NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The United Nations have stated that the population pyramid is reversing. Birth rates are steadily decreasing and simultaneously, life expectancy is on the rise. We must therefore adapt to provide for our ageing communities as well as our youth. Thus, the proposed use for the Sister's of Mercy Convent and Chapel is an Intergenerational Centre, answering this need by sustainably activating desolate spaces and creating an age-friendly facility and allowing inclusivity within Skibbereen's Community.

I use a lot of different colored sleeping bags, which will be a ray of hope in the monotonous Berlin winter. Gradually and in the actual environment of the site, a conscious design will be placed on that square. At the beginning of the coldest New Year, integration into the everyday life of the city portends integration, empathy. The hope is to provide more food for thought and put people into the real and urgent experience of homelessness.

What inspired me to create the leaflet were the excessive amounts of either plastic or biodegradable bags that become single-use due to plastic stickers one has to use after weighing fruits and vegetables in stores. I designed a leaflet out of old newspaper, laminating it plastic from used plastic folders. The allows application of several stickers and can be folded. Creating the leaflets would be an engrossing and educational activity for people of all ages in our society.

For a century in northern Sardinia the remains of a grandiose military complex have lain unarmed. Once the avant-garde of military technology Capo d'Orso is today a fossil trapped in millenary granites. The goal was the creation of a model capable of fitting into the territorial fabric and sourcing on local resources through three actions: Integrate, Optimize and Build. The dialogue between innovation and tradition was the focus by seeking compatibility between often conflicting needs.

Architecture is the branch of knowledge that shapes and structures places for human activities. It gives an answer to several and various issues, where solutions
embody designer’s creativity and intellect. Architectural quest doesn’t simply resolve itself nor in a stylish, nor a functional, nor an economic, nor a technological answer. A genuine architectural answer comes through making a patchwork of all those issues, where designer manages to blend and structure them together with sensibility.

It can be speculated that the current socioeconomic system requires constant growth that causes exacerbated development in contemporary cities, producing systems, connections and architectures always directed towards a same standardized frenetic rhythm. The city, which assumes itself a wide network of networks and rhythms, begins to stop being complex to become a series of experimental spaces of monotony and uniformity. “How do we build for a society of individuals (!) comprehended as networks?”

Explanation:
Entanglement is an air purifier made out of tubes with spirulina Algae.
The air is pumped inside the tube and comes out purified. This is thanks to the photosynthesis process.
Spirulina is not an alga is a Cyanobacteria.
Since the beginning of the world, spirulina was one of the first organisms to populate our planet.
And we think that 80% of the oxygen we are breathing right now comes from Algae and Cyanobacteria.

Building a community by sharing living spaces, that’s our goal! Our aim is to bring new life to the historic Villa Masini, a once-thriving hub of rural activity that has been closed off for too long. By implementing regenerative practices that prioritize the environment, we hope to build a special connection with the natural surroundings and foster a vibrant community through cultural events and artistic opportunities hosted within the villa's walls.

For the longest time our built environment has evolved amid two separate states: nature, from which we extract raw materials, and architecture, into which they are transformed. However, the shift of materials to the city and a decreasing life expectancy of buildings are making this model obsolete.
But what if we were to consider buildings as temporary material storages? The city would become a mine for itself, alleviating pressure on raw materials. All we need is to learn how to mine the city.

Working with memory as the main source of inspiration, ‘atminties atmintis’ (eng: a memory of a memory) approaches Soviet-era architectural objects in Lithuania with the aim to transform the ‘waste’ of these sites and the memories contained within them into new sculptural artworks, workshops and performances that recycle memories by recycling materials.