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The Lifecycle Building Challenge Winners

Category: Building | Tier: Student

TriPod: A Plug and Play Housing System
Carnegie Mellon University
TriPod is a prototype house demonstrating the "Plug and Play" concept and is designed to provide an innovative alternative to the currently unimaginative housing industry. The principle of separating served and servant spaces is utilized by creating a mechanical "core" that acts as a motherboard that is able accept multiple "pods" that are living, cooking, and sleeping spaces. This modular design allows homeowners to change their homes by adding or subtracting pods to suit their needs over time.

Category: Building | Tier: Professional Built

Loblolly House: Unbolt, Detach, Reassemble
KieranTimberlake Associates
The Loblolly House represents a novel approach to pre-fabricated and modular housing concepts. The house introduces off-site fabricated elements which are detailed for on-site assembly, future disassembly and redeployment. This entry conducts a virtual house disassembly/reassembly, an embodied energy and carbon footprint analysis and accounts a design-for-reassembly scenario to evidence the potential of a near 100% waste diversion design intent.

Category: Building | Tier: Professional Unbuilt

The Workshop
Schemata Workshop
The Workshop is assembled of prefabricated building components for optimized efficiency and minimum waste. There are two units in the building — in the first iteration the first story is an office; the second is an apartment. The building is elevated on concrete piers and cantilevers over an existing structure on-site. Only the existing building and concrete piers will remain after the building is relocated for its next lifecycle.

Category: Innovation | Tier: Student

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.

Category: Innovation | Tier: Professional Built

PlanetReuse
PlanetReuse
PlanetReuse.org is an on-line resource that provides homeowners, architects, decon professionals and local municipalities with an industry solution to find, reclaim and sustainably deconstruct and reclaim building materials. PlanetReuse was created to enable material reuse at all levels, from residential, commercial to municipal and this successful concept, continues to remove common barriers associated with material reuse and is pushing forward in completing a buildings' Life Cycle.

Outstanding Achievement Award and Satellite Competition Winners

Outstanding Achievement Award: Best Greenhouse Gas Reduction Design

Outstanding Achievement Award: Best School Design (K–12)

Outstanding Achievement Award: Best Residential Design

Spoor House
Spoor Design
The goal of this project is to promote sustainable living in suburban communities. The design focus is on a dwelling to the size of the average home built in the 1970s, which is 1550 sq. ft., on a 0.1 acre plot. The house is to be prefabricated with 5 ISO containers, using off-the-shelf sustainable technologies, and conventional building techniques. Design and material choices are governed by longevity, environmental friendliness, and strength.

Satellite Competition: Best of the Bay Area

Contain Your Enthusiasm
Group 41 Architects
Used shipping containers are the refuse of modern, consumer society. About 50% are designed for a single use. The cost of their re-use being too high, they pile up at major shipping points and are left to rust. The problem grows as we consume more. Upcycling used containers is a highly "green" and responsible alternative. Three containers make a gracious 3-bedroom home of 1300 s.f. and 9 foot ceilings. We've softened their industrial quality with simple wood trellis elements that provide shading.

The Lifecycle Building Challenge Honorable Mentions

Category: Building | Tier: Student

Sustainable Prototype
Studio 804, University of Kansas
The Sustainable Prototype serves as an Arts Center in Greensburg, KS. The construction and delivery of The Sustainable Prototype was provided on the one year anniversary of the tornado that devastated Greensburg. Although the building was developed for the long term use by the Arts Center, its immediate use as the first completed public facility serving as a beacon for the community and its ambitious rebuilding efforts was a motivating factor in its design.

Category: Building | Tier: Student

Second-Life Iraqi Housing: Temporary to Permanent
University of Utah
The design I came up with consists of flat-packed, folding panels which are brought to the site by the marines along with the supplies they already bring. The structure can be quickly erected by the workforce of 36 marines during the night. This scenario was chosen due to the current situation of arriving by night, commandeering a home, fortifying the home with sandbags and weapons placements and having a defensible location for the morning.

Category: Building | Tier: Professional Built

GVP: Design with Deconstruction in Mind
IDEAS
The Grass Valle Project is an integrative design process that incorporates principles of Environmental Design, Green Building, Passive Solar, Natural Daylight, and Reclaimed Building Materials. The design of the GVP was influenced by remaining structures from the Empire Mine State Park, located adjacent to the property. The main goal for the GVP was to provide a concentrated example of vernacular design constructed with a hybrid of current and reclaimed building technology.

Category: Building | Tier: Professional Built

Corporate HQ Renovation for Multiple Lifecycles
Haworth, Inc.
XYZ, Inc. renovated its U.S. headquarters by stripping the building to its metal skeleton and concrete structure. More than 98% of deconstruction materials were reused, down-cycled or donated. Modular building materials replaced conventional construction materials (drywall, ceiling ductwork). Movable walls, raised access flooring and modular systems office furniture combine to reconfigure and adapt as necessary, minimizing future waste and extending the building through multiple lifecycles.

Category: Building | Tier: Professional Unbuilt

ME:LU
AB Design Studio
ME:LU stands for Modular Expandable: Living Unit and is based on a concept of providing a housing module that can work for a single person, a family, or even a temporary work force while still exemplifying a lifecycle form of design. We have designed expandability and sustainability/re-use into our modular living unit by using a standard cargo container with identical openings. This allows for the containers to be reconfigured in various ways and added to the initial layout of two containers.

Category: Innovation | Tier: Professional Unbuilt

Life-Cycle Assessment Study of Buchanan Building-D
Busby Perkins+Will
Originally built in 1960 as a multi-purpose classroom, Buchanan-D (5,090sm) is currently being renovated under the university's Renew Program. The goals of the project are to meet the current and future academic needs, and optimize space to improve learning and research, while addressing the university's deferred maintenance debt. As part of the project, a post-mortem life cycle assessment and salvage value cost estimate study was completed using the Athena Environmental Impact Estimator tool.