2019 Innovation Awards

For The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre project, CW Keller Associates used a FARO Tracer to mass produce steam-bent millwork with 1/32nd tolerances.
The Innovation Awards recognize the exemplary use and implementation of innovative technologies and progressive practices among architects and designers, collaborators, and clients.
Baxter Parametric CMU Wall
The team took a humble material, CMU, and paired it up with advanced technology to give it new life.
Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab
The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab is a prototype for a new kind of resilient coastal architecture.
IIT Innovation Center (Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship)
The dynamic facade on the IIT Innovation Center allows the architecture to do more so that systems can do less.
MIT Sean Collier Memorial
the Memorial honors Officer Sean Collier who was shot and killed during the manhunt following the Boston Marathon Bombing.
Overhaul the curriculum, not just a course
In a radical move, the University of Tennessee faculty overhauled the entire B.Arch. technology curriculum.
Performative Millwork: The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre
a series of beautiful steam-bent millwork guardrails and balconies merge handcraft with mass production using AR and laser scanning techniques.
Image credits

CW Keller