NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

A new typology of architecture for Alzheimer’s care facilities, characterized by an open spatial organization with the greatest possible integration into society in spatial and social terms. I see the potential in such facilities to develop an architecture that responds to the changed spatial perception of Alzheimer's patients. The maxim here is to reduce institutionalized constraints and to offer choices for a self-determined life within the framework of the respective possibilities.

In the fictional spacetimes of Planeta Kampus, the natural phenomena are shifted. Plants are growing enormously; atmospheres are saturated with acid, and fungi decompose everything. How do we reconnect with these shifted environments? On Planeta Kampus, we are searching for creative forms of being in a state of climate change. The project uses imagination as a tool to explore the possibilities of our minds and the abilities of our bodies to live on a 'damaged planet.'

Healthy ageing environment, community building and sustainability. The project of age-friendly housing embodies solutions to improve residents' well-being and stimulate daily integrations to increase the social inclusion of the elderly.
The building proposal can be portrayed as a self-sufficient urban quarter with a geriatric clinic, a kindergarten, wellness and a sports area within reach.
Green surroundings and urban farming elements are the base of the design's healthy living environment.

Data-driven tree care gets a high-tech boost with our cutting-edge technology combining 3D scanning and computer vision. By accurately modeling trees in 3D and using advanced calculations to assess their stability, we're revolutionizing the way urban trees are cared for, ensuring that older trees continue to thrive and provide benefits for longer. Using data based on a tree's real geometry, we can recommend targeted crown reduction as needed to restore stability.

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?”