Cullen Park Site Visit Photos

It's a little cool and breezy by the water, but we had a good site visit this past Saturday at Cullen Park.  You can see photos of the site at the following link:

Site Visit - February 4, 2012

Site Visit - Cullen Park

There will be a guided site visit of this year’s project site (Cullen Park) this Saturday, February 4 at 9:00 a.m.  Vee Stader from Visions of Cullen Park will be there to show us around.

Cullen Park is on Summit Street in Toledo, a couple of miles north of downtown.  See map at this link:  http://g.co/maps/ahwev.

We highly encourage students to visit the site to get a “feel” of what it’s all about, as well as possibly find some inspiration for their building design.  The park is a public facility; if you can’t make this site visit, feel free to visit when you can!

Question: Please explain the Boat Dock requirements?

As part of this year's site plan, we are requiring "Six (6) 25 ft long boat docks".  These are simply a place to moor a boat up to 25 feet long.  These can either be along the shore or parallel to the shore.  These can be made of wood, concrete, or any other common "dock" material (your advisor may have suggestions for materials).

Example Toilet Room

Updated toilet room plans have been posted for the 2012 competition.  The previously posted toilet room plans only had two toilets (or one urinal and one toilet); the current toilet room plans have three toilets (or two toilets and one urinal).

Toilet Room Plan (1/8" scale PDF)

Toilet Room Plan (DWG format)

Toilet Room Plan (DXF format)

These toilet room plans are to be used as an example or starting point for toilet room design; if you wish to enhance them with any design features feel free to do so.  Students are not required to use these exact toilet design if they have another design that responds to their design better (and maintains functionality & accessibility).

Site Plan - Required Scale Fixed!

On the original program, there were discrepancies between the scale shown on the site plan and the site plan shown on the sheet.  All should be 1" = 50'-0"; the current links have been updated to include this revision:


2012 Program Sheet (PDF, 5.83 MB, 24x36)

The CAD versions of the site plan are posted at the following links:
DWG format
or
DXF format

2012 Program Posted

Our competition kickoff meeting is today at 4:00 pm at the AIA Toledo Office.  Representatives of Visions of Cullen Park will be present, along with the AIA Toledo High School Design Competition Committee, to reveal this year's project as well as answer any questions you may have about the 62nd (!) annual competition.

If you are unable to attend the competition, don't worry!  You can still participate.  Just send us an email message and we will put your class on our list.  We will distribute two paper program sheets per class, in addition to having the program sheet available online (at the link below).

This year's project is a multi-purpose park building for Cullen Park near Point Place in Toledo.  The site has a rich history and a great location, and we look forward to seeing the students' creativity this year!

You can access the program sheet at the following link (select "File > Download Original" on the screen to download these files to your computer):

2012 Program Sheet (PDF, 5.83 MB, 24x36)

The CAD versions of the site plan are posted at the following links:
DWG format
or
DXF format

Instructors, please send you student list to hsdc.aiatoledo@gmail.com as soon as possible!  We will be working to assign advisors to every participating high school before the end of January.

Student participation forms will be updated and posted to this website; we will send announcements when they become available.

We look forward to a great competition this year!

Project Site - Cullen Park

The 2012 Competition is on its way!

The 2012 AIA Toledo High School Design Competition will be kicking off Tuesday, January 17 at 4:00 pm at the AIA Toledo office (521 W. Woodruff Ave., Toledo).  Please join us as we introduce the 2012 competition  and discuss our program for this spring!

Note that you are not required to attend the kickoff meeting if you would like to participate; however, we recommend that instructors attend in order to have any initial questions answered quickly and to meet this year's "client" (who will be judging the project!).

Winning boards from the 2011 competition are available for pickup now (please email at the address below to arrange pickup) and will also be available for pick-up at the kickoff meeting.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email the High School Design Competition Committee at hsdc.aiatoledo@gmail.com.

If you need more information regarding the project in general, please see the brochure at this link.

2011 Winning Boards posted...

By the way, photos of the 2011 winning boards were posted to the following gallery back in May...

2011 Winning Projects

The 2011 numbers (updated!)

• 40 High Schools were invited to participate
• 16 High Schools said “yes”
• 10 High Schools registered 180 students
• 10 High Schools turned in 91 student projects
• 18 students won 25 prizes, representing 7 high schools

April 26 Awards Ceremony

RSVP to hsdc.aiatoledo@gmail.com by 4/14!

More info:

Date:

Tuesday April 26, 2011

Location:

Crowne Plaza (444 N. Summit St., Toledo)

Time:

5:00 PM

- H.S.D.C. Student Boards Exhibition & Informal Dining

6:15 PM

- Speaker: Nazanin Khodadad (Miami University Department of Architecture)

- Speaker: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (U.S. House of Representatives)

- Speaker: Mike Szuberla (Toledo GROWS)

7:15 PM

- H.S.D.C. Awards Presentation

AIA Toledo 61^st Annual High School Design Competition

This year’s High School Design Competition project was a classroom and workshop building for a community garden managed by Toledo GROWs. This garden has proven to be a great asset to the local residents in both providing for food and improving community pride. A space is needed at the garden site where maintenance and improvement projects can occur (workshop), and where learning associated with the garden (including cooking classes) can occur. Storage of supplies for the gardens is needed. The building will react to and enhance the adjacent urban infrastructure, complement the existing site amenities, and be functional for both pedestrian and motor vehicle access.

A chicken coop will be shown somewhere on the site. Toledo GROWs is always looking for unique and improved chicken coop designs, and is interested in innovations students may propose.

This project incorporates a building of no more than 4,000 square feet, along with exterior site features.

Ms. Khodadad will talk about the path through school to a career in architecture.

Congresswoman Kaptur and Mr. Szuberla will discuss the importance of community gardens in general, Toledo GROWs in particular, and will let us know about local initiatives in our community.

This annual AIA Toledo tradition has gained the recognition of the National AIA with the receipt of AIA National Component excellence award in 2005 and the continued receipt of AIA National Component Matching Grants (which could increase total student scholarship awards by a total of $1,200). The top two Senior Scholarship Awards ($2,600 and $1,400) are made possible through the Edward E. Packer and Richard Valasek endowed Scholarships with the University of Toledo Foundation. We thank the membership for its support of this program over the years.

We strongly encourage our architect members to attend this highly-supported community outreach program regardless of whether you have participated or not.

Special thanks to the following organizations for making this year’s competition possible

Bowling Green State University, Maumee Valley Section of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Becker Impressions, Harold Roe and Toledo Public Schools

This event is made possible in part through the generous donation of the venue by Crowne Plaza