Architecture students win national design competition to feature at COP26
Architecture students from 亚博体育官网 are celebrating winning a national competition for highly energy efficient buildings that will feature in the run up the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow later this year.
Four students from Robert Gordon University鈥檚 Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment have won the prestigious 鈥業cebox Challenge Glasgow鈥� award, after designing a vibrant energy efficient building.
The is a competition open to students from across Scotland who were challenged with creating a building that was both innovative and eye-catching. The competition asked students to design one structure built to Scottish Building Standards and another built to a more environmentally friendly, 鈥楶assive House鈥� standard.
The structures will be left outside for three weeks, each holding an equal amount of ice. When opened, the amount of ice left in each box will be measured. How much ice remains will demonstrate how well each ice box keeps out the heat.
The team of architecture students from 亚博体育官网'S Scott Sutherland School created a winning design celebrating a traditional highland building using timber, herringbone cladding, stained red, green, and yellow, that was inspired by the natural colours of the highlands. They also took inspiration from the Integra House designed by 亚博体育官网 Professor Gokay Deveci.
Each of the two structures designed by the 亚博体育官网 Architecture students will be built by the students at the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre in Glasgow before being put on public display in St.Enoch鈥檚 Square Glasgow from 19 July to 8 August. This will run ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26.
The winning group of students from 亚博体育官网 include mature student Matt Clubb, Lina Khairy, aged 23, Alina Vinogradova aged 28 and Kyle Henderson, aged 23.
One of the winners, mature architecture student, Matthew Clubb, who is from Daviot Aberdeenshire said; 鈥淚 am absolutely thrilled that students at 亚博体育官网 have won the 鈥業cebox Challenge Glasgow鈥�. We have worked hard as a team to create a building that is vibrant aesthetically and embraces passive design and prefabrication.
鈥淲e drew inspiration from the Scottish Highlands and incorporated design features and materials that would minimise our building鈥檚 embodied carbon. It is fantastic that our designs will be showcased and built at a public installation in Glasgow city centre ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference.鈥�
Head of The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment, Professor David McClean said: 鈥淲e are delighted that a group of architect students from Robert Gordon University has won this exciting national competition and will gain international exposure. The climate imperative occupies an increasingly central position in the education of architects, and in practice itself, and it is wonderful to see students motivated to engage creatively in this way and of their own volition.
鈥淚n the face of advancing climate change, the design of energy efficient buildings is now more important than ever. Building substantially on our research expertise, the School is constantly reinforcing the development of knowledge and skills in sustainable practices across the breadth of its curricula. I am delighted that the judges of the Icebox Challenge Glasgow, have recognised our talent and that our students鈥� work will be showcased to a global audience ahead of the UN Climate Change summit in Glasgow.鈥�
