College of Built Environments at the University of Washington.
Seattle team wins national sustainable design competition
Thursday March 2009
The Seattle team of Hybrid/Owen Richards Architects, which included CBE alumni Tom Mulica (MArch 2005) and Kate Cudney (MArch 2005) won the 2008 99k House Competition to design an affordable, sustainable house prototype in the Gulf Coast Region.
Chosen among 184 entrants from 29 states and 16 countries, the Hybrid/ORA design features a highly flexible plan with a compact core and demountable partitions, allowing the house to adapt to the changing needs of its inhabitants. In addition to extensive green building features such as rainwater harvesting and natural ventilation, the design addresses sustainability on a broader conceptual level, allowing for increased density by placing two houses on one site and enabling ease of future conversion to duplex units. The jurors, all nationally recognized leaders in sustainable residential design, included CBE Architecture Professor Michael Pyatok. The competition sought sustainable, innovative designs that could be build and sold for $99,000 or less, and was sponsored by the Rice Design Alliance and AIA Houston, and supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Link address: http://www.the99khouse.com/finalists.html