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WHAT CAN A NEW SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE BE?
Ideas for a school of architecture in Northern Ontario

This competition generated ideas which pushed the enevolope, questioning the roles of schools of architecture.  What are the physical characteristics?  What are the more abstract, theoretical ones?  How can this new school satisfy the unique nature of Northern Ontario?

There are two distinct aspects proposed for the school that were to be carefully considered.  First, it will be providing a dual-stream education - students can study in either French or English.  The second is that it will deeply engage with and learn from, the First Nation communities throughout the province.  Beyond those two stipulations, this competition had purposefully ignored setting strict design guidelines in order to allow entrants the complete freedom to generate their own unique ideas.  It was up to each team to interpret their response.

There was no definition of what a site for the project should, or could be.  The only request was that the school be located within the downtown of the City of Greater Sudbury.

Prizes were awarded the top honours based on their contribution to the research, creation and critique of new ideas for a school of architecture - specifically one that served a culturally diverse community while providing an innovative and gloablly competative education.

The top three projects were awarded the following:

Top team:  $5,000 (CAD)     Second place:  $3,000   Third place:  $2,000

Projects were judged based on their:  creativity, inventiveness, its potential to stimulate public discussion, and its integration into the downtown of the City.  If a building was designed the tectonic, aesthetic, typological, urban exploration, and impact on the daily lives of the school's populous as well as the surrounding communities was considered.

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