Lawn Challenge
The fundraising site for the Lawn Alumni Challenge, a campaign to restore UVA's Academical Village.
How do you raise $53 million to restore the historic Academical Village? The first step is developing a website to report real-time progress toward the fundraising goal. The Lawn Alumni Challenge website aimed to inspire Lawn residents to donate to their individual rooms and foster competition among past Lawnies to reach that goal and restore the iconic Jeffersonian village.
This project involved extensive frontend development and engineering of systems to provide fundraising data from the University's donation platform. The graphic representation of the Academical Village was created with special attention to the unique dimensions of the Pavilions and their proportions to individual Lawn rooms. Rendered from a single JSON file, details such as individual Lawn room sizes and the location of walkways helped orient users looking for a specific room.
The website relied on asynchronous requests to the University's central transaction APIs to retrieve up-to-date donation information.
