The OU Eco-Sooners received an award at the final competition of the 2023 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge. The team of Gibbs students won the Best Name of the Year award for their well-selected team name. According to the judges, the name strongly reflected the team’s design ideas and innovative strategies.
The Eco-Sooners' Best Name of the Year award certificate.
As first-time participants, the Eco-Sooners received wonderful feedback on their design. The judges highlighted their excellent integration of net-zero strategies into a preserved building, as well as their water harvest system and resilience ideas in the event of a tornado.
According to Dr. Negar Matin, a professor of Interior Design and faculty leader of the Eco-Sooners, “We moved one step closer to our mission of providing true net-zero affordable housing for Oklahoma City residents. Our journey has just begun.”
Congratulations to the OU Eco-Sooners for winning this well-deserved award!
View the video below to learn more about the Eco-Sooners' design.
Gibbs College is pleased to present the exhibition 200 Digital Drawings by Professor Tiziana Proietti, currently on display in the Gould Hall Living Room.
Gibbs College of Architecture Professors Amber Brown and Amy Leveno led 29 students to Dallas, Texas, in September for a learning experience as part of their Design 7 Studio course.
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture professor and Institute for Quality Communities Director Dr. Amber N. Wiley’s book, Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital, has received two major honors from the Urban History Association.
