2008 Florida Homebuyer Home Design Challenge 1st Place winner--Gary Hancock of Winter Park Design.
2008 Florida Homebuyer Orlando Home Design Challenge
????The Alonenows, though fictional, are typical of many early baby-boomers who are now ready to downsize and settle into homes designed specifically to accommodate their evolving interests and changing needs.
????So Bob and Eleanor were selected as the “clients” for the 2008 Florida Homebuyer Orlando Home Design Challenge.?
????It’s the second year of the highly-popular competition, during which the region’s top architects and home designers are asked to create an ideal home for a fictional family. This year, top notch out-of-area architects judged the entries.
????The pros are given some background information as well as some specific “must-haves” as a basis from which to work.
????But, although the family is fictional, the homesite is real. The Alonenows’ hypothetical residence would be built at 1021 Lincoln Circle in Winter Park.?
????Therefore, the plans submitted were required to adhere to City of Winter Park regulations regarding such issues as structure size, setbacks and tree pre-servation. In addition, physical characteristics of the homesite had to be taken into account.
????Among the couple’s requests were a his-and-her office, a three-car garage for their “toys,” a master retreat and a guest suite for visiting friends and family members.?
????They also insisted upon a club room with a bar, an open kitchen and an outdoor living area ideal for entertaining or just taking it easy.
????Any architectural style was welcome, which allowed participants to have fun, use their imaginations and come up with some unique approaches to making Mr. and Mrs. Alonenow happy.
????On the links below, you’ll find the elevations and floorplans as well as judges’ comments about their favorite designs.
| judges' choice???????? | the best of the rest | |
| 1st Place | Turner Beggs | Patricia Carvajal |
| Gary Hancock | Gregory Hall | Phil Kean |
| 2nd Place (tie) | Jorge Munoz | Roger Neves/Randall Slocum |
| Jim Lucia | Jack Scott | Darryl Showers |
| Robert A. Harris | Michael Smith | Michael J. Sopoliga |
| 3rd Place | ||
| Tony Weremeichik |
additional honors
Outstanding Feature
1st PLACE
Feature:? Overall Design and Restraint
Robert Harris, Robert Harris Architect
From the Judges This is far preferable to the architecture-on-steroids that permeates much of today’s design. This plan is highly believeable as appropriate architecture for Winter Park. Kudos to the designer.
2nd PLACE
Feature: Rear Garage
Gary Hancock, Winter Park Design
From the Judges Pulling the garage to the back of the lot and using it to form the garden space is yet again logical and conservative, with the garage providing dual functions.
3RD PLACE
Feature: Space Planning???
Jim Lucia, Lucia Kassik & Monday
From the Judges The overall planning and spatial definition of the rooms is excellent.? The spaces are both highly ordered and coherently arranged, yet flexible and open.
Adherence to the Site Requirements
1ST PLACE
Jim Lucia, Lucia Kassik & Monday
2ND PLACE (TIE)
Gary Hancock, Winter Park Design;
Robert Harris, Robert?Harris?Architect
3RD PLACE?
Darryl Showers, The Evans Group
the judges
Richard Franklin Sammons is a founding partner of Fairfax and Sammons Architects headquartered in New York with offices in Palm Beach and Charleston, South Carolina.? Sammons is a founding director of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America (ICA&CA) and is an internationally recognized expert in the field of architectural proportion.
Steve Mouzon is a principal of Miami Beach-based Mouzon Design. Mouzon is a principal of the New Urban Guild, a group of architects, designers and other new urbanists dedicated to the study and design of buildings inspired by the regions in which they are built. He has authored or contributed to a number of publications, including the award-winning A Living Tradition [Architecture of the Bahamas].
Christine G.H. Franck is a designer and educator based in New York City. Her work includes award-winning residential design and decorative work. She also writes for New Old House magazine and is contributing to the upcoming Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America’s (ICA&CA) Handbook of Classical Architecture for Today. Franck holds degrees in architecture and architectural history from the University of Virginia and the University of Notre Dame.