Student Design Competition

John William Seyer, Angel Manuel Ruvalcaba, Jeremy Spade, & Andrew Brown Texas A&M University
Undergraduate General Design Honor Award

This project assresses a new concept of destination healthcare, which combines healthcare facilities with resort amenities. A place where loved ones can heal, relax, and experience healthcare like never before. Located on a provate tropical island, guests can expect to find peace and tranquility with state of the art medical facilities, world renowned doctors and staff, private beaches, healing gardens/trails, retail, fine dining, and nightly shows in an outdoor amphitheater.

Xun Sun
Texas A&M University
Graduate General Design Award of Excellence

This project applies Feng-Shui principles to the urban design of the municipal administrative and cultural center district of Zhuji, Zhejiang Province, China. Feng-Shui is expressed through the design of landforms, water, paving patterns and color while meeting the clients’ programmatic requirements.

Keaton Tucker, Steven Wesolowski, & Bernard Ng
Texas A&M University
Undergraduate Analysis & Planning Honor Award

Three students compiled this project in the Fall of 2008. It is a mixed-use community design adhering to the principles of sustainability. The project is award worthy based on its regard to the environment and its promise to offer a comunity with a strong sence of place. The project is geared to introduce a new and better way to live, work and play in a setting atypical within the existing city fabric.

Paul Cozzolino & Ryan Harbert
Texas A&M University
Undergraduate Residential Design Honor Award

The theories and principles of landscape design, construction application, and sustainability are at the core of the landscape architecture curriculum. The design and implementation of this project is a response to the college curriculum as a transformation from theoretical knowledge to applied practice. We synthesized the homeowner’s objectives, the sites opportunities and constraints, and our vision into a sustainable, and entertaining outdoor living space. One year has elapsed since construction and we reflect on the successful and unsuccessful features of the design.

Kristen Mitrakis, Heath House, Joey Bill Ball, Shawn Bookout, Su-Yu Crystal Cheng, Theunis Devilliers, Vaidehi Niteen Gupte, William S. Norton, Karen A. Wright, Petrine Abrahams, & Jack Buchanan
University of Texas at Arlington
Graduate Analysis & Planning Award of Excellence

Talley Ranch Vision Plan is award worthy because it promotes knowledge-based environmentally sensitive planning and design practices for 4100 acres of greenfield site at the aggressively developing northern fringe of the DFW metropolitan area (one of the fastest growing metropolitan regions of the nation). This exemplary comprehensive team effort searches for creative sustainable solutions to the pressures of urban growth and development through environmentally sensible, economically feasible and socially responsible community planning and design practices.

Hae Young Lee, Bhavana Kidambi, Cameron A. Holmes, & Alicia Rivera University of Texas at Arlington
Graduate General Design Honor Award

This project explores both the physical techniques of returning a watershed to pre-development runoff conditions and the poetics of intermittent natural water moving through the landscape. The students add the principles of Low Impact Design and Integrated Management Practices to traditional site planning methodologies. The Northwest UTA campus between UTA Boulevard and Greek Row and between Nedderman Drive and Summit Avenue is shown using the 2020 master plan as a point of departure. New additions include a restored Trading House Creek, a new Environmental Studies Building, a new parking garage with mixed use retail on the first floor, and a variety of new academic buildings and housing units. All the water on the site is either captured or polished with integrated management practices such as bioretention areas, rain gardens, dry wells, green roofs, permeable paving, and bioswales. All ecologically performative areas are carefully balanced with human use. New pedestrian gateways, courtyards, interpretive areas, walkways, and courtyards are designed promote outdoor use and the imageability of the campus.

Cameron Campbell & Wen Shang
University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Planning & Analysis Honor Award

Beijing’s rapid urban development is now compromising its history and tradition. Today, ancient villages are being replaced with high rise
developments and the bicycle is now traded in for the automobile. This proposal aims to revisit China’s tradition of picturesque landscape design
and apply these ancient principles to one of Beijing’s growing inner city precincts. The site plan aspires to improve these urbanizing conditions
through a network of pocket parks that provide places of identity, community, recreation, and environmental relief to local residents in their daily
lives.

Michael Averitt
University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Analysis & Planning Honor Award

This work identifies critical threats to the growth and stability of Northern California’s major urban centers and agricultural industry and proposes a comprehensive solution through regional planning. The plan utilizes a vast brownfield site in the middle of the San Francisco Bay region as the nerve center for a new economy that finds solutions for these growing threats through reusing the areas waste streams.