{"id":10577,"date":"2014-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/taiwan\/press\/student-vision-for-renewing-tirupur-india-wins-aecom-urban-sos-competition\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T10:09:00","slug":"student-vision-for-renewing-tirupur-india-wins-aecom-urban-sos-competition","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/press-releases\/student-vision-for-renewing-tirupur-india-wins-aecom-urban-sos-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Student vision for renewing Tirupur, India, wins AECOM Urban SOS competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michelle Zucker, a landscape architecture student at Penn State, and Emily Saunders, an architecture student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, have won AECOM\u2019s fifth annual Urban SOS<\/a> competition. Their entry, \u201cRestart Tirupur,\u201d proposed to reactivate an abandoned factory as a water filter and start-up community factory, providing migrant workers with access to clean water, self-grown food and native materials for building shelters. <\/p>\n

The Urban SOS program fosters cross-disciplinary thinking in urban problem-solving and design education while helping to make a real difference for a community in need. This year\u2019s competition called for proposals to reinvigorate defunct post-industrial sites with new forms of productivity.<\/p>\n

After AECOM juries in 30 offices worldwide selected four finalists, a master jury of design leaders from AECOM, Columbia University, Etsy and Hines selected the winning entry following a public charrette at the Center for Architecture in New York on Sept. 4. The winning team received a US$10,000 prize and up to US$25,000 of in-kind staff time to support implementation of the project. The other finalists, Skye Sun, Erica Chladov\u00e1, and Chris Dove, each received a US$2,500 prize.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year\u2019s entries were particularly strong and deep, coming from over 120 universities around the world,\u201d noted Bill Hanway, competition chair and AECOM\u2019s global practice leader, architecture. \u201cWe commend all of the finalists and all of the entrants for their efforts to improve urban communities around the world and practice cross-disciplinary design.\u201d<\/p>\n

The master jury included Alexis Michael, director, Hines; Nellwyn Thomas, director, Etsy; Jeffrey Johnson, principal, SLAB and director of China Megacities Lab, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University; Ross Wimer, architecture practice lead, Americas, AECOM; Jacinta McCann, global practice leader, design, planning and economics, AECOM and president, Landscape Architecture Foundation; Stephen Engblom, design, planning and economics lead, Americas, AECOM; Joe Brown, former chief innovation officer, AECOM; and Jane Chmielinski, chief operating officer and president, Americas, AECOM <\/a>.<\/p>\n

A special exhibition<\/a> is open through September 16th at the American Institute of Architects New York\u2019s Center for Architecture \u2014 designed by AECOM\u2019s Los Angeles and New York studios in collaboration with students from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and Atelier Architecture 64 \u2014 exploring ideas raised by this year\u2019s Urban SOS theme.<\/p>\n

Follow this and coming years\u2019 competitions at aecom.com\/taiwan\/urbansos<\/a>, on Facebook<\/a>, or through @AECOMUrbanSOS on Twitter. Learn about the realization of 2011\u2019s winning submission in this post<\/a> on AECOM\u2019s Connected Cities blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About AECOM<\/b><\/p>\n

Ranked as the #1 engineering design firm by revenue in Engineering News-Record<\/i> magazine\u2019s annual industry rankings, AECOM is a premier, fully integrated infrastructure and support services firm, with a broad range of markets, including transportation, facilities, environmental, energy, water and government. With approximately 45,000 employees \u2014 including architects, engineers, designers, planners, scientists and management and construction services professionals \u2014 serving clients in more than 150 countries around the world, AECOM is a leader in all of the key markets that it serves. AECOM provides a blend of global reach, local knowledge, innovation and technical excellence in delivering solutions that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10577","press-release","type-press-release","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/10577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-release"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/10577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}