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Competition Winners
2010
winner Hiroki Usui
Project: FUEL Convenience Store/Gas Station
School: Washington State University, Spokane, WA
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Hiroki Usui
Washington State University
Project: FUEL Convenience Store/Gas Station
Student’s Project Description:
The convenience store/gas station, FUEL, is a new store model developed as a community center that promotes healthy
and sustainable lifestyle through its products and services in a playful manner. To accomplish this goal, the store is
designed around two unique spaces; one is the in-store bike shop and the other is the self-service healthy food and drink
station. All the design elements, including lighting, are incorporated in order to showcase these special features and
attract customers who are not necessarily health or environment conscious.
General ambient light for the store is generated by three main light sources, which include direct/indirect suspended
fluorescent fixtures, down light high bay CMH pendants, and most importantly, the natural light. To give more depth to
illuminated spaces, all of these main light sources are complimented by linear LED fixtures with different configurations.
The suspended fluorescent fixtures are specified for the general sales area that contains gondolas and coolers under the
11' high ceiling. The direct and indirect light distribution maximizes the efficient illumination while highlighting the wood
covering on the ceiling. In addition, the linear LED cove lighting is integrated into soffit and walls around this particular
area in order to get uniform ambient light along the perimeter. The open, high ceiling in front of the cashier and continuing
to the bike shop, is illuminated by high-bay CMH pendants. This particular kind of pendant light is specified to get broad
and uniform light distribution from higher mounting points and also to imitate the feel of warehouse, which complements
the overall casual aesthetics of the store. To highlight the exposed roof structure above this space, and also to get
ambient light reflected off the ceiling, again, the linear LEDs are placed around the perimeter, in cove and uplight
configurations (Detail 1). Lastly, the space is also designed to utilize the natural light as a source of ambient light. Through
multiple glazing such as skylights, garage door, the glass climbing wall tower in the bike shop, and the glazing wall, all the
featured areas get adequate amount of daylight, enhancing customers shopping experience.
As one of the main sources of the daylight, skylights are placed in a linear configuration along the main pathway going
through the food station. This arrangement of skylights is to attract more customers to the food station, by emphasizing
the pathway, and also to bring more natural light into the space where the light coming through south and east glazing
cannot reach. During the night, the LED linear light fixtures integrated into the skylights’ frame light up the pathway and
create the same effect as daylight. (Detail c) In addition to the skylight/LED system, the combination of task lights (combo
light and track) and accent lights (pendants and LED perimeter) highlight the space and fixtures (Food Station).
The southeast corner of the roof is equipped with a combination of glazing and lighting that is similar to the skylight/LED
system. This portion of the roof is projected out from the surface of the glazing wall underneath, making a great structure
that works as a light shelf. While this structure blocks excess light from directly entering to the space, it allows some light
in and bounced off the cantilevered surface, hit the ceiling, and illuminate the space (Section).
LED linear uplights are placed by the interior side of this glazing surface and take over the daylight after it gets dark in the
same manner as the skylights/LED system. This uplight also wash out the glazing itself and creates a backlight effect on
the exterior side, which is to get people’s attention together with the FUEL logo placed next to it (Exterior Elevation). As
for exterior lighting in general, LED fixtures are specified for ambient/task light to achieve low energy, quality lighting.
Some floodlighting and inground fixtures are also used mainly to highlight the architectural features and signs (Exterior
View).
honorable mention Weng Hei (Billy) Au
Project: The Spot Community Store
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School: Washington State University, Spokane WA
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Weng Hei (Billy) Au
Washington State University, Spokane, WA
Project: The Spot
Student’s Project Description:
The Spot is a community store reimagined as a promoter of healthy living. Well-used and well loved, The Spot functions
as transportation hub, a corner market and cafe, and even sports as a community garden. Light plays an important role in
The Spot by creating an attractive and appealing nucleus for sustainable pedestrian communities. During daytime hours,
The Spot will be filled with natural light in support of human preference, retail performance, and energy savings. In the
nighttime hours, The Spot becomes a "SPOTLIGHT," a bright beacon signaling a safe place and drawing people to the
store.
Energy efficiency is a central design strategy in The Spot. An aggressive daylighting scheme utilizes skylights and curtain
walls for ambient lighting. Daylight harvesting through sensors integrated into the light fixtures assure that the electric
lights are reduced, saving up to 80% of electricity for lighting during daylight hours. At night the fluorescent lamps are
dimmed to save energy and better support eye adaptation. Cutting-edge LED technology is used both interior and
exterior, again saving substantial amounts of energy, compared to traditional incandescent and HID lamps.
award of recognition June Lori Park
Project: Morningside Park Redux
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School: Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
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June L. Park
Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
Project: Morningside Park Redux
Student’s Project Description:
Morningside Park is located on the northwest end of Central Park between West 110th Street and West 123rd Street
nestled between Harlem and Columbia University on East-West axis in New York City. Only one block wide, this strip of
park is notable for its topographical shift from the rocky hill, which goes up to eighty feet high on the West side and
reinforces physical separation and cultural difference between the East and West neighborhoods. The program includes
designing a new configuration of the park from the West 123rd Street side, erecting buildings for community activities and
dinning, and a lighting scheme for the landscape and the architecture.
Since the main goal was to reconnect physical and cultural separation between the East and West sides of the park, the
design concept is focused on how to create a park that weaves different conditions in both functional and aesthetic ways.
The lighting scheme was derived from new park planning and is meant to enhance the architectural concept:
1. Buildings to be a part of the landscape and the landscape to be a part of the building.
2. Designing integrated structures for outdoor furnishing, lighting and shading elements.
In this way, the lighting defines infrastructure seamlessly and creates a merger between the physical condition and
emotional experience of the park.
The primary lighting elements are a series of linear LED bands that create a connection of the landscape and the
buildings. There are four intentions for the design:
1. Downlighting to define the main circulation along with the main exterior wall.
2. Uplighting for secondary circulations and transitional areas where less intensity of light is required.
3. Inground bench lighting to accentuate the outline of the linear form of the landscape.
4. Floodlighting to create glowing planes as a secondary visual element of the park.
A dialogue between the landscape, buildings and lighting system integrates the entire experience of the park.
Sustainability and energy efficiency are considered as well by specifying LED fixtures and daylight sensors and by
providing access to daylight in every space of the buildings in order to reduce the use of electricity.
award of recognition Austin Gauley
Project: Common Grounds Coffee House
School: Mississippi College
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Austin Gauley
Mississippi College, Clinton, MS
Project: Common Grounds Coffee House
Student’s Project Description:
Common Grounds coffee house, located in an up-and-coming part of Nashville, offers a unique atmosphere for enjoying
food and friends. Walking into the small lobby, the textures of wood and rock, which is featured throughout the space,
greet you with a warm glow. The main area is a large rectangle room that has a sunken center area featuring a rock
fireplace stretching from floor to ceiling. Cove lighting, at the base of the chimney shoots light up across the textured
surface of the rock creating a central glow in the large room. Trees have been placed on the outside of the sunken area
shading the fireplace making the space feel almost like you’re outside. Rugged wood floors are seen throughout the
coffee house complementing the rustic feel. While the ceiling is about fifteen feet upwards, solid wood beams hang lower
making the space more intimate. The skylights are the main source of light during the day, creating fun shadows across
the walls and floor, but at night track lighting running the extent of the skylights come on imitating the stars that are above
them. Warm fabric pendants hang above each table creating a soft warmth to each conversation. Bookshelves line the
sunken area that features overstuffed seating circling the fireplace. Common Grounds' atmosphere is one that invites
people to enjoy a friend's company, while seated by the fireplace underneath the trees sipping on a cup of warm coffee.