The Architecture Award recognizes and celebrates outstanding achievements in architecture. At the jury’s discretion, this category will honor multiple projects, featuring Citation, Merit, and Honor Award recognitions. Submissions will be judged on quality of design; resolution of the program or idea; and innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique. No field trips will be taken; jury decisions will be based solely on the materials submitted. It is therefore important that submissions convey to the jury a full understanding of the project. Each entry in the AIA San Francisco Design Awards program is judged on the success with which it has met its individual requirements. Entries are weighed individually, not in competition with others.

The Interior Architecture Award recognizes excellence in interior architecture. At the jury’s discretion, this category will honor multiple projects, featuring Citation, Merit, and Honor Award recognitions. Submissions will be judged on quality of design; resolution of the program or idea; and innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique. No field trips will be taken; jury decisions will be based solely on the materials submitted. It is therefore important that submissions convey to the jury a full understanding of the project. Each entry in the AIA San Francisco Design Awards program is judged on the success with which it has met its individual requirements. Entries are weighed individually, not in competition with others.

The Unbuilt Design Award recognizes purely theoretical architectural design work. At the jury’s discretion, this category will honor multiple projects, featuring Citation, Merit, and Honor Award recognitions. Submissions will be judged on quality of design, resolution of the program or idea, and innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique. Jury decisions will be based solely on the materials submitted. It is therefore important that submissions convey to the jury a full understanding of the project. Each entry in the AIA San Francisco Design Awards program is judged on the success with which it has met its individual requirements. Entries are weighed individually, not in competition with others.

Do not include information identifying your firm in any materials outside of those designed to collect it, like the Design Team Form and fields on the submission site defined for this purpose. File names should not include your firm name. If any of the information provided to the jury for review – including file names – explicitly identifies the firm, your submission will be disqualified.

• Project Name
• Floor Area in Square Feet
• Building Type
• Date of Completion
• Project Cost
• Location of Project
• 50-word Summary: This should be approximately two sentences on the project. Copy should be clear, concise, and well written, as it may be reproduced in print publications.
• 250-word Summary: This should fully outline the program and design objectives and how the project addressed these objectives.
• Building Performance Data: AIASF has adopted AIA CA’s “Common App” as part of the submission requirements to help identify how each project responds to the urgency of climate action given the broad impacts the built environment places on both people and planet. Please be sure to use the current version of the Common App available here. For further requirements and guidance on completing the Common App as part of your submission, visit the AIASF website here. Please note that some of the technical information requested on the Common App may require consultation with your engineer, and take this into account when preparing your submission.
• Demolition Plan: For Historic Preservation Concentration Only.
• Site Plan: Show context and include North arrow. JPEG format.
• Floor Plans: JPEG format.
• Annotated diagram or section: Optional; describe the overall design concept and/or sustainable
  features. JPEG format.
• Additional Sections/Elevations: Optional; maximum two. JPEG format.
• Additional Diagrams: Optional; maximum two. JPEG format.
• Images: Up to 10 images of the completed project. Artwork should be saved to at least 300 dpi. You may submit up to two composite images (image files featuring multiple images). JPEG format. Do not include labels on the images. Credit photography in the Design Team section; these images will be reproduced in conjunction with recognition if the project is selected to receive an award.
• Design Team: Should the project be selected for an award, project contributors will be publicly announced per the Design Team information provided with the submission. This information will otherwise remain exclusively for AIASF internal use. When not included in the Design Team form, AIASF is not responsible for missing project team member credits on awarded projects; make sure to include a comprehensive list of the subs on your projects, and feel free to add categories as needed. VIEW SAMPLE TEMPLATE

Include a demolition plan + the following information in your 250-word summary:

• Description of preservation, rehabilitation, or restoration treatments employed; research undertaken; or difficult problems overcome.
• If the property was threatened, identification of the type and degree of the threat to the property. Note any special efforts or plans to ensure future protection of the property.
• Description of innovative approach to design, materials, technique or interpretation.
• Description of principles of sustainability that were incorporated in the project.
• Demonstration that the completed project enhances or extends the life of the resource.

Include information explaining how your project integrates effective social outcomes with the highest level of design excellence by responding to a need and/or addressing one or more of the following in your 250-word summary:

• Community Engagement – an entire community and/or representative stakeholders are substantially involved and engaged in the decision-making processes, and community involvement has influenced project outcomes.
• Community Benefit – project addresses a need(s) and demonstrates benefit(s) to the community.
• Economic Disparity – architecture or the design process has reduced disparities in the economics of the larger community or individuals served by the project.
• Health Outcomes – project improves health, safety, or well-being outcomes for the larger community or individuals served by the project.
• Educational Inequity – project addresses inequities in our education system and those that increase the social responsibility of education.
• Human Rights – project helps vulnerable populations and disadvantaged people realize their basic rights, to those that actively violate the rights of life and liberty.
• Other innovative approaches outside of what is listed here, for example:
  • Increasing community resiliency
  • Celebrating place, culture or history
  • Minimizing displacement
  • Increasing racial equity

Include information explaining how your project addresses one or more of the following in your 250-word summary:

• Excellence in project-related work thanks to the technical aspects of building design, including conceptualization, design, and implementation of buildings; or the technology aspects of building design from an engineering and construction standpoint.
• Technology that greatly improved collaboration, innovation, and creativity, and led to architectural excellence in the project design or outcome.
• Technology that resulted in improved economic, environmental, or social outcomes of the project.

In your 250-word Summary, address how the design:

• responds to the existing urban and/or regional context;
• contributes to the community connectivity, such as public transit access, automobile trip reduction, and walkability;
• provides an example of increasing density in an existing lower-density urban neighborhood;
• demonstrates commitment to urban sustainability and climate resiliency;
• and/or pays tribute to innovation in placemaking.