NEB Prizes 2021: All Applications

Cabinnest is the innovative unisex, accessible and public toilet restroom that was designed to be autonomous and thus, to be placed anywhere in the world: in parks, cities or just in wild nature. 

Arroz Estúdios Association is a non-profit organisation that provides working space for emerging artists, and event spaces for them to showcase their work. Our goal is to offer a space for artistic growth where cultural events take place to contribute to Lisbon’s rapid development in a creative, open and multi-cultural way. We work with both local and international artists engaging the local communities and giving international links.

"Star Status" design philosophy tells the story of that some star does not stand, is moving, changes the angle of view, advancing into the unknown, taking the risk, wonders what's coming, is curious what it will be and never follows the way, connect to new composition with other stars in constellations with new connections and create new composition, new context. New structure and proportions of stars constellation identify new interests of society, important essence of education and training, "

In the middle of the agricultural area outside of Vienna, residential blocks are hindered by streets that are overfilled with cars. Containing people from different parts of the world and life, Thürnlhof lacks public space and a sense of community.

As an approach, an app allows the neighborhood to control the development of their surroundings by gaining a voice in deciding the production,  positioning, functions and the future of prefabricated modules for social interaction.

Loop is modular furniture, which implement reuse of waste and secondary materials - those generated as a result of consumption, as well as those that are a side effect of production. It is important that Loop also enables the reuse of currently intensively used face masks and the waste generated during their production. Loop furniture can be used both as a seat or a table with a cushion placed on the floor. This product is foldable and flat packed for easy storage and sustainable distribution.

After being abandoned for years, an old cement factory is now a collaborative space for free culture. 

Located in a rural municipality of Spain, La Fábrika has become a landmark for an open network of creators, thinkers and social agents throughout the territory. Over the course of our ten years of activity, more than 3.000 people have contributed to regenerate the space. 

Together we build, meet and explore. 

Parco Forlanini is becoming “Grande”, it is growing tree by tree, community by community, path by path. Its story is long and kept alive by small/big actions implemented by different communities, each giving its own energies, ideas, contributions. Its sustainability is its frugality to regenerate nature; its beauty is the un-expected agricultural meadows extended as far as the eye can see; its inclusivity is the plurality of the leadership creating opportunities for the park to become “Grande”.

Hi, we are the Meffis!

As an association of individuals, initiatives and organisations we discuss, test and shape the pathways towards a sustainable future of Aachen. Starting in October 2021 and located right at the heart of our city, we are developing a sociocultural hub, comprising of workspaces, a studio, a café, a small theater and a large new park to engage a diverse set of stakeholders in socially innovative activities to make everyone a true urban pioneer and creator of her*his city.

This project seeks to develop a new design process for architects and designers. Our current design process is heavily focused on the visual yet this is not always the predominant sense for everyone. As humans we are all different. We are big, small, young, old, visually impaired, deaf..the list goes on. This project looks at how simulation technologies can be used to design with all the senses and therefore more inclusively. Check out my website : https://c16737605.wixsite.com/mysite

Socalco Nature is an agro-tourism project combining a gastronomic and wine experience. 20 accommodation units blend harmoniously into the coastal slopes south of Calheta, a secular territory, whose human action in search of land cultivation areas, transformed the topography of this place through the construction of basaltic stone walls, called terraces or poios. The integrated architecture, not evasive, intended to sublimate this primordial integration attitude of a complex geological heritage.