2008 AIA dreamArchitecture Winners

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HONORABLE MENTION:

Anna Claire Etheridge
Kindergarten
Hall-Kent Elementary
Kelly Busby, 423-2430

Will McCrite
Kindergarten
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Judy Davidson, 439-2900
“My dream house is made of rocks and vines and wood. This house has many rooms.”

Erin Warren
Kindergarten
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Judy Davidson, 439-2900
“My nature dream house is made of bricks. It has a spinning window.”

Leanna Todd
Kindergarten
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Judy Davidson, 439-2900
“My nature dream house is made of bricks. It has a garden with huge flowers.”

Chris Bell
1st Grade
Robinson Elementary
Rebecca Gibb, 231-5565
“My house is collecting water in a bucket for the plants and drinking later. My neighbor’s house is under the ground with the sun and the moon.”

Justin Perreault
1st Grade
Hall-Kent Elementary
Kelly Busby, 423-2430

Hamby Inusah
1st Grade
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Judy Davidson, 439-2900
“My dream house is a very colorful house. They use it for playing and parties. They don’t have to go to stores because they have lots of fruit trees.”

Daniela Galvan
2nd Grade
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Judy Davidson, 439-2900
“My nature house is made of vines and flowers. I love flowers.”

Matthew Reyna
2nd Grade
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Judy Davidson, 439-2900
“Made of: vines, pine cones, leaves, rocks, and flowers. My dream house is a fun place and it has the Arts of nature.”

Ellie Guyader
2nd Grade
Advent Episcopal
Mrs. Sunstead, 252-2535
“My dream greenhouse is made out of bamboo because bamboo grows back fast and a water catcher to catch the water so I can water my plants and to drink. I have a clothes line to dry my clothes. I have grass window treatments made out of old cloth. It has solar panels to make electricity. I am making a greenhouse to help the environment.”

Emmeline Geurs
3rd Grade
Mountain Brook Elementary
Findley Townsend, 871-8191
“My dream house is very eco friendly. Where I wanted to build my house I wanted to build it right where a huge tree was. So I built the house around the tree. I hollowed out the tree and made the inside an elevator to go in the hollowed out part. At the top of the elevator there is a balcony which has two solar panels that provide energy for the whole house. My house has a hybrid car which does not use gas, it uses solar power. On the right side of my house there is a river. The river provides energy for the elevator. On the left side it has two windmills that provide energy for the lights. The lights in my house are energy efficient and turn off when you leave the room. The owners of my house do not use aerosol products. The windmills help power the house. My house has a lot of plants outside so there is fresh air and provides food. Finally, my house has a recyceling room.”

Elijah Abbot
3rd Grade
Memorial Park Elementary, Jasper City Schools
Beth Able, 384-6461
“My nature house uses solar panels to mak elecktisety.”

Evan Pezant
4th Grade
St. Rose Academy
Teacher – Ms. Taylor, 933-0549
“My house has a sistern for collecting rain. I have solar panels to collect sun light to power my house with electricity also. I have two trees to cover my house for some shade.”

Marina Gurmendi
4th Grade
St. Rose Academy
Teacher - Ms. Taylor, 933-0549
“My nature dream house has roses, trees, bushes, and daisies. It has a rain barrel that collects water, and medium and small windows that let in sun so I don’t have to use so much electricity, with four solar panels to collect light if there is no sun outside.”

Madi March
5th Grade
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Judy Davidson, 439-2900
“A all natural forest home. The vines are woven together forming the walls of the green house!”

Brennan Martignoni
5th Grade
St. Rose Academy
Ms. Taylor, 933-0549
“My house is very energy-efficient and nature-friendly by using solar panels, trees, cisterns, windows, and rainbuckets. The windows and trees help let cool air in and create plenty of shade. The cistern has built in hoses so that after everything dries up they give it a little more water for about 5 days at a steady pace. The solar panels and rainbuckets use tubes and pipes to channel everything to the generator so that you can make your own energy. The trees also provide oxygen for the air to make it easy to breathe.”

Cayley Ann Rush
5th Grade
South Shades Crest Elementary
Hendrix, 439-3000
“My house is a water house during the Hirizon. I chose this because water helps us live and keeps everything live.”

THIRD PLACE:

Charlie Frazier
Kindergarten
Advent Episcopal
Katherine Kettig, 252-2535
“My house has a middle sized windmill. It has adobe walls and a huge garden.”

Kristen Hopkins
1st Grade
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Judy Davidson, 439-2900
“My house is a butterfly house. It has 4 wings – one has a bathroom, some have bedrooms.”

Sam Fallon
2nd Grade
Advent Episcopal
Mrs. Sunstead, 252-2535
“I drew a green house. It is made out of bamboo because bamboo grows faster than trees. Also, there is a pig in a pig pin to help make fertilizer. I also have a car that runs on eleciriciy.”

Christian Strong
3rd Grade
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Judy Davidson, 439-2900
“My house is a coconut tree house because I like coconut and the leaves are my rooms and the big coconut is a window.”

Mary Caroline Meredith
4th Grade
St. Rose Academy
Ms. Taylor, 933-0549
“On my dream house I have solar panels so I will not have to use electricity. I also have a rain barrel, so I can gather the rain and use it to water plants.”

Benjamin Marsh
5th Grade
St. Rose Academy
Ms. Taylor, 933-0549
“My dream house is powered by wind. I also use solar energy to power my house. I even use my cistern to water my plants. I use my tree for shade.”

SECOND PLACE:

Humberto Guajardo
Kindergarten
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Judy Davidson, 439-2900
“My dream house is a tree house. You climb a ladder to get up. It is made of wood. My dad built it for me.”

Brittany Gillespie
1st Grade
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Judy Davidson, 439-2900
“This tree house uses 3 trees and are connected with a bridge.”

Jenna Klewsaat
2nd Grade
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Judy Davidson, 439-2900
“My dream is tied together with vines. The door is a vine too. I have two birds that are an alarm system and they also sing me to sleep.”

Kara Warren
3rd Grade
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Judy Davidson, 439-2900
“My nature dream house is made out of flowers. The door is made out of a big leaf, the windows are made out of big flowers, the roof is made out of bamboo sticks and rocks, and the tree is an enormous flower.”

Royce Thompson
4th Grade
Vestavia Hills Elementary Central
Susie Caffey, 402-5300
“Art is like a door that you can walk through and be someone else for a change! And sense we are having problems with global warming I have made a door into a world that really shows people what it would be like if everyone just recicaled some cans once and a while. Or didn’t carelessly leeve the lamp on for no reason. A nice POLUTION FREE world. I hope you enjoy it!!”

Hugo Boulanger
5th Grade
Mountain Brook Elementary
Findley Townsend, 871-8191
“My house is a hobbit house of the modern time (I try the house of Frodo: The Lord of the Rings). There is a waterfall who gave the house the water it need in a kind of reservoir in the little hill near the house. They have geothermal energy, solar energy and wind energy.”

FIRST PLACE:

Clare Bevensee
Kindergarten
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Rocky Ridge Elementary, 439-2900
“My house has a rainbow roof. It is very tall.”

Tucker Contorno
1st Grade
Rocky Ridge Elementary
Judy Davidson, 439-2900
“My dream house is very colorful. It is made out of sticks, stones, and tiles.”

Caroline Baker
2nd Grade
Advent Episcopal
Dewitt, 252-2535
“This is my dream house. It uses the sun for electricity. It also has a windmill and a waterfall. On the right side there is a water filter. There are four rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, a bedroom, and a gamesroom and an attic.”

Ellie Gorman
3rd Grade
Advent Episcopal
Lee Stayer, 252-2535
“I tried my hardest to make this house very eco-friendly, everything from sewer filtration system and a ciltern. If the environment has great things to give to us, why don’t we give it great things too?”

Harlin Brown
4th Grade
St. Rose Academy
Ms. Taylor, 933-0549
“My house’s roof has many skylights, framed by solar panels. The big circular room has a giant fan to recycle hot or cold air. The mailbox has lunar panels on all sides to make even more electricity. A gutter runs all the way around the roof, and empties into a rain barrel.”

Jay Marino
5th Grade
St. Rose Academy
Ms. Taylor, 933-0549
“The reason I value my house is because it is so environmentally friendly. It has solar panels which reduces the need for unnecessary electricity. The house also has a cistern which saves gallons and gallons of reusable water. It also is located in a valley so in the morning and afternoon the sun is not beating down on the house. The setting also provides shade so we don’t have to run the air conditioning as much. Trees are all around the house providing clean, fresh air and shade. The hills and trees also provide shelter from high powered winds.”