Winners of the Architecture at Zero competition announced

The Architecture at Zero competition is open to students and professionals worldwide, engaging architecture, engineering, and planning students and professionals in the pursuit of energy efficient design. The competition challenge is to create a zero net energy bayside community education and visitor’s center supporting the mission of the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies (RTC).  

This facility is San Francisco State University’s center for estuary and ocean science located on 53 acres of bayside property in Tiburon, California. The competition consists of an overall site plan to accommodate the program, and the design of two buildings in detail to indicate zero net energy (ZNE) performance.

Professional Merit Award: Bay Area Transect (pictured above)
Arrowstreet, Boston, MA

Architects: Steve Zuber, Lee Robert, Cristina Desloges, Kate Bubriski Copley Wolff Design Group
Landscape Architects: Becky Rupel, Christine Wilson, Andrew Arbaugh
HTM Office Architect: Hector Torres

Professional Citation Award: Aestus 
4240 Architecture, Inc., Denver, CO

Designer: Ian Wilson
Project Architect / Designer: Marc Snyder
Designer: Sara Murray
MKK Engineers
Systems Innovation Lead, Daylighting, Renewable Energy: Tom Hootman
Mechanical Engineer, Systems Innovation: Penny Cole

Student/College Honor: Romberg Resurgence 
New School of Architecture and Design, San Diego, CA

Project Leader: Ivan Hu
Project Architects: Mehdi Taghavi, Jayro Lopez
Faculty Advisor: Tatiana Berger

Student/College Honor: Transparencies 
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 

Project Designers: Sydney Flannery, Briyana Rainer
Faculty Advisor: Kevin Stevens

Student/College Merit: Terra Delta 
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Project Designers: Kyle Johannes, Samantha Sowell, Carl Weaver
Advisor: Kevin Stevens

Student/College Merit: Tiburon Treasure 
The University of Arizona,Tuscon, AZ

Project Architects:  Masoud Sharikzadeh, Maryam Kazemi

Student/College Special Recognition: RENOVATIO
University of Camerino, Architecture and Design, Folignano, Italy

Project Architects: Andrea Cinciripini, Francesco Liverotti

Student/College Special Recognition: Using Up Water
Waseda University, Chigasaki, Japan

Building Design, Load calculations:  Shunsuke Yoshida, Hiroya Inage, Yuto Katayama

Student/Highschool Merit: Project Butterfly
Burlingame High School, Burlingame, CA

Designers: Robert Rochel, Gemma Greening, Gino D'ambra, Dominic Bueno
Adviser: Anna Liu

Student/HighSchool Citation: Architecture at Zero Wave Project 
Burlingame High School, Burlingame, CA

Project Architects:  Julia Geurse, Kaia Fink
Advisor: Anna Liu