JURY COMMENTS ///

"This entry describes the translation of forces on the column to the formal and spatial properties of the environment. I think its an excellent response to the brief from an architectural design perspective. I like to imagine the spatial change within a building that could incorporate this system."

"I really like the idea of G. The idea that a column might contract or retract depending on the different, variable loads exerted on it would really give the inhabitant a knowledge of how the building works. If several were used throughout the same structure, a knowledge would be passed on, illustrating physically the forces exerted through different points of the architecture, instead of this phenomenon happening where we cannot see or understand it. The entry is also well illustrated, explaining the idea in diagram form, without relying on text to do the explaining, which is something incredibly important to architects and designers."

"This entry shows key understanding of the brief, and is presented elegantly in terms of presentation. Technically inventive in terms of changing forces and loads, elegant in its material restraint. Translation of ‘dynamic force’ into a design for a column that creates dynamic floor spaces below: this is an architectural answer."