Each year the American Society of Architectural Illustrators’ selects architectural representations for publication and exhibition as part of the “Architecture in Perspective” international competition. This year, five Waterloo Architecture students and alumni have been awarded within the student category for their evocative renderings including undergraduate students Ella den Elzen, Mina Vedut, and Ji Shi, graduate student Nashin Mahtani and alumnus Fraser Plaxton. It is exciting to see Waterloo Architecture students continue to experiment with diverse modes of representation while also creating intriguing design propositions.
Ella den Elzen, BAS Student at University of Waterloo School of Architecture
John Soules Student Juror Award of Merit
Completed: 2B Design Studio led by Lola Sheppard
Project Title: Entropic Landscapes
Project Description: Interior view of the visitor centre, which now inhabits the once operational rock crusher machine. The rock crusher stands on the site as a reminder of its historic past as a quarry. It encourages us to question our place within the artificially created landscape of the botanic garden.
Nashin Mahtani, MArch Student at University of Waterloo School of Architecture
ASAI Student Award of Distinction
Completed: 3B Deep Formations Studio led by Marco Verde
Project Title: Penumbral Reverie
Project Description: Experimental visualization of a form derived from algorithmically computing data from physical form-deriving experiments.
More of Nashin’s work is available here.
Mina Vedut, BAS Student at University of Waterloo School of Architecture
ASAI Student Award of Distinction
Completed: 3B Design Studio led by Dereck Revington
Project Title: Proteus Moves: The Supercell
Project Description: This project was the result of a term-long investigation conducted in the Dereck Revington Studio, exploring new thinking and ideas in experimental architecture through the inquiry of time, space, and motion. Heavy reference was made to the temporal arts of film, poetry, philosophy and literature.
More of Mina’s work is available on her website www.blog.minavdt.com
Jim Shi, BAS Student at University of Waterloo School of Architecture
ASAI Student Award of Distinction
Completed: 2B Design Studio led by Lola Sheppard
Project Title: A (fairly) Modest Proposal
Fraser Plaxton, Waterloo Architecture Alumni 2013
ASAI Student Award of Distinction
Completed: M2 – Urban Systems semester of the Master’s program at the Dalhousie School of Architecture
Project Title: 59th Street Cogeneration Station
Project Description: Hurricane Sandy revealed the increased fragility of the complex and heterogeneous networked infrastructures of contemporary urbanism. This project argues that new models of socio-technic infrastructures might serve as vehicles for the re-enfranchisement of today’s urban inhabitants in the shaping of their everyday space.
At the scale of the city block, the 59th Street Cogeneration Station seeks to leverage the existing urban fabric beneath the Queensboro Bridge and re-introduce this marginalized space as a vital productive zone for the Upper East Side in terms of sewage treatment and energy production, as well as a new typology of public space that reconnects the urban fabric of Manhattan with the East River.
More work available in Fraser’s portfolio here.
