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About 200 people attended an awards ceremony for construction company Hammer & Hand’s second annual perFORM Building Design Competition this past Thursday. The event was held at the American Institute of Architect’s Center for Architecture.

Last year the competition was focused on single-family designs and had 25 entrants. This year the number of entries doubled to 50, said Zack Semke, Hammer & Hand’s director of business development.

This year the focus of the competition was to design a multifamily, mixed-use structure with net-zero energy use. Competition was open to architectural students and interns, and entries came from across the United States and Canada.

This year’s top winner was an entry by University of Cincinnati students Jon Lund, Narek Mirzaei and Luis Sabater Musa, who will share a $3,000 prize.

Runners-up, who each receive a $1,500 prize, were students from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Eduardo Gandara of California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. Members of the University of Illinois team were Sang-Oh Jo, Jung A. Hong and Do Yoon Kim.

鈥淚t was really fun and gratifying that so many people showed up and for us to partner with AIA Portland with this competition,鈥� Semke said. Winners were not present, he added, since they’re all students and didn’t know ahead of the ceremony that they had won.

The winning University of Cincinnati entry impressed judges with 鈥渋ts strong urban and environmental response,鈥� Semke said, as well as 鈥渨ell-considered proportions, design restraint and building energy performance to attain net zero energy use.鈥�

Semke said he expects even more participants next year because more and more architecture schools are including the competition in their design coursework.

Locations for the competition alternates between Portland and Seattle each year, Semke said, so next year the design will be for a Seattle location. This year’s competition was the design of a fictional building for a site at the intersection of East Burnside Street and Southeast 14th Avenue.

Judges for the competition were Sam Hagerman of Hammer & Hand, architecture critic Randy Gragg of the John Yeon Center for Architecture Studies, Jim Graham of Graham Baba Architects, Cory Hawbecker of Holst Architecture, Peter Keyes of the University of Oregon’s Architecture Department, Gladys Ly-Au Young of SKL Architects and Carrie Strickland of Works Partnership Architecture and Project Cityscope.

The event also showcased an exhibit by Hammer & Hand titled 鈥淓volution of Enclosure: the Anatomy of Building Performance.鈥� The full-scale wall assembly shows cross sections, building science illustrations and an interactive set of animations to show how buildings can be energy producers. The exhibit will be on display at the Center for Architecture through Sept. 10.