NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The borderless port of Eksportosta breaks down the borders between the port and the city and creates a vivid melting pot between tourism, leisure and contemporary culture. An elevated promenade stretches across the territory to provide a unique opportunity to observe the activities taking place in the passenger port. The project emphasises the importance of opening former restricted industrial areas to the public to create a diverse, inclusive and sustainable environment.

Rehabilitation of a 1950s open-air cinema on the outskirts of Palermo, Sicily

The project aims to develop a digital platform that connects local producers and consumers. This platform will help small-scale local producers overcome the challenges of high costs and technical knowledge required for creating and maintaining a digital storefront. The goal is to promote local and responsible consumption in Europe by leveraging digitalization to make local products more widely known and accessible.

The project proposes a strategy for the regeneration of the fragile areas of Barcelona in Spain. The site identified as a fragile area and chosen for the project is the district of Sant Martì, a former industrial area of Barcelona where it is expected to have great interventions in the future. The objective of the project is to regenerate the district of Sant Martì from the urban and sustainable point of view, creating an ecological green network in accordance with the Superilles project.

An ideal district concept has been on my mind since I started my degree and fell in love with urban planning. This engineers' project is the materialization of my vision in written and graphic form. This work is a synthesis of all the most important contemporary design ideas and methods currently existing in urban design, architecture and construction. Low water retention, mass timber, mixed-use 15-minute cities," car-free cities, autonomous cities, socially engaging and green public spaces.

This is a regenerative oasis, a hub for education and community engagement, promoting sustainable living through regenerative agriculture and deep ecology. Empowering people to reconnect with nature, take responsibility for their local environment and inspire action. A participatory and inclusive space, design to address the correlation between inner and outer ecology. This is a sanctuary for nature and human soul, which aims to bring into experience inter-being and co-creation.

BetaWare is a material made from sugar beet cellulose and molasses, which is vegan and compostable. Sugar beet cellulose, water and molasses are by-products of sugar production. By-products accumulate during production processes and are not the purpose of processing, but can find their own usage in an intermediate use. Through an intermediate use, the material can be returned to the cycle after use. No additional cultivation areas are used for the consumption of goods.

FarmLink: Connect with local farmers, source fresh produce, and support your community. Ordering direct, eating fresh, and reducing waste.
FarmLink is a new app that connects local farmers with restaurants to source fresh, sustainable produce. By eliminating the middlemen and inefficiencies of the traditional food supply chain, FarmLink helps to reduce food waste, support local agriculture and communities, and promote sustainable consumption and production

How hemp can change the current vision of industry and production of commodities such as textiles, construction, packaging, publishing but also mobility, cosmetics, food, health, restoration of intoxicated land and substitute for petroleum-based products. Uses can benefit economically, energetically, healthily and store large amounts of carbon dioxide during the process.

ENERGRID represents a replicable model and aims to be an example for managing and optimizing energy production and consumption at a local level, not only regarding the single building, but on a community scale. Precisely because Bovisa is a very active community, it is the perfect place to implement ENERGRID as an exemplary case of use of the microgrid. ENERGRID promotes and supports sustainable living practices through a series of services in the field of mobility, environment and community.