EPIC Metals Competition

The EPIC Metals Corporation sponsors the EPIC Metals Competition for third-year Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) students to design an innovative project incorporating metal deck systems. Students compete for up to three prizes — first, second, and third place. The first-place team may be invited to tour EPIC Metals' manufacturing plant in Rankin, Pa.

Students, working in teams of two, are charged with developing design proposals that address the stated requirements through the use of EPIC Metals' architectural products. Proposals should seek to leverage the spanning capabilities of EPIC Metals' products.

This competition is open to third-year Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) students in the studio "48-300: Architecture Design Studio Core 5 — Ecologies."

• 2025: Project Brief: "Forbes Avenue Pedestrian Bridge: A Pedestrian Bridge to Unify the North and South Sides of Campus"
  First Place: Simon Han (B.Arch '27) & Kiki Kuang (B.Arch '27); Project: "Tartan Connection"
  Second Place: Tom Shen (B.Arch '27) & Leo Wu (B.Arch '27); Project: "Carnegie Gateway"
  Third Place: Lisa Chun (B.Arch '27) & Catalina John-Melendez (B.Arch '27); Project: "Arete"
• 2024: Project Brief: "Margaret Morrison Corridor Campus Improvements"
  First Place: Benni Guo (B.Arch '26) & Patrick Zheng (B.Arch '26)
  Second Place: Tina Han (B.Arch '26) & Angela Yang (B.Arch '26)
  Third Place: Zoe Liu (B.Arch '26) & Jack Zhu (B.Arch '26)
• 2023: Project Brief: "The Packaged Library: A Temporary, Disaster Relief Library and Community Hub"
  First Place: Graham Murtha (B.Arch '25) & Jackie Yu (B.Arch '25); Project: "Step Binding"
  Second Place: Michael Bi (B.Arch '25) & Jason Shao (B.Arch '25); Project: "Disaster Relief Library"
  Third Place: I Lok U (B.Arch '25) & Norman Situ (B.Arch '25); Project: "Hawkers Library"
  Honorable Mention: Brody Ploeger (B.Arch '25) & Ashley Su (B.Arch '25); Project: "GCL: Global Community Library"
• 2022: Project Brief: "SoA Assembly and Prototyping Pavilion (SoAPP)"
  First Place: Brian Hartman (B.Arch '24) & Colin Walters (B.Arch '24); Project: "SoAPP Gateway"
  Second Place: Tory Tan (B.Arch '24) & Jerry Zhang (B.Arch '24); Project: "EP Pavilion"
  Third Place: Jai Bhatnagar (B.Arch '24) & Shenyuan Li (B.Arch '24); Project: "Fine Arts Pavilion"
• 2021: Project Brief: "SoftSensory Play Pod for The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh"
  First Place: Seyoung Choo (B.Arch '23) & Susie Kim (B.Arch '23); Project: "Tangendi"
  Second Place: Brendan Bogolin (B.Arch '23) & Nicholas Coppula (B.Arch '23); Project: "Release"
  Third Place: Thomas Chen (B.Arch '23) & Meghan Pisarcik (B.Arch '23); Project: "Push and Pull"
• 2020: Project Brief: "Mobile Air Quality Eco-Lab for the Neighborhood Environmental Learning Center (ELC)"
  First Place: Paul Greenway (B.Arch '22) & Ammar Hassonjee (B.Arch '22); Project: "Breath Mobile Air Quality Lab"
  Second Place: Zeyin (Steven) Fei (B.Arch '22) & Xiaotian (Adam) He (B.Arch '22)
  Third Place: Mohammed Rahman (B.Arch '22) & Shariq Shah (B.Arch '22)
• 2019: Project Brief: "Mobile Eco-Labs"
  First Place: Christoph Eckrich (B.Arch '21) & Gil Jang (B.Arch '21)
  Second Place: Rachel Lu (B.Arch '21) & Brandon Smith (B.Arch '21)
  Third Place: Longney Luk (B.Arch '21) & Alex Wang (B.Arch '21)
• 2018: Project Brief: "Portable Farm Stand for Environmental Charter School (ECS)"
  First Place: Fon Euchukanonchai (B.Arch '20) & Hugh Lee (B.Arch '20)
  Second Place: Christina Brown (B.Arch '20) & Scarlet Tong (B.Arch '20); Project: "FLOO︵P"
  Third Place: Xin Chen (B.Arch '20) & Christine Zhu (B.Arch '20)
• 2017: Project Brief: "Self-Sufficient Shelter for Environmental Charter School (ECS)"
  First Place: Gunn Chaiyapatranun (B.Arch '19) & Timothy Khalifa (B.Arch '19); Project
  Second Place: Irfan Haider (B.Arch '19) & Jakob Uhlenhopp (B.Arch '19); Project 
  Third Place: Zain Islam-Hashmi (B.Arch '19) & Kelly Li (B.Arch '19); Project
• 2016: First Place: Sophie Nahrmann (B.Arch '18) & Kyle Wing (B.Arch '18)
  Second Place: Elle Bai (B.Arch '18) & Mason Sofia (B.Arch '18)
  Third Place: Ai Fukuda (B.Arch '18) & Fan Yang (B.Arch '18)
• 2015: First Place: Bobby Esposito (B.Arch '17) & Mark Terra-Salomao (B.Arch '17)
• 2014: First Place: Avanti Dabholkar (B.Arch '16) & Gloriana Gonzalez (B.Arch '16)
  Second Place: Hsienshin (Richard) Chou (B.Arch '16) & Jae Min (Max) Park (B.Arch '16)
  Third Place: Alexander Huseman (B.Arch '16) & Jacqueline Yeung (B.Arch '16)
• 2013: First Place: Kevyn McPhail (B.Arch '15) & Tony Zhang (B.Arch '15)
  Second Place (tie): Jason Kim (B.Arch '15) & Peter Salim (B.Arch '15)
  Second Place (tie): Chris Chan (B.Arch '15) & Harris Mazur (B.Arch '15)
• 2012: First Place: Matthew Adler (B.Arch '14) & Rohan Rathod (B.Arch '14)
  Second Place: I-Ting Wang (B.Arch '14) & Yifan Xu (B.Arch '14)
  Third Place: Lingnan He (B.Arch '14) & Abigail Mitchell (B.Arch '14)
• 2011: not awarded
• 2010: First Place: Sara Gotschewski (B.Arch '12) & Ryan Ralston (B.Arch '12)
  Second Place: Alex Greenhut (B.Arch '12) & Ming Ming Lin (B.Arch '12)
  Third Place: Joseph Koon (B.Arch '12) & Arthur Notaro (B.Arch '12)
• 2009: First Place: Lowell Day (B.Arch '11) & Ben Lehrer (B.Arch '11)
  Second Place: Matthew Z. Huber (B.Arch '11) & Kaitlin Miciunas (B.Arch '11)
  Third Place: Josiah Haskell (B.Arch '11) & Giacomo Tinari (B.Arch '11)
• 2008: First Place: Craig Rosman (B.Arch '10) & Misha Varshavsky (B.Arch '10)
  Second Place: Ryan Bottini (B.Arch '10) & Rachelle Roll (B.Arch '10)
  Third Place: Jeff Choi (B.Arch '10) & Niko Triulzi (B.Arch '10)