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Natural Talent Design Competition

Enter the 2009 Competition!

The 2009 Natural Talent Design Competition is here! Consider transportation and community in your design of a Living Building. Register, download the brief and read more here

Winners announced!

The winners of the 2008 NTDC were announced at Living Future 08 in Vancouver, BC. First place goes to the eco•laboratory, a team of young professionals from Weber+Thompson, who designed 'an experimental high-rise residence for ecology and social collaboration.' Honorable mention was given to The Junction, submitted by the Emerging Green Builders of Victoria, who explored an urban response to the Living Building Challenge. Many thanks to all who entered the competition, and many thanks to our esteemed panel of judges!

Sim Van der Ryn, Ecological Design Institute

Richard Iredale, Iredale Group Architecture

Lance Jakubec, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Thor Peterson, Cascadia Region Green Building Council

Ben Gates, Central City Concern

David Posada, GBD Architects

Scott Mooney, Thomas Hacker Architects

Click on the Links below to view the submissions!

About the 2008 Natural Talent Design Competition

The Cascadia Emerging Green Builders are asked students and young professionals throughout the bioregion to tackle the design of a Living Building! The 2008 Natural Talent Design Competition engaged the bright green young minds of our region as they found solutions to the challenges presented at this level of sustainability. Competition entrants gained access to the Living Building Forum online to aid their progress. The winner was announced at the Living Future Conference in April, winning a trip to Greenbuild in Boston and the chance to compete in the national 2008 Natural Talent Design Competition.

COMPETITION OBJECTIVES:

To broaden environmental education of the building professions within the university system
To empower students and young professionals within the green building movement to become future leaders
To highlight the presence, efforts, and initiative of students and young professionals in the green building movement
To encourage the reduction of the building industry's dependence on fossil fuel
To integrate emerging green builders into the green building industry, through contact with esteemed professionals, Cascadia, and the USGBC
To raise awareness of exemplary designs of emergent designers by displaying them at Greenbuild 2008 and Living Future 08
To utilize the Living Building Challenge as a guideline for building design and performance
To recognize and award emerging green builders for their dedication, creativity, innovation, and commitment to sustainable design

The Challenge:

The 2008 NTDC is raising the bar and defining a true measure of sustainability in the built environment through the Living Building Challenge.
Demonstrate that your project entry addresses the 16 prerequisites of the LBC. As a method of approaching the competition, teams are encouraged to focus on one or more of the LBC's Petals.
The 2008 NTDC serves to generate ideas, not built structures. Emphasis should be on new ideas and technologies, and on creativity and innovation. Completed construction drawings are not expected.

Judges:

The winning project was decided upon by an expert panel of judges, made up of the following individuals:

Sim Van Der Ryn, Living Future Keynote speaker
Ben Gates, Central City Concern
Richard Iredale, Iredale Group Architecture
Lance Jakubec, CMHC
Thor Peterson, Cascadia Region Green Building Council
David Posada, 2007 Natural Talent Design Competition winner

Cascadia Region Green Building Council