Study Architecture 
ProPEL Winners Announced
2025 Steel Competition
Library+ & Open
WINNERS OF THE 2025 STEEL COMPETITION
The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Steel Design Student Competition. The competition recognizes thirteen exceptional projects, in two categories, that explore a variety of issues related to the use of steel in design and construction.
Category I:
LIBRARY +
This category asked students to design a library in a community of their choice. Students were invited to submit design proposals that address how a library can contribute to the community as a more integral part of the civic fabric.
1st Place
Category I: Library +
Steel Harvest
Student: Laura Murguía
Faculty Sponsor: Alice Guess
Collaborator: Melanie Parker Dameron
Institution: Savannah College of Art and Design
Juror Comments: Steel Harvest is an outstanding design for the innovative and expressive use of structural steel. The cantilevered box truss and custom-fabricated masts are technically ambitious. The design balances complexity with clarity, demonstrating how steel can create long-span flexibility while also integrating environmental strategies such as rainwater collection. Beyond the structural innovation, the design is socially and environmentally responsible, offering a well-rounded vision that blends disaster relief, community engagement, and ecological care.
Project Description
In moments of disaster, what people need most is each other. However, many communities today are disconnected, isolated by routine, distance, or a lack of a platform within the community to come together. In the event of a disaster, isolation can become dangerous. Yet when people know their neighbors, share meals, stories, and memories, they become stronger, more resilient, and prepared to face challenges together rather than alone.
This project proposes a new kind of civic anchor in the small town of Dahlonega, North Georgia, a hybrid library and kitchen designed not only as a place of knowledge and nourishment but as a space to foster trust and lasting bonds. At the core of this proposal is an expressive steel structure: a cantilevered box truss that hovers above the ground, sheltering the landscape below and symbolizing protection through unity. The truss is supported by two custom-fabricated steel masts inspired by castellated beams, celebrating the lightness and precision that steel can offer. These masts form hollow vertical spines that collect rainwater and house an auditory fountain, signaling to visitors that the building is alive and responsive to its environment. They also double as vertical habitats for displaced white pines on site, reintroducing ecological care into the built environment. A wraparound rigid balcony frame along the south and west façades acts as a brise-soleil, diffusing natural light into the library and reading spaces to support comfort and well-being.
The ground level is rooted in earth, using rammed earth walls to create a warm, grounded atmosphere for the community kitchen. This tactile space invites neighbors to cook together, share recipes, and engage in hand-crafted traditions that build cultural memory and social collaboration. Adjacent gardens grow native edible plants, encouraging awareness around food, health, and sustainability.
By blending steel’s structural innovation with natural materials and sensory experiences, this building becomes more than a shelter; it’s a vessel for connection. It prepares the community not just for potential disasters, but for the daily emotional and social resilience needed to thrive. When people gather, learn, and cook together in a space designed to hold them physically and emotionally, they become less likely to face the future in isolation.
2nd Place
Category I: Library +
Nexus Library +
Students: Kimberly Yan & Shunta Abe
Faculty Sponsor: Katrin Terstegen
Institution: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Juror Comments: Nexus Library + is a compelling design that demonstrates a thoughtful and well-resolved design, anchored by a deep structural framework. The steel core and bracing system is both structurally expressive and spatially significant, elegantly linking the library with the civic plaza. The space planning is carefully considered, with a clear translation from massing diagrams to physical models, resulting in a design that is both practical and visually engaging. Overall, the design showcases how steel can drive structural innovation while fostering civic interaction within a captivating architectural vision.
Project Description
This project is envisioned to promote civic and community engagement through the design of a library and integrated “plus” program. Its primary goal is to stimulate local economic development through reintegration services and transitional employment. A secondary goal is to create a democratic public space that fosters leisure, informal exchange, and social connectivity.
The architectural massing starts with a single volume that is split through the center to open up the ground plane, inviting community interaction and linking the building to its urban context. Programmatically, this divide separates the lower portion as a vibrant public plaza and elevates the upper volume as the library. Bridging these two spaces is a steel core and bracing system that serves both structural and spatial functions, creating a hybrid form of public space throughout the building.
Steel is the essential structural framework that makes this vision possible. The cantilevered library is supported by a large steel truss running through the building, anchored to the steel core and stabilized by tension rods. The steel core is composed of vertical columns and diagonal bracing that channel the building’s loads downward. Most critically, all structural forces are ultimately transferred to three massive diagonal steel columns positioned at each corner of the base; these are the project’s structural linchpins, carrying and distributing the vertical loads to the foundation.
Material choices further articulate the building’s logic: terracotta grounds the plaza as a folded landscape, while the library floats above in a transparent skin of mesh and curtain wall, symbolizing boundless knowledge. The exposed steel core and bracing visually connect and structurally unify the spaces. Together, the elements support a range of public experiences and foster inclusive community interaction.
3rd Place
Category I: Library +
Urban Incline
Student: Ayush Singh
Faculty Sponsor: Leandro Piazzi
Institution: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Juror Comments: Urban Incline is a clear and practical design that feels both complex and efficient. The meticulous use of steel to resolve the cantilevered structure and open outdoor spaces is well thought through with precision. The integration of the ramp and terraces creates a dynamic public living room that fosters community engagement. The truss and tension rod system is handled with clarity and complexity, allowing generous column-free spaces while maintaining an elegant architectural imagination.
Project Description
Situated at the corner of 10th Avenue and 20th Street, adjacent to the High Line in New York City, the Chelsea Public Library occupies a unique and dynamic site. Traditionally, movement through the city follows the x and y axes of the urban grid, defined by intersecting streets and avenues. However, the introduction of the High Line has added a new dimension—movement along the z-axis—elevating circulation above the street level. This site becomes a critical urban node where all three axes of movement intersect.
In response, the building acts as a connective link that joins these modes of circulation together. The elevated nature of the High Line introduced a sectional condition that became a driving force in the design. To address this, a ramp system stretches from the street level up to the High Line, with integrating stairs and seating along the way. This ramp acts as a public living room, encouraging community engagement and blurring the boundaries between library and city.
This gesture also defines the project’s parti: two distinct volumes in contrast—one grounded and heavy, the other light and suspended. This interplay between anchored and suspended is made possible through a steel structural system. By centralizing the building’s cores, trusses extend outward to support the cantilevered event space above the ramped public space. The event space is hung by means of tension rods that trace load back through the trusses and eventually into the cores. Also, by positioning the cores in a central location, column free spaces are created as girders span from the core to load bearing walls.
Above all, the design is a response to the unique spatial and circulatory qualities of its context. By embracing the vertical and horizontal axes of urban movement, the library becomes a link within the city’s evolving fabric.
Honorable Mention
Category I: Library +
Books and Building Blocks
Students: Jo Herendeen, Ty Pierce & Ivy Smith
Faculty Sponsor: Daisy-O’lice Williams
Institution: University of Oregon
Juror Comments: Books and Building Blocks is an imaginative design that conveys the design’s narrative with impressive clarity, offering a thoughtful vision for the future of libraries. The integration of a family center and youth activates is refreshing and mature, addressing the complexity of community needs in an inclusive way. The exposed steel framing is expressed in a straightforward yet effective manner, reinforcing the project’s transparency and ease of fabrication.
Project Description
Our library program re-imagines the role of a civic space in Santa Clara, Oregon; a family-centered unincorporated community overlooked in the broader urban development of nearby Eugene. Beyond traditional library functions, the design prioritizes two complementary programs: a family center and a youth-oriented design workshop. Together, they form a hybrid public resource where access to knowledge meets creative empowerment.
The architecture is centered around visibility, of structure, of activity, and of community life. Exposed steel framing highlights the structural logic of the building, fostering transparency and inviting curiosity. The design workshop, fully visible from the public realm, puts making on display, inspiring young visitors to engage with design as a tool for self-expression and problem-solving. Vibrant color is used strategically throughout the space to signal zones of energy, learning, and creativity; creating a dynamic environment that reflects the pulse of its users.
A gradient from exterior to interior guides visitors through layered thresholds, where public plazas, transitional canopies, and active gathering zones ease the boundary between the neighborhood and the library. This porous edge encourages daily use and makes the building a natural extension of community life.
At its core, the project aspires to create a structural feeling of place, where the steel skeleton is not only an expressive design element but also a metaphor for support, resilience, and growth. The library is both a beacon and a workshop: a place where knowledge is stored and made, where families are welcomed, and where young people find space to imagine and build their futures.
Honorable Mention
Category I: Library +
Fletcher Library
Students: Wiame Rabbaa & Agustin Ochoa
Faculty Sponsor: Dylan Bachar
Institution: Woodbury University
Juror Comments: Fletcher Library is a strong steel design creating both structural clarity and architectural identity. The use of exposed steel elements provides a compelling framework that organizes circulation in a clear and comprehensive way. The jury appreciates how the atrium not only looks striking but also reinforces the building’s openness. With further refinement, the programmed spaces could more fully reflect the richness of the design’s narrative.
Project Description
Rooted in Frogtown, Los Angeles, this proposal reimagines the public library as an integrated Cultural and Learning Hub. Anchored by three cylindrical steel diagrid cores, the design establishes a clear structural hierarchy that supports open, transparent, and adaptable floor plates. The concept of “bridging nature and knowledge” drives the project, connecting the library to its park and riverfront context while fostering civic exchange. Wide landscape-integrated stairs, open reading gardens, and tiered seating dissolve boundaries between interior and exterior, positioning the library as both an architectural landmark and a resilient community framework.
Honorable Mention
Category I: Library +
Steel Cyclone
Students: Mikayel Sargsyan & Vahe Shahnazaryan
Faculty Sponsor: Paul Chiu
Institution: Glendale Community College
Juror Comments: Steel Cyclone presents an innovative and sophisticated use of steel, with framing and structural elements that creatively define the tornado-inspired form. There’s an appreciation for how the steel transforms into multiple forms, providing both structural clarity and visual dynamism. The design is impressive, with a thoughtful approach to circulation and community spaces that make the library engaging and distinctive. For further refinement, greater clarity on egress, and integration with the surrounding city context would strengthen the overall design.
Project Description
Inspired by the swirling power and visual dynamism of tornadoes, this architectural design reimagines the traditional library as a spiraling beacon of knowledge, community, and resilience. Set in Miami, Florida—a city known for both its sun-drenched beaches and vulnerability to tornadoes—the building symbolizes the tension between nature’s force and human creativity.
From the outside, angled walls and slanted steel columns create a tornado-like silhouette, enhanced by sweeping H-beams and welded rods forming structurally powerful triangular frames. This steel framework not only defines the building’s form but also reinforces its strength against natural forces like wind and gravity.
At the heart of the structure is a central 4-foot diameter steel pole that supports the building’s interior ramps and the planetarium above. The circulation ramps spiral upward around this core, leading visitors through an intuitive and ADA-compliant journey from ground level to the fourth floor.
The interior is divided into open and private zones to balance accessibility with functionality. While design promotes openness, the layout ensures privacy for staff and focused activities. Floor-to-ceiling windows on the upper levels flood the space with natural light and connect users with the surrounding environment.
Beyond being a library, the building offers a rich public experience—with spaces to read, learn, gather, and even dine. Its most iconic feature, a 150-seat planetarium on the fourth floor, invites exploration of the universe, anchoring the design in the spirit of discovery.
Honorable Mention
Category I: Library +
Urban Ensemble – From Module Systems To Chelsea Jenga
Students: Qi Han Zheng & Bennard Amponsah
Faculty Sponsor: Arta Yazdanseta
Institution: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Juror Comments: Urban Ensemble – From Module Systems to Chelsea Jenga receives praise for the design’s innovative use of a modular system. The thoughtful integration of sustainability benchmarks, with the steel frame provides both structural clarity and long-term adaptability. The circular diagram and explanation of the façade system could be clarified further to fully illustrate how each supports the design’s disassembly and recycling goals.
Project Description
As New York City implements increasingly ambitious green building mandates, the Chelsea Library responds with a structure optimized for Design for Disassembly (DfD). This methodology ensures that buildings can be efficiently dismantled and their components reintegrated into a circular economy. Steel is especially suited for this approach due to its structural durability, reusability, and compatibility with mechanical, reversible connections. (AISC, Steel and the Circular Economy, 2020).
This project was developed through the Comprehensive Design Studio II, a course that challenges students to reimagine the 21st-century library. This proposal goes further by embedding circular thinking into both form and structure. Located in Chelsea, NY, the design repositions the library not just as a civic hub, but also as a resource-conscious space that meets broader community needs, including reduced material waste and the inclusion of playful spaces. The steel frame supports a design that evolves in response to the city’s environmental and social priorities.
To ensure the design is measurable in its sustainability ambitions, three benchmarks were adopted. The first is 80% modularity, enabling modules to be reused, refurbished, or remanufactured. The second is material optimization, achieved by designing 80% of structural elements to perform at or above 80% of their capacity. This minimizes resource use from the outset. The third benchmark is ease of disassembly, assessed by limiting the number of fasteners per structural connection. With a target of five bolts per joint, the design reduces labor and complexity during both construction and deconstruction.
While traditional construction often results in excessive material waste and limited opportunities for reuse, this project proposes an alternative approach. It presents a steel building that is not fixed in time, but persistent. A model where the structure is not defined by permanence but by persistence, as it shifts, adapts, and endures in both form and value.
Category I: Library + Jury
Daniel Brown
Savannah College of Art and Design
Cathleen Jacinto
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Camille Sherrod
Kean University
Category II:
OPEN
This category offered architecture students the opportunity to select a site and building program using steel as the primary material. This competition category permits the greatest amount of flexibility for any building type.
1st Place
Category II: Open
The Still Armada
Students: Ethan Edington & Josue Ventura Vasquez
Faculty Sponsor: Genevieve Baudoin
Institution: Kansas State University
Juror Comments: The Still Armada distinguishes itself as the definitive winner, presenting a compelling and intelligent architectural response, with modular elements that feel both rich and varied. The boards are beautifully composed, featuring a restrained color palette and exceptional graphic clarity. Steel is used not merely as a material, but as an expressive element that shapes light, space, and structure in an essential and integrated way. While the design maintains an overall simplicity, it achieves a layered richness and site-specific quality, resonating with the maritime context and conveying a strong public presence.
Project Description
Still Armada is located within Island Gardens on the Isle of Dogs, a south-facing park along the Thames River in London. Positioned directly across from Maritime Greenwich, the site reengages a historic axis established by the Old Royal Naval College, a cornerstone of British naval education. The archive extends this legacy through a dedicated structure preserving documents and materials tied to Britain’s maritime past. The title refers to a quiet fleet, a British technological armada held in place, its stillness embodied through architecture. This axis informs the project’s organization and circulation, reinforcing a symbolic connection to context. Rather than being hidden or secondary, the archives are central to the design, structurally and experientially.
The building comprises eight distinct pods: six archives, a stair tower, and a map room/reception, serving as points of orientation on the archive level. Pulled apart in plan yet connected by a continuous walkway, these elements form a spatial rhythm guiding visitors across the site. A strong axial path culminates in a framed landing offering the first elevated view toward the archives.
Materially, the exposed steel frame and precision metal cladding draw from naval construction. Like a ship’s hull protecting its cargo, each archive pod is clad in a metal skin, solid in most areas, selectively perforated to admit light, air, and glimpses of structure without compromising what lies within. Overhead, a roof structure supported by triangular trusses and tapered columns touches down lightly, reinforcing the geometry and upward momentum of the pods.
The expansive roof acts as a horizontal datum, interrupted by rising pods evoking ship masts or hulls breaching the horizon. Still Armada is not just an archive; it is a spatial record and a new edge for the community, framing memory, movement, and public life.
2nd Place
Category II: Open
Nor-Cal 101 Fire Station
Students: Blayne Springer, Leyton Spencer & Matthew Wright
Faculty Sponsors: Pasquale De Paola & Kevin Singh
Institution: Louisiana Tech University
Juror Comments: NOR-CAL 101 Fire Station presents a thorough and futuristic vision for a fire station, one that feels both socially relevant and architecturally futuristic. The use of steel is tectonically expressive, forming an exoskeleton system that is layered, nuanced, and beautifully executed. The playful yet rigorous approach to a kit-of-parts strategy demonstrates how steel can create variety, richness, and a new architectural approach. The representation feels fresh and contemporary, while the wildfire narrative grounds the design in a powerful and urgent context.
Project Description
Since the 1980s, wildfires have continued to grow in size and intensity, with 15 of the 20 largest fires in California history occurring since 2000. Increasing fire frequency and drought-driven tree mortality are rapidly transforming forest biodiversity. These shifts in vegetation structure escalate both fire magnitude and frequency. The severity of these fires hinders natural ecosystem recovery, resulting in the loss of native plant life, the spread of invasive species, and the permanent destruction of critical wildlife habitats.
The proposed building is designed to directly support firefighting operations by serving as a command center and training facility for wildfire response teams. Located in Northern California on Lake Shasta, the building utilizes the natural reservoir in addition to rainwater collection for drought-resilient water storage. To ensure seismic resilience in California’s earthquake-prone environment, structural dampers are integrated throughout the foundation and structural members. Inside the facility are simulation spaces for urban, rural, and industrial fire scenarios. It also includes weight training and rock climbing to support firefighter fitness. Living quarters support necessary long-term occupation during training, deployment, and emergency response. Additionally, the helipad and garage support rapid mobilization and training of vehicles and aerial operations.
3rd Place
Category II: Open
Cloud-81: Syracuse Urban Incubator
Students: Zilin Jing & Jingxiang Zhang
Faculty Sponsor: Lauren Scott
Institution: Syracuse University
Juror Comments: Cloud-81: Syracuse Urban Incubator offers a thoughtful and innovative vision of circularity, grounded in thorough research on Syracuse and the community’s needs. The design compellingly explores the interplay between skeletal and skin structures in a contemporary manner. The graphics are both enticing and effective, clearly communicating concept and process. The design excels in reimagining the makerspace as critical infrastructure, linking urban recycling with community engagement in a way that is socially meaningful and architecturally sophisticated.
Project Description
This project reimagines the makerspace as a critical infrastructural node within Syracuse’s circular material economy, bridging demolition, recycling, and local production. Rather than functioning solely as a fabrication site, it becomes a dynamic processing hub that intercepts urban waste streams—from large-scale infrastructure teardowns like I-81 to household discards. At the city level, the facility partners with demolition projects to salvage materials (steel, timber, panels) through selective pickup services, diverting waste from landfills and reducing transport emissions. Below-grade industrial machinery processes these materials into reusable formats, while unsalvageable timber is converted into biomass fuel to heat the facility during winter.
At the community scale, residents exchange discarded furniture, textiles, and objects for material credits, redeemable for locally made goods. This incentivized system democratizes access to artisan products, challenging mass-produced alternatives by lowering costs through recycled inputs. The makerspace’s public interface adapts seasonally: summer features open-air markets built from reclaimed materials, while winter shifts to a drive-thru model to accommodate cold-weather mobility.
By leveraging I-81’s demolition as a catalyst, the project creates a hybrid civic institution—part workshop, part recycling center, part marketplace—that transforms waste into value, educates on material flows, and bolsters Syracuse’s resilience. It embodies transitional infrastructure, turning urban evolution into an opportunity for ecological and economic regeneration.
The horizontal axis represents a free plan—flexible, intuitive spaces that empower user agency, resisting fixed functions in favor of adaptation. Opposite this, the vertical axis embodies rigid planning: efficient, mechanical systems prioritizing productivity and controlled flows, where economic imperatives dictate spatial logic. Between them, the repurposed I-81 overpass mediates these extremes—transformed into a pedestrian corridor linking downtown to the university, its monumental scale reduced to human dimensions. Rather than demolition, it becomes a case study in adaptive reuse, leveraging infrastructure as a catalyst for material circularity.
Honorable Mention
Category II: Open
Royal Naval Archives: Within the Vessel
Students: Noah Kotlinski & Shane Gallagher
Faculty Sponsor: Genevieve Baudoin
Institution: Kansas State University
Juror Comments: Royal Naval Archives: Within the Vessel is a well-resolved and expressive structural concept that feels appropriate to its naval context. The use of physical models is especially compelling, helping to communicate the architectural intent with clarity. The graphics employ traditional yet effective communication that reinforces the design’s strength and comprehensiveness. Overall, the structural expression is clear, offering a distinctive approach that anchors the archive meaningfully within its historic setting.
Project Description
THE ROYAL NAVAL ARCHIVES, located in Island Gardens, Isle of Dogs, London, draws from the historical context of Maritime Greenwich and the Royal Naval College. Situated along the Thames, the building restores the axial alignment and symmetry established by the College and the Original Hawksmoor Axis. By extending and reinforcing this historical alignment directly through the structure, the design strengthens the site’s connection to its heritage.
Reflecting on naval ship construction, the design’s layered spaces and clearly defined thresholds emulate a vessel’s internal organization. The building is lifted above the ground by two V-columns, suggesting a ship anchored within the landscape. This elevated design creates sheltered public amenities, allowing pedestrians to experience the structure from underneath.
The Vessel’s layering extends into the landscape, where outdoor spaces play a critical role in the architectural strategy. A redesigned river retaining wall aligns directly with the building’s structural bays, incorporating seating and viewing platforms to engage visitors with river-based activities such as sculling and ferry transport. An adjacent garden, showcasing vegetation discovered during historic British voyages, frames the building and enhances its connection to the environment. Crane inspired Tensile Masts, layered into the structural system, support the V-columns, while an undulating sun-screen echos the protective steel hull panels found on battleships.
At the core of the building lie the Royal Naval Archives. Six modules, hung from the primary structure, provide specialized storage for artifacts and documents. These self-contained units are suspended within a layered substructure grid that extends both upward to the roof and downward toward the ground plane. Hoisted Pillars descend from each module, serving both the archival function within and the public programming below. Select faces of these pillars act as a memorial, commemorating individuals, ships, and contributions that have shaped the Royal Navy’s legacy.
HIGH TECH INFLUENCE
The building draws inspiration from London’s influential history of High Tech architecture. The city has long been a birthplace for experimental structural systems and forward thinking design approaches, championed by architects like Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, and Nicholas Grimshaw. These pioneers pushed the boundaries of material expression, transparency, and structural honesty—principles that continue to shape global architectural discourse. This project embraces those same values, using exposed steel systems, modular components, and a visibly articulated structural logic.
Honorable Mention
Category II: Open
Dubai Flow
Students: Zhirun Huang & Weixia Luo
Faculty Sponsor: Fei Wang
Institution: Syracuse University
Juror Comments: Dubai Flow presents a seductive and formally-driven design, anchored by an inventive steel web structure that informs both shape and performance. The clarity of the expressive double-skin system produces a scheme that is environmentally responsive while remaining culturally grounded. The boards are beautifully executed, reinforcing the depth and richness of the architectural narrative. The steel framework not only enables dramatic cantilevers and dynamic site movement but also powerfully translates cultural heritage into a contemporary architectural language.
Project Description
Dubai Flow is an Arab art center. The building was inspired by the traditional wind towers of Dubai. Our research shows that Dubai has many wind towers used for passive cooling, so we applied this passive ventilation strategy to the project.
The building is generated from an 11-meter cubic module. These modules are then combined, bent, and twisted to form a single unit of the building. There are five units in total, and they overlap to create the current form—like bridges connecting different Arab cultures.
These five units serve as exhibition spaces for Arabic calligraphy, clothing, film, weaving, and ceramics. The overlapping volumes form the core of the building and serve as vertical circulation paths, guiding visitors to the different exhibition areas. The wind towers within the building also serve as exhibition spaces.
Honorable Mention
Category II: Open
The Interstate Viewing
Student: Ta’riq Abdul-Rahman
Faculty Sponsor: Se Won Roy Kim
Institution: Ball State University
Juror Comments: The Interstate Viewing stands out for its bold and unconventional vision, presenting a utopian yet critical reimagining of the interstate’s legacy. The steel assembly is inventive and refreshing, emphasizing concept and narrative over typical approaches. The design conveys a sense of exploratory freedom, with a traveling armature that is both provocative and socially engaging. The student’s willingness to take risks and push the boundaries of architectural imagination makes this a distinctive and memorable contribution.
Project Description
The Interstate Viewing functions as a reflective memorial for interstate highways across the United States, highlighting the destructive legacy of the Federal Highway Act of 1956. This policy facilitated the construction of highways through thriving Black communities, disrupting social cohesion and economic stability. Designed as a temporary and site-adaptable structure, this project provides interim relief amid ongoing interstate removal processes. Applicable to cases such as the Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans, I-81 in Syracuse, and I-20 in Atlanta, this intervention—also referred to as the Intercommunal Resuscitation Device—is lightweight and portable, allowing residents to envision life prior to separation and speculate on post-interstate communal futures.
While urban planning and construction teams work on effective strategies to shut down interstates that run through neighborhoods, The Interstate Viewing, a.k.a. The Intercommunal Resuscitation Device can be assembled in a matter of weeks, using a system of prefabricated steel joints and members. Working in conjunction with changes in public policy, the lightweight project is centered on ease of assembly, restoration of community, and social service. The experience provided in this assembly will allow locals to explore what life may have been like before the separation, and what it may be like in the wake of the highway.
Category II: Open Jury
Robert Clarke
Cal Poly Pomona
Awilda Rodriguez
University of Oklahoma
Jade Yang
Kennesaw State University
