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Announced the winners of its competition, which claims “whoever rules the sewers, rules the city.” “” by PORT architects won the professional competition, and “RIgnite” and “Aquaculture CanalNew Orleans” jointly won the student competition. UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Chair Hitoshi Abe announced the winners at the end of day-long symposium at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Sponsors of WPA 2.0 include: The Graham Foundation, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLC, Buro Happold, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, The Architect’s Newspaper, The National Building Museum, The Ziman Center for Real Estate Development, Sarah Jane Lind, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. According to the WPA 2.0 competition site, the winning project, Carbon T.A.P.// Tunnel Algae Park, would grow algae pontoons with car C02 emissions captured from New York City’s underground transportation tunnels. The algae would then be harvested for bio-fuel production. The pontoons would also provide the foundation for a sea level structure that would include an urban park with structured wetlands, aquatic and avian habitat, recreation amenities, as well as high speed bike lanes and public promenades. The proposal included a look at how algae pontoons could also provide a bridge between Brooklyn, Governor’s Island, and Manhattan in New York City. “RIgnite” was designed by Peter Millar, Jamie Potter, Andy Wilde and Stuart Wheeler, four graduate students of the. Their proposal would revitalize port cities and green the shipwrecking industry through the addition of recycling and social programs.

“Aquaculture CanalNew Orleans” was created by Fadi Masoud, a Master of Landscape Architecture student at the University of Toronto,. Masoud’s proposal re-envisions the New Orleans’ Industrial Canal, which is set to be closed by the Army Corps of Engineers, as productive infrastructure that can provide flood control and and enable aquaculture. More than 140 student teams from around the world submitted entries. WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture was inspired by the 1930’s U.S.

The organizers also see an enormous opportunity in the $150 billion of 2009 Recovery Act infrastructure funds. They hope policy makers and design professionals will use these funds to create a new, more positive role for infrastructure in urban design. Instead of creating more single-use infrastructure, the WPA competition organizers think the infrastructure of the future should be multi-functional, flexible, and play a key role in revitalizing urban areas. “For WPA 2.0, approximately 200 groups of designers envisioned a new legacy of federally supported infrastructure hybrids, projects that explore the value of infrastructure not only as an engineering endeavor, but as a robust design opportunity that can revitalize cities.” The symposium’s keynote speaker, Ron Sims, Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), framed the event in the context of the new federal partnership on livable communities. “What you design and build defines us as a people.” Sims argued that architecture, in part, defines who we are and “societies that husband their resources effectively last the longest.” New infrastructure ideas are desperately needed so the U.S. can “strike in a different direction and change the built environment so it serves the public good.” Sims thought the U.S.

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Was at a “singular moment” in terms of rethinking its infrastructure, and “either we do this really well, or we will be mocked as a generation.”, a sustainable mixed-use, mixed-income affordable housing community in Seattle, Washington, was highlighted by Sims as a model. “Housing can be a platform for other services.” High Point, through its “Breath-Easy” homes and allergen-free landscapes, has dramatically reduced its residents health issues (and therefore health costs). The community has improved energy efficiency, reduced C02 emissions, and offers a new direction for housing. Sims said “homes are the building blocks” of neighborhoods and “porches, sidewalks are part of the fabric of the surrounding neighborhood. They shape the way we live our lives.” In many cases, zip codes are key determinants of morbidity rates and provide clues to where the “undevelopable populations” are in the U.S.