Trans/spot: Transient Awareness Center
HOK Intern Program: University of Illinois
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.
About the Entrants
Howard Mack
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
M. Arch II Candidate, January 2010
Hampton University Architecture Dept.
M. Arch I Graduate, May 2008
Currently pursuing his second master’s degree in architecture, Howard Mack’s interests are generally based on any conceptual interpretations of the built environment. His experience this past summer at Helmuth Obata & Kassabaum inc. allowed him to explore these interests as he worked on projects that exemplified various design resolution. This summer he was also privileged with the opportunity to participate in the Lifecycle Building Challenge and has a renewed awareness of how architecture can be used to enhance future built environments.
Shaney Peña-Gómez
BARCH 2003, MLA Candidate 2008
Shaney is currently working in a year-long internship with the HOK Planning Group in Chicago as part of the academic training sponsored by the Fulbright program. At the same time, she is working on her thesis research that deals with maps as design process in a transboundary landscape shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic where national parks are being privatized for tourist development. Shaney is also an architect and is very interested in the overlapping of the different scales of design that explore environmental, social and political issues. In this sense, the lifecycle building competition was an opportunity to insert the urban scale, which helped understanding the environmental and social impact of an architectural object beyond its spatial limits.
Jeremy Anterola
MLA Candidate-Kansas State University
Jeremy is in his fifth year as a non-baccalaureate landscape architecture student at Kansas State University, where he is a member of Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society, SASLA, and Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, and serves as a senior designer for the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students, who were awarded the national Chapter of the Year Award in 2007 as well as third place in the conceptual design of an educational campus for the urban district of Parramore in Orlando, Florida. Jeremy has also been fundamental in the development of the Corretta Scott King Commemorative Garden containing the life-size bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Kansas State University campus, and will be working with the team in developing schematic and construction documents for the proposed design-build project. He is currently working on his senior capstone project as well as conceptual design for the 2008 NOMAS competition for a Civil Rights Memorial and Interpretive Center in Washington DC.
His involvement with the Lifecycle Building Competition has helped developed further technical understanding of sustainable, wholistic design solutions, and he hopes to apply these principles in future design opportunities.
Chris Housley
Chris Housley is a 5th year B. Arch student at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Since joining HOK as an intern this past summer he has had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects within their Healthcare group. In addition to presentation and working drawings – he also had the chance to learn and implement some energy modeling through the program Ecotect – ultimately influencing the design for the competition entry. Previous experience has included work at two separate small residential and commercial architectural firms.
Alison Lang
Alison is a 2010 M. Arch Candidate from Washington University in Saint Louis, and she has a B.A. in Environmental Design from the University of Missouri – Columbia. Currently Alison is absorbed in projects focused on formal and social aspects of architectural systems through the lens of nature and culture at Washington University. This past summer she enjoyed interning with the HOK office in Chicago while also creating a community service competition held in Saint Louis for the M. Arch graduate students of Washington University. She appreciates having the opportunity to work on the Lifecycle Building Challenge with such wonderful colleagues and looks forward to participating in more competitions that benefit the built world in positive and meaningful ways.