{"635392":{"#nid":"635392","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two Interdisciplinary Teams Receive Honorable Mention in ULI Hines Student Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Schools of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EArchitecture\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBuilding Construction\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/planning.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECity and Regional Planning\u003C\/a\u003E were selected as honorable mentions\u0026nbsp;in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/americas.uli.org\/\u0022\u003EUrban Land Institute\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(ULI) Hines Student Competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe competition, which kicked off on January 13, is designed to simulate a real-world design, planning, and development project.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, the competition enters its 18th year. According to the ULI competition website, \u0026quot;The ULI Hines Student Competition is part of the [Urban Land] Institute\u0026rsquo;s ongoing effort to raise interest among young people in creating better communities, improving development patterns, and increasing awareness of the need for multidisciplinary solutions to development and design challenges.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESix teams from Georgia Tech entered this year\u0026#39;s competition. Each team must have five graduate students from at least three different disciplines to be eligible to compete.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe assignment for this year\u0026#39;s competition explored the\u0026nbsp;redevelopment of a site in Miami with the Florida East Coast Roast Railway splitting the site into the Wynwood and Edgewater neighborhoods. Student groups imagined that the Tri-Rail would begin providing commuter rail service to downtown Miami in 2021. They were tasked with redeveloping the parcels in the site area to accommodate a station in Midtown Miami, and turning the site into \u0026ldquo;a thriving, mixed-use, transit-oriented neighborhood.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech teams selected as an honorable mention submitted projects titled, \u0026ldquo;ETS\u0026rdquo; and \u0026quot;SPACES.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam ETS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Team ETS were\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/master-architecture\u0022\u003EMaster of Architecture\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(M.Arch) students, Zachary Brown and Rand Zalzala,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/planning.gatech.edu\/master-city-and-regional-planning\u0022\u003EMaster of City and Regional Planning\u003C\/a\u003E (MCRP) student Brock Thompson, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/master-science-urban-design\u0022\u003EMaster of Science in Urban Design\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(MSUD) students, George Doyle and Eleni Kroi. Building Construction and City Planning part-time lecturer John Threadgill was the faculty advisor for this team.\u0026nbsp;Designer II at Portman Architects,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/portmanarchitects.com\/person\/t-coston-dickson\/\u0022\u003ET. Coston Dickinson\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;was the professional advisor for ETS.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The importance of the ULI Hines Student Competition for graduate students is the nature of its interdisciplinary emphasis,\u0026rdquo; said Doyle. \u0026ldquo;This competition immerses a diverse group of graduate students with unique post-undergraduate backgrounds and skillsets that allow new ideas and the byproducts of these ideas to become tangible solutions to real-life issues needing resolution or mitigation.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam SPACES\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Team SPACES were\u0026nbsp;M.Arch\u0026nbsp;students, Conner Smith and Wanli Gao, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bc.gatech.edu\/master-real-estate-development\u0022\u003EMaster of Real Estate Development\u003C\/a\u003E student Nicholas Ferran,\u0026nbsp;MCRP student ShuHui \u0026ldquo;Giselle\u0026rdquo; Zhen, and\u0026nbsp;MSUD\u0026nbsp;student, Joel Jassu. School of Architecture professor of the practice,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/people\/brian-bell\u0022\u003EBrian Bell\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was faculty advisor for SPACES.\u0026nbsp;Associate principal at Perkins\u0026amp;Will,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/perkinswill.com\/person\/jeff-williams\/\u0022\u003EJeff Williams, AICP\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was the professional advisor for the team.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We had 30 students from across the Institute participate this year on six teams,\u0026rdquo; said Ellen Dunham-Jones, professor and director of the MSUD program. \u0026ldquo;I know it\u0026rsquo;s clich\u0026eacute; to say they\u0026rsquo;re all winners, but seriously, it\u0026rsquo;s pretty awesome what their collective efforts were able to produce and the learning that went on. The fact that two of the six were recognized by the jury for honorable mentions is icing on the cake! We\u0026rsquo;ve had 12 placements, including four finalists in nine years. I couldn\u0026rsquo;t be prouder!\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe work from all six teams is currently on exhibition in the Cohen Gallery located on the second floor of the College of Design\u0026rsquo;s Architecture East Building.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/americas.uli.org\/programs\/awards-competitions\/hines-student-design-competition\/2020-uli-hines-student-competition-finalists-and-honorable-mentions\/\u0022\u003EClick here for the ULI Hines Competition press release.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESix teams from Georgia Tech entered this year\u0026#39;s ULI-Hines Student Competition. Each team must have five graduate students from at least three different disciplines to be eligible to compete. Two teams from Georgia Tech received honorable mentions in this year\u0026#39;s competition.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students from the Georgia Tech Schools of Architecture, Building Construction, and City and Regional Planning were selected as honorable mentions in the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hines Student Competition."}],"uid":"34569","created_gmt":"2020-05-14 18:38:56","changed_gmt":"2020-05-15 21:28:20","author":"cwagster3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-03-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-03-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"635390":{"id":"635390","type":"image","title":"Team ETS","body":null,"created":"1589481178","gmt_created":"2020-05-14 18:32:58","changed":"1589481178","gmt_changed":"2020-05-14 18:32:58","alt":"Team ETS ULI-Hines Student Competition project","file":{"fid":"241783","name":"TeamETS.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/TeamETS.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/TeamETS.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":179057,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/TeamETS.jpg?itok=wzXFLiM6"}}},"media_ids":["635390"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"48996","name":"School of Architecture"},{"id":"1223","name":"School of Building Construction"},{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"1351","name":"City and Regional Planning"},{"id":"1461","name":"Building Construction"},{"id":"15064","name":"real estate development"},{"id":"167585","name":"student competition"},{"id":"823","name":"design"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EZoe Kafkes\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EMarketing and Events Coordinator II\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology | School of City \u0026amp; Regional Planning\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:zoe.kafkes@design.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ezoe.kafkes@design.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003ECarmen New\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EMarketing and Events Coordinator II\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology | School of Architecture\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto: carmen.new@design.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecarmen.new@design.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["carmen.new@design.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}