exhibition opening

Berlin Summer Academy 2011 
Adaptive Interface - Building Envelope

5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17 
Lightfoot Forum, College of Design

Opening reception for an exhibition of student work from the ARS Berlin Summer Academy 2011, which teamed architecture and landscape architecture students from Iowa State University with students and young professionals from Germany and Italy to work on design projects in Berlin. The projects were based on a pre-existing master plan for an urban brownfield rehabilitation site (EUREF) and aimed to develop strategies for adaptable, flexible mixed-use building typologies with a focus on the building envelope as an interface for light, solar radiation and air.

The teams worked with energy modeling and dynamic daylight simulation software as a design tool and integrated quantitative and qualitative daylighting, illumination and shading strategies as performance parameters into their designs. A smaller group of ISU students continued the project into the fall 2011 semester; their further elaborations on the designs created last summer also will be a part of the exhibition.

The 2011 program was developed by Ulrike Passe, ISU assistant professor of architecture and director of the ISU Center for Building Energy Research, and Robert Demel, visiting professor at the Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin, home to the ARS Berlin Summer Academy. Dremel and Professor Willy Hasselmann, the coordinator of the summer academy, will be guests at the exhibition reception..

2011 BTES EMERGING FACULTY AWARD

Architecture Lecturer Rob Whitehead received theBuilding Technology Teaching Award for Emerging Faculty from the Building Technology Educators' Society (BTES) Aug. 6 at its annual conference in Toronto. The award recognizes excellence in teaching performance, innovation and commitment by an emerging faculty member in building technology education. Whitehead teaches design studio, undergraduate structural technology courses and graduate-level building technology seminars, including SCI-TECH, a sequence of architectural technology courses that incorporates sustainable design principles. Congratulations!

Healthcare Design Competition
ISU student project named a finalist

A project for Methodist Hospital in Omaha, Neb., created by a team of interior design and architecture students in Assistant Professor Jihyun Song's spring 2011 Healthcare Design Studio, has been named a finalist in Nurture's Collegiate Healthcare Design Competition. Bethany Luhrs and Rebecca Warren both received BFA degrees in interior design in May; Brittany Dieleman received a Master of Architecture in May and is now pursuing her MFA in interior design. Competition winners will be announced in September and awards will be presented at the Healthcare Design Conference in November.

2011 Hospitality Design Award

Four recent Iowa State University graduates won the top award in the student project category of the 2011 Hospitality Design Awards for Creative Achievement sponsored by Hospitality Design magazine.

William Reihmann, Honolulu; Laura Scallon, Chicago; Jennie Sorensen, Muscatine, and Kevin Wagner, Des Moines, won with their design proposal for Deck, a luxury resort hotel for South Beach in Miami Beach, Fla. Reihmann and Wagner received Bachelor of Architecture degrees, while Scallon and Sorensen received Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in interior design from Iowa State in May 2010. They developed their winning project as seniors in a spring 2010 interdisciplinary design studio class taught by associate professors Jason Alread, architecture, and Cigdem Akkurt, interior design.

This is the fourth year a student team from Iowa State has been a winner or finalist in the HD Awards competition. Congratulations!

Affordable Housing Symposium Report

The Affordable Housing and Disaster Resilience Symposium report is now online. Led by architecture assistant professor Nadia Anderson and sponsored by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, National Endowment for the Arts and ISU College of Design, the project documented physical and social conditions that led to significant affordable housing impacts from the 2008 floods in Cedar Rapids. The April 2011 symposium assembled national experts in affordable housing, disaster resilience and sustainable design with local stakeholders to discuss findings and outcomes not only for Cedar Rapids, but also other flood-prone communities.