NEB Prizes 2021: All Applications

Imagine Montessori School is a reference eco-school internationally renowned for its ability to amalgamate its Montessori pedagogy from 1 to 18 years with its sustainability approach and entrepreneurship spirit as its dorsal spine.

The design blurs the limits of the school, integrating indoor and outdoor areas, mixing green roof with the land around, creating an ecosystem around promoting local biodiversity, creating spaces for children and families to share time and experiences.

VVITA is an Erasmus+ project with transnational cooperation: UAUIM, UNICT & NTNU, that raises question of European high education and underlines thematic approach of complexity on rural heritage conditions emergencies, actual chances and challenges. The partners experience was for this project in a wide series of valuable domains for a better reading and finding solutions in the territory, defining cultural sustainability for specific territory, promoting social inclusion.

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The residential apartment building “Together: A House for Families with Children” is a project within the framework of the model settlement "Bauherrengruppen Altkoenigblick" of the City of Frankfurt. The residents took an active role in determining the building design goals. The building underlines the wish of its residents to find a new home in a sustainably built, operated and inhabited house and to show this to the outside world.

Due to the current worldwide incredibly escalating situation of environment and society, fashion designer Isabel Vollrath and photographer Patrick Walter initiated a cross-divisional campaign - merging fashion, photography and classical ballet. Inspired by Peter Paul Ruben's painting their vision is to represent the "falling humanity" - moving, dancing between heaven and hell. The result of the collaboration is a deeply emotional imagery, demonstrating the mortality of beauty and art.

PAX is proposing an innovative system of governance that fosters a new a model of urban regeneration through social innovation in a heritage context.

The rehabilitation of the patio-houses in Córdoba aims to restore the environmental values of the Mediterranean city and upgrade its historical characteristics in a contemporary way together with the citizenship: from its architectural value as a World Heritage site to its anthropological value as Intangible Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO 2012).

On the border between high and low, stands a community centre.  An unusual combination of after-school child care with football canteen and multifunctional hall. The interior walls differ slightly and carry a twin roof that folds along the topography of the site. It creates a domestic interior. The autonomous building is in constant dialogue with its landscape. Inside, the walls interact by making windows and sliding doors. An extra structure is placed and houses the outside play-ground.

Using UNILIN's expertise in developing authentic and creative finishes, including true-to-life wood and concrete designs, Clicwall is instantly transformative and brings new design scope to commercial interiors. Already used in stores, hospitals, schools and public buildings; Clicwall wall panels are used to quickly erect prefabricated walls and partitions and allows immediate use of the space after installation. The system also offers excellent durability and ease of maintenance.

APPLICATION OF URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH PROGRAM. Empty homes in historic centres are an possibility for cooperative intertwining.  The analysis and intervention on residential fabrics in historical and vulnerable spaces must take into account the multiple variables, the numerous factors of attraction, resistance and dynamics, which inevitably condition the urban structure and each of its partssouth Europe ( Andalusia) and Montevideo.

The MESH project combines parametric design tools in an algorithm capable to assess, compare and improve urban forms, optimising them to match performance indicators such as energy consumption and human comfort. It tackles the complexity of environmental, through a multiscale and holistic approach of urban morphologies. The MESH project is extremely flexible to circumstantial operational needs, promoting the adaptation of cities to mitigate and adapt to climate change

Ymere started the renovation of 288 houses in Haarlem 13 years ago. Currently 151 houses have been completed. The project is due to be finished in 2024. Circularity and climate adaptation methods have been implemented here since 2020. The most extraordinary method being the pulverisation of the concrete roof tiles and the rubble from the rear façade that together have been reprocessed into a work floor. Bavodorp is a model project for 'The Handbook on Circular Renovation' by C-creators.