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Congratulations to the winners of the first-ever Labs21 Student
Design Competition!
Review a press release
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26 KB) from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
announcing the winning designs.
First Place
Bernhard Kutzer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Inform[ation]al_backbone
Faculty Sponsor: Susan Piedmont-Palladino
Second Place
Etienne Boudreault-Sauvageau and Pascal Gobeil, Université
Laval
Green over gray
Faculty Sponsor: Claude MH Demers and André Potvin
Third Place
Matthew Lemieux Blanchard and Marie Bourdeau, McGill University
Science as [dissection]u[incison]
Faculty Sponsor: David Covo
Honorable Mentions:
Zenin Adrian and Jin-Yi Pao, University of Toronto
A Symbolic Relationship Between Laboratories and Classrooms
Faculty Sponsor: Barry Sampson
Dominic Grecki and Kevin Leslie, Lawrence Technological University
Untitled
Faculty Sponsor: Edward Orlowski
David Minke and Jason Nelson, University of Toronto
Untitled
Faculty Sponsor: Barry Sampson
Veronique Proteau and Marie-Helene Verdier, Université Laval
The Quest: Science shedding light on nature
Faculty Sponsor: Claude MH Demers and André Potvin
Rabindra Ramcharan, Syracuse University
BioLab 21
Faculty Sponsors: Bruce Abbey and Terrance Goode
About the Competition
The first-of-its-kind competition challenged architecture students
and faculty from the United States and Canada to design a laboratory
building that exemplified high performance, low-energy design principles,
in addition to meeting core architectural design considerations.
For the competition, students designed a Chemistry and Biology Laboratory
building on the campus of Georgetown University in Washington, District
of Columbia.
In developing a design proposal, competitors were asked to address
several critical issues:
- Architectural expression that embraces the ethic of sustainability
- Minimal ecological impact
- Design for human performance
- Design for flexibility and adaptability
- Exceptional innovation
The Competition Program
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766KB) provides complete details on all aspects of the competition.
Awards
A total of $5,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to winning students
and their faculty sponsors. Winners will also be invited to present
their projects at the Labs21 2004 Annual Conference in St. Louis,
Missouri. Prize-winning submissions will also be exhibited at the
2005 ACSA Annual Meeting in Chicago and the 2005 American Institute
of Architects' National Convention in Las Vegas.
Jury
The jury consisted of Douglas Kelbaugh, FAIA, dean of the University
of Michigan School of Architecture; Sandra Mendler, AIA, an architect
with HOK, and a nationally recognized leader in the field of sustainable
design; and G. Craig Randock, AIA, design principal in the Phoenix
office of SmithGroup, a national architecture, engineering, and
planning firm with a 150-year legacy of providing design solutions
for the natural and built environment.
Sponsors and Supporting Organizations
The competition was sponsored by Labs21, a partnership program of
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department
of Energy, with support from Public Works Government Services Canada.
The competition was administered by the Association of Collegiate
Schools of Architecture.
Dedication
The competition was dedicated to the late Donald Prowler, a Fellow
of the American Institute of Architects and a nationally recognized
professor of architecture, building climatology, and sustainability
principles. As one of the core participants in the Labs21 program,
Don's contributions, insight, and guidance established much of the
foundation for today's successful program.
Information
For additional information, please contact ACSA at www.acsa-arch.org/competitions
 or
competitions@acsa-arch.org.
*Note: Please do not contact Georgetown University requesting
information about this competition.
Some
of the documents provided by Labs21 are Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document
Format) files.
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