Strutt House. Photo: Carleton University
Carleton University and the Board of Directors of Historic Ottawa Development Inc. (HODI) have announced the winners of the inaugural HODI Award in Built Heritage Conservation.
This year there were two winning entries. The first project, Strutt House, created by students from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kristen Balogh, Rachel Gullage, Neil Kenkel, Krista MacWilliam and Corinne Wallisch, will receive an award of $2,500.  The second is Sealed Environment ? Climate Control of Historic House Museums, by Golnaz Karimi from the Azrieli School of Architecture. It received an award of $4,500.
The Strutt House project is an adaptive reuse proposal for a complex geodesic residential design by notable modernist architect James Strutt for use as a public conference and retreat centre. The minimum intervention approach presented addresses both architectural conservation and structural engineering issues facing the deteriorating building with a focus on practical, environmental and social considerations. The winning entry Sealed Environment is a thorough, thoughtful and technologically sophisticated response to the problem of environmental conditions in Horaceville, a 19th-century stone masonry structure in Kanata. It employs laser scanning to document the existing structure in three dimensions, thermal imaging to map the moisture content of the building envelope, and sensors to monitor indoor humidity. 
An elegant and...