Brianne Nueslein wins 2024 SARA NY Student Design Award for Yamuna River Project Studio Proposal

UVA School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Brianne Nueslein (MArch and MLA '24) has recently been recognized with a 2024 SARA NY Design Award of Excellence in the student category. The award acknowledges her design proposal titled "Reintegrating Urban & Natural Flows in Okhla, Delhi, India" for the Yamuna River Project Studio held in Fall 2023 and co-taught by Assistant Professor Maria Gonzalez Aranguren and Professor Pankaj Vir Gupta.

Each year, SARA NY (The Society of American Registered Architects New York Chapter) hosts a Design Awards program to celebrate and honor design achievements in architecture. Nueslein's proposal, one of four projects receiving a "design award of excellence," responds to the challenges of groundwater depletion, stormwater runoff, and lack of sewage infrastructure in Okhla, Delhi, in India.

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Through her proposal, Nueslein asks:

How can water and sanitation infrastructure become reintegrated with the urban and natural flows of the city, connecting people to each other and to the natural systems that sustain them.

Her project identifies an unutilized open space in Okhla and proposes to reimagine it as a new urban park network organized around stormwater management and sanitation infrastructure. 

Three typologies were identified, each with different scales and types of water treatment infrastructure. These typologies work together to serve the city's water and sanitation challenges while also creating 1.5 square kilometers of park space for the nearly 300,000 people of Okhla.

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Congratulations to Brianne Nueslein on this well-deserved recognition!