I did a little digging to learn more about a photo of a papercrete
house in Tijuana Mexico I posted last week.
I found out some VERY exciting information. This was not just any
humdrum house.
The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) has
awarded the Grand Prize in a 2008 competition to that papercrete
house in Tijuana Mexico.
http://www.ncarb.org/Prize/2008/GrandPrize.html
Here's the same link as a tiny clickable url:
http://tinyurl.com/6r39ys
NCARB Grand Prize
From the Cal State Poly website:
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The College of Environmental Design is proud to announce the
Architecture Department has won the National Council of Architectural
Registration Boards (NCARB) Grand Prize for "Low cost sustainable
housing, Tijuana Mexico". The NCARB Prize grand carries with it a
cash award of $25,000 that will be presented to the Department of
Architecture. Read more
The 2008 NCARB Prize jury, comprising members of the Council's
Practice Education Committee and six academic representatives (deans,
heads, or chairs) from schools with architecture programs accredited
by the National Architectural Accrediting Board, (NAAB) nominated by
NCARB's regional leadership, met March 26-27, 2008 in Houston, TX.
After considering 31 entries representing 22 different colleges and
universities, the NCARB Prize grand prize—a cash award of $25,000—
will be presented to the Department of Architecture, California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona for its project LOW COST SUSTAINABLE
HOUSING FOR TIJUANA, MEXICO. The jury's decision was announced during
the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual
Meeting Awards Ceremony, March 28, 2008 in Houston, TX. This project
directed by Architecture faculty Pablo La Roche, Irma Ramirez and
Lyle Center director Kyle Brown, explores the development and
integration of sustainable technologies for low-cost housing in
Tijuana through design, construction and research courses developed
over the course of two academic years.
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source: http://www.csupomona.edu/~arc/arc_home.html
same source (tiny clickable): http://tinyurl.com/5lq8qk
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It looks like papercrete is starting to get more broadly recognized
and respected by academia and professionals. This is a very very
good thing.
The entire structure cost $1500 to build! Awesome!
It looks like a very fascinating project. Following is a more
detailed write up.
http://www.ncarb.org/Prize/2008/LowCostHousingTijuanaSubmission.pdf
Here's the same link as a tiny clickable url:
http://tinyurl.com/65jtye
Please join me in offering congratulations to everyone at California
State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
I also request any Papercreters member that has personal knowledge of
the team that built the house in Tijuana to contact me personally at
slurryguy@yahoo.com I would like to invite members of that team to
discuss their project with Papercreters.
NICELY DONE CAL-ST. POLY!!!
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "slurryguy" <slurryguy@...>
wrote:
>
> I'm finding all kinds of interesting photos today.
>
> Here's a nice papercrete structure in Tijuana, Mexico.
>
http://www.flickr.com/photos/silverlake_kris/2450051804/in/photostream
/
>
> Just in case Yahoo chops up the above link so that it doesn't work
> right, following is the exact same url in a tiny clickable url:
> http://tinyurl.com/5frxu5
>
> When you look at that web page, take a look to the right of the
photo.
> There are several other views of the structure that you can view by
> clicking on the far right thumbnail picture. It's part of a large
> photoset. There are 6 papercrete related photos. The rest of the
> photos are unrelated to papercrete and are about the photographer's
> vacation. I'm not familiar with the photographer.
>
> If anyone knows more about the structure, please don't hesitate to
post
> what you know.
>
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