Winners of COMPOSITES in Architecture DESIGN CHALLENGE
A team of students from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has won the inaugural COMPOSITES IN ARCHITECTURE DESIGN CHALLENGE presented by the Architectural Division of the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA). The competition is aimed at generating greater awareness of the uses and benefits of composites among the next generation of architects and engineers.
ACMA invited a select group of institutions to participate in the inaugural design challenge - including Temple University, Philadelphia University, UCLA and Georgia Tech. Student teams were asked to use composite material construction to develop a novel architectural building component or assembly. The teams were encouraged to explore and invent new and radical architectural designs.