UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Sophie Marks, a third-year architecture student in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School, was named the winner of the Department of Architecture’s 2022 Corbelletti Design Charrette.
A total of 188 entries were submitted by upper-level architecture students for consideration for the coveted Corbelletti prize.
“One of the hardest things in architecture school is being able to take the thoughts in your head and put them to paper in a way that your professor will understand,” said Marks, who is from Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. “Winning the Corbelletti prize means that I was able to articulate my ideas into a drawing, and that my intentions were understood by the audience and judges.”
Tsz Yan Ng, principal of Tsz Yan Ng Design and associate professor of architecture at the University Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, was this year’s visiting architect and guest juror for the competition. Ng authored a brief that she presented to students on Monday, Aug. 22, that centered around the theme of “Façade Integration.”
In her brief, Ng challenged the students to “employ kirigami techniques of paper cutting and folding to develop a façade design as a 2.5-dimensional relief. The cutting/scoring should be done by hand to observe how it captures shade and shadows (directly on the paper and in representation of intended design). The drawing and cutting should describe the façade, with the integrated qualities, especially in how it might direct light and air.”
Tess Clancy, assistant teaching professor of architecture; Felecia Davis, associate professor of architecture; and Eric Sutherland, Stuckeman Practitioner Instructor of Architecture, served with Ng as jurors.