From 90 submissions, the jury picked seven entries that are scalable, thought-provoking, and promising in achieving a more equitable and healthy built environment.
University of Washington associate professor Rick Mohler and the city of Seattle senior planner Nick Welch created a prototype app to help local homeowners increase housing density by building accessory dwelling units.
A bike trip across the Netherlands inspired lead engineer Mike Sewell and Gresham Smith's Studio X Innovation Incubator to improve design by quantifying emotional response.
TBM Designs, co-founded by thermobimetal innovator Doris Sung, is tucking a self-powered, kinetic solution within insulated glass units to reduce solar heat gain and glare into buildings.
Designed and developed by CMG Landscape Architecture, the mobile app enables designers to approximate the impact of their projects' materials and maintenance on carbon emissions.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill developed an undulating "smart band beam" to support a concrete slab at half the thickness of a typical flat plate.
Matter Design and cement producer CEMEX converted their shared fascination with "embedding intelligence into objects" into megalith units that are surprisingly maneuverable.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia's HiLo Lab, University of Colorado, Denver's LoDo Lab, and HouMinn Practice push the potential of the ubiquitous wood member.
