JURORS
Culinary Arts College:
Carol Burns, Taylor & Burns Architects / Wentworth Institute of Technology
Erleen Hatfield, Buro Happold
Gerard Smulevich, Woodbury University

Open Category:
Ursula Emery McClure, Louisiana State University
Seung K. Ra, Oklahoma State University
Christine Theodoropoulos, Universtiy of Oregon

The jury selected three winners and multiple honorable mentions in each category. Click on the images below to view the project details:

CATEGORY I: CULINARY ARTS COLLEGE
First Place | Second Place | Third Place | Honorable Mentions

CATEGORY II: OPEN
First Place | Second Place | Third Place | Honorable Mentions

CATEGORY I: CULINARY ARTS COLLEGE
CATEGORY I: CULINARY ARTS COLLEGE FIRST PLACE Project Title: The Paris Market Lab Faculty Sponsor: Jonathan Reich Student: David Heck School: California Polytechnic State University Jury comments: This winning submission is a wonderful architectural expression of steel; where steel is both clearly used in the background and also as infill in the foreground. This design works well in its use of steel construction in Paris and within the contextual fabric to create provocative monumentality, like the Eiffel Tower’s example of a terrific use of steel. The project defines the simplistic reading of a collage, with a juxtaposition of a culinary arts college and a market. The presentation is subtle, seizing on the content block with overall subtlety in the design strategy.
CATEGORY I: CULINARY ARTS COLLEGE SECOND PLACE Project Title: Culinary Arts College Faculty Sponsors: Jeff Krieger, David Ade, Jim Rowe, David Brawer, Kurt Raymond, Robert E. Nalls Student: Eric Simon School: Drexel University  Jury Comments: This winning design submission’s use of a steel frame structure creates a permeable volume that fronts the public space. The project has a variety of scales, from super structure with floor plates, with a variation of structure, to an assortment of inside to outside spaces. The students clearly integrated steel structure and sustainable objectives. Though the design project is attached to elements of urban structure, it does not depend on them and has its own identity, making attachments without losing its own character. There are variations within the building allowing for its self-sufficient aspect while connecting two separate ends of the building.
CATEGORY I: CULINARY ARTS COLLEGE THIRD PLACE Project Title: Native American Culinary Arts Institute (NACAI) Faculty Sponsor: Kevin Stevens Student: Michael Markham School: Louisiana Tech University Jury Comments: This project is driven by the climate and landscape of the city of Phoenix with a clear response to the location. The building’s arrangement of two edges creates a void of an urban space plaza. The steel structure provides the project with perforated steel skin apertures; creating a pattern of shadows, evocative of the native culture. This aspect of light and shadow is an eloquent and pragmatic response.
CATEGORY I: CULINARY ARTS COLLEGE HONORABLE MENTION Project Title: ‘Futurist.Culinary.Matrix’ Faculty Sponsor: Keith Evan Green Student: Jingjie Zhao School: Clemson University
CATEGORY I: CULINARY ARTS COLLEGE HONORABLE MENTION Project Title: Culinary_Bridge Faculty Sponsor: Thomas Fowler IV Students: Jose Sanchez and Adam Strauss  School: California Polytechnic State University
CATEGORY I: CULINARY ARTS COLLEGE HONORABLE MENTION Project Title: Culinary Arts Institute of San Diego Faculty Sponsor: Hussein Munaim Students: Michael Knowlton, Forest Agnew, and Daniel Botten School: NewSchool of Architecture and Design
CATEGORY I: CULINARY ARTS COLLEGE HONORABLE MENTION Project Title: San Diego School of Culinary Arts Faculty Sponsor: Hussein Munaim Students: Kyle Duvernay, Ian Patzke, and Siah Afrasiabi School: NewSchool of Architecture and Design
OPEN CATEGORY
CATEGORY II: OPEN FIRST PLACE Project Title: Kansas City Soccer Training Center Faculty Sponsor: Kent Spreckelmeyer Student: Dan DeWeese School: University of Kansas Jury Comments: This winning submission has a comprehensible structure, good details, clear program, and truthful intention, with a focus of trying to illustrate an idea all the way through design from beginning to end. The steel is configured to create tectonic spaces using honeycomb geometry, which will allow the building to become the branding element linking the soccer stadium to the architectural hexagon shapes. The long span space is well defined by the material parti and emphasizes the soccer motif.
CATEGORY II: OPEN SECOND PLACE Project Title: Landscape: Rehabilitation Research Center Faculty Sponsor: Roman Montoto Student: Jason Allred School: University of Idaho Jury Comments: This project has terrific integration of site with the tectonic of the building. It is intriguing to see how the land and structure work together to create the overall character. The structural characters of the long span elements are evocative of agriculture sprinklers. The delicate and light filled frames take advantage of steel’s lightness and the project expression. The submission has a clear complexity of design while preserving a clarity of program.
CATEGORY II: OPEN THIRD PLACE Project Title: [Re]Purposed Faculty Sponsor: Eric Olsen and Gerard Smulevich Students: Teagan Castellon and Brian Diaz School: Woodbury University Jury Comments: This project is innovative in adaptively reusing old refinery parts of drums and plates. The form and design of the project is clearly expressed with reflections to the refinery. The design also illustrates a sensitivity to selected environmental conditions, and this sensitivity appears to permeate major formal decisions. The submission is evocative with a floating quality, over the water. Cantilevered design elements have a delicate, subtle quality reflective of the behavior of the structure. Local aesthetics were taken into consideration with the deep porch condition as the adaptation of an existing building type. All in all, an ethereal project.
CATEGORY II: OPEN HONORABLE MENTION Project Title: Cartesia: Bridging Pertinent Space Faculty Sponsor: Gil Snyder Students: Andrew Coenen and Connor Fischer School: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
CATEGORY II: OPEN HONORABLE MENTION Project Title: INTERTWINE: An Energy Resource Machine & Wildlife Habitat for Maldives Faculty Sponsor: Sinisha Brdar Students: Marilina Cianci and Yekaterina Artemchuk School: McGill University
CATEGORY II: OPEN HONORABLE MENTION Project Title: Multi-Functional Urban Connectivity Faculty Sponsor: Camilo Rosales Student: Fabio Segre School: Florida International University

For more information on the ACSA/AISC Steel Design Student Competition Winners, visit www.aisc.org/studentdesign.       

FOR MORE INFORMATION
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