Urban Edge Developers Ltd of Dallas, Texas, has announced the winners of a June competition for the design of innovative, sustainable modernist houses for the new Dallas neighborhood Urban Reserve.
Urban Reserve will be a community of 50 modernist, single-family houses individually custom designed by a wide variety of architects. The developer, Diane Cheatham, is well known for her collaborations with leading-edge architects; the New Visions Design Competition was conceived to showcase the talents of young architects and architecture students from throughout the United States and encourage their participation in the new project.

Sixty-five entries were judged by a panel of noted architects: Rand Elliott FAIA of Oklahoma City, Dan Shipley FAIA of Dallas, and Eurico Francisco, Associate AIA of Dallas. Robert L. Meckfessel AIA served as professional adviser. Entrants in the professional category were architects within ten years of graduation; current architecture students competed in a student category.

Rand Elliott noted how pleased the jury was with the caliber of the entries. “We were surprised and encouraged by the quality of the students’ concepts and ideas,” he said.

Winners in the professional category are Calvin Chen of the Bercy Chen Studio, Austin TX; Glenn Wilcox of Area Architecture, Eugene OR; and John Munn of the Munn/Stewart Studio, Dallas TX. Student winners are Gabriel Andres Cuellar of Carnegie-Mellon University; Won Jin Park of the University of Pennsylvania; and a team of students from the University of Texas at Arlington that included Jesus Rodriguez and Alexis Flores. A citation will also be awarded to Gabriel Fuentes, a student at Florida International University in Miami.

The winners will receive cash awards as well as the possibility of seeing their designs constructed at Urban Reserve, a community to be built just north of Royal Lane and east of US Hwy 75.

Urban Edge Developers, with its sister company CCM General Contractors Inc., is an award-winning developer and builder of contemporary houses and commercial projects in intown Dallas.