Student Award Competition

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2012 Mock Firms Competition
A NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) team won the MCM Group Mock Firms International Skyscraper Award, the highest honor in the international 2012 Mock Firms Competition collegiate division held in Chicago. The undergraduate team, which also won the titles of Top Sustainable Mock Firm and Top Architecture Mock Firm, was among six finalist teams in the competition’s college division, formally called the International Skyscraper division.

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2012 Steel Design Student Competition
Two NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) teams received honorable mentions in the 2011–2012 ACSA/AISC Steel Design Student Competition. Their noteworthy designs of a hypothetical culinary arts college in San Diego placed them in the top 2% of more than 300 designs submitted nationally.The 12th annual Steel Design Student Competition is administered by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).

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2011 CANstruction San Diego Competition
A team of 10 NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) students won the top prize of Juror’s Favorite at the CANstruction San Diego competition, held Oct. 20–23. The winning design depicts a toppled bull partially covered by a grass-colored road meant to signify prosperity for all while recognizing the cultural relevance of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The Juror’s Favorite category criteria are based on a number of factors including overall theme and best use of labels, according to architect Julie King, chair of CANstruction San Diego. The NSAD team also won in the category of Structural Ingenuity. The NSAD students used about 2,000 cans to construct their project, which was inspired by the Occupy Wall Street-inspired project.

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2011 Cal Poly Design Village Competition
Student teams from NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) earned three of the six first-place awards, four of the six second-place awards, and two of the six third-place awards at the annual Cal Poly Design Village competition in San Luis Obispo. It was the fourth time in five years that NSAD teams came home with the top prizes.

NSAD’s structures won for Best Overall Design by students Matthew Devan, Erick Morales, Tran Pham, Matt Palumbo, and Dane Torrens; Structural Craftsmanship by students Carlos Chaparro, Henry Chi, Ei Khin Khin and Francisco Nunez; and Best Community Space by students Forrest Agnew, Jared Barrios, Alex Pisch, Justin Shepard and Kevin Spenla. Additionally, NSAD’s teams took second place in the categories of Best Overall Design, Structural Craftsmanship, Best Community Space and Best Livable Space and third place in the categories of Creative Portal and Best Livable Space.

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2010 seekingSHADE Student Design Competition
Carla Jovenda Wijaya, a third-year student in the Bachelor of Architecture program, was awarded second place in the 2010 seekingSHADE Student Design Competition. The concept of the bridge’s shade structure is derived from defining the border itself. The San Ysidro land border can be described like a semi-permeable membrane. Just like a membrane, the border’s purpose is to protect and facilitate.

The goal was to have a light and airy effect of the shade structure. In the morning, the shade filters a certain amount of light. It shades the pedestrian from the sun but it still allows light into the bridge. At night, the tensile fabric covering the bridge disperses the light from the light post, making the bridge glow. The shadows and silhouette from the aluminum panels, structure and tension cables creates a semi-porous membrane appearance.

2010 Cal Poly Design Village Competition
'Hollywood Hanger' was designed by the NewSchool team comprised of second year architecture undergraduates Joao Costa, Max Mcilwee, Brandon Nash, Daniel Ordonez and Tim Smith.  The design was inspired by the movie projector and colored panels that made up the roof. All structures were made of found material: the frame was made of an old trampoline, the roof panels were scraps of corrugated plastic and tarp, the floor frame was old bleachers with plexiglass and wood panels, the front and rear canopies were old boat sails and the hammocks were old lounge chair fabric held up with the springs from the trampoline. The roof was able to slide open on a PVC track and both canopies were pulled open with a pulley system. The solar panels were placed on the rear canopy which charged a car battery that was stored under the floor, the car battery gave power to a laptop, speakers and projector.  And so a movie house was created.

This design won first place for Most Habitable Structure at the 2010 Design Village Competition.