2022 SARA Student NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS WINNERS
EXCELLENCE AWARDS
Lee Douglas Min Yi & Yee Foo Lai | UC Berkeley
NYC Public Housing Extension, New York, NY
“An affordable, modular and socially driven housing extension prototype for public housing estates in the United States, using Riverton Square Apartments in Harlem as an initial test bed for utilizing existing housing stock to add more housing while providing varying robust public spaces for both new and existing residents.”
Jaewon Choi | Washington University in St. Louis
Grafting New Context for Urban Fragments, St. Louis, MO
“The project is re-occupying unused spaces in the urban fabric fractured by abandoned industrial infrastructures. The design uses passive shading and wind flow to cool and protect the crowds during hot and humid midwestern weather.”
Sara Brandt &
Ayesha Agha | Pratt Institute
Green Village, Los Angeles, CA
“Green Village is an affordable housing project that embraces cooperative community living, densifying the Los Angeles low-rise urban fabric and providing vertical layering of greenspace in order to support and embrace the needs of South LA residents.”
Honor Awards
Trey Erwin, Logan Dolezal & Caroline Goertz | University of Nebraska
Retreat, Tarrytown, NY
“Located on waterfront property near the Hudson River, this new satellite office building is designed using progressive ideas surrounding workplace culture in light of the rapidly changing workplace ecosystem.”
MERIT AWARDS
Min Lin | Washington University in St. Louis
Hydro-social Water Treatment Urban Deck, St. Louis, MO
“This project takes abandoned infrastructure and makes it into an ecological spot/ urban deck with shaded spaces where people gather to be with missing nature (River des Peres, plants, animals). It also creates a microclimate phenomenon (waterfall, water cleaning, and swamp) to retain and refresh the water from flooding.”
Rebecca Virgl &
Keleigh Ketelhut | University of Nebraska
UNL Water Toxicology and Meteorology Research Station, Gretna, NE
“This Water Toxicology and Meteorological Research Center seeks to blend environmental conservation with cutting edge research and sleek, accessible architecture informed by the specific program needs of the space.”
Meixi Xu | School of Visual Arts
Víðsýni Iceland Volcano Coffee Shop, Mývatn, Iceland
“Víðsýni references the circular shape of the volcano, which represents a language of unity and bonding.”
Hsiang-Ting Huang | School of Visual Arts
A Transitional Place of LOVE, New York, NY
“This is a traditional hotel designed for families who have been through trauma and incarceration. The inhabitants will live in the “HOME” for three months. While working to pay for their lodging is a valuable opportunity to make connections and to get to know their children more when living together.”
Meixi Xu | School of Visual Arts
Modular Collective Housing: The Neighborhood & Housociety, New York, NY
“The Neighborhood is a modular housing system focuses on unifying a diverse community of people by utilizing common spaces that encourage interactivity; this prefabricated residential system provides custom services for multi-family modular units; it's a representation of the versatility and wide range of customization capabilities of The Neighborhood housing system.”