NEB Prizes 2021: All Applications

Five little bees...

Five little bees searching for a hive; a student stepped on one

Four little bees going through the flower field, one stopped to explore

Three little bees found a hive; hive was on a tree, one couldn’t ignore

Two little bees flying around; Winnie Pooh found one he couldn’t roar

One little bee hovering around; she didn’t have fun and there was none.

Our project includes building raised garden beds for outdoor classroom made from ecological materials.

eRelief offers a new multisensorial way to experience visual art.

It consists in a dynamic surface that allows the user to perceive the artworks through touch.

Inspired by the principle of pin-art, it creates the high-relief of any artworks - previously transformed in a 3D digital model - through the ascent and descent of its pins.

The aim is to create a new way to explore art and, at the same time, to give people with visual impairment the possibility to appreciate artworks.

Sofia is the only European capital without a children’s hospital, where seriously ill children can receive adequate and immediate care. The case "New National Children's Hospital" in Bulgaria was one of the topics of 2019 and is keeping its relevance until today. It is a very mandatory problem in our society and I want to present a different way of doing hospital architecture, in which the main focus is on patients/kids/ how they feel in this place and how it can help their healing process.

Awaited since 1935, the Accademia di Brera has launched a project for an extension into a new architecture for teaching and research. These new spaces are dedicated to the New Technologies for the Arts. The Academy has brought together its premises around the city into a new "Campus delle Arti" for 1,800 students, open to the city. The project renew a large disused warehouse in an urban regeneration area between the city and the periphery. The Politecnico di Milano carried out the architecture.

HeritageBox is a modular and mobile wooden unit being inserted within the endangered heritage buildings. Units offer simplified architectural and sustainable answers and possible solutions for housing issues and the lack of vibrant and creative industries in peripheral areas. HeritageBoxes can serve as flats, residences for artists or tourists, co-working places, workshops ...  United with its digital platform, the solution offers an uncomplicated response to a complex problem.

HeritageBox is a modular and mobile wooden unit being inserted within the endangered heritage buildings. Units offer simplified architectural and sustainable answers and possible solutions for housing issues and the lack of vibrant and creative industries in peripheral areas. HeritageBoxes can serve as flats, residences for artists or tourists, co-working places, workshops ... United with its digital platform, the solution offers an uncomplicated response to a complex problem.

Abrazo House ecological centre builds affordable homes to attract residents to a rural area that's losing people.

Our building system uses local & natural materials (stone, wood, straw, earth) to create houses that are low-impact, healthy, super-insulated, durable and beautiful. We also cultivate productive, diverse "edible landscapes" for food and fuel.

Future residents as well as students and volunteers take part in the work, learning new skills while building self-reliance and community

Locally by bicycle is a website with embedded interactive map of circular cycling route around Sorsko polje with its farms, locally grown food offer and other local activities of Sorsko polje. The website is intended for cyclists, as it helps them to find locations of farms and agricultural offer according to the type of produce, and for all visitors who are generally interested in the local offer and sights of the Sorsko polje.

A cultural kiosk café that is along with other initiatives transforming an abandoned soccer field into a park of biodiversity and cultural meeting point. We provide the extra pepper into the soup of co-creation of a communal space with music, creativity and an extra portion of good food. Cause good food, is good for the mood. With sustainability as our carriage, we ride towards a brighter future. Was geht? Das Beet!

Based on movement and migration as universal constants, BoAT responds as a mobile space, a shared device to promote inclusiveness by connecting people, communities, and cities to navigate towards a common horizon. A floating and sustainable building in symbiosis with water landscapes and port infrastructure while changing its shape according to each event. A tool for the conservation of the seas, where arts, technology, and science activate environmental commitment and educational experiences.