2009 Open Architecture Challenge Winner
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Project: Teton Valley Community School School: Teton Valley Community School Location: Victor, Idaho, United States Design team: Section Eight [design], Victor, Idaho, United States Award: $50,000 to Teton Valley Community School, $5,000 to Section Eight Design |
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Project: The Corporación Educativa y Social Waldorf School: The Corporación Educativa y Social Waldorf Location: Ciudad Bolívar, Bogota, Colombia Design Team: Arquitectura Justa - Wolfgang Timmer, Fabiola Uribe, T. Luke Young, Bogota, Colombia Award: AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite 2009 (worth $6,720) |
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Urban Classroom Design Project: Connect and Extend School: Rumi School of Excellence Location: Hyderabad, India Design team: IDEO, San Francisco, California, United States Award: Design/Travel Grant |
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Relocatable (Modular) Classroom Design Project: PeaPOD School: Druid Hills High School [Dekalb County School System) Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States Design Team: Perkins & Will Award: Design/Travel Grant |
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Rural Classroom Addition Project: A Sustainable Community Classroom School: Building Tomorrow, Uganda Location: Uganda Design Team: Gifford LLC, London, UK Award: Design/Travel Grant |
Finalists
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Project: Extending the Classroom: A Teaching Studio in House of the Wood / Rowe Elementary School School: Northwestern University Settlement House Location: Delavan, Wisconsin, United States Design team: Built Form, LLC / Northwestern University Settlement House, Chicago, United States Learn More |
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Project: Bamboowood School School: Teksing Bamboowood School Location: Antarastriya Yuba Barsais, Kavre, Central Nepal Design Team: Petr Kostner, Martina Sobotkova, Sona Huberova, Czech Republic Learn More |
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Project: Classroom for the Saltpan Community, Cohesion Foundation Design Team: Rajesh Kapoor, Prashant Solanky, Bharat Karamchandani, Kiran Vaghela, Gujarat, India Partner/Location: Cohesion Foundation, Kutch, Gujarat, India Learn More |
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Project: Blurred Classroom School: Future Leaders’ Institute Location: New York, New York, United States Design team: Gensler, New York, United States Learn More |
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2009 Aspen Ideas Festival People's Choice Award Project: Adaptable Hillside Classrooms School: Bunyonyi Community School Location: Kabale, Uganda Design Team: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, AFH UK, Buro Happold Learn More |
All Winners and Finalists will receive software and copies of The Third Teacher.
Curriki Awards
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Project: Drishya: Mobile Mandala School: Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology Location: Bangalore, India Design team: Jackson Porretta,Geetha Narayanan, Dipti Sonawane, Palash Mukhopadhyay, Arzu Mistry Award: $500 Honorarium Learn More |
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Project: Interactive Business School School: Interactive Business School Location: Manizales, Caldas, Colombia Design team: Ayan Egeh, Gabriel Gallego Vallejo and Orlando Marin Mejia Award: $500 Honorarium Learn More |
Chapter Award
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Project: Limitless Boundaries School: The Project School Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States Design team: ChunSheh Teo, Kelli Polzin, Brooke Funkhouser, Amy Berndt, United States Award: $1000 honorarium Learn More |
Technical Awards
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Best Photorealistic Rendering Project: School of Light School: Building Tomorrow Location: Uganda Design team: Lick Fai, Eric Ho Award: Autodesk Maya Complete 10th Anniversary Edition (worth $2,590) Learn More |
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Most Ecologically Designed Classroom Project: Re[Modular] School: Pescadero/La Honda School District Location: Pescadero, California, United States Design team: Architecture for Humanity San Francisco - Jason Buchheit, Reiko Matsuo, Howard Blecher, Dannon Rampto, Sam Spetner Award: AutoCAD Revit 2009 with Autodesk Ecotect Analysis 2010 (worth $6,190) Learn More |
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Best 3-Dimensional SketchUp Model Project: Chameleon Pavilion - Indoor Outdoor Learning Lab School: Montessori Children’s School Location: Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States Design team: Kelly Ryan, Dino Indra Award: Google SketchUp Pro 7. (worth $495) Learn More |
Honorable Mentions
Project: Modular Adaptability
School: Northrop Urban Environment School
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Design Team: Darin Duch, Peter Portilla, Ben Delwiche Learn More
Project: TransFORMation
School: Charleston Development Academy
Location: Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Design Team: Brian Sanders, Jennifer Hurst, Seth Cantley, Jennifer Charzewski, Angie Brose Learn More
Project: Rumi Schools of Excellence
School: Rumi Schools of Excellence
Location: Hyderabad, India
Design team: Adri Kerciku, Julia King, Francesco Anselmo Learn More
Project: Design of a mobile classroom for the BEDE Community
School: BEDE Community
Location: BEDE Community, Bangladesh
Design team: Imrul Kayes,Kaisar Hossain, Rabeya Rahman, Abdun Nime Learn More
Project: [up]GRADE
School: Eastern Tech High School
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Design team: David Lopez, Hilary Thomas, Tarek Saleh, Sean Hughes, Andrew Fishback, Beret Dickson, Daniel Umscheid, Amanda Fisher Learn More
Project: Let'sDoItTogether
School: Mehr-Danesh Institute
Location: Bam, Iran
Design team: Hoda Khanbani, Saba Ghasemizadeh, Laurenz Mueller Learn More
Project: Future is closer than you think
School: Kharkiv Specialized Secondary School No. 62
Location: Ukraine
Design team: Konstantin Roussev, Marina Pugachova Learn More
Project: Chameleon Pavilion - Indoor Outdoor Learning Lab
School: Montessori Children’s School
Location: Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States
Design team: Kelly Ryan, Dino Indra Learn More
Project: Re[Modular]
School: Pescadero/La Honda School District
Location: California, United States
Design team: Jason Buchheit, Reiko Matsuo, Howard Blecher, Dannon Rampto, Sam Spetner Learn More





















