BUILDING CATEGORY
Honorable mentions go to:

Anthony Piede from Georgia Tech University in Atlanta for Nine Components of Residential Architecture for an integrated system of components, simplifying design, construction, and disassembly with a steel bearing pin foundation assembled without poured concrete and modular decking frame.

Greta Modesitt a student at the University of Virginia for the Community Revival Shelter, a concept that offers an alternative for communities rebuild permanent neighborhoods after disasters.

Dan Rockhill an architect at Studio 804, at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas for Modular 3, a 1,200 square foot living space composed of six modules.  A movable storage wall permits splitting an area such as a single bedroom into a separate office and storage space at the homeowner's whim.

Dru Mceown from Lakewood, Ohio, for the Re-use of Cleveland Iconographic Structure that transforms a deconstructed building into public transit infrastructure and furniture.

Koji Saida with Saida and Sullivan Design Partners in San Francisco for Transformative Multi-family Housing which standardizes all the building components using a simple connection system. By exchanging some standardized wall panels, a 2 bedroom unit transforms into a 3 bedroom unit and then into office space.

Winners

Student:
A team including Adam Fenner, Jason Bond, Tomas Gerhardt, Josh Canez, and Nick Schaider from Texas A&M University in College Station for their project, groHome
Using a library of pre-manufactured components brought to a site and assembled efficiently, the structure is designed with a specialized connector joint designed to receive a beam on four sides and a column or foundation on the top and bottom. All of the connections are bolted, which allows for components to be unplugged easily and without damage. Radio Frequency Identification Tags (RFID) can be embedded making it possible to take inventory and check the history of components.  The project even includes a community building game called Utopia 2.0 to allow neighbors to plan for changing family and community needs.

Professional built entry:
Erin Silva with the Miller|Hull Partnership for her project, Pavilion in the Park in Seattle, Washington.
The 11,100 square foot Pavilion in the Park’s entire structure is designed for future transportation, reassembly and reuse in a new location. The building’s parts separate at three integrated joints to break into four separate modules spanning forty feet wide by seventy-three feet long, and each module can be moved on trucks by surface street.  Gangway ramps with hinged joints allow the entryways to adapt to the topography of future sites.

Professional, unbuilt building:
Michael Berk with the University of Mississippi for his project, GreenMobile.
This building uses fewer parts on the assembly line by constructing the floors, walls, roofs, and interior walls out of structural insulated panels. The envelope assembly sits atop a standard trailer bed for transport and delivery.  As family structures also grow and change, "pre-fabricated plug-in" rooms, porches, and surface mounted wiring, can be easily added and subtracted.