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LIVING

BUILDING


 


AWARDS




CHALLENGE

COMPETITION


WINNING ENTRY
Competition hosted by the
Living Building Challenge Collaborative Chicago

2015 AIA Annual Emerging Professionals Exhibition Participant

TEAM




OLIA MIHO  &
JUSTIN WARNER



The competition’s objective was to design a sustainable classroom-building annex for the overcrowded Eli Whitney Elementary School.



The building links to the site with an inviting surface that people can sit on, walk on and see throughout the building. The facade, a passive “living” exterior skin composed of bimetallic aluminum and oxidized copper panels changes shape based on the outside temperature. As exterior temperatures rise, the panels close to provide shade to the interior of the building. Once temperatures cool, the panels retreat.














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