The Flusshof is a redeveloped farm in the countryside of Germany, which was ecologically renovated on the basis of circular thinking. Today it is a location for international volunteer camps and training courses and seminars on ecological building, circular economy and nature conservation. The farm exemplifies methods for the innovative renovation of old buildings and the revitalization of rural regions.
DumBO is is a financially self-sustaining temporary redevelopment of an abandoned railway yard. The project was initiated by a participatory process managed by Fondazione per l’innovazione Urbana that involved the neighbourhood. DumBO provides affordable space for students and CCIs, and encourages interactions between social organisations, entrepreneurs and the neighbours. The project includes a food court with a social bistro, a social grocery store, event spaces, urban sport halls for adults.
Bathing culture is part of the human history in every waterfront city. A public beach is a very special type of public space which must offer rest and moderate physical activity for everyone. Area concept "You are here!" notes the location in a high-quality environment, with plenty of activity, providing good rest and well-being. The design language is a hybrid of old boat fore and its opposite from round line. Combined with the triangle, the circle creates a familiar location marker on maps.
Calisthenics is a sport that brings together communities of young girls in Albania that suffer from marginalization due to their ethnical and racial background. Through it they become more strong not only physically, but also mentally they become more resilient, and ready to face difficulties head on. They become self-aware that their life belongs only to them, with the right to decide about it. Power belongs to the Young Girls which understand through this sport they are equal to the boys.
FUTUREUM is a green, open and sustainable platform within a revitalised block of a former coal tippler and grinding mill situated at DOV, a former industrial zone and national cultural heritage site turned into a knowledge cluster. FUTUREUM is an inclusive, shared space for experiments and creatives to celebrate the hard work of coal miners and steel producers of the past and present the visions of future work and life. FUTUREUM brings added aesthetic value and reconnects people and generations.
Wonder Bee&Beeis a beautiful wooden structure, surrounded by working beehives, in which you observe the behaviour of bees close-up, and experience their sounds and scents,in complete safety. Built and owned by the local community, Wonder Bee&Bee is the brainchild of Rocco Filomeno, a beekeeper from the small village Grottole in southern Italy. This immersive observatory is the first of its kind in the world - an inspirational experience for school groups, families, and nature-loving tourists.
Born for the drying of tobacco and synthesis of a landscape intended for work, the ancient factory called ‘Il Castello’ is recovered for new uses, opening up to the Community as a court of collective knowledge, theater of public-private synergies aimed at regenerating the land over which it dominates. Respect for environmental values has led the intervention to develop almost exclusively inside the building, reconfigured in order to restore its semantic identity in the contemporary dimension.
The rocky coastline on the surroundings of Barrañan beach at the Arteixo Municipality area was chosen as an area that could support possible lightweight infrastructures which would mark and connect existing paths along the Atlantic coast. The workshop aimed to develop participants’ sensitivities to working with wood, by manually constructing a small inhabitable structure.
In an old ruined manor house in a small post industrial town of Jelšava, NGO Čierne diery created an adventure accommodation. In the derelict part of the Coburg mansion, together with the 2021 architects, they installed glass cabins and metal gangplanks. Visitors can book overnight stays in the building and become both witnesses and sponsors of the mansion’s conversion. The cabins are positioned within authentic spaces so as not to impede restoration of the building – if it ever happens.
Project Natural Mode offers a sophisticated and unique design that respects all criteria to maintain sustainable fashion and brings a positive social message. The collection embodies nature thanks to carefully chosen natural or deadstock materials. The garment cut is solved with zero-waste, fulfilling a theme of limitation as an opportunity for new content and form. The silhouettes and cuts are unique, feminine, versatile, and functional. Aesthetically such a Bauhaus uniform of the new era.
