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TechnographEngineering students create 'city of the future' concept
By Alyse Harper
Posted: 3/16/07 Section: News
Four University Civil and Environmental Engineering students teamed together to develop a proposal for a residential living system of the future.
Christiana Barnas, Cameron Talischi, Peter Pascua, Sean Poust and team adviser, Professor David A. Lange won The City of the Future Engineering Student Challenge in Chicago on March 1. Pascua, Poust and Talischi are seniors in Engineering and Barnas is a junior in Engineering.
The challenge, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, IBM and the History Channel, was the second phase of a two-phase competition, which began with architecture teams in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles developing design visions for the future of their respective cities. The winning Chicago architecture team and grand prize winner of national voting was UrbanLab, an urban design practice in Chicago.
The concepts developed by the architecture teams were the basis for the student contest. Lange said that the architecture team had "great concepts for Chicago in 2106, but few details about how the concepts could be achieved, and this is how the student contest was conceived." After receiving an e-mail from a press representative of the contest sponsors, Lange assembled a team of some of the University's lead undergraduate students in the Environmental and Civil Engineering program.
Because the challenge was kept a secret from the team, they were selected based off of their diverse backgrounds and an array of specialties in engineering. In January, the challenge was revealed and there was then a five-week period for the team to create a design solution.
UrbanLab's concept for their city of the future was "Growing Water in 2106" in which they pictured a city where water is the new oil. Chicago would use an "Eco-Boulevard" to treat its waste and storm water. The system would harvest the water, treat it naturally using microorganisms and return it to the Great Lakes Basin.
Poust, senior in Engineering, added that as the group brainstormed ways to implement UrbanLab's idea into their own design, they found that the UrbanLab concept lacked a disinfecting process.
Christiana Barnas, Cameron Talischi, Peter Pascua, Sean Poust and team adviser, Professor David A. Lange won The City of the Future Engineering Student Challenge in Chicago on March 1. Pascua, Poust and Talischi are seniors in Engineering and Barnas is a junior in Engineering.
The challenge, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, IBM and the History Channel, was the second phase of a two-phase competition, which began with architecture teams in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles developing design visions for the future of their respective cities. The winning Chicago architecture team and grand prize winner of national voting was UrbanLab, an urban design practice in Chicago.
The concepts developed by the architecture teams were the basis for the student contest. Lange said that the architecture team had "great concepts for Chicago in 2106, but few details about how the concepts could be achieved, and this is how the student contest was conceived." After receiving an e-mail from a press representative of the contest sponsors, Lange assembled a team of some of the University's lead undergraduate students in the Environmental and Civil Engineering program.
Because the challenge was kept a secret from the team, they were selected based off of their diverse backgrounds and an array of specialties in engineering. In January, the challenge was revealed and there was then a five-week period for the team to create a design solution.
UrbanLab's concept for their city of the future was "Growing Water in 2106" in which they pictured a city where water is the new oil. Chicago would use an "Eco-Boulevard" to treat its waste and storm water. The system would harvest the water, treat it naturally using microorganisms and return it to the Great Lakes Basin.
Poust, senior in Engineering, added that as the group brainstormed ways to implement UrbanLab's idea into their own design, they found that the UrbanLab concept lacked a disinfecting process.
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LB
posted 3/16/07 @ 3:05 AM CST
Please don't ever use the phrase "based off of" again. Reading it is like being stabbed in the eye.
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An Editor
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