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Announcement

The First Annual Kids’ Digital Design Contest is the digital pattern foe for ages 0-15. With the assistance of parents, the thought is to yield the venue for kids to demonstrate, rise as good as exhibit their genius for beautiful 3 dimensional meditative regulating the digital displaying apparatus SketchUp (free to download, elementary to learn, as good as amazingly formidable to put down). Our initial thesis is: “under/over/within” as good as facilities an intertidal nautical site. Age formed judging ensures satisfactory foe as good as lots of cold prizes.

Design Brief
This site as good as module were selected for the embodiment they suggest participants to appreciate as good as rise both site formed as good as module formed opportunities. We know which the thought of the “design brief” will substantially be mislaid upon younger participants though it is the goal which relatives as good as the comparison entrants will have use of the short to raise superintendence opportunities as good as rise definition in the context of their designs.

Program:
Your assign is to rise the “structure for living” inside of the area shown in the bottom model. We ask which we plea the thought of have up as good as life with your pattern by solemnly enchanting the aquatic/intertidal site which is during once all the time becoming different due to factors which have been both male done as good as of the healthy consequence.

Labeled as the Marine Reserve, the site is held inside of an strong antithesis of preservation: it sits during the intersection as good as periphery of the circuitously residential neighborhood, the sewage diagnosis plant, the close system, the late armed forces installation as good as eventually the county park.

By “structure” we meant which which has the earthy life compared with an component which is here today, here tomorrow as good as many substantially here in the couple of years or so—most literally, it is the thing we make. In the broader sense, have up can embody those temporal constructs we find inside of multitude as good as the enlightenment different cultures as good as those earthy constructs which float, rest or differently reside upon the site.

By “living” we meant broadly the processes which heed organisms as good as fake objects from passed organisms. This can additionally be taken to meant as good as embody any plants, animals or any reduction thereof possibly of course found in as good as around the site or imported/foreign. This is not specifically the foe to pattern the place for humans to live.

Site:
Our site anxiety range is located upon the Puget Sound shoreline inside of the city range of Seattle, Washington inside of Discovery Park. Our site is located pound dab in the center of an intertidal section which is unprotected to air during low waves as good as left underwater during tall tides. The H2O turn contained in the bottom indication is to be deliberate “high tide.”

References:
* A couple to the expect site location: here.
* General report about intertidal areas here.
* Local Seattle waves charts here.
* Marine Reserve Area Rules in report here.
* Discovery Park report (maps too) here.
* West Point Sewage Treatment Facility report here.
* Historic Fort Lawton report here.
* Hiram M. Chittenden Locks report here.

Contest Directions

1. Go to the foe page upon the Open Architecture Network. Click the “Enter Now” button. (Follow the directions to emanate an OAN form if we do not already have one.)
2. You’ll need the duplicate of SketchUp. Download your giveaway chronicle here.
3. Next, you’ll need the duplicate of the digital site indication here.
4. Once we have the site indication open, fix up the site area range (a yellow box) in the indication as good as begin modeling! Your work needs to fit inside of this box.
5. Your foe entrance will include of the smallest of 3 jpg picture files, your SketchUp indication record as good as the 100 word pattern statement. Remember, we will need to emanate the user form upon the Open Architecture Network, come in the foe as good as contention them as the plan prior to Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009. The picture files should be the smallest of 800 pixels x 600 pixels as good as 300 dpi.
6. Stay tuned for report updates by email. Check in next for updated FAQ’s

Note: This is the kid’s foe though relatives as good as guardians have been compulsory to register upon their child’s behalf. Like any kid’s foe (think coloring foe during the diner) relatives as good as guardians should feel giveaway to await in the credentials as good as smoothness of their kid’s entry–they have been starting to need your help–just know which the jury is meddlesome in acknowledging the child’s effort, as good as not the parents! Have fun!

Selection Criteria

The projects will be judged upon the following criteria:
1. Creativity – The newness of ideas will be praised. This criteria focuses upon the thought of the indication rsther than than the building the whole of it.
2. Story – What does your have up do? How does it house “living” (and by whom or what?) How does is describe to the site? Why did we pattern your have up the approach we did? What it is done of as good as what tools do we find have been the many interesting?
3. Modeling Skill – Great models will verbalise for themselves in the lot of ways. A good presented, aesthetically appreciative indication takes time as good as is required to place in the tip three.

Jury

Mike Bradford, Owner, Bradford Construction
Ian Dunn AIA, LEED ap, Associate, David Baker + Partners
Allyson McDuffie, SketchUp for Education Program Manager, Google
William Menking, Executive Editor, The Architect’s Newspaper
Cameron Sinclair, Co-Founder as good as Executive Director of Architecture for Humanity
Seth Wachtel, Program Director during the University of San Francisco
Rob Whitehead AIA, LEED ap, Principal, Whitehead Design Workshop

Prizes

Each of the 4 age groups (0-5, 6-9, 10-12, 13-15) will have the first, second as good as third place awarded. The competitor awarded initial esteem will embrace the Google SketchUp Pro Educational License! The second as good as third place recipients in any age organisation will be awarded with Google merchandise.

In the suggestion of the foe for kids, the initial 100 entrants to complete/upload their entrance upon the Open Architecture Network to embrace the giveaway girl acknowledgment to the California Academy of Sciences!

Google is easily upon condition which the prizes. Tickets for the initial 100 contestants to come in have been supposing by the California Academy of Sciences. Also the special appreciate we to the media unite The Architects Newspaper.

The winners will be posted upon the Official SketchUp Blog!

FAQs/Resources

1. I’ve never used SketchUp before. Can we learn it to me?

Use the built in tutorials or check out these SketchUp Tutorials upon Youtube– you’ll be up as good as using in no time…

* SketchUp Concepts – link
* Drawing Shapes – link
* Push/Pull Tool – link
* Creating the elementary intent – link
* More Tutorials … – link

2. What have been the age groups again?

There have been 4 age groups: 0-5, 6-9, 10-12 as good as 13-15. Please have certain which we come in the scold foe depending upon your child’s age.

3. Is there unequivocally an age organisation for 0-5 year olds?

We aren’t wholly certain what the leader is starting to do with the SketchUp Pro permit but, yep we review it right, there is an age organisation from baby to 5 years old. We’re damn critical about vouchsafing kids uncover off how they can try by artful means to get things in 3d good prior to they can benefit full carry out of the pencil as good as paper. So watch out for animal crackers as good as grape extract in your keyboard, though be rebuilt to be patiently vacant during what your small 3 year aged competence do with the small superintendence as good as support.