Witters Competition 2012

Witters Competition 2012 is here! Here is your chance to make a difference. Join now, compete and win $3,500.

Timeline

A 24-hour charette beginning Friday, April 6, 2012 at 6 p.m. and ending on Saturday, April 7, at 6 p.m.

Sustainable Housing Project

The project will be a mixed use, high density, sustainable housing project at a specific site in downtown Gainesville. A prerequisite for a sustainable and healthy community is density. There have been attempts to make downtown a viable center of the city but what it needs is people living there. This project is an investigation into what would be desirable housing in the heart of the city. What would make it comfortable, exciting, and an alternative to the single family housing and apartment living that currently make up the majority of the housing units in the city? Put together a team and enter the competition. The winner of the competition will win a $3,500 Cash prize!

View competition flyer

Competition Rules

The competition is interdisciplinary. Each team will include five students selected from Architecture, Building Construction, Engineering, Historic Preservation, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Sustainability and the Built Environment and Urban & Regional Planning.

Interested students, please email your team information by noon on Monday, April 2, 2012 to Tom Smith.

Questions

Write to Tom Smith or Ravi Srinivasan

Tom Smith AIA, LEED
Senior Lecturer
School of Architecture
College of Design, Construction & Planning

Ravi Srinivasan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor – Low / Net Zero Energy Buildings
M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction
College of Design, Construction & Planning