmalar-Competitions

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville, in partnership with the Charlottesville Community Design Center (CCDC) is pleased to announce an open ideas competition for the transformation of Sunrise Trailer Court into a vibrant, attractive urban community called Sunrise Park. In communities where Habitat is accustomed to building single-family homes, the shortage of affordable land requires Habitat affiliates to build at a higher density. The URBAN HABITATS Competition is in search of innovative models that provide sustainable, affordable multifamily housing.

The URBAN HABITATS Competition is an ideas competition with realistic implications. The competition integrates nonprofit/public/private cooperation of affordable and market rate housing into a medium-density, mixed-income, mixed-use community. The goal is to generate culturally and climatically responsive architecture through a sustainable continuum, from site development to energy efficient unit operation. The proposals should provide compact efficient floor plans that utilize innovative building technologies.

Design concepts generated by the competition will provide the baseline for a new national model of community development. The results will guide non-profit organizations, private developers, or public-private partnerships in the redevelopment of trailer parks while providing affordable housing for the current trailer park residents.

Eligibility
The competition is open to all individuals, teams, academic studios and firms. Volunteers for each of the sponsoring organizations are particularly encouraged to enter.

The following exceptions and qualifications apply:

Paid employees and consultants for Charlottesville Community Design Center, Piedmont Housing Alliance and Habitat of Humanity of Greater Charlottesville, as well as their immediate family members, are not eligible to enter the competition.

Only one entry per registration will be accepted. Entrants who wish to submit more than one project must register for each scheme they intend to enter by the registration deadline.

Designers from different disciplines are encouraged to work in teams. The jury will not be informed of any aspect of the authorship of any submission.

Registration
Entrants are required to register for the competition prior to submitting their entry using the online registration available on this website at http://www.urban-habitats.org/registration.php

The registration form must be printed out, signed by all team members and included with the final submission. Registered student entrants must also submit a copy of their valid student identification with the final submission. Entrants who wish to submit more than one project must register for each scheme they intend to enter.

Fees
Early Registration March 1 through April 30, 2005
Professional US$100
Student US$50
International
professional US$225
includes US$125 for printing and mounting
International
student US$175
includes US$125 for printing and mounting

Late Registration May 1 through June 17, 2005
Professional US$150
Student US$75
International
professional US$275
includes US$125 for printing and mounting
International
student US$200
includes US$125 for printing and mounting

Payment
The preferred method of payment is by credit or debit card via our secure online system. If it is necessary to submit payment by other means, only a cashier’s check, money order or international money order will be accepted. Send a copy of the printed registration form together with your payment to: URBAN HABITATS Competition, c/o Charlottesville Community Design Center, 101 East Main Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA. Registration will be complete only upon receipt of your payment.

Registration will be confirmed by email upon receipt of payment for each entry. At that time, entrants will receive an Identification Number and access to high-resolution documents via the competition website.

All payments are final. Refunds will not be offered to registered entrants who do not submit an entry.

Site Tours
Tours of the site will be offered to registered entrants only.

Site tour 1 Saturday, March 26, 2005
Site tour 2 Saturday, April 9, 2005

Please indicate your interest in participating in a site tour on the registration form in the area provided. Details regarding meeting place and time will be forwarded to the contact person via email.

International Entrants
The submission process has been simplified for international entrants who face potential difficulties by sending display boards through US Customs. A certified vendor has been designated to print and mount all international submissions submitted in electronic form on CD-ROM. The additional charges of US$125 required for international registration covers the direct cost of printing and mounting the two required display boards, offsetting the cost of shipping. Detailed instructions follow in the Submissions Requirements section.

Acknowledgement/Notification
All team members must be listed on the registration form. Only those persons whose names appear on the form will be acknowledged or awarded prizes. Firms are required to list all members of the project team; however, any award will only be issued to the team, studio or office. The contact person listed on the registration form will serve as principal contact throughout the competition.

Schedule
February 28, 2005 Design brief available, Q+A opens
March 7, 2005 Online registration begins
March 26, 2005 Site tour 1
April 9, 2005 Site tour 2
May 1, 2005 Late registration begins
June 17, 2005 Registration ends, Q+A closes
July 1, 2005 Submission deadline
September 1, 2005 Finalists announced
September 2-30, 2005 Public exhibition of the competition entries

Jury Memebers
J. Max Bond, Jr., FAIA Partner, Davis Brody Bond
Lynne Conboy Vice Chair, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville
Teddy Cruz Principal, Estudio Teddy Cruz
Karin McGrath Dunn Belmont Neighborhood Association
Nevil Eastwood Director of Construction, Habitat for Humanity International
Julie Eizenberg, AIA Principal, Koning Eizenberg Architecture
James P. Grigg, AIA Board Member, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville
Kendra Hamilton Charlottesville City Council
Resident Sunrise Trailer Park

Awards
Award funds in the amount of $25,000 will be distributed at the discretion of the jurors to a maximum of three Finalists displaying the highest level of response to the program challenges. Up to twelve Honorable Mentions will be awarded without compensation.

Finalists will be invited to meet with the Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville to discuss their ideas for Sunrise Park.

Competition entries will be on public display at the Charlottesville Community Design Center during the month of September 2005. Individual Finalists may be asked to give a lecture in conjunction with the exhibit.

A companion publication using the principles developed in the competition program and demonstrated in selected competition entries will be produced by the Charlottesville Community Design Center in collaboration with the University of Virginia School of Architecture.

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