Team “Blender” – Winner of AUCA Campus Design Ideas Competition!

June 10, 2019

On May 31, 2019 finalists of AUCA Campus Design Ideas Competition - teams “Blender” (Altynai Esenalieva, SOC-117; Isa Zhanbolot uulu, SFW-116; Rasym Maratova, ECO-117) and “Natural and Environmental Campus Design” (Mohammad Homayoon Sarwari, JOUR-118; Soheila Noori, ECO-117; Taiba Atiffi, PSY-117) - presented their final design ideas to the members of AUCA Board of Trustees.

For a month, each team attended classes on landscape design lead by professional architects and simultaneously worked to improve and create a final design idea for the university front yard. Their goal was to address the need of AUCA community and guests to be able to spend time outdoors in a way that allows them to meet, communicate and connect.

Both teams put a lot of effort in this competition and did an outstanding job creating their designs.

Team “Blender” proposed installing a chess board, flower bed benches with roof, alumni tree, an arbour, wave benches, flowerbed and solar panels, creative benches and tables. “Blender’s” design was exceptional because of its coherence with the design of the AUCA building and overall forethought.  

Team “Natural and Environmental Campus Design” proposed adding a green tunnel on the territory of the campus as well as wooden benches with stone, flowers, a coffee zone, and waterfalls. This team’s design was remarkable because of its diversity of ideas and abundant greenery proposed to be planted.

Judges were impressed with the creativity and diligence of the participating students, with the majority voting to award team “Blender” with the first place prize. Each member  of the winning team was awarded a $1000 cash prize. Members of the second place winner team were each awarded a $500 cash prize.

The 13 first round participants who did not make it to the second round were each awarded with $50 cash prizes for active participation and creative ideas.

The competition was organized within the Student Initiative Development Program.

Members of the winning team “Blender” with the chair of the AUCA Board of Trustees David Lakhdhir and the competition initiator and funder Almas Chukin.

Winning team “Blender” members with members of the AUCA Board of Trustees and VP Chingiz Shamshiev.

More about the competition:

In the fall of 2018, member of the AUCA Board of Trustees Almas Chukin initiated the AUCA Campus Design Ideas Competition with the goals of redesigning the front yard in a way that creates a sense of community by giving people an opportunity to meet, communicate, connect, and do different activities outdoors, and of making the front yard usable during all 4 seasons.

Students were encouraged to work in teams of 3, but individual participants were also welcome to take part in the competition.

The competition consisted of two rounds:

1. During the first round, competitors presented their ideas to AUCA administration and competition jury selected two teams to compete in the second round.
2. During the second round, two selected teams worked with professional architects to create the final design of the front yard according to the requirements.

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