Pawel Ostrowskii ’08 was selected by a distinguished jury to be the recipient of the form.Z Joint Study Program Award of Distinction for Visualization and Illustration, receiving the award during a Dinner ceremony at the ACADIA Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia on October 4th.

Pawel’s project, a multi-programmatic dwelling, used a time-based qualitative mapping of the movie “four Rooms” as a means of developing site, massing, programmatic, and cladding logics. The awards speaks specifically to the beauty and craft of Pawel’s investigational drawings. The richness of detail and content is a testament to the level of dedication Pawel placed in his work.

At the end of each academic year auto*des*sys collects projects created through the form.Z Joint Study Program and publishes the annual form.Z Joint Study Report. One of the traditions the program and its report have established is the presentation of annual awards for exceptional work by students, nominated by a select group of jurors within the Digital Media industry.

Pawel’s work was completed as part of a 4th and 5th year Architectural Studio taught by Bob Trempe. The role of the studio was to treat the computer as a tool for exploration and investigation, allowing students to take seemingly abstract systems developed around the idea of an event (the accumulation of instances) and dissect/analyze them. Through this analysis students took part in the evolution of a basic idea from initial investigation through to final site intervention, deploying digital media techniques coupled with formal, scalar physical models and digital composites that forced students to test these results in more architectural terms throughout every step of the process.