NEB Prizes 2022: All Applications

Since the start, we designed the building following the criteria of the circular economy. The whole structure is permanent and immobile, but it can always be dismantled to be replaced, recycled, reused. All this information is gathered in its material passport. With a non-limited architecture, the Gonsi Sócrates building offers multipurpose spaces for rent, complemented by common spaces that interact with each other while at the same time connecting visually and physically with outdoor areas.

Finally, a CO2 neutral industrialized façade with a circular positive impact on cities and unpopulated areas, as a result of years of I+D investment.

Biotic City is an action-research project to transform how the current city is designed and built in a broad, permanent and real way. It is an innovative model of habitat designed through an experimental co-creative process for the social and ecological transformation of the city.

Biotic City is the theoretical framework of Agroplaza, an urban ecological equipment model, based in participatory design processes with local communities and spaces within different European locations.

Since 2013 Zagreb has a successful urban allotment gardens programme. Answering a considerable public interest for therapeutic gardening, the brownfield area of former meat processing plant. The new garden in Sesvete, the easternmost neighborhood in Zagreb, was designed to fit that need, providing accessible and serene space for gardening, relaxation, socializing and inclusion, and following the principles of sustainability.

The Steirereck restaurant is famous for its contemporary gastronomic concepts. Now the institution's sustainable way of life and the agricultural work deeply linked to it are manifested thanks to a hybrid energy supply system in the Austrian Alps. The architectural implementation of the ecological overall concept combines the best possible energy standard with thermal and electrical supply from renewable energy sources, and with indoor and outdoor plant cultures for self-sufficiency.

Today, Coffeefrom is the innovative bio-based material born from recycled coffee grounds and a mixture of biopolymers, 100% produced and designed in Italy. For food industry, coffee grounds constitute a waste product - often sent to landfill, where they produce huge CO 2 emissions, high management and logistics costs. For us, they represent a valuable raw material waiting for a second life. From coffee, to coffee, the first Coffeefrom product is a Cup & Saucer for an ideal espresso tastin

In the last half century, Kotišina and Podbiokovlje have been experiencing depopulation, economic decline, and the decline of cultural heritage. The project is designed to provide an integrated tourist offer, which drastically redirects the current type of tourism in the Makarska area. The location, the hamlet of Kotišina, provides demand outside the coastal zone in activities and facilities based on cultural and natural heritage, and the synergy of tourism and local production systems.

Paradigma Ariadné architecture studio was invited by the city of Sándorfalva to design a buffalo barn and an educational trail into their natural protected land that today is wholly covered with reeds. The initial aim of the development was to immigrate buffalos to the place. This act has two outcomes. On one hand visitors would have the chance to visit the trail and meet these creatures in their living environment. On the other hand buffalos will recultivate the area with their presence.

Hit by the earthquake in 2012, the agricultural settlement was regenerated by organizing spaces in which to cultivate the sensory well-being of those who work there. Internal patios and long views draw a ‘Greenbelt factory’ in the search for adequate and spatially rich working conditions, for an empathy between the user and the spaces that welcome him. Two twin buildings are joined by an ‘agricultural gallery’ open to the collective experience, harmonizing the man’s action to the nature’s order.

Sound Recordings in the High Tauern about 2000 metres above sea level, photographed and played live. Living with nature, not outside of it, now and for the creative future. Listening with nature and the nature in yourself.