Nottingham student takes Corus student architecture award

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23 July, 2008
By Emily Cadman

Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton students triumph at the 2008 Corus Student Design Awards.

A Nottingham University student, Li Yan, took the architecture prize with his design for an urban community with a density of 150 to 500 homes per ha.

Based around Ollerton, an ex-coal mining village, the winning design aimed to create a series of domestic units with a recycling gas turbine at the centre.

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Grimshaw partner Christopher Nash, who chaired the judging panel, said: "Whilst this year we saw some truly inspirational designs, the creative yet functional design by a student from the University of Nottingham ultimately demonstrates how practical and elegant solutions to waste can be easily integrated into everyday life.”



A sketch of one of the proposed houses with a recycling gas turbine at its core.

The Corus competition aims to help architecture and engineering graduates develop the skills they need upon graduation.

Full list of Corus Student Awards winners

Architecture
1st Place – University of Nottingham, Li Yan
2nd Place – Politecnico di Milano

2nd Place – Manchester School of Architecture
Special Commendation – University of Westminster

Structures
1st Place – University of Cardiff
2nd Place – University of Nottingham
3rd Place – London Southbank University

Bridges
1st Place – University of Southampton
2nd Place – London Southbank University
3rd Place – Anglia Ruskin University

Nottingham University's winning design

Photo credit: Nottingham University

The winning architectural design aims to create a series of domestic units with a recycling gas turbine at the centre, which re-connects the village which was separated by a coal pit.


Photo credit: University of Cardiff

Students were challenged to provide a structural solution for a terminal building and a control tower at a new regional UK airport to support a growing economy and improve transport links.


Photo credit: University of Southampton

Budding engineers were asked to provide a pedestrian and cycle bridge over a river to link two halves of the major city centre brownfield regeneration scheme. Chair of judges’ Barry Mawson, Capita Symonds said: "University of Southampton’s winning design was a dramatic and integrated solution that added a real dimension of excitement to the design. A key feature of their design was the concept of a sweeping curved deck supported from an inclined pylon, essentially providing an elegant solution to the geometry of the site."

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Students from the University of Nottingham have won top prizes in the steel industry’s equivalent of the Oscars.

Second-year architecture student Li Gan from the School of the Built Environment beat final-year students from all over Europe to take first prize in the Corus student Architecture competition. And a team of four students from the School of Civil Engineering won a second prize with their sleek airport terminal and air traffic control tower in the Structure category.

The annual Structural Steel Design Awards have been running for 40 years. They’re sponsored by the British Constructional Steelwork Association and the steel giant Corus. The award ceremony and gala dinner at the V & A museum in London is the most significant event in the steel industry calendar. Teams from industry compete in a variety of categories, and universities are invited to compete in three student categories. This year’s top industrial award went to the consortium who built Heathrow’s new Terminal 5 for BAA.


Li Gan: ‘living with waste’

The Corus student architecture competition aims to give budding architects a creative vehicle for learning about the use of steel in buildings. Li Gan’s winning design fulfilled a brief to design an urban housing scheme which addresses the problem of ‘living with waste’. Under the supervision of his tutor, Bradley Starkey, Li’s innovative housing scheme used gas turbine technology to generate energy from domestic rubbish. The judges commended him on his ambitious and thought-provoking response to the brief and to his evocative drawings. Steel is one of the most readily recyclable materials and had to feature in his design entry. He won a prize of £1,000.


Andrew Gamblen, Simon Lea-Wilson, Robert Weiss and Alexander Alvarez: airport terminal building and control tower

Nottingham’s Civil Engineering team came second in the Corus student Structural Design competition. The brief was to prepare an outline design for a new airport terminal building and control tower. Andrew Gamblen, Simon Lea-Wilson, Robert Weiss and Alexander Alvarez are all third year MEng students. The four entered the competition as part of their curriculum module on steel structures supervised by Associate Professor, Dr Walid Tizani. The students share a prize of £1,600. The judges said; “Their design makes an outstanding architectural statement, achieved by simple, practical means. The control tower is classical and elegant.”

Both of Nottingham’s winning designs will be on display in Gallery 2 at the Royal Institute of British Architects at 66 Portland Place, London, until Sunday 26th August 2008.

Full list of Corus Student Awards winners

Architecture
1st Place – University of Nottingham, Li Gan
2nd Place – Politecnico di Milano
2nd Place – Manchester School of Architecture
Special Commendation – University of Westminster

Structures
1st Place – University of Cardiff
2nd Place – University of Nottingham
3rd Place – London Southbank University

Bridges
1st Place – University of Southampton
2nd Place – London Southbank University
3rd Place – Anglia Ruskin University