SKOKIE, Ill. — The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce the winners of the fourth annual CONCRETE THINKING FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD, International Student Design Competition, administered by ACSA and sponsored by the Portland Cement Association (PCA) and the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA).
The program challenged students to investigate an innovative application of portland cement-based materials to achieve sustainable design objectives. The competition offered two separate entry categories, each without site restrictions, for maximum flexibility.
This year more than 300 students from 55 architecture schools around the world participated. Students either designed an environmentally responsible public transportation center focusing on architectural innovations to preserve tomorrow’s resources or created a single element of a building that provides a sustainable solution to real-world environmental challenges.
“We applaud these students for coming up with such innovative submissions and pushing the boundaries of concrete in green building,” said David Shepherd, AIA, LEED AP, and PCA’s director of sustainable development. “Concrete’s durability and versatility make it an ideal building material for sustainable design. This competition clearly illustrates its many applications.”
Winning students, their faculty sponsors and schools will receive cash prizes and software totaling nearly $50,000. Included in the prize package is StructurePoint©, concrete design software, a retail value of nearly $10,000.
Prize-winning projects will be displayed at the 2010 ACSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans and at the 2010 American Institute of Architects Convention in Miami. In addition, the projects will be published on an online competition summary Website this fall.
First Place Winner—Transit Hub "Full Cycle"
Students: Brodie Bricker, Akira Hirosawa, and Marc Rutzen
Faculty Sponsors: Kevin N. Erickson
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Juror comments: This project is flexible and forward thinking, incorporating auto and bike transit systems, such as the bicycle train-car within the metro. Carving into the existing urban fabric to integrate the new solution highlights the durability and adaptability that the concrete structures offer.
Additional Winners—Transit Hub
Second Place: "Transfer Hub Lomma"
Students: Haydar Alward and Mikael Pettersson
Faculty Sponsor: John Stack Ross, Tina-Henriette Kristiansen and Abelardo Gonzalez
Lund University, Sweden
Honorable Mention: "Mobility in Flux"
Students: Tim Keepers and Wes Bradley
Faculty Sponsor: Stanley R. Russell and Vikas Mehta
University of South Florida, Tampa
Honorable Mention: "Media-Hub"
Students: Shujia Chen, Truls Hakansson and Sven Teder
Faculty Sponsor: John Stack Ross, Tina-Henriette Kristiansen and Abelardo Gonzalez
Lund University, Sweden
First Place Winner—Building Element, "Defying Gravity: Casting over tensile membranes"
Students: Rasha Alkhatib, Kristiina Mair and Christina Gaiger
Faculty Sponsor: Remo Pedreschi
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Juror comments: This project recreates something existing in a new way. The design is mindful of construction material conservation and has a reusable form which could be pulled apart and put back together for future reuse.
Additional Winners—Building Element
Second Place: "Constructed Ecologies"
Student: Zhan Chen and Brantley Highfill
Faculty Sponsor: Douglas E. Oliver
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Honorable Mention: "Minimal Surface Building Unit"
Student: Gavet Douangvichit, John Puff and Kristopher John Walters Jr.
Faculty Sponsors: Glenn Wilcox
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Honorable Mention: "TesseTrek"
Students: Joshua R Kehl and Clay Montgomery
Faculty Sponsor: Douglas Hecker
Clemson University, Clemson, S.C.
Panel of Judges
During the weekend of June 20, 2009, a design jury convened in Washington, D.C., to select the winning projects. The design jury consisted of the following individuals:
- D. Michelle Addington, Yale University
- Ulrike Altenmüller, Drexel University
- Martin Despang, University of Nebraska
- Robb Jolly, ReVisios
- David Shepherd, PCA
- Kentaro Tsubaki, Tulane University
About PCA
The Portland Cement Association (PCA), based in Skokie, Ill., represents cement companies in the United States and Canada. It conducts market development engineering, research, education, and public affairs programs. Additional information is available at www.cement.org. PCA also developed www.concretethinker.org, a Web site devoted to how concrete can be used to achieve sustainability solutions.
About ACSA
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1912 to enhance the quality of architectural education. School membership in ACSA has grown from 10 charter schools to more than 200 schools in several membership categories. Through these schools, more than 4,500 architecture faculty are represented in ACSA’s membership. ACSA, unique in its representative role for professional schools of architecture, provides a major forum for ideas on the leading edge of architectural thought. Issues that will affect the architectural profession in the future are being examined today in ACSA member schools. Additional information is available at www.acsa-arch.org.
About NRMCA
NRMCA, based in Silver Spring, MD, represents the producers of ready mixed concrete and the companies that provide materials, equipment and support to the industry. It conducts education, training, promotion, research, engineering, safety, environmental, technological, lobbying and regulatory programs.
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