NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Urban Story Boxes are interactive boxes to playfully explore your neighborhood. They offer a deeper understanding of the area's past, present, future, its people, events, and its unique character. Each box contains audio-visual information about your neighborhood such as stories about famous residents, historical events, and exciting facts. Interacting with these boxes will foster your connection to your neighborhood and unlock a fresh view on your everyday urban setting!

The Institute for Grey Energy develops new strategies for resource-saving and social-oriented activation of vacant building as part of the redevelopment in rural areas. The focus is on research, conservation and reuse of "Grey Energy" stored in buildings. Our first project - the Oßmannstedt granary – serves as a laboratory and physical center for our mostly digital activities. Here, a public interface for spatial development is created, where inclusive concepts for vacancies can be disseminated.

Our mission is to provide an aesthetic and sustainable solution for the urban built environment. URBAN TREE is an innovative multifunctional urban space furniture that helps to ease the pressure on the sewage systems, while contributing to greening the city, and at the same time having an inclusive social dimension. The modules are made of "zero cement" concrete using waste streams that would otherwise end up in landfills, resulting in a lower CO2 footprint than conventional concrete.

The work deals with the subject of sensory interactions in urban space. The concept analyses the influence of perceptual experiences on the perception of the quality of space in the city. Particular attention was paid to the role of cognitive processes in creating spatial perceptions and behaviour of inhabitants. The work as a whole aims to emphasise the essence of shaping a sensual urban fabric that promotes social connections, stimulates local activity and builds the identity of the city.

How to live with earthquakes? The project focuses on the future of Falerone, a medieval Italian town damaged by a series of tragic seismic shakes in 2016. The strategy for resilient conservation and its gradual reinhabitation has been developed in close dialogue with the local community, authorities, architects and engineers. A new, experimental crafts school is proposed to allow local craftsmen to pass their skills to new generations and to stimulate local economy based on sustainable know-how.

As our society keeps growing we can see waste piling up while natural resources getting rare.
Should we fear that the only raw materials we will have tomorrow is today’s waste ? “Surf Your Wall” aims to shed light on the potential of discarded building materials as a new re-valued and attractive resource. Our challenge is here to help an insulation wall panel reincarnate into something unexpectedly fun, a surfboard.

The design uses land in Niolo (DR Congo) to create a farm & orphanage for childern, and entire society. The project is charity voluntary of architecs and czech orphanage charity. The project will be built from fundraising budget. We create a sustainable self-sufficient architecture and a environment for social interaction and knowledge. We show that sustainable architecture is affordable and has a much greater impact in developing countries. Only local materials and technology. Cross-education!

Domus Hub is where sustainability, community and beauty thrive: a vibrant connection of structures where nature and people come together.Three spacious yurts, ecologically powered, serve as the hub for workshops, reunions, and social gatherings. Surrounding the tents, you'll find a network of living plant domes that provide sustainable shelter,a food forest where local species and fruits grow. A natural theater where music and storytelling provide a unique and immersive experience for all.

We seek to address the complex development challenges facing rural villages in Slovenia by joining students, travelers, and local providers to live and work together, forming a laboratory to develop and propose new solutions to drive change. We aim to bring vibrancy, entrepreneurship-oriented thinking, and a spirit of co-creation to local communities, give students practical and project-based experience, and give responsible travellers the opportunity to give back and create a positive impact.

In my country, scarred by three tough decades of demographic decline and transition to market economy, a new generation is emerging. My generation of those born after the Revolution, understanding that place transformations have to be imagined and led at local roots. IPbE is built on my drive to empower place-based collaborative ecosystems, rooted in mutual trust and belonging, to lead transformational regeneration initiatives, benefiting community cohesion and entrepreneurship.