Project Description

For the students in the first year program at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, the Annual Steel Structures Architectural Student Design Competition has been used to provide the requirements for their final design and technical project in their Building Construction course. This year, it also facilitated a joining of forces with the required computing course. Students used FormZ software to create the final renderings of their projects, thereby presenting both courses with more highly developed and detailed final term projects. The use of the competition was an excellent vehicle to raise the standards of design and the communication of ideas in both courses.