ABOUT FACE STUDENT AWARD

1. What is the About Face Student Award?

The About Face Student 2011 is first and foremost a design competition intended to elicit sophisticated speculations for the future of the Australian suburb. Where the invited competition explores implications of social and spatial changes in the public domain, the focus of the Student category is the private realm – the design of a sustainable suburban house.

2. Who is eligible to enter the About Face Student Award?

Architecture and design students will be eligible to enter the About Face Student Award.

3. What are the entry criteria for the About Face Student Award?

The brief calls for the design of a model dwelling to accommodate 4 people.

The dwelling should incorporate up to a maximum 12,000 bricks – half the number of bricks used in the average interwar suburban bungalow on a typical quarter acre lot.
The dwelling should be considered within its context, and like the humble brick, designed to be enduring.
Participants will select their own site based on a specific suburban location, or else describe a setting in generic terms. Significantly, the project should demonstrate a shift in thinking about the suburban house and encourage innovative approaches to the densification of our suburbs.
All designs should explore the environmental capabilities of bricks while featuring at least 75% face brick in the non-glazed areas.
The use of bricks should be explored in multiple and innovative ways to achieve these aims, responding to any number of brick specific criteria addressed in past About Face competitions such as durability, recycling, detailing, meaning, colour, pattern and texture, form and space and light.
Finally, each submission is asked to identify key strategies that can be extrapolated out of their proposals for application to larger scale suburban planning. The format for the presentation of these strategies is at the discretion of the individual teams and should be developed out of the specific emphasis of their proposal.
- Page 1 – The project described in 1:100/50 plans and elevations, including details and/or detailed renderings to show key aspects of brick use.
- Page 2 – Three-dimensional representations (digital or photos of card/timber/plastic models) including high quality digital render (minimum 300dpi resolution at 100% and minimum A4 in size) that will adequately represent the design as a ‘hero image’ to be used for PR and marketing purposes such as website, at the awards event, in AR magazine and in wider media.
  - Maximum size of each PDF is 2Mb.
  - TIFF versions of all graphic material (plans, model photos etc.) contained in the submission images for the purposes of the exhibition design.
  - A separate folder containing the following images in JPEG or TIFF format to be used for the slideshow on the About Face Awards website.
  - One high resolution JPEG of the main CAD rendering to be used as the main image on the website and other communications
  - A floor plan
  - An elevation
  - A brick detail
  - One additional rendering of the design (optional, to be supplied by entrant)
  - Up to 4 additional images such as landscape plan, furniture details etc. (optional, to be supplied by entrant)