Are clients, architects and juries becoming environmental? -A critical view on the competition briefs and the juries’ assessments in relation to the outcome in ten school competitions

Are clients, architects and juries becoming environmental? -A critical view on the competition briefs and the juries’ assessments in relation to the outcome in ten school competitions

Houck, L.D.

2014-02-13

This paper first examines how evaluation criteria for judging architecture evolve over time. Secondly it takes a look on how new assessment criteria are emphasized when judging architecture. Finally this paper seeks to study to what degree the new assessment criterion, whether a project is environmental or not, is emphasized. This is studied through the examination of ten school competitions in Norway. The clients’ competition briefs, the assessment criteria, the competitors’ proposals and the juries’ assessments are compared in respect of the qualities daylight and being environmental. Based on the results from this study, one conclusion is that the environmental criterion is a new parameter fundamentally affecting which project designs will win or lose competitions. The juries may even seem to over emphasize the importance of sustainability compared to other traditional criteria like daylight.

architecture competition
competition assessment criteria
school
daylight
environmental

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