NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

For the past four years, sam.banchet has been conducting studies on the rehabilitation of degraded housing in an agreement with the Fabrique des Quartiers, a development company renowned for its fine work and innovative intervention in the distressed neighbourhoods of the Lille metropolis.
These projects are part of complex technical and economic contexts, requiring specific methods in particular to reduce vacancy and to re-develop the attractiveness of this difficult neighborhoods.

DTER is a centre for the valorisation of industrial waste through design. Our aim is to avoid incineration and landfill of waste whenever possible through intelligent ways. Depending on the nature of the partner companies' waste, we try to identify outlets for it, or entrust it to our designers for product design (domestic products). The outlets may also concern R&D for new materials, the identification of circular economy paths or the sustainable establishment of business cooperations.

Magasin X in Uppsala is located by the railway, lowering the need for personal transport and revitalizing a former dull part of town. It is one of the largest wooden office buildings in Europe.
Sky-high sustainability goals have been achieved regarding everything from biofuel driven transportation of climate friendly materials to using the house as a clean energy producer. The building sets a new standard for large-scale wood buildings, lowering the climate impact by 40%.

The Bark Project explores the use of scientific tools to characterize materials and design methods to create longer lifecycle applications for bark, a massive byproduct of the wood processing industry. The project analyzes local tree bark species to explore potential durable applications in design and architecture through combining traditional crafting techniques and interdisciplinary research. Bark jackets and an installation were created to emphasize a dialogue between design and society.

This community art project lasting 20 years started as an idea of festival dedicated to building, then transformed in advocacy of communal and common heritage, inviting artists, architects, writers and creators to act as House Council proposing an ideas of how to restore the building. Boris Bakal and Shadow Casters did not saved the world, EU, or Croatia, but while working with local community in Zagreb restored one condominium building block – modernistic architectural master-peace.

The project is based on the ecological restoration as well as the biodiversity and ecosystem regeneration of the Rec Comtal, a historical water canal from the 10th century.

Rec Comtal, one of the most important hydraulic infrastructures in Barcelona, was in a degradation process due to the abandonment it suffered in recent years; therefore, the driving force of the project is to recover and protect its ecological values and transform them into a green infrastructure.

iThanks is the first digital assistant that solves the problem of food waste in supermarkets and groceries stores.
For UN, food waste is the problem number one for CO2 pollution, water consumption, plastic waste and money loss in stores.
iThanks give an answer to all these problem controlling the deadline of food products on shelfs and give to stores an important assistant to save money, food, time work and carry the food distribution to 4.0 saving the planet.

Clau Mestra is a housing cooperative project born from the local neighbor's fight against housing speculation and to reclaim the use of abandoned buildings. Clau Mestra is part of Sostre Civic, a housing cooperative developer that aims to promote an alternative housing model, fairer and more accessible, not-for-profit and transformative. The project emerged from a public-cooperative collaboration and consisted on the renovation of the old school teacher's houses using eco-social values.

- The project is closely related to the needs of our school.
-Obstacles we encounter in obtaining different services.
- School students, due to the lack of technological materials, do not manage to practice in the subject of informatics and foreign language. - The young people of the village do not have a place where they can get services using technology, and norms of solidarity and reciprocity, which are essential for our communities, are not developed to the right extent.

The principal public square in the Majorcan municipality of Sencelles was used during decades as a parking lot. This project recuperates the plaza as the town’s preeminent social space. With citizen participation, we were able to recover the plaza as a venue for markets, dances, and processions. The design provides universal access, by integrating a ramp and eliminating barriers; sustainability, by creating a microclimate; and historic integration, by using local materials.