METALS IN CONSTRUCTION Free Student Architecture Competition

METALS IN CONSTRUCTION

2019 Design Challenge

BRIEF

Create a new urban pathway:

Urban environments are becoming overly reliant on automobiles. But the use of landscaped, elevated thoroughfares that encourage foot travel instead can reduce congestion and improve the overall experience of urban life. Across the world, cities have transformed underused roadways and abandoned railroad spurs into lively pedestrian walkways, stimulating development in adjacent neighborhoods and ushering in a new era of linear-park design. Although usually created for public recreation, these elevated urban pathways increasingly show potential, when properly designed, to become a preferred mode of daily transit for commuters as well.

For this reason the publishers of Metals in Construction have selected a pedestrian bridge as the subject of the magazine’s 2019 Design Challenge. The competition asks architects, engineers, and students to design a span that connects the transportation hub of the newly adapted Moynihan Station with Hudson Yards, the city’s largest development since Rockefeller Center—and the destination for a projected 100,000 people walking to their offices there from the rail station each day.

Entrants are asked to submit their vision for a bridge of structural steel construction that navigates efficiently between the two sites for those traveling by foot, spanning the activity below with a minimum of interruption and a maximum of transparency. A distinguished jury of architects and engineers will award the $15,000 grand prize to the design judged best at delivering multimodal connectivity while becoming an iconic wayfinding landmark unto itself.

SCHEDULE

All materials are due by February 1, 2019, 11:59 p.m. Once you register via this site, you or your teammates may log in and edit your competition entry as many times as you like until the deadline.

One grand prize of $15,000 will be awarded at a half-day conference at the state-of-the art TimesCenter in New York City on Friday, February 22, 2019. Along with the winner(s), the jury will select up to 10 honorable mentions for presentation and discussion at the conference. The winner and the top five finalists will also be published in Metals in Construction magazine and its digital platforms.

AWARDS

FEES

Free

JURY

Jack Robbins, AIA, LEED AP (Moderator)
FXCollaborative

Benjamin Prosky, Assoc. AIA

Benjamin Prosky, Assoc. AIA
Executive Director AIA New York Chapter

Claire Weisz, FAIA

Claire Weisz, FAIA
WXY

Enrica Oliva, M.Sc. Struct. Eng.

Enrica Oliva, M.Sc. Struct. Eng.
Werner Sobek New York

Paul Bauer AIA, LEED AP

Paul Bauer AIA, LEED AP
Dattner Architects

METALS IN CONSTRUCTION Free Student Architecture Competition