AIA Small Projects Awards 2009

Friday, August 7, 2009

AIA Small Projects Awards 2009
The award is divided into three categories: objects, structures and accessible residential design


AIA Small projects Awards: Structures
Trail Restrooom Austin by Texas Miro Rivera Architects

Trail Restroom is located in a park of downtown Austin, which is also the location of the Lady Bird Lake Hike and Bike Trail. Panels walls are arranged in a dynamic ways and plates are staggered to allow views and ventilation into the restroom. AIA Small projects Awards: Structures
Media Arts Cleveland by Ohio Robert Maschke Architects

Media Arts Cleveland, a single bamboo structure forms a new identity by using a different texture and created a new architecture image.

AIA Small projects Awards: Structures
Dar Luz, Glow 2008 by Laboratory for Environments, Architecture & Design Inc

Glow 2008 is an international Forum of Light in Art and Architecture and Dar Luz is a catwalk structure fitted with laser curtains within the scafford. The catwalk structure is intended to let the human to explore it as their mass will be scanned and lighting and soung systems will be triggered according to the size and speed of the individual.

AIA Small projects Awards: Objects

Cup CityAustin, Texas by Legge Lewis Legge

Cup City, constructed by 25,000 pieces of garbage, installed at 41 Rent-A-Fence Panels. The chain-link walls are fitted with bottles, cups and cans.

AIA Small projects Awards: Objects

Counterbalanced Steel Stair,Bozeman, by Montana Intrinsik Architecture

Staircase usually eat up a lot of space, counterbalanced stair which can be manually pull down or push up solve the above problems. A pre-manufactured aluminium stair, with the use of innovative steel detailing is used.

AIA Small projects Awards: Objects

Mobile Chaplet Fargo, North DakotaMoorhead & Moorhead

The ideas of Mobile Chaplet (a small molding carved to resemble a string of beads; astragal.) come from covered wagons that transported settleers to the midwest. Mobile Chaplet is one of The final pattern consists of two vaulted forms, one nested inside the other. Constructed on a trailer bed, the vaulted canopy is composed of more than 200 30-foot long thermoplastic composite rods. A bench floats above the trailer bed supported by the rods.

All above images and details from Archrecord website . Other award projects in Archrecord website.