{"id":9216,"date":"2018-04-25T14:14:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T18:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=9216"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:55:22","slug":"architecture-student-innovation","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/architecture-student-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Architecture Student Hits Top Ten in Prestigious Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Carleton University\u2019s Justin Yan has made the top ten of a major North American architecture student competition, the only winner from Canada, with his ingenious adaptation of an old building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment<\/a> (AIA COTE) holds a Top Ten for Students competition that invites architectural students across North America to compete. The 2018 competition, named INNOVATION 2030, had more than 1,000 participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yan, a first-year Master\u2019s of Architecture student created his project – City Centre Glassworks: An Adaptive Reuse Workshop and Experimentation Facility – as a workshop space for manufacturing architectural glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMy project was centred around adaptive reuse, taking an existing building and reinventing it for a new purpose,\u201d says Yan.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cThe building we were given was the antique store in City Centre which in the 1920s was a stair factory.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The student competition, held in partnership with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and in collaboration with Architecture 2030, recognizes \u201c10 exceptional studio projects that demonstrate designs moving towards carbon-neutral operation through creative and innovative integration of design strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competitors had to be in third-year studies and higher, and had to submit designs that protected and enhanced the environment by using an integrated approach to architecture, natural systems and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Yan\u2019s faculty sponsors were Prof. Sheryl Boyle and Visiting Prof. Claudio Sgarbi. His project was a part of the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism<\/a>\u2019s Graduate 2017-2018 Gateway Design Studio. The design course brings together ideas from the graduate Advanced Building Course to get students thinking about sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yan credits Carleton\u2019s architecture program with rounding out students\u2019 knowledge through recycling, teaching about adaptive reuse, and bringing in more concepts of sustainability. \u201cThe more we learn about sustainability outside of design class, the more naturally we integrate it into our designs,\u201d says Yan. \u201cIt prepares us for the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPeople in my generation are not going to be designing new buildings but repurposing and redesigning what\u2019s already there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justin was on a six-week course in London, U.K., when he got the news he had won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t sleep,\u201d shares Yan.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cI had worked so closely with Sheryl and Claudio to submit my work that to be rewarded for all that effort, it feels great.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Winning a US$2,000 prize, Yan is headed to New York City in June to attend AIA\u2019s National Convention where his project will be displayed. He will also get a paid summer internship at a North American architecture firm.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Boyle is celebrating a prestigious architecture student competition win for the school for a second year in a row. Last year, her student Jesse Bird won the AIA\u2019s Here + Now Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The competition jury praised Yan\u2019s project by stating, \u201cThis adaptive reuse project utilizes the heat from making glass to warm the building and save on energy; a superb adaptation for the Ottawan climate. The buildings\u2019 programs and systems are well designed and tailored for each other. A wonderful example of this is the rising mist, created from residual heat, brings an element of delight to the project.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cThe architectural exploration is plausible and grounded in reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

According to Boyle, some architects have a loud voice and others have a subtle voice. \u201cJustin\u2019s project is truly subtle architecture with a high level of craft and very fine detail,\u201d she says. \u201cHis exceptional dedication to address the 10 sustainability goals of the COTE Top Ten was outstanding and winning the competition is a fine reward for his hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome people say these kinds of subtle projects don\u2019t win competitions, but I was really happy to see that his did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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