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ProPEL 2024 AISC/ACSA Steel Design Student Competition
Students and Faculty Awarded for Steel in Design and Construction
For Immediate Release:
Washington, D.C., August 30, 2024 – The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Steel Design Student Competition.
The 2024 AISC/ACSA Steel Design Student Competition challenged students, to explore various design issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. Participating students were offered the opportunity to compete in two separate categories. Category I challenged students to design a Steel Innovation Center in downtown St. Louis, MO. Category II presented students with the option to select a site and building program of their choosing, using steel as the primary material.
The eleven winning projects were selected based on the creative use of structural steel in the design solution and the successful design response to its surrounding context.
For each category, the jurors chose First, Second, and Third-place winners, along with additional Honorable Mentions. The award recipients for this year’s AISC/ACSA Steel Design Student Competition are:
CATEGORY I: Steel Innovation Center
First Place: The Exploration of Expression
Students: Russell Tong & Porter Watson
Faculty: Carlo Sturken
Woodbury University
Second Place: Infinite Innovation
Student: Eric Duenser
Faculty: Randall Deutsch
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Third Place: Gateway South Innovation Center
Student: Sulaima Salim
Faculty: Osman Attmann
University of Colorado Denver
Honorable Mention: Skyforge/Steel Horizon
Students: Kevin Bui & Garrett Gudmundson
Faculty: Gerard Smulevich
Woodbury University
Honorable Mention: Overlapping Illumination
Students: Cristian Gomez & Mo Zaina
Faculty: Osman Attmann
University of Colorado Denver
In Category II, the jurors chose First, Second, and Third place winners, along with three Honorable Mentions. Listed below are the names of the recipients, their project titles, and their faculty sponsor(s):
CATEGORY II: Open
First Place: O.P.C.S. T-157 [Garbage Monster]
Students: Logan Jacobs, Jude Bell & Christian Salazar
Faculty: Pasquale De Paola & Kevin Singh
Louisiana Tech University
Second Place: Liminal Library
Student: Collin Rohr
Faculty: Lee Su Huang & Sarah Gamble
University of Florida
Third Place: Almaraz Cross-Creation Hub
Student: Benjamin Shapiro
Faculty: Inés Martín-Robles
University of Virginia
Honorable Mention: Spires Mendenhall Research Center
Students: Noah Berryhill & Alex Klocek
Faculty: Pasquale De Paola & Kevin Singh
Louisiana Tech University
Honorable Mention: Performing On The Cliff
Students: Lucas Peiyu Luo & Adrian Suciu
Faculty: Fei Wang
Syracuse University
Honorable Mention: P.R.S.M
Students: Nathan Bucy & Alfredo Avendano Salcedo
Faculty: Pasquale De Paola & Kevin Singh
Louisiana Tech University
See renderings of the projects and get more information HERE.
The competition jury included:
Category I: Steel Innovation Center
Dana Gulling, North Carolina State University
Maria Mohammed, Structural Focus
Paolo Sanza, University of Oklahoma
Category II: Open
Genevieve Baudoin, Kansas State University
Bruce Danziger, Danziger Engineering Collaborative, Inc.
Jodi La Coe, Marywood University
About AISC
The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a non-partisan, not-for-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry in the United States. AISC’s mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural-steel-related technical and market-building activities, including specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, market development, and advocacy. AISC has a long tradition of service to the steel construction industry providing timely and reliable information. For more information, visit www.aisc.org.
About the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)
The mission of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture is to lead architectural education and research. Founded in 1912 by 10 charter members, ACSA is an international association of architecture schools preparing future architects, designers, and change agents. ACSA’s full members include all of the accredited professional degree programs in the United States and Canada, as well as international schools and 2- and 4-year programs. Together, ACSA schools represent 7,000 faculty educating more than 40,000 students.
ACSA seeks to empower faculty and schools to educate increasingly diverse students, expand disciplinary impacts, and create knowledge for the advancement of architecture. For more information, visit www.acsa-arch.org.
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