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The Slam
DESIGN SLAM 2021
Every October as part of the American Institute of Architect’s (AIA’s) celebrations of Architecture Month in Tennessee, the East Tennessee Chapter hosts what it known as Design Slam. The Slam is similar to our Design Charrette in that there are several teams of designers crafting a schematic, vision-level design for a pre-chosen site. It differs in that the teams do all of their designs in one evening, over the course of just ninety minutes, and the event is held at a local bar and has public presentations and an award ceremony at the end.
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In 2021, The Slam was held at Hi-Wire Brewing on Sevier Avenue in South Knoxville. A portion of the same site that would be used for the Design Charrette - a corner of the plot at the intersection of MLK Jr. Avenue and Ben Hur Avenue - was used for this event, and the teams responsed with ingenious and beautiful designs considering their time constraints.
Three teams with a total of sixteen designers participated and the designs were judged by a panel of three, including our own Executive Director Duane Grieve, FAIA. Thank you to all the teams and the designers for joining us for some beers and a fun evening of envisioning a small but important corner of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue.
TEAM: POCHE ALL DAY || PROJECT: ‘CORNER HOUSE’
TEAM: MAKERS. HEROES. MONSTERS. || PROJECT: ‘URBAN PARK UPHEAVAL’
TEAM: BE EASY || PROJECT: ‘POTLUCK PLAZA’
