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Temple Students Design Award-Winning Green Buildings

  03.07.08    
       


Nick Musser and Alex Miller
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Tim Barnes
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Jonathan Detwiler
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Third year students in Professor Sally Harrison’s Urban Studio won top awards in the Delaware Valley Green Building Council (DVGBC) 2007  Design Competition for a sustainable community  learning center in Fairhill/Kensington, neighborhood in Philadelphia. Fourth-year student Chris Willich entered independently was awarded honorable mention.

Nick Musser and Alex Miller, “Cultivating Mind, Body, Place.” Alex and Nick  addressed holist view of sustainability reusing the abandoned industrial building inspired with the urban architectural idea of humanizing an urban typology originally built for purely economic production. The two were awarded $1000 and invited to
present their work at the GreenBuild Conference in Chicago in November 2008.

Tim Barnes. “Creating a Network”. Tim’s project emerged from an elegant urban design that proposed a node of mixed uses and existing human services. He addressed green design strategies at each level of design: location, orientation, massing, space and systems, and wove them together into an evocative building that won the Chairman’s Net Zero Energy Challenge, a $2,000 award was given by the chairman of DVGBC.

Jonathan Detwiler, “Sustain and Connect”. John’s building was an urban connector of space, people and natural flows.The design distributed a series of built spaces and courtyards along the building’s circulation spine. Jonathan Detwiler won third prize of $250.

For a copy of the Temple Times article, click here.

 
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