Jasmine Rose Oberste
The Mobile Dwelling Cube by SpaceFlavor allows for a balance of personal and professional life in one space, made of a steel frame and FSC-certified Ash plywood panels.
The American Institute of Architects (www.aia.org) has selected eleven recipients of the 2012 Small Project Awards, which recognize small-project practitioners for the high quality of their work and promote excellence in small-project design.
Award recipients are categorized into three groups: category 1, a small project construction, object, work of environmental art or architectural design element up to $150,000; category 2, a small project construction up to $1,500,000; and category 3, a small project construction up to $1,500,000 that does not rely on external infrastructure as its primary power source. Judges for the Small Project Awards were: James Cline, Cline Architects; Anne Fougeron, Fougeron Architecture; Chad Oppenheim, Oppenheim Architecture + Design; James Slade, Slade Architecture; and Karen Van Lengen, Karen Van Lengen Architect.
Category 1 winners include: Specs Optical Façade in Minneapolis by Alchemy Architects and The Mobile Dwelling Cube in Oakland, Calif., by SpaceFlavor.
John J. Macaulay
The Stacked Cabin has a compact volume built into a densely wooded slope at the edge of a clearing in Muscoda, Wis.
Category 2 winners include: OS House in Racine, Wis., by Johnsen Schmaling Architects; Saint Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church in Springdale, Ark., by Marlon Blackwell Architect; The Ghost Houses in Knoxville, Tenn., by curb; Becherer House in Charlottesville, Va., by Robert M. Gurney; L Residence in Omaha, Neb., by Min | Day; Stacked Cabin in Muscoda, Wis., by Johnsen Schmaling Architects; and Yao Residence in Chicago by Perimeter Architects.
Category 3 winners include: Shade Platform in Phoenix by SmithGroupJJR and Cape Russell Retreat in Sharps Chapel, Tenn., by Sanders Pace Architecture.