About Competition
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco’s Fifty-Third Annual High School Design Competition. This is an exciting competition where high school students put their design skills, creativity, spatial and analytical thinking and craftsmanship to the test. With the guidance of instructors – or in some cases for those who opt to treat this creative challenge as an independent study endeavor – high school students conceptualize a design and communicate their solutions through drawings, models and writing. Participation in this design exercise is open to all high school levels students throughout the world. This competition provides young thinkers with the opportunity to participate in what is a very unique learning project.
This year students are challenged to design an Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (ETOD) for the Mariposa Street Station as part of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority’s Pennsylvania Avenue Extension. The challenge is to design an Equitable Transit Oriented Development (ETOD) for the Mariposa Street Station as part of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority’s Pennsylvania Avenue Extension.
Awards will be given for the best proposals in each Design Challenge category.
Best Individual Entry
Awards for best Individual Entry submitted design solution – design solution, graphic presentation including 2D drawings, 3D model, written description, video
1st Place | $200 + California College of the Arts Summer Scholarship
The Best Individual Entry 1st Place winner will be offered a full-tuition scholarship to CCA’s 2022 Summer Pre-college Program in Architecture. CCA’s Pre-college Program is a four-week intensive studio experience. The student will earn 3 units of college credit. The value of the scholarship is $4,000.
2nd Place | $150
3rd Place | $100
Best Group Entry
Awards for best Group Entry submitted design solution – design solution, graphic presentation including 2D drawings, 3D model, written description, video
1st Place | $200
2nd Place | $150
3rd Place | $100
Best Design Process Entry
Awards for best Design Process Entry describing design solution
1st Place | $100
2nd Place | $75
3rd Place | $50
Certificate of Participation
A Certificate of Participation will be distributed to all entrants.
Requirements / Eligibility
All students enrolled in High School in both public and private schools globally are encouraged to participate.
Submission / Key Dates
Competition Entries Due
Friday, May 20, 2022 by 6:00pm PST
See details for submissions at – https://www.afsf.org/programs/the-annual-architectural-design-competition-for-high-school-students/
About the Organizer
The Architectural Foundation of San Francisco is a nonprofit educational organization that involves students in a mentored appreciation of architecture, engineering, construction and the design process.
For fifty three years, there has been an architectural design competition for Bay Area high school students. This annual event challenges students to think critically and conceptualize a design for a new building, requiring students to submit drawings, models and a written description capturing their design approach and ultimate solution. Every year hundreds of students from various high schools participate. Many of San Francisco’s leading architects participated in the annual event when they were in high school and credit the competition with helping influence their career paths.
