Scott Baumberger

I never meant that the design drawings should be set in stone. Even by the time a conceptual drawing set has been produced, the design itself has been tested and many people have been involved in its creation.

My main point is to remove the burden from the competitors of having to create a building design from scratch for the challenges. Regardless of how tight or loose the drawings are, the competitors will be free to focus on the illustrative aspects of the challenge from the beginning. As I mentioned earlier, the burden would also be removed from the judges to interpret or decipher the building design/program as they would have the same set of drawings to review.

Allowing for a certain amount of "filling in the gaps", adherence to the drawing set and brief is imperative to maintain fairness and, in my opinion, legitimacy.