COMPETITION
OVERVIEW
The USGBC Natural Talent 2008 Design Competition provides
an applied learning experience in the principles of
integrated design, sustainability, innovation, and social
consciousness; all of which are components of the LEEDTM
Green Building Rating System. Participants will compete in
a local competition, the 1st place winner of which will
move on to compete for a national award at GreenBuild
Boston in November 2008. Awards include Green Building
Scholarships as well as travel and registration to GreenBuild, the USGBC’s Annual
Green Building Conference and Expo, where finalists’
entries will be displayed and where final judging will
occur.
COMPETITION OBJECTIVES
• Broaden environmental education in the building
professions within the university system
• To empower students and young professionals within the
green building movement to become future leaders
• Highlight the presence, efforts, and initiative of
students and emerging leaders in the green building
movement
• Encourage the reduction of the dependence on fossil fuels
within the building industry.
• Integrate students with esteemed individuals from the
USGBC and green building industry
• Raise awareness of exemplary designs of future designers
by displaying them at Greenbuild
• Utilize LEED as a guideline for building
design and performance
• Recognize and award students and emerging green builders
for their dedication, creativity, innovation, and
commitment to sustainable design
COMPETITION DESIGN CHALLENGE
Empire Fulton Ferry Art Center & Middle School
Project Overview*
Design a mixed use middle school (6th-9th and
arts center, identifing green design elements relating to
all five categories of the LEED for schools rating system.
The program which will encompass and revitalize the Empire
Stores and Tobacco Warehouse, along with an adjacent Empire
Ferry State park. The project is being designed to create a
unique complex and dedicated to being the most sustainable
learning environment in the city. Creative design for the
park, incorporating signature stormwater management ideas,
innovative
daylighting techniques and other sustainable design themed
features is also requested. The building and park designs
should be well integrated with each other and the new
pedestrian-oriented context which includes new and
redeveloped “green” streets, the nearby subways and bus
transit and additional new sustainable infrastructure while
being sensitive to the historic preservation of the
neighborhood and connection to the Brooklyn bridge. The
project will utilize LEED for New Construction strategies
to create a unique and integrated urban design aesthetic.
Site: Empire Fulton Ferry Art Center in Empire Fulton Ferry
State Park
DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
*See the Program Page for detailed
information
