This proposal for EVOLO’s 2020 skyscraper competition was designed by 3A students Byron Cai, Chi Un Lee and Annie Wang. As the palm oil industry struggles to meet zero carbon emission and deforestation targets without halting economic activity, RE: Forest 2020 suggests a solution. The skyscraper acts as an “artificial lung” that harvests forests and captures carbon dioxide, while maintaining Indonesia’s palm oil industry.
Helsinki is an international city built on an intimate scale. Through harsh winters and heavy monsoons, Helsinki has become a city of interiors. Its society blooms indoors. This proposal for HelsinkiCall: The Design House competition, designed by Lyric Barnik, embraces this quality. It provides opportunities for cultural and artistic exchange. It borrows elements from the vernacular of the countryside, the ubiquity of the sauna and the evolution of Helsinki as a city. Form The form...
4B students Roni Haravon, Justin Ng, and Marco Chow recently won 3rd place in an international competition for their design of a Future Library. (more…)
The Buoyant Foundation Project research group recently took 3rd place in an international disaster resilience design competition. Their entry consisted of four retrofitted amphibious homes in rural Vietnam. (more…)
Masters student Mark took third place in a recent competition for designing a pavilion in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. (more…)
3B students Claudia and Penny won this year’s Masonry Worx award for their design of a mixed-used masonry building in Kitchener. (more…)
Masters students Salim and Amirhesam won the CISC Architectural Student Design Competition with their design for a water harvesting tower. (more…)
The Stop Gap Foundation, the Cambridge Accessibility Committee, the Cambridge Seniors Woodworking Club, local businesses, and students from the UWaterloo School of Architecture are working together to bring StopGap Ramps to Cambridge, and we need your help with artwork! Storefronts with single steps up from the sidewalk can provide considerable barriers to the elderly, shoppers with strollers, and people with disabilities. StopGap ramps are small, easily-made accessibility devices that make storefronts with single-step barriers...
UWSA Grad Louis-Pierre Bélec has placed second in the biennial Labjovem competition in the Azores. His project, Angra360º, repurposes an abandoned silo and granary in the city of Angra do Heroísmo on the island of Terceira. The work will be exhibited in multiple locations throughout the Azores, mainland Portugal and beyond this year.
Felix Yang and Thomas Noussis’s proposal Nu Oil re-imagined the future of refueling in era of drones and intelligent everyday objects. Their proposal for a semi-autonomous system which operates at the urban scale was recently awarded 1st Prize in the Fueling Station(s) competition.