NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

A new governance model for the public-private transformation of the city and the generation of a LIVING LABORATORY FOR CHANGE through ECOINNOVATION to accelerate the urban transformation in its public and private component. The effective combination of the cultural legacy of the Mediterranean environment, such as wind towers, QANATS, the use of porous materials such as ceramics, fountains, etc. With the latest scientific advances in engineering, materials and construction.

Vivid is a monochrome curtain made of naturally and synthetically dyed yarn. When the textiles are exposed to sunlight, the natural colors fade while the stable synthetic colors retain their hues, gently revealing an intricate pattern. The shifting color has the poetic power of tracing time and strengthens the emotional relationship people experience with their belongings: incorporating change and encouraging longevity.

A raised garden conceived to mend a long-standing rift in the terrain and recreate the hillside of the site in which it's located. This is what the new Fendi Factory in Bagno a Ripoli looks like. The concept aims to define the conditions for a renewed visual collaboration between architecture and environment: from the green roof to the courtyards the idea was to transform the entire site into a new and extended garden also with the purpose of improving the quality of the working spaces.

The project experiments with new outreach services in mountainous areas through new creative languages that educate and generate opportunities in the extreme periphery. Beyond the cities, the countryside and the mountains, there are isolated communities that resist depopulation.
The integrated actions were:
.Participatory outfitting of public spaces to create work spaces
.Awareness raising for sustainable mobility
.Creative residencies to bring skills back to mountain territories

„Enying Green City” is a special example of sustainable urban development, since our studios were leading the whole process from creating a strategy, building a participatory based planning process till the end of the construction and supporting the re-connection of locals with the renewed sites. We finished the set of small scale wooden installations in 2022 by two pro bono pieces to help the local community after recent years’ high inflation hindering the completion of the original project.

The guiding idea of the “Croatian Coral Centre Zlarin” is an innovative centre that encompasses the challenges of a small island community focusing on maritime protection and preserving a certain habitat. Specifically, the project focuses on the importance of coral preservation in order to sustain the biodiversity of the Šibenik archipelago and communicating the peculiarities of the island lifestyle, so closely connected to nature and the sea, compared to life on mainland.

DOMANI is the name of an experimental housing model, a simple architecture based by circular economy principles. A house with a design by layers, that can be assembled and disassembled, and with a structure that enhances the effectiveness of the compositional choices thanks to the efficiency of the technological choices.

Dealing with a housing crisis, the Lisbon City Council does not give up fulfilling a right of the Portuguese constitution: the right to housing. Sometimes located in neighbourhoods highly demanded by the market, several workers’ villas form a bubble where time and the effects of urbanisation stopped being in a fast decay process. To renovate these, the housing and construction departments unite efforts guaranteeing that the residents (a vulnerable population) stay in place during the works.

"Trees to the Skies" is a land art project that transforms an urban forest into a place of wonder and hope. Many mature ash, birch, and maple trees are wrapped from the base to the fork in colorful fabric and become giant wishing trees. Visitors are invited to hug the colorful trees, make a wish, and wander around the magical art trail to explore the forest and reconnect with nature.

The MuseOpen project is a real path of investigation aimed at deepening our knowledge of the environment and to propose new ways to relate to it. The activities are organized in the internal and external spaces of the Natural Science Museum, with a series of multidisciplinary initiatives which involved a multiplicity of
public and private entities. An entomological exhibition curated by the Faenza speleological group, scientific insights, talks, projections films, educational workshops ecc.