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Greening the 
Industrial City
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Greening the 
Industrial City Greening the 
Industrial City

Buildner is pleased to announce the results of the Greening the Industrial City competition.

Participants are asked to submit a masterplan proposal for an industrial park that was built over a natural waterway. The jury sought proposals that cleverly exposed the natural beauty of the waterway underneath the industrial park, as well as those that addressed neighborhood concerns.

The top entries from the competition will be critiqued during an in-person jury event that followed a TEDxHouston Countdown event. The countdown is a series of TED talks focused on innovative solutions and thought leadership in addressing the effects of global warming. Selected competition entries will be displayed in the auditorium of the TEDxHouston Countdown speaker series.

Buildner worked with an excellent regional jury that consisted of: Amna Ansari is founding partner of UltraBarrio, an urban design and architecture practice with a central goal to shape cities to be more civic, sustainable, and generationally connected by design; Juan José Castellón, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture at RICE University; Dalia Munenzon, who serves as the Boston associate for One Architecture & Urbanism, leading the firm’s projects in the greater Boston area; Marcus Martinez is a Partner at UltraBarrio where his experience in architecture and urbanism is dedicated to topics that foster resilient communities, repurposing infrastructure, and building types that relate to cycles of scarcity, surplus, and obsolescence; and Kirby Liu, a real estate developer focused on creative projects that have city wide impacts, who has led the development of POST Houston, the OMA-designed adaptive reuse of an abandoned post office in downtown Houston.

Buildner and its jurors congratulate the winning participants and thank all those that contributed to this ideas competition.

We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise

Amna Ansari

UltraBarrio

USA

Juan José Castellón

RICE University in Houston

USA

Dalia Munenzon

One Architecture & Urbanism

USA

Marcus Martinez

UltraBarrio

USA

Kirby Liu

POST Houston

USA

1st Prize Winner

Project name

Life Spiral

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Authors
Pavel Nishchanka
Olga Dolinina
Yura Korolev
Yuliya Nesviatayeva
Country
Belarus
  • 8/10 Linework
  • 9/10 Quality of drawings
  • 8/10 Balance of color
  • 8/10 Layout
  • 8/10 Hierarchy
  • 8/10 Annotation
  • 7/10 Text
  • 9/10 Clarity of story
  • 9/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 8/10 Quality of overall presentation

2nd Prize Winner

Project name

BAYOU AS: COMMUNITY

It’s a necessary exercise, both internally and externally of the profession, for designers to participate in an imaginative disciplinary dialogue. Having the possibility of a platform to share our ideas with others is also a great additional opportunity.

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Authors
Adam Scott
Olivia Pinner
Andrew Gresset
Robin V Hueppe
Country
United States
  • 10/10 Linework
  • 9/10 Quality of drawings
  • 10/10 Balance of color
  • 9/10 Layout
  • 9/10 Hierarchy
  • 8/10 Annotation
  • 8/10 Text
  • 9/10 Clarity of story
  • 9/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 9/10 Quality of overall presentation

3rd Prize Winner

Project name

Water, Land, and People

Competition is a good way for us to test our thoughts and skills. It allows us to think outside of the box and envision how an idea can take off and be visualized in a short time-frame.

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Yoona Ahn
Peter Salim
Country
United States
  • 9/10 Linework
  • 9/10 Quality of drawings
  • 8/10 Balance of color
  • 8/10 Layout
  • 8/10 Hierarchy
  • 9/10 Annotation
  • 9/10 Text
  • 10/10 Clarity of story
  • 9/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 9/10 Quality of overall presentation

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

Houston Habitat Oasis (H2O)

Authors
Susanto Soenjoyo
Reyhan Frumentius layrenz
Zen Zhang
Nevin Yu
Country
Indonesia
Project name

New Central City Metropolitan Park

Authors
Matías Griffiths
Nicolás Iza
Sebastián Alarcón
Kevin Johnson
Country
Chile
Project name

intensify/densify

Author
Burck Schellenberg
Country
United States
Project name

Meridian

Author
Joel Mbala-nkanga
Country
United States
Project name

PULSE

Authors
Milen Neshev
Velislava Valcheva
Country
United Kingdom
Project name

EVERGREEN YARDS

Authors
Joel Samuel
Yelena Vieyra
Chris Blahuta
Gassan Nasr
Country
United States

Shortlisted projects

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Meridian

Joel Mbala-nkanga
United States

intensify/densify

Burck Schellenberg
United States

Spirits of the city

Daniel Landström
Sweden

BAYOU AS: COMMUNITY

Adam Scott
Olivia Pinner
Andrew Gresset
Robin V Hueppe
United States

New Central City Metropolitan Park

Matías Griffiths
Nicolás Iza
Sebastián Alarcón
Kevin Johnson
Chile

Project Purification

Jacob Weiner
Jonathan Walch
Gabriel Monterossa
John Paris
United States

Camp Community

Amaira Hill
United States

HOUSTON IN GREEN

Aubrey Phillps
United States

Project Helix

Justin Eckhardt
Terence Hallinan
Siyanie Christopher-brewley
United States

EVERGREEN YARDS

Joel Samuel
Yelena Vieyra
Chris Blahuta
Gassan Nasr
United States

Water, Land, and People

Yoona Ahn
Peter Salim
United States

Life Spiral

Pavel Nishchanka
Olga Dolinina
Yura Korolev
Yuliya Nesviatayeva

Level 80

Belarus

PULSE

Milen Neshev
Velislava Valcheva
United Kingdom

Houston Habitat Oasis (H2O)

Susanto Soenjoyo
Reyhan Frumentius layrenz
Zen Zhang
Nevin Yu

PlaceMaking Architects (PMA)

Indonesia