Judging in the third annual home design competition for students at the University of Illinois School of Architecture will be completed June 7. Semi-finalists will be selected this week.
The competition, sponsored by the Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago, challenges students to design an urban single-family home and office.
Competition criteria call for a single-family residence with a live/work scenario on a vacant lot in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago. The lot is a 16,350-square-foot trapezoid shape bordered by elevated rapid transit tracks and Milwaukee Avenue.
A minimum of 8,000 square feet of the lot is to be developed into a public park with landscaped green space.
Designs must take into consideration city zoning requirements and accommodate a fence with appropriate lighting for security. Students must consider lifestyle changes in the urban residential market along with anticipated trends for the next 10 years.
Final judging will take place June 7 at the I-Space Gallery (Chicago Gallery of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana College of Fine & Applied Arts).
Awards will be given to the top three finalists June 14 at a ceremony in the I-Space Gallery. First place will receive $5,000, second place $3,000 and third place $2,000. Honorable Mentions will be awarded $250 each.
All semi-finalists will have their designs on exhibit during June at the I-Space Gallery located in the River North Gallery District at 230 W. Superior St.
Chair of the architectural student project is Anthony Perry, A.I.A., vice president of Orren Pickell Design Group.
