NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Cocooning, self-contained cottages, venues that make the most of outside spaces, and not-expensive yet welcoming community-conscious areas are among the features that could characterize residential design after COVID-19 era. Travel experiences are increasingly centering around protecting and preserving the natural surroundings and building sense of belonging with local heritage. A characteristic feature of the investment is its post-agriculture plan: placing building on stable layout as origin.

The ruins of a church in the town of Vilanova de la Barca abandoned since the 1936 Spanish Civil War bombings were refurbished and desacralized to recover them for the Community. The new building was designed to become a new multiple uses space for cultural and social events. The design kept its original mystical atmosphere recalling the aesthetics of Northern Europe churches or the wide rooms of the medieval castles. The structure maintains the original stone walls with open white brick walls.

To See a World in a Grain of Sand tells stories of time and place, and of our profound connection to the world we live in. A thorough analysis of sands collected by people from around the globe uncovers countless hidden histories. They are reflected in the different colours and textures of glass melted from 'wild' sands samples, highlighting their geographical diversity.

Technological approaches for circular economy solutions in terms of prevention, recover, re-use and recycle of fishing gears to obtain added-value products in the textile industry.
Guarantee the viability of a circular economy of certain fishing gear trough the development of an ICT tool (prevention) and optimization (valorisation) of the recycling technologies.

The aim of the project is install rain gardens projects as a part of Nature-based Solutions in urban and rural areas of Serbia, in order to transform them into spaces that will promote green areas inspired with nature, to reduce the risk of floods, reduce pollution, preserve biodiversity and enhance the environment. Goals of project are to represent rain gardens trough practical, pioneering implementation projects that can address global climate change and also support sustainable development

Our Sound Space (OSS) is an interactive sound installation at Fleminsberg Campus (Huddinge) that invites you to tune in and via your smartphone shape the sonic environment of that public space. You can select different soundscapes and chill out to the refreshing and regenerative effects of the soundscapes of your choice, selecting different combinations of soundscapes from natural environments (melting iceberg, forest, riverside etc.) to man-made sounds (heart bit, children playing, ect).

On the 200th anniversary of Gregor Mendel's birth, Augustinian Abbey in Brno, Czech Republic, brought back to life Mendel´s Greenhouse. The design by CHYBIK+KRISTOF architects is deeply rooted in his work and continuing his legacy of a dialogue between science and faith is needed especially in these difficult times. Honoring this figure, stigmatized for his origins and faith by the political regimes of the past is important for reconciliation with the past and to find a sense of belonging.

The house is similar to its pre-existence, but it acquires, with its geometric singularity, the illusion of living in an expansive and three-dimensional place through the drawing of its architectural plans. Almudena, the new owner and user is a young lawyer who has managed to assert herself vitally through a new housing concept. This apartment aims to use the intimate, the work and the cultural in a diluted and flexible way to integrate into our post-pandemic socio-economic structures.

The Emporda’s wetlands are a unique biological reserve in the North of Catalonia. In this area Torre d’En Mornau includes 118 hectares of brackish lagoons, crop fields with 5345 sqm of build area. The intervention included the recovery of the existing buildings and improving the situation of the natural brackish lagoons and wetlands as biodiversity reserve while recovering also some traditional uses of the existing buildings by reintroducing the endangered Vaca de L’Albera cow breed.

Once a deprived residential district in Denmark's fourth-largest city, Aalborg East is now safe, with redesigned outdoor spaces, improved public lighting, new services and shops. Social housing has been renovated while remaining affordable and other homes have been built to develop diversity in the neighbourhood. Tenants, local associations, businesses and their staff were involved in the process from initial ideas to implementation, making this redevelopment a model of co-creation.