NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Athens, during the four last decades, has been extremely urbanized while changing the environment dramatically. By reclassifying open spaces and networks of urban mobility, this model aims to indicate strategies for prioritized urban interventions based on their emergency toward climate adaptation. The preliminary application of the model will be applied to the metropolitan area of Athens, Greece because of the city’s limited urban green spaces and dysfunctional urban mobility infrastructure.

The built environment is responsible for a large part of the world's emissions and resource consumption, this responsibility is hardly taken. The collective ’Frugal Bauen’ aims to occupy precisely this interface and advocates for local and circular solutions, (re)discovering traditional construction methods while being radically sustainable. This way of thinking is expressed in various works of the collective, whether it is a university course, an urban intervention or a building project.

Can fairies live among the imposing remains of industrial architecture? The project concerns the design of an innovative kindergarten, within a wider scenario of recovery and redevelopment of an industrial lot. The design opportunity is the redevelopment of the former Ponte ceramics factory in Laveno-Mombello, a town on the border between Lombardy and Piedmont on the shores of Lake Maggiore.

Alimentiamo aims to create a gathering space in order to break down cultural barriers among the inhabitants of Turin. Food becomes a universal communication tool capable of generating new jobs for the inhabitants of the large Porta Palazzo market area. The market will have a new face and new functions: redeveloped and better looking during the day, inclusive and functional in the evening, where unsold food will find new life in ethnic dishes.

CRN_01 swabs are a response to shortages of supplies during Covid-19 pandemic. The aim was to simplify their manufacturing, allowing for local production. Nowadays, the swabs are made in two stages: injection molded and flocked. The CRN_01 has a one-step production, easier and cheaper. Made from a single material, they can be easily recycled and thus represent the previously unavailable circular approach. In the spirit of biomimetics the form of the swab was inspired by the hummingbird's tongue.

"The Fres(co)h Model" is a participatory architectural experimentation within the "Baltea Lido" project. Promoted by Via Baltea community hub co-managers, the project aims to transform the street in front of the community hub into a pedestrian space, accessible and suitable for everyone. An urban road that turns into a public square thanks to flexible temporary installations inspired by the theme of the seaside,to activate an open, green and pedestrian space for all citizens.

The spatial documentation of one of the most notorious prisons of Ex-Yugoslavia is a response and indignation to a widespread indifference towards inconspicuous buildings that hold the most valuable traces of collective memory. Through the survivors' narratives, this study explores the prison’s potential intertwined between its legacy and spatial qualities, questions the need for physical interventions, and advocates for a separation between architecture and environmental depletion.

Transform lifeless places into a thriving forest with the simple and easy Eco-Mazing Method. We create big mazes out of local deadwood and nature does the heavy lifing. Our maze creation provides the perfect habitat for animals to bring in seeds and accelerate the reforestation process. With our clear, maze-toolkit, even a school class can create their own forest paradise. Join us in creating forests for all and enjoy the added bonus of maze-filled fun with the Eco-Mazing Method.

Imagine the future visions for the Inner Areas is one of the biggest challenges of the contemporary age. We defined our scenario based on social cohesion: a cooperative mountain community, a place for socio-cultural innovation. In its materialization, the project has been structured based on two main pillars, a first includes the necessity of sociocultural infrastructures widespread, and a second regards the re-Inhabitation of the tangible and intangible heritage.

The Upcycling Hub proposes a circular supply chain model for building materials and furniture.
of neighbourhoods and small-scale towns. The main objective is to salvage and then repurpose materials destined for landfill through processes of local upcycling. A network of local actors is brought together, and a physical place is established as the heart of the entire supply chain. This place is called the Hub.