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DESIGN COMPETITION

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www.greenbuildermedia.com 10.2015 Teams stretch their design skills and test their building
science knowledge as they compete to design the best
zero-energy multi-use building for a site in Portland, Oregon.

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T HE PERFORM COMPETITION, now in solar PV panels would exceed its energy consumption
its second year, encourages architecture on an annual basis—in other words: Did the design
students and interns to explore the nexus represent a net-zero-energy building? With this energy
between high-performance building and performance prerequisite determined, the jury then
high design. As a builder that partners judged entries based on the criteria of resourcefulness,
with architecture firms on every project replicability and beauty.
it builds, Hammer & Hand launched the competition
to help advance the energy performance training of With 50 entries, participation in the perform
emerging design professionals and to demonstrate that competition doubled compared to last year. Two dozen
performance and design are inherently complementary. academic institutions from across North America were
represented, plus as many private architecture firms.
This year’s competition challenged students
and interns to design a zero-energy, mixed-use A group submission by University of Cincinnati
building for a site in the heart of Portland, Oregon’s students Jon Lund, Narek Mirzaei and Luis Sabater
Eastside. Entrants and jurors evaluated the energy Musa won the $3,000 first place award. Two runner-up
performance of design concepts using perFORM’s winners, a group from University of Illinois Urbana-
energy verification spreadsheet to determine if a given Champaign and an individual from California State
design’s energy generation from onsite renewables like Polytechnic University Pomona, will each receive a
$1,500 award.