Design Competition for CSA Year 2009

In 1988, the architectural education advisory committee (which was charged to formulate plans for the implementation of CSA), initiated an “Ideas Competition” to choose an architect for a new building to accommodate what was foreseen as a need for space as the fledgling school grew. The competition was open to all architects in the Caribbean region and received 12 entries. In the end, Arch. Lascelles Dixon of Jamaica was adjudged the winner. Suffice to say, the building that has been lived in and experienced over the past 8+ years is a “little” different than the winning entry.





















20 years after the publication of the winners in the Jamaica Architects, we are afforded an opportunity to go back in time. We have experienced the current building (or can imagine) and are well aware of its flaws and limitations. We have experienced life at CSA and are well aware of the highs and lows. Now we must go back to 1988 and without the limitations that shaped Arch. Dixon’s design into what it is now, we must propose what the Caribbean School of Architecture should look like in 20 years (from 1988). In other words,

What would the ideal CSA building look or feel like in 2009?

Competition Rules

1. - This ideas competition is 20 hours long. It starts at 4pm, Wed. May 6 and ends 12 noon, Thursday, May 7. Entrants can enter at anytime during this period.


2. - Only present and past students and staff of the school are eligible for entry.


3. - Registration for entry must be in the form of a comment to this post stating your name (or the names of members of your team) and the nature of your affiliation with the school.


4. - Submission should take the form of 3 images (one of which must be a plan) emailed to csayear20@gmail.com on or before 12 noon May 7.


5. - There is no restriction on the amount or type of information in the images only that one image must be a plan of some sort.


6. - No identification must be on the images to facilitate blind judging.


7. - The email message that accompanies the image attachments must state your name as “registered” in the comments section of this post.


8. - Judging will take place shortly after the midday deadline. Announcement of the winner (and two runner-ups) will be at the opening ceremony of the CSA End of Year Exhibition and online (http://www.csa20.blogspot.com/).


9. - Judges will be Arch. Frans Repole, Arch. Susan Taylor and Dr. Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis.


10. - There will be no monetary (or likewise) prizes for this competition, however, the winner will be posted on this site (and any other online affiliations eg. Facebook) as well as hold pride of place at the CSA exhibition. Images from the winning entry will be used at every opportunity as part of the promotion of the school. The winner will also retain all copyright to the images.
    
    

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