NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Capitalizing on local community’s assets, youthful inspiration and potential, the project enables young people to actively participate in shaping the physical and social character of public spaces in order to create better conditions in cities and towns. Nurturing young generations to become aware of the urban environment, the project shapes the citizens of tomorrow, exemplifying that together through youth’s creativity and inclusion, we can transform our urban realities for the better.

Across Europe, the reconstruction period after the second world war was characterized by the main aim to provide as many apartments as possible as quickly as possible. This resulted in a little loved typology - the ‘housing block', characterized by a prefabricated and uniformous structure. This project develops a future perspective for these ensembles focusing on their great potential for renewable extension, enabling imagination about generous living standards and improvements for inhabitants.

About 150,000 t of food waste is generated annually in Macedonia (the value is estimated at several million euros). There is no law that provides the management of food waste. With this proposal, from the plant and animal food waste compost can be produced, while from the cereal and beard-based food waste using filamentous fungi Rhizopus textile fibers can be produced. Through a special technological process, the obtained textile fibers can further be handed over and processed in the industry.

BIORAGO is a borage bioplastic that serves as an alternative to fossil-based plastics used in single-use applications.

Design and manufacture of a biomaterial composed of waste from the agri-food industry. Specifically, this project aims to revalue the waste from the borage cleaning process. After testing the properties of the material and verifying its behavior, a bag was manufactured by laser cutting a sheet of this bioplastic.

We help people to design and build sustainable community developed dream homes. Our innovative tools empower people to create custom condos that're environmentally-friendly and energy-efficient, all while saving money on energy costs. Experience the future of real estate with us today.

This artivism project invites you to discover the flaws inside our utopian building, representing our idilic European Union and the data of social injustices as flaws that crack that ideal. we'll see our flawless society in a metaphorical way through clean, spacious, and modern architecture (in our social media profile). This is what anyone will perceive at first, when we enter in these spaces we'll be able to see what this architecture is based on, infographics with data of social issues.

Housing developments of the future. Design of low-tech houses as a response to the needs of large groups of people in crisis situations (on the example of refugees in Ukraine), located in the vicinity of the Kampinos National Park and Warsaw. Project raises issues related to construction technologies that respect the limited resources of our planet.

According McKinsey and Eastman, only 1% of all plastics get recycled. The growth of food delivery during the pandemic has contributed significantly to this problem. We want to help restaurants transition to a more sustainable, reusable system. Currently, there are no systems that make it easy for (larger) food chains to integrate reusable packaging within delivery services, cash registers, or their operational flow.

Borro aims to solve this problem by creating a frictionless deposit system!

As architecture is shifting its focus from construction to regeneration, we architects should rethink our role: from designer of spaces to interpreter of processes. If architecture has instruments to produce complex spaces, why can't it realizes image storytelling of social innovation processes? Is it possible to make processes more understandable, reproducible, inclusive, and to prevent regenerated places from falling back into cycles of abandonment due to a lack of attention to social aspects?

Abaceria Respira was born out of public protest. Barcelona’s government is pursuing a 26M€ redevelopment of the historic Abaceria Market that consists of vast expanses of concrete, a giant supermarket, parking, and just eight trees [1]. Our concept design – created as a counter-proposal – will bring a park with biodiversity, permeable ground, and light to one of the city’s densest, darkest, and least healthy neighborhoods. Over 7000 people have signed a petition in support of Abaceria Respira.