Political Ply - An Arid Zone Shade Structure
Honorable Mention for Innovative Reuse, Product—Student
Political Ply explores methods of re-purposing existing political campaign signs to form a temporary arid-zone shade structure. The structure is composed of hexagons and each cell has a self contained cooling structure. The project is designed for disassembly, and each hexagonal cell is tapered to allow cells to stack together for convenient transportation.
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About the Entrants
Jason Griffiths, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Assistant Professor
Jason Griffiths gained his professional qualification at the Bartlett UK and is a partner of Gino Griffiths Architects in collaboration with Alex Gino. He began teaching in 1994 at the Bartlett (M.Arch) and then went on to teach at Oxford Brookes and University of Westminster as a senior lecturer. Jason’s teaching career is paralleled with competition work winning prizes in eleven competitions including first prize in both the AA FAB 2009, Temple of Laughter, Millennium Café competitions. Other competition prizes include Future Visions of Kyoto, Aomori Housing, Shinkenchiku Residential Design (three times) and the Oklahoma Memorial. In 2003 Jason and Alex came to the US to conduct a sabbatical research/lecture tour of North American Suburbs. Prior to joining ASU he worked in Texas, Nebraska and Iowa. His teaching explores the design build studio as a vehicle for research interests in both digital fabrication and contemporary iconography. Completed works in this field include Arts Pavilion for Iowa State, Sioux City Bus Stops and ASU Dining Pavilion. He is currently building a house in Mojave Desert in collaboration with Alex Gino. Jason has been published in many academic and professional journals including the Journal of Architecture, Architecture, Sunday Times, World Architecture, Building Design and AJ. He has lectured in Spain, Italy, Mexico and the USA for institutions that include ESTAM, In-Arch, UNAM, Rice, Sci-Arch, the AA and the Bartlett.
Student Entrants:
Taylor Ahlmark
Susan Franco
Miljan Glogovac
Hussam Khoury
Brian Lee
Eric Stewart
Jamison Vaughn