NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Međurječje decodes the unique environment on the confluence of three rivers as a retreat for education, recreation and all-senses stimulation. Agglomeration of slow-living fragments subtly blends in untouched nature, uplifting sustainable tourism in the wild heart of Montenegro. Project generates a new paradigm of secluded eco oasis, focusing on integration with environment by usage of disposable resources, nourishing local culture- strongly bounded to tradition and aimed at sustainable future.

The project

The 'Youth haps against the flow' meets the youth spirit and nature, offering an opportunity to transform the urban places along the riverbed into a field of youth ideas, possibilities and interests, combining the ecological way of thinking, art and the sense of social belonging. This gives a chance to build fundamental connections between nature and youth, creates continuity between generations and turns the city into an attractive place offering opportunities and perspectives.

An infinite process.
Construction and destruction lead to infinite regeneration.
Salt bricks are used as a primitive form of construction.
A salt dome as a symbol of the regeneration of the soul and the new sensitivity and perception that will lead us into the future.
A place to get in touch with the most divine part of nature and one's being, creating a regenerative new communion.

This project is regenerating a ruined 16th-century dovecote (colombier) into a 500-year ecological infrastructure to support an agro-ecological renaissance in rural France. Currently under restoration by a team of artists, ecologists, and technologists, this 3-story heritage building is being repurposed as library, seedbank, and makerspace to restart a selective forestry cycle and restore the biodiversity of the surrounding forest and farmlands for present and future generations.

In the last few decades, the furniture market has changed dramatically, replacing good quality items with more accessible fast furniture. This transformation and the huge growth of moving people has caused a severe excess of furniture . It is hard to resell these unused items, so people are forced to throw them away, despite their good condition.
Oltreché connects the objects’ owners to donate, to people who cannot afford new furniture.

The chaotic reality of Venice allows people to find their refuge in a natural habitat, a source of regeneration, where they can become aware of their time, respect it, and identify new points of observation: visual glimpses. Focus defines a space for observation and recollection within Vignole Island creating a human-centered design solution and promoting sustainability, mindfulness and community engagement.. A cathartic path filtered through both physical and mental ascent within the space.

Project Safe Refuge is a bottom-up international collaboration, aiming to provide sustainable housing solutions during crisis situations, through a multidisciplinary knowledge exchange. Our goal is to create a sustainable, scalable and easy-to-transport housing unit for refugees coming to the cities that are struggling with a housing crisis. In almost a year we orginized several participatory workshops, gathered data from the survey and participated in manufacturer workshop in Netherlands.

Today, the Tiber River is a huge urban void, low in relation to the city quota.
Our aim is to re-imagine the Lungotevere animated by a variety of activities, able to inspire a collective involvement in order to transform the site in the theatre of Rome daily life.
The (no-more only) retentive walls, released from their monumental rigidity, would be conceived as an adaptative structure, resilient both in absorbing the surrounding and generating aliveness.
Water is material and design element.

The Otherworldliness creates spaces for an informal and dynamic symbiosis of production and projection for Nollywood movies. It is located in the biggest European greenhouses agglomeration in southern Spain, Almeria. The project manifests in a sequence of artefacts, which tenses the voids within the homogeneous polyethylene landscape of the largest concentration of greenhouses in the world, covering 26,000 hectares. Artefacts bring together displaced immigrants from Sub Sahara.