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Category: Innovation   |  Tier: Student

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"Synergy"
With the use of piezoelectric materials, energy from earthquakes, especially earthquake prone areas, electrical energy can be produced to energize a entire buildings.
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trans/spot: transient awareness center
Our structure is a modular configuration that is assembled in empty lots across the city of Chicago to provide information to the local residents. In time, the structure has the flexibility to truly adapt to the needs of the community. The lifecycle of this building is an empirical tool for educating the city. The solution is not necessarily for prototypical building forms but more so for creating modular accessible informational public spaces. It is “sustainability,” but in a different form.