Middle and high school students shine at the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial Student Ideas Competition | News

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The CAB Student Ideas Com. is now in its fifth editionPetition, hosted by the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB), encourages middle and high school students to explore design in their immediate built environment. The competition invited students to find out how “design can play a role in creating common spaces and improving communities”.

For the iteration in spring 2021, the participants were inspired by the theme of the biennale, The Available City, under the direction of the artistic director David Brown. Each project had to answer the following question: “How can existing urban spaces be rethought to better meet the needs and interests of local residents?”

Students were also tasked with developing projects addressing architecture and the built environment through “various disciplines such as design, humanities, visual and performing arts, and STEM areas”.

The competition was open and free to Chicagoland 7th to 12th grade students. Winning projects and teams were honored in a virtual ceremony. The first, second and third place winners also received money and technology prizes. “The winning entries were identified as community-specific, resourceful and with a creative use of materials,” emphasized the organizers.

This is followed by the first, second and third place winners and their projects.

FIRST PRIZE – THE FLOATING VILLAGE

First place winners: ACE Chicago Team 5 – Keylan Aguilar, Sarah Baker, Carlos Carretero, Luca Casler-Bustamante, Vicky Chen, Hangching Cheung, Daniel Cruz, Alexander Gordon, Fionn Hui, Isaac Izaguirre, Benjamin Kittaka, Casey Kowalsky, Mia Kowalsky , Camila Marden, Ewan McLean, David Morales, Andrea Nava, Dante Ragozzino, Crystal Reyes, Giselle Romano, Stephanie Sangabriel, Benjamin Sherman, Darnell Shields, Keaton Soriano, Diego Urenda and Dan Velez Jr.

Design team: ACE Chicago team 5
Teacher: Hiba Bhatty and Matt Gilbert
School: Several

Project description: “The Floating Village” is a homeless shelter that caters to the basic (rest), psychological (revive) and self-fulfilling (return) needs of those affected by homelessness. The shelter is located on vacant lot near Mckinley Park. The proximity to a large park, grocery stores and other facilities are easily accessible for the residents of the Floating Village and contribute to the basic needs of the individual.

The Village is re-imagining Maslow’s hierarchy of needs by dividing rooms and services into three categories: rest, revitalization, and return. As the majority of the homeless are individuals, we have provided a number of individual residences with shared laundry facilities above a community resource center. For Revive we shaped the village in a circle so that each unit can enjoy the green courtyard and although the users live alone there is a sense of belonging to a community, like a village! Finally, return includes the education, employment and mental health resources for the community. From a library to soak up your intellectual juices, a yoga / meditation room to rejuvenate your spiritual side, to a fitness center to work out and even a donut shop to reward yourself at the end of the day, our village really brings people together in all of his rooms.

SECOND PRIZE – PERSPECTIVE TOWER

Second place winner: Owen Summers

Design team: Owen summer
Teacher: Mr. Devin Mays
School: Chi-Arts (Chicago High School for the Arts)

Project description: This project reinvents spaces in neighborhoods by creating an elevated space that would otherwise be flat. This is done to create a public space that allows anyone to get a bird’s eye view of their community. Chicago and its neighborhoods are built on relatively flat terrain with little to no elevation changes. This means that most residents only ever see their neighborhood through the lens of a street view or their window. If this proposed project were implemented, members of any ward could easily walk to these elevated spaces and get a broader perspective of their neighborhood. Because of this, residents are given the opportunity to more easily imagine their communities and rethink their place in them.

THIRD PRIZE: GROCERY GARDEN – A bodega for North Lawndale

Third Place Winners: Rosina Iniguez (12th Grade, Muchin College Prep), Ian Hudson (11th Grade, Jones College Prep), and Jason Hart (11th Grade, Jones College Prep)

Design team: Rosina Iniguez, Ian Hudson and Jason Hart
Teacher: David Rader
School: Jones College Prep and Muchin College Prep

Project description: Our project, the Grocery Garden, is proposing a new bodega on this vacant lot on W. 15th Street and Kedzie Avenue. Our goal is to create a recognizable landmark with accessible and safe public space that alleviates the food wastage and plays a positive role in community life. The bodega is a small grocery store that offers healthy food for residents. We created a community garden on W. 15th Street where residents can grow and collect their own produce. This enables the bodega to offer educational programs and show residents where their food is coming from. In addition, the bodega offers training and training rooms for skilled trades, such as a training kitchen and versatile training rooms for workshops and training. The bodega’s sustainable properties, including a sloping green roof and self-shading glass, reduce energy consumption and surface water runoff. These features will improve public health and improve the quality of the neighborhood. The bodega’s colorful facade and height ensure that it becomes a neighborhood landmark, a destination for residents and an enrichment of North Lawndale’s public life.

RECOGNITIONS

• Arts Center in North Lawndale by Chloe Acosta, Maya Diaz, Angelynn Jimenez, Montserrat Lopez, Daveon Merrick, Devin Otto, Dominic Ridarelli, Max Rojas, Nicholas Tam and Michael Wangler
• Arts N Parts – North Lawndale by Sebastian Aguilar-Ripley, Ayomid Ajayi, David Davila, Alejandro De la Fuente, Marshall Ellis, Thomas Lawless, Eduardo Mora, Earl Christian Valzado and Wynton Wright
• Austin 2.0 by Ari Bates, Lazaria Brewer, Denim Cole, D’aja Dudley, Tyshawn Harris, Thelonious Johnson, Kenyatta Jordan, Keeontaye Mack, Stephanie Nelson, Jamesha Sumler and Tiya Walls
• Chicago by Kaleia Maxey and Sabine Ramirez
• Modular reinvention by Fernando Cisneros, Daniel Morales and Elias Frey Reschly
• Safe pedestrian walkway near South Shores Grand Crossing by Sandra Varona
• Steam park by Mia Fritsch-Anderson and Nina L.

To find out more about the 2021 CAB Student Ideas Competition and all of its winners, click here.

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