Professor Victor Deupi’s fourth-year architecture students at Notre

Professor Victor Deupi’s fourth-year architecture students at Notre Dame University recently participated in a home design competition for I’On, a 243-acre TND in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Pella Windows Corporation provided the $1000 prize money for the winner of their Award for Home Design Excellence. Deupi is himself designing a home in I’On, and had concurrently approached developer Vince Graham about assigning students to design homes specifically for I’On. The joint winners were Elizabeth Garvey and Francesca DeLayo. Eric Saul received an honorable mention. While the original expectation was to build only the winning design, Graham is now presenting all 13 student designs to builders for possible construction. Notre Dame is also planning to publish and market the designs in a plan book.