Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter
Sustainably Designed Structures in an Urban Woodland
Spring 2009

Request for Proposals
Deadline – November 21, 2008

The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education’s
Environmental Art Program presents a Request for Proposals
for a competition in sustainable design and building on a small scale.

Artists, designers, architects, and students are invited to design
and build semi-permanent, functional woodland shelters on the grounds of
Philadelphia’s Schuylkill Center, using sustainable design and building techniques.

The competition aims to encourage collaboration between artists, designers
and architects, to demonstrate and promote sustainable building methods, and
to present the visiting public with a physical experience of the applied possibilities
of sustainability to our lives and in our connection to the natural world.

Up to six designs will be selected by a
distinguished panel of jurors including:
Mark Hughes, Philadelphia’s new Director of Sustainability
William W. Braham, PhD FAIA, Department of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
Jeanne Jaffe, Professor and Chair of Fine Arts, University of the Arts
Laurie D. Olin, Olin Partnership
Libby Rosof, art critic, artblog
Roberta Fallon, art critic, Philadelphia Weekly and artblog

For the complete prospectus,
please go to: http://www.schuylkillcenter.org/pdfs/home/GImmeShelterRFP.pdf
or email: [email protected]

Gimme Shelter is funded by the William Penn Foundation, and is presented in partnership with The Center for Architecture and the American Institute of Architects- Philadelphia, the Engineering and Design Institute at Philadelphia University, Habitat for Humanity, and the Delaware Valley Green Building Council.