In addition, there’s is the playhouse design that is supported and financially underwritten by the folks at SketchUp. All the more reason to continue submitting your playhouses for consideration – you can start your very own, very limited edition, handmade trophies made by me. Remember these? Pretty nice trophy if I do say so myself – AND – there will be a slightly new design for this year’s trophy so that it will be slightly different than the ones I sent out last year. Of course, if your entry made it on to this list, you will be receiving acknowledgment from me in the form of a ‘Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition’ Trophy. Children typically play a role in this process but they will get involved this coming week when the incredibly hard task of narrowing this list done to the playhouses that will actually get built. My process involved live action review and input that included other architects, contractors and parents. I don’t know what Houzz will be doing or when they will be announcing their own winners (there were a lot of moving parts to the Houzz Playhouzz side of things and they will need to go through the entries with their own judging process. From these finalists we will determine the actually winning playhouses for my competition. There you have it – the Finalists for the 2016 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition! So what happens next? Well, a lot actually. Zarina Ateig – The Double Decker Playhouse Natalie Carran – Wabi Sabi Teahouse Playhouse Zach George and Taylor Proctor – Lookout Playhouse Patrick Ladendecker – Food Truck Playhouse Patrick Beck & Madeline Gonzalez – La Cabana So enough about the two things that took 415 entries and reduced them to a much smaller handful, let’s look at the finalists from the 2016 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition! Bad scale is the kiss of death in this competition and frequently takes a clever idea and makes it something far less than clever. If you can’t get the scale close, the whole things figuratively falls apart. Playhouses – at least good ones – are all about the proper scale. C’mon people! Do you not remember this graphic?!? – The short version is this – if these playhouses are 8′-0″ tall, more times than not, something was designed in proportion with the building but it wouldn’t have actually worked. 8′-0″ tall, by 8′-6″ long, by 7′-6″ wide.Īnother consideration that eliminated a ton of entries was scale.
To all you folks who thought you had a genius submission and are saddened to see that it is not listed here, I would recommend that you go back to your entry and see if you designed something too large. I briefly thought about showing some of the more egregious submissions but decided against is since it seemed cruel to those people who thought they were doing something good. While I think I am a generous person and willing to see past the certain things, exceeding the size requirements is a deal breaker. I will go ahead and let you know that of the 337 that were submitted on Houzz, an overwhelming large number of those did not meet the size guidelines and were therefore immediately disqualified. That last one is a biggie … and by “rules”, I mean the size guidelines. We ignored the popular voting numbers on the Houzz site and evaluated the submissions based on: What I did was get my group of initial judges together and we went through all the entries. As an experiment, the jury is literally still out since I didn’t have anything to do with selecting the winners from Houzz. In total, 337 were reviewed from the Houzz Website and the Playhouzz collection, and 78 were previous finalists in the playhouse competition when it was completely handled and processed on my site. While that sounds like a lot, it wasn’t that hard to go through most of them.
It was the first round of playhouse judging and we had to go through 415 entries. Last Friday was a big night here at Life of an Architect World Headquarters 2.0.
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