NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Kyklos ‘The Circle’: renovating and reviving a building along social and environmental circularity principles and practices, prioritizing equally people, nature and the surroundings. Kyklos is a community space and lab for the creation of a circular neighborhood, with the building as a reference point. It is the practical application of beautiful design for a circular purpose. It combines functionality and sustainability with aesthetics to provide a new community use for an abandoned building.

The construction and building sector is closely linked to the challenges of other transformation areas. The requirements for sustainable construction include energy efficiency and climate neutrality, preservation of biodiversity, conservation of resources and use of renewable raw materials, sustainable procurement of products and services including compliance with human rights in the supply chain. All these requirements must be addressed. With these aims in mind, the FUTURE HOME developed.

Our Mission is the regeneration of the environment, of culture and of human relations. Through our plethora of projects and educational tools we aim to reconnect people of all backgrounds and ages with nature and to teach them how to live more sustainable, healthier lives while caring for each other and nature.

ATN was created in 2000, leading to the establishment of Faia Brava a few years later as the first and growing privately owned nature reserve with a recently-obtained status of Private Protected Area (APP).ATN aims to put nature conservation into action and further develop the natural values of the area. ATN aims to enhance the Natura 2000 goals and species through active management, and doing so, also involves local communities to help and enhance the old mosaic landscape of the villages.

PAX is an initiative promoted by architects and anthropologists trying to reinforce a Heritage Community for urban regeneration and the reuse of traditional typologies in Córdoba, with social innovation strategies. PAX acts as a vector of civil society trying to promote a change in the collective imaginary to empower citizens and create residential opportunities through cooperative processes to safeguard the coexistence in patio-houses as an alternative to depopulation and touristification.

Established during the 19th century by Czech settlers, as part of a network of Czech villages in the Banat Mountains, Eibenthal and its people were deeply affected by the closure of the nearby coal mine in 2006. However, in recent years, Eibenthal is going through a revival phase, with a number of projects currently developed by the local community in order to attract tourists, enhance a resilient economy and promote the local values and heritage.

The project mainly aims at “facilitated living” housing for people possessing autism problems. Indeed, as an alternative to living in a specialized establishment, to family housing or to ordinary autonomous housing, the proposed approach allows to bring together various characteristics permitting to fulfill the housing needs of the targeted people as well as providing help and support in everyday life facilitating thus an active integration into their local environment.

Realization of the first creative hub of its kind supporting the creative industry in the Czech Republic, which was created by the reconstruction of a historic office building whose last user was the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Technical University in Brno. The reconstruction therefore supported the genius loci of the place, but at the same time the space was designed to be universal and functional for all new users.

Mood workshop is a creative experience that included international students who designed an urban intervention during challenging times. Aimed for children, a uniquely aesthetic structure arose in the yard of an elementary school in Skopje. Using wood as a main sustainable material, built up by young motivated carpenters, and including the local community in the process has created a vibrant urban intervention in public space.

Sound Topographies are acoustic interventions in public spaces with a simple intention: to make us listen to the world around us, thus making ourselves more empathetic towards it. To achieve this goal, the artistic collective ooo staged 2 events called In A♭ (Hi-fi) and Opéra Concrète in 2 different locations in Bratislava in late spring of 2022. These were conceived as "concerts without musicians" and stemmed from the practices of deep listening introduced by R. M. Schaffer and P. Oliveros.