NEB Prizes 2021: All Applications

Dantz Point is a multidisciplinary cultural project that unites avant-garde electronic music with culture and spaces, creating DJ sessions and electronic artists in emblematic places. These sessions are recorded with various cameras and drones to later create an audiovisual archive. This file is edited and shared on different digital platforms throught “streaming” in a false direct format. Dantz Point is a project that began in Euskadi, Spain, but the idea is to expand to more places. 

Knivsta, the newest municipality in Sweden is celebrating the coming together of the facilities for ice-skating, art, ball games, martial arts, a scene for performing arts in one sustainable wood building next to the center. As a meeting place for all, the aim is that a person that takes a break from the chamber music concert accidentally bumps into someone on the way to change for ice-hockey and they start to exchange thoughts about their experiences. The largest passive house in Sweden.

How to push ourselves to eat durable food, healthy for both us and the environment? My approach is to bring back “good” food into the user’s view and make it attractive!

The objects are inspired by traditional food storage objects and famous still life paintings that used vegetables and fruits as centerpiece decorations. Food storage is not limited to the kitchen anymore, and seeing healthy products displayed beautifully makes us want to eat them more.

Everytime we wash ourselves with a washcloth instead of a shower, we save 80 liters of drinkable water. Yet showers are the norm, becoming longer with each generation. This led me to design contemporary ceramics, dedicated to washcloth hygiene.

Made out of ceramics and textiles, the objects adapt to our habits and home. Every detail unconsciously pushes us to save water, from the shape of the container to the textile selected. Finally, the “grey water” can be used to water plants.

Blade Made is a circular economy strategy by Superuse, where the waste of the wind energy sector is transformed into public furniture like seating, playgrounds or bus shelters. This specific example shows the first Blade Made project by Superuse, a playground in Rotterdam. By reusing the carbon emissions are reduced up to 90% compared to a standard playground. The striking aesthetic of Blade Made playgrounds stimulates the imagination of children and facilitates social interaction.

The Bremen Cube is a sustainable and innovative project designed for repetition and to explore new ways of densification and further urban developping in a climate-friendly manner.

Existing neighbourhoods can be supplemented to include new and future-proof residential formats in a timeless design. The concept and construction take account of the new demands on living incurred by social change, such as accessibility, communal living, inclusion, as well as affordable and versatile living formats

If these walls could talk! From beer hall in 1861 to vaudeville venue in the roaring 1920's to popular disco nightclub in the 1970's. Valencia has seen it all. The historic building in Copenhagen has risen from the ashes. Before a thorough renovation and transformation the hall stood unnoticed. and the aim was to bring Valencia back in to the consciousness of the residents. Today Valencia stands as a modern hub with great respect for the historic building and its inherent qualities.

When you look at the day-care center of Råå, the term “becoming part of the landscape” comes to mind. In Råå, a small fishing village outside Helsingborg in Sweden, Råå Preschool is designed with utmost respect for its surroundings. With an entirely wooden surface, the building imitates the neighboring sand dunes with its sloping and jagged rooftops, as well as the traditional typology of the city’s small fishermen houses. 

Europe faces a huge renovation challenge to meet its Green Deal objectives: most residential buildings are old, have a very poor energy performance as well as a negative impact on their occupants' health. RenovActive aims at providing an innovative, scalable renovation concept that targets energy-efficiency, environmental impact and the comfort of occupants. Based on 7 affordable technical principles, the concept has already been reproduced in residential and social housing throughout Europe.

‘Above/Below’ is a project which aims to revive ecologically rich areas within the city of Gothenburg by creating unique yet integrally linked space above and below the river’s surface. ‘Above’ we focus on public space, pedagogy and protection to connect Gothenburgers to their local ecosystem. ‘Below’ we’re creating 3D printed clay habitat modules to increase biodiversity, with a focus on blue mussels (mytilus edulis) - a species which filters water and creates habitats for other species.