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Our NSW Student Architecture Awards page has moved \u2013 head to the NSW Chapter page of the Australian Institute of Architects for all information on 2021 Awards\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0For historical information and to find out more about the past winners, please follow links below on this page.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2019 Medal Winner Joshua Sleight | The University of New South Wales<\/p><\/div>\n

The winners were announced in occasion of the NSW Student Architecture Awards Night on 21 February 2020, please check the digital catalogue.<\/p>\n

2020 NSW Student Awards Catalogue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Media Release<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The winner of the inaugural Student\u2019s Choice Award<\/strong> is:<\/p>\n

Jincheng Jiang of The University of New South Wales for the project A Place To Share Our Hands.<\/p>\n

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Full list of award winners, university prizes, jury and program partners:
NSW GRADUATE MEDAL<\/strong>
A Place To Share Our Hands | Jincheng Jiang | The University of New South Wales
This thoughtful project resonated in its approach to the problem of connecting disparate people living in high density cities, often from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, where language barriers exist and preclude interaction, exacerbating the feeling of isolation. The project looks beyond how we connect through language alone, exploring how communication and social interaction can be established through the process of sharing and observing the movements and activities of hands.
With careful placement of buildings and their openings, windows and framed views, the resolution of the intimate to progressively public spaces enables passive or introverted observation through to more socially extroverted and interactive performance spaces. Importantly, the placement of these urban rooms is connected to the surrounding context, responding to existing active edges, view corridors and movements across the site while also creating places of sanctuary from the \u2018busyness\u2019 of the city. The jury was impressed by the narrative created with thoughtful diagrams, study models and drawings that were evocative of the concept and demonstrated a deep connection to the project, depth of rationale and research. This journey was fully realised in the well refined architectural expression of the buildings and urban spaces that provide a competent solution to the question of human connection and belonging in our cities.<\/p>\n

NSW GRADUATE – COMMENDATIONS
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Kulaluk<\/strong> | Tom Byard | The University of Newcastle
Kulaluk is an ambitious project which presents the many benefits that meaningful engagement of the local Aboriginal community can have in understanding their histories and shaping their environments. Impressively, this project involved extended student engagement with Tibby Quall of the Dangallaba Clan, Arnhem Land Elders including Dulcie and Daughter Rhonda, conservationist Graham Kirby and anthropologist Bill Day. Kulaluk demonstrates that latent site narratives can be revealed through these important conversations with the local community and that architectural design processes have the potential to incorporate First Australians\u2019 voices.<\/p>\n

Beneath, Beyond<\/strong> | Janani Premchand | The University of Newcastle
Beneath, Beyond is a rich and evocative graduate project which demonstrates the value of thorough research and analysis, not only of a site but of the broader cultural, social, political and historical environment within which the proposed development is to occur. The project, located at Booderee National Park near Jervis Bay, has brought together the natural, the Indigenous and the nuclear history of the site successfully and seamlessly as a thought provoking journey through interlocking spaces evoking consideration of what was and contemplation of what could be.<\/p>\n

NSW UNDERGRADUATE MEDAL<\/strong>
Shucks<\/strong>: Oyster Remediation Plant | Patrick Green | The University of Newcastle
Shucks presents an ambitious vision as \u2018the world\u2019s first Oyster remediation plant\u2019, to transform Newcastle from a languishing coal port to a future Port of Service. This vision is delivered through interventions of both spatial and environmental systems design, harnessed to work symbiotically with seasonally adjusted architectural form. Carapace shells from landfill transplant the foundations of an artificial reef, which in turn instigates the seasonal cycle of the plant.
Thoughtful planning of a sequence of natural processes in the spawning, nurturing and harvesting of oysters underpin the ecological services these activities provide, as oysters filter the water, cleanse the harbor of pollution, and once shucked the shells provide construction materials for anticipated development of the area.
The project demonstrates a mature approach to the brief, and a high standard of accountability with respect to the environmental footprint of the proposition. The video communication of the scheme provided a compelling narrative sequence of process, grounded in significant contextual analysis and leveraging ecological processes attuned to seasonal circumstances.<\/p>\n

NSW UNDERGRADUATE \u2013 COMMENDATIONS<\/strong>

Re-Framing Sofala<\/strong> | Jenny K Lin | The University of New South Wales
The project seeks to rejuvenate the historic town of Sofala with a new cultural facility. Composed of two main pavilions, the buildings form both a gateway to facilitate a gentle transitional experience for visitors and space for a town square for community gatherings and public events. It
does this by understanding the village fabric, landscape and topography, weaving these elements into a highly resolved outcome. The art gallery addresses the main street forming a built edge.
Glazed walls front the natural realm engaging with the environment and opening to the landscape to bring nature into the facility. The tectonics, relationship to the natural environment as well as the character of the spaces are given life through the quality of the renderings and drawings.<\/p>\n

Next Goal<\/strong> | Qing Yan | The University of Newcastle
This imaginative project seeks to re-engage the local community with an underutilised sports and recreational facility, while strengthening the physical connections across the city. Set within the National Park Sportsground in Newcastle, the project proposes a hybrid typology of elevated pathways and programmed spaces, set above the floodplain and carefully arranged around the existing sports fields and pedestrian and bicycle paths that traverse the site.
Through the use of physical models, hand sketches and engaging cutaway sections, the proposal demonstrates a thoughtful exploration of ideas, integrating water management infrastructure, sports and recreational activities, and public spaces to create an engaging multilayered
community facility.<\/p>\n

NSW ARCHITECTURAL COMMUNICATION AWARD<\/strong>

Stitches<\/strong> | Grace McLean | The University of Newcastle
Stitches proposes a new urban green metabolism in which waste and stormwater treatment are decentralised and integrated with their surrounding context. The outcome reconfigures the relationship between waste and society from an outdated linear throughput model to a more transparent, circular and coexistent model. Given the challenge this proposition presents to accepted suburban centralised and \u2018invisible\u2019 waste water treatment systems, the communication of the proposition is vital to overcome public scepticism and potential resistance.
Responding to this challenge, the video presentation provided a compelling narrative of the ecological systems, using evocative imagery and strategic sequences, which demonstrate a mature approach utilising design as advocacy to raise awareness of the use and remediation of water in domestic living.
The decentralised system treats and disposes near the source while integrating public program. As such it highlights and reframes a public utility system process previously relegated \u2018out of sight\u2019, as a holistic ecological process to be witnessed and integrated within the daily life environment. The insertion of public program provides the catalyst for engaging greater public awareness and daily interaction with sequences within waste water processing \u2013 ultimately highlighting the need for
greater awareness and action to ensure sustainable water management.<\/p>\n

NSW ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGIES AWARD<\/strong>

Or, Any, If, May: A Text of Two Cities<\/strong> | Dana Marjan | University of Technology Sydney
The jury was unanimously impressed with this challenging and powerful provocation to reframe words as technology. The strength of Or, Any, If, May: A Text of Two Cities lies in its advocacy that we acknowledge and address the extent to which the words contained within legislation are powerful delineators of boundary, deployed as technology.
The work analysed legislation, drew out specific potent recurrent terms and then presented a screenplay as a technical section of the city, to highlight and expose the manner in which words within policy and legislation are applied in technical ways that underpin and constrain the deployment of spatial boundaries and the places of occupation they delineate. This work
challenges the expectation that technologies must always be considered and presented as drawings of systems and physical matter.
The highly innovative proposition illuminates that the structure and construction of text act alongside the technical resolution and detailing of legislation as powerful spatial forces imposing both opportunity and limitation, dependent upon their application. The provocation challenges us
all to reconsider the agency of legislation and policy in shaping our cities.<\/p>\n

BRIAN PATRICK KEIRNAN PRIZE<\/strong>

Immersion<\/strong> | Antoine Portier and David Cadena | University of Sydney
This project reimagines, reinvents and reinterprets one of Sydney\u2019s most iconic public spaces \u2013 Circular Quay \u2013 in a challenging, dynamic and thought-provoking way. Located on the western side of the Quay at the site of the Overseas Passenger Terminal, the proposal\u2019s conceptual
underpinning and the resolution that flowed from it were particularly impressive. Located opposite from the terminal, the high platform and grand stairs of the Sydney Opera House were designed  with influence from Mayan pyramids, aiming to \u201cfree and raise buildings and people above
everyday life\u201d. Extending this narrative, \u2018Immersion\u2019 proposes an inverted monumental gesture – a playful counterpoint to a site seeming to call for an iconic object.
\u2018Immersion\u2019 displays a progressive approach to the way people in this reimagined public domain would interact with and experience the natural environment, which they are unable to do so at present. It encourages a return of a largely privatised waterfront to the community by addressing the existing impediments to public access to the foreshore and harbour. \u2018Immersion\u2019 reflects the aims and purpose of the prize in expressing on a grand scale – with imagination and lyricism – the possibility of a reimagined space and the opportunities that flow from that.

BRIAN PATRICK KEIRNAN PRIZE COMMENDATION<\/strong>

Carrington Living With Water<\/strong> | Christopher Zietsch, Brady Ainsworth and Joseph Gonzalez| The University of Newcastle
Although we must strive to limit the impacts of climate change, there are some realities that may no longer be reversible. Carrington Living With Water presents a future in which we not only learn to adapt to these realities, but in which we learn to thrive. The proposal takes the industrial suburb of Carrington and transforms its streets into a network of biodiverse waterways, and its warehouses into new housing typologies, storage for shared cars, or compelling artefacts within a verdant landscape.<\/p>\n

NSW UNIVERSITY PRIZES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The University of New South Wales<\/strong>
Natalie Ho \u2013 Graduate of the Year (Bachelor\u2019s program)
Jincheng Jiang \u2013 Graduate of the Year (Master\u2019s program)
Nailah Masagos Zulkifli \u2013 History & Theory Prize
Natalie Ho \u2013 Construction & Practice Prize

The University of Newcastle<\/strong>
Jye Whyte \u2013 Graduate of the Year (Bachelor\u2019s program)
Thomas Byard \u2013 Graduate of the Year (Master\u2019s program)
Emilie Winter \u2013 History & Theory Prize
Annie Murphy \u2013 Construction & Practice Prize<\/p>\n

The University of Sydney<\/strong>
Rachel Liang \u2013 Graduate of the Year (Bachelor\u2019s program)
Xiaoxi Tan \u2013 Graduate of the Year (Master\u2019s program)
Alvin Hui \u2013 History & Theory Prize
Jake Boydell \u2013 Construction & Practice Prize<\/p>\n

The University of Technology Sydney<\/strong>
Ho Kyeong Kim \u2013 Graduate of the Year (Bachelor\u2019s program)
Grace Louise Dwyer \u2013 Graduate of the Year (Master\u2019s program)
Sarah Choo \u2013 History & Theory Prize
Farah Rehman \u2013 Construction & Practice Prize<\/p>\n

2020 NSW Student Architecture Awards Jury:<\/strong>
Michael Wiener (Jury Chair), Mirvac Design
Dr Angelique Edmonds, University of South Australia
Jonathon Claridge, Bates Smart
Kathlyn Loseby FRAIA, NSW Chapter President
Laura Cockburn, Conrad Gargett
Tiffany Liew, Co-chair of the NSW Emerging Architects + Graduates Network<\/p>\n

2020 NSW Student Architecture Awards \u2013 Program Partners
NSW Graduate Medal: Mirvac Design
NSW Undergraduate Medal: Bates Smart
NSW University Prizes: Crone (UTS), FJMT (UNSW) and Jacobs (University of Sydney)<\/p>\n

NSW Student Architecture Awards – General overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

The NSW Graduate & Student Awards program was established in 2010 coinciding with the introduction of the Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees. The aim of the program is to promote the skills of architecture students in NSW.<\/p>\n

Key dates<\/strong><\/p>\n