NEB Prizes 2021: All Applications

The Black Sea bicycle road answers the society's aspirations to create sustainable, inclusive and environmentally friendly solutions. It is aimed at improving the conditions for recreation, increasing sports and physical culture, creating new business opportunities. It is based on innovative solutions, exchange of knowledge and ideas between wide range of stakeholders. Passing through urban and rural regions the route will contribute to their transformation and green revitalisation.

Elementary school De Verwondering is a biophilic school building and one of the first of its kind. The hybrid timber frame/CLT building has fourteen classrooms, an outdoor classroom on the roof and a spacious central area. Biophilic elements such as natural materials, plants and imagery are present throughout the building and playground. These provide a stimulating learning environment for the pupils that triggers curiosity and wonder in all things nature.

Contemporary culture is Valmiera's Achilles' heel. The existing cultural environment has a symbolic cultural "gap" - as one way to address this challenge, we propose creating a cultural space, "Kurtuve", housed in a building that served as the city boiler house for over 40 years. We will transform it into a platform for contemporary cultural events – exhibitions, concerts, plays etc. "Kurtuve" will help ensure the availability of varied cultural content to broad audiences.

The Robotic Interaction module prefigured the new Master's degree in Computational Design and Mechatronics (opening in September 2018 at the Ecole supérieure d'art et de design TALM-Le Mans). It offers students from the IUT of Nantes and TALM the opportunity to approach the methods of computational design and robotic manufacturing of the built environment.

Cloudfactory is a social design and build program developed by MOME Budapest, where marginalised communities can work together with young designers, and strengthen people’s resilience in local communities by social design. The program is realised North-East Hungary one of the poorest regions of Central-Eastern Europe where the every-day challenges are faced by these communities. At the Cloudfactory this collaborative team creates new values and manufacture new perspectives together.

Born for the drying of tabacco and synthesis of a landscape intended for work, the ancient factory called ‘Il Castello’ is recovered for new uses, opening up to the Community as a court of collective knowledge, theater of public-private synergies aimed at regenerating the land over which it dominates. Respect for environmental values has led the intervention to develop almost exclusively inside the building, reconfigured in order to restore its semantic identity in the contemporary dimension.

ConstructUseMove: Mobilizing Buildings enables smart distribution of reusable modular construction solutions by creating a Europe-wide platform for construction components, building plans and knowledge exchange. It builds on existing modular building concepts to support broader innovation and exploitation of these methods, adapting construction to the present and future dynamic in the digital age and contributing to a new culture of truly sustainable buildings and spatial development.

Welcome to Terra Fluida, a vision for the radical transformation of the wholesale market and city harbour in Berlin. Currently isolated and divided, a strategy is developed to transform the area into an hybrid and circular productive district. The vision reinterprets the overlapping layers of infrastructures, ecologies and geology by formulating new spatial and aesthetic concepts of hybrid naturecultures, which result in typologies for a porous and adaptive city which celebrates its metabolism!

The project is part of a wider masterplan in Porto di Mare and is located above the polluted industrial settlement between two main parks and the open countryside. Here we promoted a strategy aimed at creating a resilient landscape to preserve the agricultural vocation of the site. At the same time, it wants to catalyse and activate Milan's food policy. Great attention was given to the natural capital, preserving the local biodiversity by integrating small artefacts and ecological corridors.

A circular initiative of urban renaturalisation involving artists, scientists, architects, designers, residents of Tres Barrios-Amate and youngs from the local association A.E.S. Candelaria. An exploration of the resources and species of the neighbourhood, to imagine new relationships of sustainable prosperity through an integral process that takes the form of a vertical garden, a perfume that distils plants from the neighbourhood and a sound composition that celebrates new alliances.