NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Wonder Bee&Beeis a beautiful wooden structure, surrounded by working beehives, in which you observe the behaviour of bees close-up, and experience their sounds and scents,in complete safety. Built and owned by the local community, Wonder Bee&Bee is the brainchild of Rocco Filomeno, a beekeeper from the small village Grottole in southern Italy. This immersive observatory is the first of its kind in the world - an inspirational experience for school groups, families, and nature-loving tourists.

Born for the drying of tobacco and synthesis of a landscape intended for work, the ancient factory called ‘Il Castello’ is recovered for new uses, opening up to the Community as a court of collective knowledge, theater of public-private synergies aimed at regenerating the land over which it dominates. Respect for environmental values has led the intervention to develop almost exclusively inside the building, reconfigured in order to restore its semantic identity in the contemporary dimension.

The rocky coastline on the surroundings of Barrañan beach at the Arteixo Municipality area was chosen as an area that could support possible lightweight infrastructures which would mark and connect existing paths along the Atlantic coast. The workshop aimed to develop participants’ sensitivities to working with wood, by manually constructing a small inhabitable structure.

In an old ruined manor house in a small post industrial town of Jelšava, NGO Čierne diery created an adventure accommodation. In the derelict part of the Coburg mansion, together with the 2021 architects, they installed glass cabins and metal gangplanks. Visitors can book overnight stays in the building and become both witnesses and sponsors of the mansion’s conversion. The cabins are positioned within authentic spaces so as not to impede restoration of the building – if it ever happens.

Project Natural Mode offers a sophisticated and unique design that respects all criteria to maintain sustainable fashion and brings a positive social message. The collection embodies nature thanks to carefully chosen natural or deadstock materials. The garment cut is solved with zero-waste, fulfilling a theme of limitation as an opportunity for new content and form. The silhouettes and cuts are unique, feminine, versatile, and functional. Aesthetically such a Bauhaus uniform of the new era.

D. Daskalopoulos art center is not just a building dedicated to art and education. Its a project that invites us to re-read and reformulate modern society correlations. Architecture through our proposal acquires a connecting role between dipoles of nature-education, education-art, nature-art. Through the re-reading of those correlations emerges the main design composition which respects the current urban context and delivers new spatial qualities.

With take-away and food delivery becoming more popular, the number of single use boxes that end up in the trash is on the rise. By signing up for a membership in the RAKUN app, customers can order or take their food home in reusable, stainless steel boxes for a fixed monthly price. The next time they want to use the box, they drop off the one they have with them, and the restaurant replaces their used box with another one that has already been properly washed and disinfected.

This project articulates a methodology of assisted rehabilitation in vulnerable residential communities through the co-design of replicable, small-scale projects and their further co-fabrication and implementation in five multi-family buildings in the Raval neighbourhood. Efficient low-cost, recyclable, license-free solutions that can be self-constructed with the assistance of local professionals and entities respond to the local and global urgency of improving living spaces in deprived areas.

Aim of the Kreativnice hub is to connect existing textile designers and reconnect community trough textile design. One of the ways to communicate this aim are large scale textile installations in public space which thematically focuse on broader social challenges. With setting textile works in the public space authors opens space for public debate on these issues. At the same time different community events happens that include and intertwine whole community trough sharing, joy and aesthetics.

Old Waste mgmt-
Around 80% of waste collections happen at the wrong time.
Waste collection trucks drive the same route and empty every single container–even if the waste container did not need emptying
High labour and fuel costs and not sustainable way, more vehicles means more carbon emission
New SMART WASTE MGMT-
Event-driven waste collection
Solution that utilizes real-time data to make sure that waste containers are only picked up when needed
Sustainable, less costly and eco-friendly