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FROM FIJI TO PHILADELPHIA: VISIONARY
DESIGN TEAMS TAKE TOP HONORS IN INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE
DESIGN COMPETITION
Multidisciplinary Teams Tackle Climate Change with Innovative
Plans for Healthy, Sustainable Communities
Los Angeles — June 12, 2007 — an Exhibition of 51 Entries
– each a model response to the problem of Climate Change opened
on Jjune 8th 2007 at the Architecture and Design Museam on
Museum Row, Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles. At a symposium that
followed at the A+D Museum June 8 through 10, four winning
teams were selected from among twelve finalists who presented
proposals as part of the Royal Institute of British Architects
(RIBA)–USA California chapter’s competition, Building A Sustainable
World: Life in the Balance. The competition, sponsored by
Autodesk, Inc. attracted more than 50 entries from around
the world. It challenged participants to develop concepts
for healthy, vibrant communities designed to address climate
change and reverse, rather than add to, environmental damage.
First Prize for $10,000 was awarded to a
team from Fiji, Toby Kyle, Chris Cole and Kamineli Vuadreu.
Toby Kyle and Chris Cole presented their project, Sustainable
Urban Housing in Fiji – Vakabauta Village, which focuses on
the needs of low-income Fijians living in dilapidated temporary
housing in Suva, the country’s capital. The design concept
addresses global problems with local solutions, including
growing bamboo within the village to green and rejuvenate
the site and create revenue opportunities for residents. The
team drew on traditional Fijian values such as working together
and sharing resources, to create a model sustainable urban
community relevant not only to Fiji but to many developing
Pacific nations that are likely to be particularly hard hit
by the effects of climate change.
Second Prize for $5,000 went to an Australian
team, Gall & Medek Architects/ and Team D/E/S of Brisbane.
Jim Gall and Tony Fry presented the Boonah Two Development,
a proposal that focuses on climate-adaptive strategies, technological
innovation, and socio-cultural change projected over a 50-year
period for the city of Boonah, about 100 km inland from the
east coast of Australia. Although the Boonah Two Development
proposal targets a particular city, the team’s design methodology
is meant to be universally applicable. The design approach
involves 10 key principles, including operating communities
as closed-loop systems that produces no waste, creating foodscapes
to reduce “food miles” and increase nutritional quality, and
moving from reductionist linear thinking to relational thinking
that aligns with ecological processes.
Third Prize for $2,500 went to The Urban
Kidney — Revitalizing Forgotten Bottom, presented by Stephen
Gibson from the United States design team of Wallace Roberts
and Todd, LLC of Philadelphia. The team consisted of George
Bryant, Stephen Gibson, Kyk Gradinger, John Keene, Adam Krom,
Lauren Leatherbarrow, Jamie Ober, Anthony Okoye, yogesh Sooji,
Ka Man Skinner, Devinder Soin. This proposal addresses the
distressed, polluted Philadelphia neighborhood known as Forgotten
Bottom, so called because residents feel the city has virtually
forgotten that they exist. This multidisciplinary team developed
a comprehensive plan for restoring a long-abused wetland as
the centerpiece of a new neighborhood built on abandoned industrial
brownfield. This project shows how the environmentally sensitive
reclamation of post-industrial waterfronts can be used to
meet other urban goals such as stormwater management, sustainable
housing development and economic revitalization.
Bonus Prize for $5,000 was awarded to the
entry that demonstrated the most imaginative use of Autodesk
software, notably Architectural Desktop. This prize was awarded
to Liu Di of China for his entry, Seasonal Flood Threatened
Community. This entry proposed innovative architecture and
engineering solutions designed to reduce the global warming
impacts of buildings while also protecting communities from
the ravages of major floods. The proposal, which focuses on
a flood-prone community on the Changjiang River, includes
a concept for zero net energy homes as well as safe temporary
housing for those people made homeless by floods
Each entry tackled environmental and social challenges of
enormous scope and offered engaging, inspiring solutions.
In addition to the winning entries, the finalists included:
EcoSystemic Restoration: A Model Community at Salton Sea,
a plan for healing the environment and living sustainably
in this extremely hot, arid and ecologically scarred region
of the southern California desert.
Presented by Ilaria Mazzoleni from italy; the team consisted
of: Ilaria Mazzoleni, Philip Ra, Architect Yvonne Lau, Architect,
Sky Milner, student in architecture, Harold Portillo, student
in architecture, Amitabh Barthakur, urban planner, Vanessa
Zajfen, agronomist - sustainable agriculture, Shauna Price,
biologist, Sunil Varma, environmental engineer, Bungane Mehlomakulu,
mechanical engineer; Sareen Proudian, student of architecture.
Adaptation to Climatic Disaster, innovative physical and cultural
survival strategies for the Republic of Maldives, a nation
whose highest elevation is 2.4 meters above sea level.
Presented by Junya Oishi from Costa Rca and Doris Sung from
ScuiArch Los Angeles; the team consisted of: Junya Oishi and
Doris Sung
Urban Model for Coal Country, a vision for transforming Appalachian
hilltops decimated by coal mining into vibrant, pedestrian-friendly
hill towns - taking advantage of an already scarred landscape
which can be used for building, and reducing infrngement upon
needed forest for settlement. Presented by Richard Levine
from the Center for Sustainable Cities Design Studio, Kentucky
State University; the team consisted of Richard S Levine (Architect),
Michael T Hughes, Casey Ryan Mather, Taqi Radmard, Bill Fleming
Wall City, addressing rising waters in the Netherlands port
city of Rotterdam with a proposal for a compact community
based on a huge vertical walls that contain the city’s infrastructure.
Presented by Vasilieos Kouisos from Greece, the project author
Suburban Renewal/Green Sacramento, a proposal to reclaim and
reuse an abandoned strip mall and transform suburbs into dense,
carbon-neutral communities for living, working, raising food,
replenishing groundwater and rebuilding local ecologies. Presented
by Geoffrey Holton from Oakland California, the team consisted
of Geoffrey Holton Associates,
Algae City, responding to the challenges of energy consumption
and urban sprawl with a concept to establish cities on modular
platforms suspended above the ground and powered by clean
hydrogen energy produced from algae. Presented by Marcelo
Morettin from Brazil; The team consisted of Vinicius Hernandes
Andrade/ Marcello Henneberg Morettin
Redeveloping the Ninth Ward, addressing environmentally and
socially responsible community rebuilding designed to bring
back local residents displaced by the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
Presented by John Manaves from Chicago; The team consisted
of John Manaves and his German partner Alice Kriegel
LIST OF AWARD WINNERS AND FINALISTS
FIRST PRIZE
Fiji: Toby Kyle, Chris Cole and Kamineli Vuadreu. Project:
Sustainable Urban Housing in Fiji.
SECOND PRIZE
Australia: Gall and Medek Architects and Team DES. Project:
Boonah Two Development.
THIRD PRIZE
United States: Wallace Roberts Todd, LLC (George B. Bryant,
Stephen M. Gibson, Kyle Gradinger, John Keene, Adam Krom,
Lauren W. Leatherbarrow, Jamie R. Ober, Anthony C. Okoye,
Yogesh Saoji, KaMan E. Skinner, Devinder S. Soin, and Michael
J. Tweed Jr.). Project: Urban Kidney Project — Revitalizing
Forgotten Bottom.
HONORABLE MENTION
United Kingdom: Phil Garlick and Sustainable Construction
Team. Project: Tankers Converted to Village.
SPECIAL AUTODESK PRIZE
China: Liu Di. Project: Seasonal Flood Threatened Community.
FINALISTS
Brazil: Vinicius Hernandes Andrade and Marcello Henneberg
Morettin of Andrade Morettin Associates. Project: Algae City.
Greece: Vasileios Kiousis and Konstantinos Dimas. Project:
Wall City, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
United States: John Manaves and Alice Kriegel. Project: Redeveloping
the Ninth Ward.
United States: Ilaria Mazzoleni, Yvonne Lau, Philip Ra, Sareen
Proudian, Sky Milner, Harold Portillo, Amitabh Barthakur,
Vanessa Zajfen, Shauna Price, Sunil Varma, Bungane Mehlomakulu.
Project: Ecosystem Restoration: A Model Community at Salton
Sea.
United States: Geoffrey Holton and Associates (Geoffrey Holton,
Gretchen Bigsby, David Waldorf, Gavin Ross). Project: Suburban
Renewal/Green Sacramento.
United States: Center for Sustainable Cities Design Studio
(Richard S. Levine, Michael T. Hughes, Casey Ryan Mather).
Project: Urban Model for Coal Country.
United States: Junya Oishi. Project: Adaptation to Climatic
Disaster.
SPONSOR
Autodesk, Inc.
COMPETITION PUBLISHER
Gibbs Smith, Publisher
ADDITONAL SPONSORS
The symposium weekend was hosted by the Architecture
+ Design Museum in Los Angeles, with a reception sponsored
by Delta Faucet.
JUDGES
Sunand Prasad — President 2007–2009 of The Royal Institute
of British Architects (RIBA). Principal, Penoyre-Prasad, London.
RK Stewart — President of The American Institute of Architects
(AIA). Principal, Gensler, San Francisco.
Prof. Thom Mayne — Pritzker Prize Laureate, 2005. Principal,
Morphosis, Los Angeles.
Dr. Ken Yeang — author, Ecodesign Instruction Manual. Principal,
Llewelyn, Davies, Yeang.
Jennifer Roberts — author, Good Green Homes, Good Green Kitchens,
and Redux: Designs That Reuse, Recycle, and Reveal (Gibbs
Smith, Publisher).
Erin Rae Hoffer — AIA, Industry Programs Manager, AEC Solutions,
Autodesk, Inc.
Pavel Getov — Observer. Sustainable Development Advisor to
Morphosis.
Edmund Einy — Observer. Los Angeles Chapter of the AIA.
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Christopher Robbins — CEO and General Manager, Gibbs Smith
Publisher.
Phil Bernstein — FAIA, RIBA. VP Industry Strategy and Relations,
AEC Solutions, Autodesk, Inc.
Tracey Stout — Vice President, Autodesk, Inc.
Charles Qin — China National Enterprises Association for Foreign
Trade and Economic Cooperation, The Ministry of Commerce,
P.R. China.
Julia Russell — Eco-Home, Los Angeles.
The Board of Directors of RIBA-USA, California Chapter.
U.K. Consulate and California State Contacts
David Wild — Deputy Consul General at the UK Consulate General,
Los Angeles.
Jennifer Gardner — MBE. UK Consulate General, Los Angeles.
BreAnda Northcutt — Representing the California Governor’s
Office.
COMPETITION BACKGROUND
The Building A Sustainable World: Life in the Balance competition
was announced June 2006, with a February 2007 deadline for
receipt of the entries. Sixty-five submissions were registered,
which encompassed over 200 people working individually or
in teams. These included architects, city planners, engineers,
students and designers from 18 countries: Australia, Belgium,
Brazil, Canada, China, China–Hong Kong, Fiji, France, Germany,
Greece, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Spain, Thailand,
U.K., and U.S.A.
Building a Sustainable World: Life in the Balance was an open
competition to develop concepts for a maximum-capacity sustainable
community or an urban subdivision to address shifts in global
climate, that have been so vividly demonstrated by increasing
numbers of flooding and drought catastrophes. The community
must be “off the grid”, in other words as autonomous and self-sustaining
as possible. And, beyond this, participants were invited to
propose ways of making the community a positive contributor
to the natural ecology. Alternative energy solutions needed
to be fully researched and integrated to identify advantages
and to be realistic about risks and disadvantages. The competition
premise is that the sustainable community should start to
reverse environmental damage and not add to it. The community
can include new industries, which must be clean and considerate
to the quality of life for future generations. We want to
create healthy, vibrant, non-toxic communities with a positive
relationship, respect and regard for nature and our natural
resources.
Eligibility: The competition was open to any individual from
any country. However, an entrant who is not an architect had
to team up with an accredited (licensed or registered) architect
from the locality of the submitted project. Participants were
encouraged to engage in teamwork with and between architects
whether the entrant is a member of the general public, a writer,
visionary, movie maker, engineer, city planner, designer or
from the construction industry at large.
WEBSITE: http://www.riba-usa.org
Contact: Caroline Davies e: photoartist@earthlink.net
Ph: (213) 399-1132
General Secretary, California Chapter Board of Directors
Tim Clark e: tc@anet.net
Ph: (213) 880-3309
RIBA-USA California Chatper Board of Directors
Founding President RIBA-USA and Past Presiding Chair
Representation for China and Asia:
Contact: Charles Qin and Angyla Wang
China National Enterprises
Association for Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation
The Ministry of Commerce, P.R. China Zip Code: 100022
Tel: 8610-88792-441 Mobile: 139 1126 4785
The latest COMPETITION
Building a Sustainable World Competition Latest
Building a Sustainable World - Life in the Balance Competition.
Update: All entries that were sent on or before February 1st 2007 are now under
consideration - the competition is now in the Judging Phase.
We received registrations from 18 nations involving over 170 individual designers
and other specialists.
Thank you to everyone who entered for helping build a sustainable world. You are the
community that is making the difference that matters
We will alert all registered entrants when a shortlist has been produced whether or
not they are on it.
We would like to extend a special word to acknowledge AIA National for their support
and encouragement - especially to AIA President RK Stewart who has agreed to be one
of our judges - also to the many individual AIA members who have entered this
important competition.
The help and support that we have received from AIA Los Angeles has been exemplary -
Thank you for your engagement and professionalism!
RIBA-USA also wishes to acknowledge the ongoing support of members all over the USA
and of RIBA London, whose partnership, cooperation and advancement is our raison
d'etre. We are delighted that RIBA President Elect, Sunand Prasad, has agreed to be
on our judging panel.
To Autodesk, our primary sponsor, we extend our deepest appreciation for being an
inspiring and informative partner and ally in the pursuit of the values and goals of
our competition. Similar sentiments are due to our Publisher, Gibbs Smith, who have
been busily getting the word out about sustainable development solutions and will be
creating a special new publication on our competition.
For specific additional support to our Judging process, our continuing thanks
go out to Phil Bernstein, Erin Rae Hoffer and Henry Brulay
of Autodesk; Jennifer Roberts, whose sustainable design
work is published by Gibbs Smith; Pritzker Prize winner
Thom Mayne; and leading international proponent of sustainable
community architecture, Dr Kenneth Yeang.
Toby
Judges-and-Finalists
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AIA-President-RK-Stewart
Fiji-Winners
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Building A Sustainable World: Life in the Balance
The Royal Institute of British Architects - USA announces
a new international competition ‘Building A Sustainable
World: Life in the Balance.’ First Prize $10,000. Main Sponsor
Autodesk, Special prize for best use of Autodesk BIM software
although entries may use any appropriate medium including
freehand and collage.
An open competition to design a maximally sustainable community
addressing our Global Warming Crisis. For details
and official entry form visit http://www.riba-usa.org/Competitions/index.htm
To
download the full text in PDF format click here.
Registration/Entry
Forms: Download registration forms from http://www.riba-usa.org
RIBA-USA, CA. up until the closing of the competition reserve
the unilateral right to add to or alter our competition
perameters as needed according to the perception of the
competition holders RIBA-USA, CA. Each registered entrant
shall be notified in writing in such case.
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Ideas Competition - Drawing Water Challenge.
A still from the The Long Walk shows Sarah, who has to walk
7.5 hours to collect water for her family.
The drawing water challenge is aimed at finding
practical solutions to providing clean water and
sanitation to some of the poorest people in the world.
The deadline for the competition is 31st January 2007.
More information is available from:
http://www.arup.com/feature.cfm?pageid=9179
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RIBA Lubetkin Prize:
To recognise the work of RIBA members
outside Britain and the EU
In 2006 the RIBA is launching a new series of awards to
recognise the work of RIBA members outside Britain and the
EU. The RIBA International Awards will recognise the excellent
work of RIBA members in the rest of the world, and the winners
will go onto be eligible for the inaugural RIBA Lubetkin
Prize, for the most outstanding building by an RIBA member
outside the UK and the EU. The Lubetkin Prize will be judged
by an international jury who will visit a shortlist drawn
from winners of the RIBA International Awards.
These awards are an excellent opportunity to get your work
recognised internationally; the winning schemes will be
announced and exhibited at a high-profile gala dinner at
the London Hilton in June, and published in the Architectural
Review.
To enter these exciting new awards visit http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Also/Awards_5057.html
to download entry forms and a guide to entering. Alternatively
contact the RIBA Awards Office for more details. Entries
must be sent to the RIBA at 66 Portland Place, London by
5pm on 2 March.
