Information

When: March 28-30, 2008. This year’s project will be announced on March 28, 2008 at 5pm
Where: Gallery in the Architecture Building
What: Interdisciplinary Competition
Why: Win $3,500
How: Organize a team and compete
Who: Coordinated by Dr. Robert Ries

Research Hints Pertinent to Competition

Competition Program

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Results

Winning team: Architecture student Franco D’Ascanio, building construction students Sean Snowden and Scott Nelson, interior design student Catherine Slemon, and landscape architecture student Nicholas D’Ascanio.

See their presentation boards: 1 2 3 4

2nd place team: Architecture students David A Yadkouri, Sergio Villanueva-Meyer and Cristina Villanueva-Meyer; building construction student Ben Bolz; interior design student Kelley Park; and landscape architecture student Bo Zhang.

See their presentation boards: 1 2 3 4

Team C: Architecture students Trevor Lamphier and Jacob Peel; building construction student Sandeep Shrivastava; interior design student Haley Russell; and landscape architecture student Luke Booth.

See their presentation

Background

The Witters Competition is the result of a gift from Colonel Arthur G. and Beverley Witters who have provided funds to sponsor an annual, juried competition in an effort to promote a collaborative approach among students and faculty within the College of Design, Construction and Planning’s five disciplines. The intent of the competition is to provide monetary scholarly awards to members of the multi-disciplinary student team that generates the winning solution to a project as a result of a day-long exercise.

At the request of the donors, the competition is held annually in the spring.

In response to an RFP for proposals, faculty in the College submit proposals for a real or hypothetical project which, if selected, will be organized and coordinated by the faculty or a team of faculty submitting the selected project proposal. In addition to other criteria, the proposal must provide a strategy to involve all five of the College’s disciplines in order to make the event a truly interdisciplinary competition. At the end of a day-long exercise by student teams, the various solutions are evaluated by a selected panel of jurors that determines the winning solution and the winning student team.

Rules

Teams must consist of currently enrolled students from the University of Florida College of Design, Construction, and Planning (DCP)
Teams must represent at least 4 of the 5 disciplines in the College of DCP
Teams must consist of a minimum of 4 members with a maximum of 6 members
Every team must have a least 1 member who is currently a student in M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction
Teams competing must use studio or classroom space at College of DCP during competition, all exceptions must be verified with coordinator (this is to allow coordinator(s) access to answer questions during intense weekend)