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Winners Announced

2024 Steel Competition

Steel Innovation Center & Open

Schedule

April 10, 2024

Registration Deadline

June 5, 2024

Submission Deadline

Summer 2024

Jury Convenes

Fall 2024

Winners Announced

WINNERS OF THE 2024 STEEL COMPETITION

(AISC) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (麻花视频) are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Steel Design Student Competition. The competition recognizes eleven exceptional projects, in two categories, that explore a variety of issues related to the use of steel in design and construction.

CATEGORY I: STEEL INNOVATION CENTER

This category asks students to design a Steel Innovation Construction Center in downtown St. Louis, MO. The site is part of the Construction Innovation District & Master Development just south of the Gateway Arch. Program spaces include areas for exhibition, fabrication, training, and community outreach. Steel is the primary material.

CATEGORY II: OPEN

Offers 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

The Exploration of Expression
Students: Russell Tong & Porter Watson
Faculty Sponsor: Carlo Sturken
Institution: Woodbury University

Juror Comments: The Exploration of Expression provides a clear and concise program with great detailing in the sophisticated graphics. A playful design using the structure as part of the architecture in a poetic way. The extension of the existing Mural Mile wall is inventive and playful.

1st Place

O.P.C.S. T-157 [Garbage Monster]
Students: Logan Jacobs, Jude Bell & Christian Salazar
Faculty Sponsors: Pasquale De Paola & Kevin Singh
Institution: Louisiana Tech University

Juror Comments: O.P.C.S. T-157 [Garbage Monster] is a provocative well-executed design of infrastructure as architecture. The students created ocean architecture that appears as a vessel for recycling plastics.

2nd Place

Infinite Innovation
Student: Eric Duenser
Faculty Sponsor: Randall Deutsch
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Juror Comments: Infinite Innovation designs a creative round-space steel frame that provides efficiency in the structure. The building appears to levitate over the river wall is a novel way to engage the site.

2nd Place

Liminal Library
Student: Collin Rohr
Faculty Sponsors: Lee Su Huang & Sarah Gamble
Institution: University of Florida

Juror Comments: Liminal Library uses a variety of structural systems that feels innovative and beautifully detailed. There is a marriage between the building and the steel forms that addresses sustainability in an effective way.

3rd Place

Gateway South Innovation Center
Student: Sulaima Salim
Faculty Sponsor: Osman Attmann
Institution: University of Colorado Denver

Juror Comments: Gateway South Innovation Center is a design with a focus on adaptability (expansion and contraction based on innovation center needs), which is the key to this beautifully detailed building. The building has an industrial elegance with excellently rendered drawings, creative use of daylight, and clear steel structure.

3rd Place

Almaraz Cross-Creation Hub
Student:
Benjamin Shapiro
Faculty Sponsor: In茅s Mart铆n-Robles
Institution: University of Virginia

Juror Comments: Almaraz Cross-Creation Hub is a provocative design with convincing diagrams and a thorough steel plan. The porous diagrid structure works within the neighborhood allowing for art creation and gathering spaces at many scales.

Honorable Mention

Skyforge/Steel Horizon
Students: Kevin Bui & Garrett Gudmundson
Faculty Sponsor: Gerard Smulevich
Institution: Woodbury University

Juror Comments: Skyforge/Steel Horizon is grounded in the St. Louis location connecting the site to the sky. The simple steel design used in the cantilever harkens back to the industrial surroundings.

Honorable Mention

Spires Mendenhall Research Center
Students:
Noah Berryhill & Alex Klocek
Faculty Sponsors: Pasquale De Paola & Kevin Singh
Institution: Louisiana Tech University

Juror Comments: Spires Mendenhall Research Center has captivating images and renderings that provoke the mind. The natural surroundings of the Alaskan frontier is an unexpected location for such a large steel structure.

Honorable Mention

Overlapping Illumination
Students:
Cristian Gomez & Mo Zaina
Faculty Sponsor: Osman Attmann
Institution: University of Colorado Denver

Juror Comments: Overlapping Illumination is a playful project with a strong well-developed building section. The round-diagrid steel design creates a beautiful building that appears as an object.

Honorable Mention

Performing On The Cliff
Students:
Lucas Peiyu Luo & Adrian Suciu
Faculty Sponsor: Fei Wang
Institution: Syracuse University

Juror Comments: Performing On The Cliff is an incredibly thorough project with a complex program that celebrates steel. The project is a catalyst for cultural preservation and community revitalization.

Honorable Mention

P.R.S.M
Students:
Nathan Bucy & Alfredo Avendano Salcedo
Faculty Sponsors: Pasquale De Paola & Kevin Singh
Institution: Louisiana Tech University

Juror Comments: P.R.S.M is an exuberance of the steel structure that is both innovative and impactful.聽 The building appears to have a light tough on the site as seen in the beautiful renderings and drawings.

Participating Schools

The competition had over 900 participants from the following schools:

Academy of Art University, Auburn University, Ball State University, Belmont University, Boston Architectural College, California Polytechnic State University, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Carleton University, Carnegie Mellon University, Cuesta College, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Glendale Community College, Harvard University, Kean University, Kennesaw State University, Louisiana Tech University, Madison College, Mississippi State University, Morgan State University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Oklahoma State University, Prairie View A&M University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Savannah College of Art and Design, Southern Illinois University, Syracuse University, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, Toronto Metropolitan University, Universidad An谩huac, University of Colorado Denver, University of Florida, University of Houston, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University of Kentucky, University of Maine at Augusta, University of Maryland, University of Missouri – Columbia, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Oklahoma, University of Oregon, University of Southern California, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Texas at Austin, University of Toronto, University of Utah, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Washington University in St. Louis, Woodbury University

Competition Partners

Edwin Hern谩ndez-Ventura
Programs Coordinator
ehernandez@acsa-arch.org
202.785.2324

Eric Wayne Ellis
Senior Director of Operations and Programs
eellis@acsa-arch.org
202.785.2324