Third year architecture student Brian Ferrell has won first place in the cove.tool Student Design Competition 2020, an international competition open to students and young professionals under the age of 30. As the top winner, Brian will receive $800 and a feature article in ArchDaily, an online aggregator of news, tools, and resources for the architecture profession.
Cove.tool is a software platform for automated building performance modelling to reduce the construction costs of energy efficient buildings. Buildings contribute to 40% of the total carbon emissions in the United States. The cove.tool design competition challenged participants to upload their design projects into the cove.tool platform and run a single daylight simulation.
The entire third-year architecture studio – 44 students – participated in the competition. The SoA students were all given the same task: to design a net-zero energy elementary school on a site near the 36th Street light rail station in Charlotte’s North Davidson (NoDa) neighborhood. The site is bordered by two historic textile mill buildings.
The third year studio faculty are Liz McCormick, Kelly Carlson-Reddig, and Eric Sauda. Brian, who is from Huntersville, is a student in McCormick’s section. He plans to pursue his master's degree in architecture and hopes to become a licensed architect in North Carolina.
Images: Brian Ferrell's entry into the cove.tool competition.
