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SoA students at CASE participate in award winning project.

BArch students in their semester residency at the Center for Architecture Studies & Ecology (CASE) collaborated in AERIS, a project by the leading hospitality design firm OBMI that has won the Grand Prize at 2022 Radical Innovation Award. OBMI is RPI / EBESS consortium member.

BArch students Sarah Weber, Aida Ayuk and Nicole Martinez participated in the project during their off-campus spring ’22 semester in New York City , as part of their Research Investigations course at CASE taught by Lecturer Josh Draper. During the fall ’22 semester, Kit Hutton and Nora Wright continued work on the project, developing tools and a workflow to integrate phytoremediation simulation in the architectural design process.

Prof. Draper writes: “ The work that the B.Arch students did.. [it] was important to convince the jury of the project’s viability and depth”. He further notes that “the student work is woven in with OBMI’s expressive renderings of AERA and positioned alongside the visionary designs of other international firms.