First year Masters of Architecture students Majid Behboudi, Arash Nourkeyhani, Mark Ross, and Paul Harrison were awarded the Directors Choice Award in the d3 Housing for Tomorrow 2012 competition. Their proposal, entitled "Metabolic Renewal" offered a solution for generating a new housing system for declining cities.
 
d3 Housing Tomorrow recognizes innovative strategies that challenge conventional housing typologies with emerging planning strategies, advanced technologies, and alternative materials. Competition submissions for 2012 reflect forces of globalization and adaptation, as well as the changing nature of visualization in academia and professional design practice.

For more information about the competition, and to view Behboudi, Nourkeyhani, Ross, and Harrison's project, visit d3 Housing Tomorrow's website.