Blue Award 2016

Blue Award 2016

International Students Display Their

to Build Change

Blue Award 2016

International Students Display Their

to Build Change

Blue Award 2016 International Student Competition for Sustainable Architecture

International Student Competition Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design Institute for Architecture and Design Vienna University of Technology

TABLE OF Foreword

Obituary, Françoise-Hélène Jourda 6 Blue Award 2016 organized by the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design 9

Submissions 2016 12 Preliminary Judging Panel 14 International Jury 16

Category 1 Urban Development and Transformation, Landscape Development

Category 2 Ecological Building and Building in Existing Structures

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22 Shimokitazawa — Tokyo’s Neighborhood, small scale — big change

28 Resiliência do Cafezal

34 Hombori A_Life Wall

38 DIY GRANTS — do it yourself Grants Town

44 Pueblo Calleros — Ribbon-built Villages at the Ecuadorian Coast

50 Palco Pubblico: Public Stage — The Recovery Plan for the City Center of Ferrara

56 Mondikolok Healthcare-Center

60 To Cultivate One’s City

CONTENTS Category 3 Innovative Systems and Detailed Solutions

Special Award Timber Construction and Innovative Ways of Using Wood

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Mountain Chapel Kendlbruck

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OBITUARY, FRANCOISEHELENE JOURDA O B I T U A R Y, F R A N Ç O I S E - H É L È N E J O U R D A

»We must react as deeply and strongly as possible in order to make a real contribution to a new world, living in peace.« Françoise-Hélène Jourda On Peace and Sustainability, Blue Award 2014, Vienna 2014, p.7

In her last contribution to the Blue Award 2014, Françoise-Hélène Jourda mentioned that the issue of peace could in part be answered by means of sustainability.

for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Town and Country Planning, Mr. Jean Louis Borloo.

Many prizes and honors followed, among others in 2007 the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture.

Françoise-Hélène Jourda was based in Paris, where she practiced architecture at her JAP bureau (Jourda Architects Paris). From 1999 she taught in Vienna, Austria. In addition, she managed the company EO.CITE, an architecture and urban planning consulting firm.

In 2009 the Vienna University of Technology gave her the opportunity to develop the “Blue Award” together with the team of the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design. Within a few weeks the prize for students, which had been originally developed for the German language area, became an international issue. Just the media announcement of the prize made the competition well-known worldwide. A regional award had developed into a global one. The foundation was laid, sustainability had become the subject of the whole faculty.

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All three of these activities were centered around the principle of sustainable development. This was the fundamental subject of her teaching at the Vienna University of Technology, the essential mission of EO.CITE, and the aim of her urban and architectural work at JAP.

In October 2007, Françoise-Hélène Jourda completed a report on sustainable development in construction at the request of the French Minister

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She served among others as the Commissioner of the French Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2004, whose main theme was “Sustainable Metamorphoses”. Furthermore, she gave numerous lectures and has written many articles on the subject, both in France and for an international audience. She was also one of the signatories of the 1996 European Charter for Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning.

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The Blue Award has been developed with the motto “There is nothing good unless you do it”. The prize is awarded to the best work by students in the field of sustainable architecture and honors the work of the teachers. At the same time, the award is characterized by exchange and networking, and thus in the meantime a network of universities and teachers has emerged to promote exchange and cooperation between the participants. This year the prize was announced for the fourth time and is now a registered trademark of the Vienna University of Technology. Jury chairmen such as Michael Hopkins and Richard Rogers followed Françoise-Hélène Jourda’s call to Vienna and dedicated themselves to the issue.

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Françoise-Hélène Jourda Architect Univ.Prof. Mag. Arch Initiator of the Blue Award Former long-standing Head of the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design Vienna University of Technology

The notion of “sustainability” has meanwhile become part of our everyday use of language — whether we live and adapt our aims accordingly remains everybody’s personal responsibility. “Building for a future worth living in” is the subtitle of the Blue Award — which means, in the sense of sustainability, acting responsibly so that the following generations will not face disadvantages and damage.

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Françoise knew what she was talking about — her four children followed her, too, in her effort to work for people and to design our environment. “I am aware of my responsibility and would like to be able to answer the question ‘What I have done’ in future always as follows: ‘I have always worked to design an environment that is worth living in!’ ” Architecture serves humankind, and a holistic approach is necessary to recognize the consequences that individual measures trigger and to evaluate their influence on our social, economic and ecological balance.

“Sustainable Design” is thus not a regional subject but it concerns the whole world. However, regional answers are necessary in order to be able to react

In addition, the political situation in 2000 made the examination and confrontation with the “foreign” a central issue. The focus of her attention was never resignation in view of unchangeable facts but always a strategy to deal with reality and to make the best of it.

Based on this attitude, the workshop series “hors les murs” was developed. The university “outside the walls” referred to situations abroad. Refugees came then, as they do now, from Africa and the Near East. So it was obvious to initiate projects where people needed support, thus in their home countries.

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“One has to be true to oneself and take decisions that are worth standing up for,” said Françoise Hélène Jourda in 1999, on the occasion of her appointment to a professorship for spatial and sustainable design at the Vienna University of Technology.

on the spot to the problems which the climate change triggers. Under the title “Building in the South” Françoise-Hélène Jourda and her team taught their students how problems can be recognized and which solutions have already been developed by other cultures in certain situations.

Examples of vernacular architecture served as study objects and as possibilities for new interpretations. Jourda taught us not to behave as new imperialists, but to humbly explore and learn about the possibilities and potentials of a place, its people and its culture.

Projects in the Mediterranean, in the Maghreb and in the Near East came into being: Matmata in Tunisia 2001; Ait Ben Haddou in Morocco 2002; Casablanca 2003; Beirut in Lebanon 2005; Lavrio

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We, the teachers, were with the students on the spot, we immersed ourselves in the culture, we tried to learn and we developed projects on this basis with much support from specialists. FrançoiseHélène Jourda was always present at our local workshops.

Within this pedagogical framework, the international connections of the faculty and the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design were extended.

The contact with other universities and architecture faculties all over the world was intensified in order to create a network of knowledge and practice.

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Françoise-Hélène Jourda published her decadeslong experience in teaching and practice in her “Petit Manuel”. This small handbook for sustainable planning is destined for students of architecture.

Intended as an aid to ecologically responsible design it asks relevant questions relating to the building site, the program and also to the details. Each question is then complemented by an illustration and an explanatory text. Françoise was never tired of asking questions. She asked them in a targeted way and deliberately where she wanted to have a certain effect. In her work in the faculty council, in committees and finally in the curriculum commission, she regarded herself as a fervent champion of European integration and global communication.

“I did my degree on the streets of France,” she said once and meant the confrontation with the social problems of society. Thus the human measure, which her buildings were based on, was always marked by a reference to the location and culture of the people.

She offered herself as mediator for the intensive work in the Maghreb, the exchange with NGOs, her cooperation with representatives of the UNO and the UNHCR as well as for the confrontation with local bodies. Jourda always foregrounded the development of a society: her special concern was to make use of the chance of a region, a country to develop out of itself, without repeating the mistakes of other societies.

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“The legacy that she leaves us with is an attitude; these are values, it is the human dealings with one another, it is the process that makes this common action eventually more interesting than the concrete result.” (extract from a speech on the occasion of the farewell to Françoise-Hélène Jourda: Kottbauer, 30.6.2015) Architecture is a common process of many participants, not a single work. Françoise Héléne Jourda wanted nothing to do with any star cult. It is not the main building tasks that document her philosophy and her attitude from the beginning, but a small claybrick house or a house for her brother, whom she provided with a new home in the cheap shell of a prefabricated glass house, or her own small house with roof which she built for her large family.

The simple wooden construction under one large roof that provides shade like a tree is like a built manifesto of her philosophy. The protective roof, the cover improving the climate, the simple building construction in wood, the tree providing shade — these are the elements she developed buildings with.

At this point I want to highlight some of her buildings: the “Laterne” school complex, Cergy-Pontoise, France (1985), the Lyon architectural school, Vaulx en Velun, France (1987), the Academy for Further Education of the Ministry for the Interior of the German land of Northrhine-Westphalia, HerneSodingen, Germany (1993), the Université de Marne-la-Vallée (1992), the Palais de Justice in Melun (1994), the Hôpital Privé Jean Mermoz Lyon, France (1998), the Serres du Jardin botanique in Bordeaux (1999), likewise the Musée botanique in Bordeaux (2007), the reconstruction of the Hall Pajol in the 13th arrondissement of Paris (2013) and the residential buildings in Vitry-sur-Seine (2014).

In 2004 she planned the French Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice and taught at universities in Norway, England, Germany and in the United States. From 1999 to 2015 she was Professor at the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design of the Institute for Architecture and Design at the University of Technology, Vienna.

Anton Kottbauer, June 2016, collaborating with Françoise Hélène Jourda at the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design since 1999.

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BLUE AWARD O R G A N I Z E D B Y T H E D E PA RT M E N T O F S PAT I A L AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

THE 4TH EDITION OF THE BLUE AWARD

This year for the fourth time, in cooperation with the Society of Architecture and Spatial Design, the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design at the Vienna University of Technology is organizing the Blue Award: a biennial, anonymous, international and single-phase competition for students.

The competition awards projects addressing the topic of sustainability, considering the ecological aspects of future buildings and cities as well as the wider meaning of sustainability taking account of the cultural and social tasks at hand.

Françoise-Hélène Jourda, the former long-standing head of our department, initiated the Blue Award.

Prof. Jourdas’ research was directed towards future generations and the environment and conditions (political as well as social) they will be living in. Her name is connected with the issue of sustainability; her intention was to foster this goal at universities and to encourage teachers and students to set themselves the right tasks, the right questions, the right issues. That is why, together with FrançoiseHélène Jourda, the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design founded the Blue Award: as an open invitation to demonstrate pioneering and sustainable solutions, to expose the efforts in this direction in the academic areas.

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The department’s philosophy towards academic education and research focuses on the factors of design that go beyond the basic concerns of construction technique and building physics.

This goes along with a holistic view of urban and building projects: sustainability includes social, cultural, economic and ecological factors. To support this concern and to prepare future planners the department has launched a series of themes, tools and activities as part of the academic education and research: e.g. the BIOS Modul — Building in Ecological Systems, setting up a Materials Library with material samples to support a research-based education, “Building in the South” (excursion and design assignments for experiencing different climatic zones and having to deal with variable design challenges) and the Blue Award.

SUSTAINABILITY

The theme of the Blue Award is sustainability, sustainability in all its scope. Looking at the submissions one can notice two important developments: First, sustainability in its ecological sense is close to becoming a standard in central European societies, but there is still a great need for support in other places worldwide, as the projects, winners and honorable mentions, in the BLUE AWARD 2016 catalog show.

Following the examination of the projects in intense jury meetings and preliminary judging panels, we noticed a second evolution, as important as the first one: we noticed that the theme of sustainability

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itself is evolving; it is increasingly intended in its wider sense — cultural as well social aspects of sustainability are becoming important. Having had the chance to discuss with architect Kazuyo Sejima, we also learned that the physical self, the body in relation to the built environment needs to be considered from new perspectives.1 Above all it is evident that sustainability cannot be calculated and treated as an addition to the design process. But sustainability can only be planned. It has to be part of the design process.

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THE BLUE AWARD HISTORY

The unexpected response to the first appearance of the competition in 2009 and 2010 was a testimony to the great interest and standing of sustainability in the academic field. Its success was a demonstration of intensive examination of the ecological aspects of buildings as well as the social and cultural tasks at hand and for the department’s motivation to continue the project.

THE BLUE AWARD 2009

163 projects from 86 faculties and architecture schools from 49 countries were submitted.

Architect Professor Thomas Herzog was Honorary President of the jury.

THE BLUE AWARD 2012

In 2012 the international competition was an unexpected success: 101 universities and schools of architecture, regional and urban planning, from 38 countries participated: 232 projects were submitted.

Sir Michael Hopkins, architect, former president of the Architectural Association and — together with his wife Patty Hopkins — winner of the RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture, assumed the role of the Honorary President of the judging panel.

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The fourth edition of the Blue Award was again a huge success. The announcement and terms of eligibility went online by March 1, 2016, a kick-off event with a lecture by Much Untertrifaller on “Rural Urbanism” in spring marked the start. By early May we had received 209 projects from students all over the world, students from Japan, China, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Zambia, Ecuador, Philippines, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa, the US, etc., with authors of more than 50 nationalities.

We received a large number of projects from all over Europe, showing the efforts over the past years to foster the theme of sustainability in the academic field. And their effects and results as well. 82 universities and schools of architecture, regional planning and urbanism from 34 countries participated.

The Pritzker Prize winner, architect Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA Architects), was secured as Honorary President of the judging panel.

The award ceremony this year will take place during the WCTE, the World Conference on Timber Engineering.

THREE CATEGORIES

The Blue Award is presented in three categories.

Outside any category, the Blue Award 2016 honors the commitment to architecture with a socio-cultural context. Designs with social and cultural emphasis are thus particularly taken into consideration. A special prize is awarded for timber construction or the use of timber in the context of sustainability.

1 Urban Development and Transformation, Landscape Development 2 Ecological Building, Building in Existing Structures 3 Innovative Systems and Detailed Solutions

THE BLUE AWARD 2014

SPECIAL PRIZE

In 2014, for the third edition, 90 projects were submitted from 39 universities and schools of architecture, regional planning and urbanism from 22 countries. Though fewer than in 2012, the solutions demonstrated that the quality of the works had noticeably increased.

Honorary President of the jury was RIBA Gold Medal and Pritzker Prize Winner Lord Richard Rogers of Riverside CH.

Until 2016 the award was open to students of architecture, urbanism and regional planning. Additionally, this year we decided to ask also students in the field of civil engineering to submit their projects. The decision was made in order to support interdisciplinarity in the field of building.

Due to the fact that the WCTE, also described as the world’s principal conference on civil engineering and architecture focusing on timber constructions, will take place in Vienna this year, the Blue Award is presenting a special prize for efforts by students and their teachers in timber constructions or innovative ways of using wood in the context of sustainability.

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More than 200 projects have been submitted: as there is not one task for all, each project brings its own theme and task: a variety of individual multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary projects. This means an enormous effort both for the members of the jury, headed by architect Kazuyo Sejima, as well for the preliminary judging panel. Colleagues from our university and experts from outside make up the preliminary judging panel, which, with enormous effort, examined each one of the 209 submissions in its diversity and heterogeneity.

The preliminary judging panel met at the Vienna University of Technology on May 18 — 20, 2016.

The jury, with the Japanese architect and Pritzker Prize winner K. Sejima met on May 30 and 31, 2016. The jury nominated 15 projects, among them six prizewinners and nine honorable mentions.

1 On occasion of the judging panel, Vienna, May 30, 2016.

THE BLUE AWARD WORKSHOP 2 Parts of the text are taken from the introductory speech by the author to the Blue Award Lecture 2016 by Pritzker Prize winner Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA Architects), held on May 30, 2016, in the Dome Hall of the Vienna University of Technology.

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The Blue Award is not only intended to be a competition but seeks to support teachers and student worldwide; it aims to build an exchange network between the participating schools. Regarding the four editions of the Blue Award, we received over 700 projects from over 100 faculties from over 40 countries worldwide. Teachers are concerned with the following questions: How can we teach architecture today? What are the questions to examine?

What are the tasks for tomorrow? For this reason the Department is organizing for the first time a Blue Award summer design workshop, inviting prize winners together with their teachers to meet in Vienna and work together with students and teachers from our faculty, the Faculty of Architecture and Planning from the Vienna University of Technology.

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In conclusion I would like to say that it was the right decision that the university, as the home of education and research, should organize the Blue Award. It is right that its aim is to encourage teachers and students to ask the right questions. It is right to ask future generations, unprecedented and hopefully without prejudice, about their approach to defining problems and giving answers, such as how to promote diversity by providing equal opportunities?

How to define respect? How to avoid abuse and conflict? How can a society succeed? The university is the place to be curious, critical and creative.2

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An assigned team of examiners carried out the preliminary evaluation. No one of the organizational staff was to participate in the judging panel.

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OBJECTIVITY

Spatial and Sustainable Design

The jury is committed to objectivity, its individual members not being bound by directives: the jury is entitled to decide independently, incontestably and definitively in all relevant questions and matters.

The jury is obligated to carry out their work objectively and in accordance with the competition guidelines, and as such assumes a responsibility on behalf of the organizers and participants.

HANNAH AUFSCHNAITER Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Architecture and Design: Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design

ERNST BENEDER Guest Professor at the Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Architecture

OBLIGATION TO CONFIDENTIALITY

and Design: Department of Spatial and

The consultation of the jury is not public. All jury members, preliminary evaluators, as well as any persons involved in administrating the competition are obligated to keep all information regarding the competition strictly undisclosed until the results of the jury are officially made public.

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CORINA BINDER Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Architecture and Design: Building Theory and Design

EXCLUSION FROM EVALUATION ANDREAS HOFER Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture: Urban Design

THOMAS GAMSJĂ„GER

Submissions that do not fulfill the conditions of the competition are to be excluded from evaluation by the examiners or jury.

Decisions made by the jury are incontestable, the decisions shall be final and not appealable. The right to exercise legal recourse is excluded.

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SONJA LEITGEB Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Architecture and Design: Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design

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ERIK MEINHARTER Office PlanSinn. Planning and Communication, Vienna

INES NIZIC Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Architecture and Design: Building and Design

FRANZ KARNER Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Architecture and Design: Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design

ROBERT KORAB Office raum & kommunikation, Vienna

ANTON KOTTBAUER Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Architecture and Design: Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design

GĂœNTER PICHLER Vienna University of Technology,

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WOLFGANG WINTER Vienna University of Technology, Department of Architectural Sciences: Structural Design and Timber Engineering

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Kazuyo Sejima, one of the most significant architects of Japan, is a guest in the Dome Hall of the Vienna University of Technology as Honorary President of the 2016 Blue Award jury.

Kazuyo Sejima graduated from the Nihon Joshi Daigaku University in 1981 and then worked with Toyo Ito. In 1995 with Ryue Nishizawa she founded the architectural office SANAA — Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates.

Her designs are marked by a clear, modern and flowing understanding of space. She became internationally recognized through buildings such as the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne. She has designed numerous buildings, among others in Asia, Europe and in the United States. In 2010, together with Ryue Nishizawa, she received the much sought after Pritzker Prize and was the first female director of the Architecture Biennale in Venice.

Pritzker Prize Winner www.sanaa.co.jp

Swiss-born, now lives in France and Switzerland.

Graduate architect of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH).

Professional experience with Van der Erve in Den Haag (Holland). Assistant to Kisaburo Ito, architect in Tokyo (Japan). Team architect with Ove Arup Associates, architects and engineers in London.

Architect representing the Renzo Piano Agency on several projects in Genoa and in Milan (Italy) from 1972 to 1974. Senior member in the Piano & Rogers team in Paris on the Georges Pompidou Centre Project from 1974 to 1976. Personal agency in Paris since 1977. Professor at L’École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris from 1980 to 1995. Full professorship at the Vienna University of Technology, TU Wien, since 1995.

Emeritus Professor of Residential Housing

»Sustainable thinking must be omnipresent in our daily life. The comprehensive use of natural resources is key to reducing the impact on the environment and should guide our everyday behavior in all fields of activity. Particularly architects, engineers, urban planners, and all those involved in the creation process of our environment have a special role to play, since they are responsible for the sustainability of their constructions, which will remain for decades or will have to be dismantled in short periods.

From the start of their education, architects, planners and engineers have to train that sustainable thinking like a muscle, so that it becomes a natural reflex. The Blue Award competition conceived by Françoise-Hélène Jourda, who has been a pioneer for the awareness of sustainability, is a wonderful means of promoting the natural responsibility toward our environment.

I am very pleased to be participating in this experience.

Cuno Brullmann (CH) Architect

However, architects and planners must consider many other requirements. The core function of a building is primarily to respond to human needs and to be liveable. The awareness of sustainability should not lead to exaggeration. For example, natural light, openings and natural ventilation are sometimes more important than perfect insulation.

The challenge is to find an equilibrium between human design, architectural quality and technical performance, including the responsibility for sustainability. The optimal combination of these criteria and the way they interact will lead us to a more environmentally responsive future.«

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Albert Dubler, past President of the International Union of Architects (IUA), 2011—2014, and former council member of the French Order of Architects, signed the “Durban Declaration” for Responsible Architecture with many partners of the International Union of Architects on August 10, 2014 in Durban.

He is a practicing architect in Strasbourg.

»The world has finite resources and we don’t have any other choice than share those resources. Otherwise we can build as many protection walls as we want, there are more and more poor people who will irremediably knock down those walls some day.« Albert Dubler (FR)

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Degree in architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna, afterwards independent architect and project manager in several architectural offices until 2005. Board member of various art and culture associations. President of the Vorarlberg Central Association of Architects 2002—05, Director vai Vorarlberg Architectural Institute in Dornbirn 2005—12.

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Representative of the Austrian Architecture Foundation to the Advisory Council for Building Culture of the Federal Chancellery in Vienna 2009—12, since 2010 on the Architectural Advisory Board of the Klaus municipality and since 2014 in Landsberg am Lech (D). Extensive jury experience and lecture activities, journalistic and curatorial activities, public relations and civic involvement, process design and project development on a communal and regional level, since 2013 in her own bureau for building culture concerns.

»We are at a historic turning point — not only do we have to question our current social and economic systems, but also the resulting planning targets and processes. We need a serious change of direction in education so that future generations of planners are better equipped to realise sustainable concepts.

The Blue Award animates and educates young designers to take an ecologically, socially and culturally justifiable stance and to manifest it in spatial concepts.«

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Much Untertrifaller was born in Bregenz in 1959 and grew up there. He studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology under Ernst Hiesmayr. Since 1982 he has organized projects together with his father, the architect Much Untertrifaller senior, and in 1992 he set an example for a new direction in Alpine building with the Silvrettahaus on the Bieler heights in Partenen, Vorarlberg. Since 1998 he has been active as an independent architect in the Chamber for BadenWurttemberg and since 2014 has been registered as a civil engineer in the Chamber for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland.

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»Our projects have a strong relation to the site and its surroundings, they are developed out of the specific situation and the program. The economic use of resources and the choice of appropriate materials are decisive factors in our architecture.

Our solutions are simple, pragmatic and as a result of this process naturally also sustainable.«

Wolfgang Winter (AT) Architect and Engineer

To this effect, the Blue Award contributes, overall, as well as specifically through the approaches highlighted by the jury, important incentives for the joint education of architects, development planners and construction engineers.«

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Wolfgang Winter’s professional career is influenced by a long lasting collaboration with Julius Natterer.

Since 1993, he runs his own engineering offices in France and Switzerland and, as engineer and architect, realizes innovative projects in timber.

1997—2005: scientific director for Holzforschung Austria, the Austrian Forest Products Research Society, and managing director of the Austrian Society for Timber Research. Since 2006, President of the Research Council of the Austrian Society for Timber Research. In 2012, he was nominated as chair for the World Congress of Timber Engineering 2016 in Vienna.

In this sense, the Blue Award, as it encompasses all aspects of a true and durable sustainability, is exemplary. It demonstrates how solutions emerge when social commitment, comprehensive analyses, creative problem-solving and cooperative approaches come together and how these solutions help to come to terms with the complex problems caused by the human societies’ interaction with the environment.

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Chief assistant professor at the chair for timber constructions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. 1986: visiting professor at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, (Prof. Schweitzer): postgraduate course “Timber Architecture”.

Responsible for the Department of Timber Engineering at the University of Applied Science in Construction and Architecture, Bern. Since 1995, full professor at the Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture. He directs the department for Structural Design and Timber Structures and teaches civil engineering. 2001—2007: dean of study affairs at the Faculty of Architecture. Since 2006, Wolfgang Winter is Academic Director of Urban Wood, a postgraduate MSc program in cooperation with three universities: TU-Dresden, TU-Vienna and Politechnico di Torino. This program was initiated together with Dr. Yoshiaki Amino.

»Sustainability always has to do with efficiency, for example the efficient input of resources or efficient planning. Efficiency can only be achieved with intelligence, through astute analysis and well-wrought combinatorics. Efficiency alone, however, does not suffice: true sustainability must entail dedication, empathic sensitivity, enthusiasm and creativity.

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Technical University, Stuttgart, Germany: diploma degrees in civil engineering and architecture, research assistant and program coordinator for the interdisciplinary research group “wide-span surface structures”, directed by Frei Otto and Jörg Schlaich.

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Category 1 Urban Development and Transformation, Landscape Development

This category encompasses areas from urban renewal and restructuring of existing city fabric to the development of new housing systems and building typologies. Concepts dealing with the energy-self-sufficient housing structures, environmentally friendly forms of mobility and new interpretations of open/public spaces in urban areas also belong to this category.

Category 1 Prize Winner

SMALL SCALE — BIG CHANCE Shimokitazawa — Tokyo’s Neighborhood

Lisa Geiszler

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Shimokitazawa — Tokyo’s Neighborhood, small scale — big chance UNIVERSITY

Vienna University of Technology (Austria) ACADEMIC ADVISOR

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The median life cycle of buildings in Tokyo is just 30 years. The government of Tokyo is currently planning to erase a whole neighborhood for the sake of new high-rise buildings. This design symbolizes a more sustainable alternative for urban development in a modern metropolis. In more detail this project redesigns a small-scale neighborhood in Tokyo as a consequence of a trainline redevelopment.

The impact of the project on the neighborhood aims to preserve the status quo of public life and social interaction. The area is characterized by small houses and small business structures, which is worthwhile preserving. The proposed structure creates space that allows the currently separated four neighborhoods to connect into a lively city center. It aims to enhance human interaction in space quality demanded by its citizens.

Besides the fact that the design gives full disabled access, it promotes short routes for its inhabitants.

The modular design seeks to enhance social interaction, is fully barrier-free and creates sufficient ventilation and natural light for all units.

SITE DESCRIPTION

The project is located in the center of Shimokitazawa (Tokyo, Japan), which is divided into four characteristic neighborhoods as a result of two crossing train lines.

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The project offers a convincing concept for a new prototype that deals with urban density. The structure can grow according to actual demand for further space and results in minimal resource waste. The proposal of a prototype for controlling and creating urban density by allowing growth based on demand could be a case study for Tokyo.

Offering many different possibilities to create public space, it acts like an organism made out of single-family homes.

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»It is easy to make high-rise structures, but this project offers different possibilities, where public space is created!« Kazuyo Sejima

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CAPTION 1 — Geographical location within the city of Tokyo 2 — Diagram of the building density 3 — Impressions of the planning area 4 — Greenline and traffic concept 5 — Arrangement of the functions 6 — Isometric view of mix of functions, axes and vertical development 7 — Development scenario 2013—2020—2060 8 — Modular design strategy 9 — Site plan and axonometric visualization of a small-scale neighborhood 10 — Section 11 — Rendering

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RESILIÊNCIA DO CAFEZAL V Charlotte Fredriksson

Venezuela Colombia

Peru Brazil

Bolivia

Belo Horizonte

Paraguay

Argentina

Uruguay

Resiliência do Cafezal UNIVERSITY

KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Sara Grahn

TASK DESCRIPTION

The main task of the project is to study the contribution that architectural intervention can make recovering and strengthening environmental and social systems in informal settlements in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Based on existing social factors as well as on local traditional building techniques, the project for Vila Santana do Cafezal questions the possibility of finding sustainable solutions to further develop the existing building structure with the aim of fostering social as well as ecological conditions in the settlement.

SITE DESCRIPTION

Vila Santana do Cafezal is one of seven neighborhoods in the biggest favela in Belo Horizonte. The favela is only 4 km from the center, in the southern part of the city, and has approximately 46,000 inhabitants. The site of the project is on a steep slope. This has degraded very much in recent years due to the rapid development in the area, which remains comparatively rural. The yearly rainfall raises a big issue because it washes away a lot of soil, creates erosion and could trigger landslides. The

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community of Vila Santana do Cafezal has about 7,009 inhabitants and 2,147 households around this slope.

A political conflict with the municipality was caused by the local authorities’ demand to evacuate 100 families due to the risk of landslides. In 2013, sixteen families were removed from the area and their houses demolished. They were not given any worthwhile alternative homes. As a response the community initiated a project called Pomar do Cafezal — a tree plantation on one of the steepest slopes in the area. The initiative came from the locals who are socially organized and have a strong will to improve their neighborhood in collaboration with others.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The steep slopes have 20—40 percent gradients and are very difficult and sometimes dangerous to build on. To keep them as green areas, safe and free of waste, they need to be stabilized, activated and accessible. The project proposes a vertical park and a community center. The whole park, including the plantation, the communication

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conditions with little or no access to basic needs, such as water, sanitation or health services. The project addresses a problem which continues to be important for the future development of cities.

Working with the topography, existing social and environmental factors and local material, the project provides an answer which operates on different levels. The suggested building structure helps stabilize the ground and protect it from landslides at the same time as acting as a connecting pathway to improve access. Integrated into it is a watermanagement system that collects rainwater and deals with gray and black water. In its formal expression the community center building itself fits well into to the improvised building structures in the area. The jury appreciates the extensive analysis of the existing conditions. The proposed solution is regarded as a sensible intervention for this area.

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between the slopes and the community center, will work as a local ecosystem where the assets on site are utilized through the components of the park and converted into products that will help maintain the tree plantation and the park. In return the plantation will give back products that are utilized in the neighborhood and the community center, which then produces new resources.

The most important asset is the rainwater, which is collected through flumes and roofs on the upper part of the slope. The structure integrates both water collection and communication for pedestrians, which improves the accessibility between different areas in the neighborhood.

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»The UN carried out a study into slums, revealing that 50 % of the world population live in cities, 50 % in slums. But in South America, 70 % live in cities, and 70 % of them in slums. That is why this is a good concept, because it could be a solution to the slum problems, providing the infrastructure.« Albert Dubler

CAPTION

1 — Site plan 2 — Local building conditions 3 — Diagram: local ecosystem 4 — Analysis of local conditions 5 — Diagram section — water collection 6 — Ground stabilizer; diagram of average precipitation 7 — Section 8 — Diagram plan — water collection 9 — Section: aqueduct, viaduct 10 — Floor plans 11 — Elevation — community center 12 — Architectural model 13 — Collage: community center

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HOMBORI A_LIFE WALL Barbara Mayr Razan Alsmadi Christoph Rauschenböck

Algeria

Mauritania Mali

Hombori

Niger

Senegal

Burkina Faso

Guinea

Cote d‘Ivoire

UNIVERSITY

Graz University of Technology (Austria) ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Lisa-Maria Enzenhofer

TASK DESCRIPTION

The task assigned to the studio ranges from criteria for the urban landscape, the developed cultural landscape, the region and the city through its individual types of buildings, to the details of construction, interpretation and special configurations. The design process is to build a productive community in the Hombori area by handling the severe climate conditions due to the shifting of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone and its impacts on local climate conditions: sandstorms, droughts and flooding.

SITE DESCRIPTION

Hombori is a community located south of Timbuktu (Mali), at the border between the Sahara desert and the Sahel area. The landscape is characterized by the unique rock formations embedded in a sandy gradual depression. Dogon people settled in the area have managed the severe climate

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conditions with highly specialized architectural and agricultural techniques. Because of their historical dependence on their food crops, the Dogon had to develop refined methods to conserve their soil and water.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The climate in Hombori with its low precipitation and uneven distribution, along with the Harmattan dust haze, is the main concern of the project. It leads to reinventing the walls of Hombori as a new generator of landscape. The project develops out of the existing structures of farming fields and the re-establishment of the traditional Dogon housing technology. The aim is to create sustainable farming and housing methods by collecting and distributing water to establish a resilient community in the Hombori region.

The silent actor in the design is the “wall” which acts as a wind barrier from the north and floodwa-

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VEGETATION clay loam hardpans

RED DUNE sand loamy sands

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dry savanna vegetation [existing trees & shrubs]

cultivated landscape [existing structures]

housing & dogon village [existing structures]

roads and paths [existing structures]

temporary waters [existing structures]

live fence - trees & shrubs green corridor [landscape architecture]

terraced fields [landscape architecture]

live fence - farmhouse [landscape architecture]

cummunal center [existing structures]

cistern & irrigation pipes [landscape architecture]

ter distributor from the south. Water running off from the mountains down to the lower point drains the crops in the infield and naturally establishes three major green corridors (erosion pathways) as essential passages to support different parts of the community.

The distribution of the farming fields aligns with existing stone line structures. The cultivation area itself is a terraced facility, similar to the traditional Dogon technique, however the new system is embedded in the ground. The farms are bordered on the north by a living fence out of new housing units and vegetation.

JURY STATEMENT

The jury appreciates that the project seeks inspiration in traditional life and its techniques, because the implantation of modern systems in such areas mostly proves counterproductive. It provides an intelligent and strategically interesting solution for

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a harsh and inhospitable climate. Embedded in the landscape, its topography and natural environment the project supports the local community by providing them with farming land as well as fresh water supplies.

The implementation and further development of traditional techniques to solve existing challenges caused by climate change and population growth is well solved in this project. The jury appreciates this approach as well as the thorough analysis and clear illustration of the project.

»They come back to the traditional way of life and its techniques, because modern strategies do not work here.« Albert Dubler

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CAPTION 1 — Site plan

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DIY GRANTS do-it-yourself Grants Town Nassau The Bahamas

Vlad Popa Basilis Nearchos Neururer

Cuba

Haiti

DIY GRANTS — do it yourself Grants Town UNIVERSITY

Vienna University of Technology (Austria) ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Andreas Hofer

TASK DESCRIPTION

The sensitive upgrading of downtown Nassau and/ or Over the Hill is based on strategic, design and architectural interventions with the focus on urban housing and public space. The project was realized within the academic cooperation between Vienna University of Technology (Austria) and the “Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative” of the Interamerican Development Bank / IDB. SITE DESCRIPTION

The city of Nassau, with approximately 250,000 inhabitants (2010), is located in New Providence, the main island of the Bahamas. Downtown Nassau is separated from the reality of the city by “The Hill”, a natural boundary. In the past, there was also an artificial barrier on the eastern side of Grants Town, a wall which divided the black population from the white. Whereas tourism flourishes downtown and on the island’s coast, the central part of the city,

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called “Over the Hill” — which houses most of the population — is neglected. Over the Hill is defined by decay, vacant lots and buildings surrounded by waste and broken down cars, minimal infrastructure, lack of drinking water and electricity. Crime rates are high, tourists avoid venturing there and locals never go downtown.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

DIY Grants aims to activate and involve the community of Grants Town to offer them the necessary tools to develop the area on their own, in order to rediscover the lost local pride and improve their environmental awareness. There are three steps: first, a community center where children would receive education and after-school care, while older people would receive vocational training (carpentry, catering). Second, a proposal — inspired by the local tradition of cinder-block houses — on how to occupy the vacant lots, by placing small timber

»The universality of the concept can be realized in different situations and surroundings, also in tropical ones. The aspect of creating public and common space for everyone in the neighborhoods, and the social sensibility hits the right target groups!« Kazuyo Sejima

constructions that each offer a piece of infrastructure and an activity. They would be built by the locals using the skills and set-up offered by the community center. Third, an incentive based garbage collection and recycling system that would encourage the locals to solve their own waste problem, rather than relying solely on the government’s inefficient solutions.

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The project foresees to interconnect two parts of the city: the historical town with its religious centers and its bazaars and the contemporary developments. The exchange and interplay between them shall be achieved by means of bridges and mixed developments. The potential of the areas along the river and the riverbanks as lively scenes for daily activities would be greatly enhanced by diversifying their uses: from agriculture to recreation, living quarters, education and sports facilities.

The decentralized water treatment as an essential part of the picture is appreciated: the envisaged methods involve social aspects in order to improve the inhabitant’s social conditions.

In a city that has been severely struck by war and destruction, the river, beyond its importance of supplying water and generating a particular microclimate, acts as a powerful symbol of renewal and recommencement.

By interpreting the river as the city’s backbone that will unify various neighbourhoods supplying a shared image of identification, it sets out to modify adjacent, partly destroyed urban areas, by providing and supplying all those intentions with the most important resource of all: water. The approach of dealing with water as is described here ensues in a culture of a recovered daily life.

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»It reflects on social needs and social structures and it is a series of interventions in public and communal space! It offers a series of typologies for simple structures, for different uses!« Robert Korab

CAPTION 1 — Axonometric visualization 2 — Community functions 3 — Rendering 4 — Positioning of different shacks around the neighborhood 5 — Isometric visualization

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Sustainable building touches upon the entire act of form-giving. The submitted projects are to reveal the basic principles of sustainable planning and construction, including its social, economical and ecological factors, in the form of an architectonic design. Construction in existing contexts uses methods of renovation, adaptation and renewal.

Beyond these established themes, projects will be awarded which significantly increase the average longevity and usage capacity of existing structures, as well as projects, which reduce the volumetric demand of new construction.

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University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz (Austria) ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Roland Gnaiger

TASK DESCRIPTION

This project is based on a self-initiated field research in Ecuador and Colombia. The design’s objective was to find solutions for a safe living environment with regard to available renewable and affordable construction materials.

Challenging aspects such as monsoon rains, earthquake risk, danger of fire, equatorial heat, burglaries and humidity had to be taken into consideration.

SITE DESCRIPTION

Existing loose settlements along main routes leading to cities in the Ecuadorian coastal region.

Ecuador is facing overpopulation in urban areas and heavy migration to cities. Overcrowded favelas lead to expanding settlements along streets

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leading to urban centers. These sprouting settlements lack social and spatial organization because they were meant to be temporary housing but came to be permanent.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The project’s main objective is to provide greater spatial and social density by providing both interior rooms and exterior space within one settlement, multiplied by personalized variations. The combination of long-lasting materials such as reinforced concrete and easily renewable, locally available material such as bamboo open up new possibilities for a building tradition that has been facing a severe decline over recent decades.

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The project illustrates a typical way of building in South America. Through the interpretation of traditional building structures it shows a new possibility of connecting living units together while gaining density and saving soil for other uses. The structure of the slots provided is designed for self-built bamboo houses. The draft is made anonymously by the tenants and could be enlarged and changed easily. Because it is so simple, it could work for a lot of people and in a lot of areas in South America. The project is not so much about the architecture design itself, it is more a strategy!

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»This project shows a solution which works for a lot of people in various areas of South America. The suggested structure and building guidelines are empowering the owners to develop and enlarge their houses due to their needs and creativity, maintaining a common sense of the street, of the site.« Marina Hämmerle

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»It is not a global answer but a South American answer, and I think it gives the tenants the opportunity to improve their dwellings. They can add something and modify it.

Using bamboo for the building is very innovative. The community will build the specific structures themselves. It is similar to the favela project.« Albert Dubler

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structure, optimal air circulation, use of local material bamboo, earthquake protection, hygiene standards, fire protection, privacy, security, drainage

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Public Stage — The Recovery Plan for the City Center of Ferrara

Slovenia

Croatia

Ferrara

Leo Bettini Oberkalmsteiner

Bosnia and Herzegovina

France

Italy

Palco Pubblico: Public Stage — The Recovery Plan for the City Center of Ferrara UNIVERSITY

Technical University of Munich (Germany)

TASK DESCRIPTION

The aim of this project is to find a solution for the revitalization of Ferrara’s city center by recreating a sequence of public spaces. As a consequence, the implementation allows access to and provides the functions of one of the oldest squares of the city.

SITE DESCRIPTION

The Giardino delle Duchesse municipal square, located in the center of the medieval Italian city of Ferrara and a UNESCO world-heritage site, plays the leading role in the project site. The planning area is surrounded by an ensemble of a castle and the municipality — both as part of the clear and specific tessuto urbano, in which the sequence of public spaces is designed as a subtraction from the architectural mass.

ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Florian Nagler

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The intention of the palco pubblico (public stage) project is to create a public space as a connection between the most significant squares of Ferrara to reunite the city center. The palco publico seeks

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to generate a dialog with its context by inserting itself as a light, temporary structure into its surroundings, a massive 800-year-old structure of brick and stone buildings.

The intervention implies three successive steps: the reconnection of the Giardino delle Duchesse with the surrounding public squares and its open access and the recreation of the former sequence of urban spaces; the use of the potential of the ground floor of the municipality by the creation of functional areas for the public stage inside of the existing walls, such as toilets, changing rooms, storage etc. and the creation of a connection between the public spaces by an architectural intervention to attract the audience without disfiguring the context. The existing buildings would therefore not only be renovated, but finally used as spaces serving public life.

The ephemeral appearance and the minimalistic structure of a wooden skeleton and its textile skin create a cylindrical, 20-meter-high shape with a footprint of ca. 450 sq. meters. A big roof protects from sun and rain and the vertical fabric can be

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»As a structure this project is very interesting.« Kazuyo Sejima

With the palco pubblico, the author presents an elegant and flexible solution for the appreciation of a public space in the middle of the medieval city center of Ferrara.

Dealing with the existing surroundings of the chosen site, the temporary design of the original implementation shows possibilities for participation and awareness of the inhabitants themselves.

The proposal presents an interesting reinterpretation of the building as theater. The wooden structure can be folded up and transported very easily. The light-­weight structure, covered by a textile skin, uses little material. A new inner-­city meeting point, used for all kinds of occasions.

A sensitive project, which creates orientation and contributes to the social life of the city.

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rolled up and down in response to its users’ needs.

This versatility provokes a duality between presence and absence, lightness and mass, construction and volume. The city as a scene can be hidden behind a curtain or be the scenography itself: the exterior of the surrounding buildings becomes the interior facade. The building’s ‘dress’ lifts equally in any direction from the ground floor to let visitors in or out.

Shakespeare’s theater is the functional reference of this project — the performance takes place in the center surrounded by its audience. The concentric stairs, excavated from the ground, serve as a seating area for the public. The scenery can be observed from the upper level, approached by three sculptural staircases.

The design follows the principle of a ‘big yurt’. The roof is constructed as an independent balanced system and mounted on an A-frame timber trestle.

This geometry allows the structure to guide the stress to the ground as compression and tension forces, avoiding deflection and consisting of a filigree load-bearing construction.

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PALCO PUBBLICO UNA RIQUALIFICAZIONE DEL CENTRO STORICO DI FERRARA MASTER THESIS FAKULTÄT FÜR ARCHITEKTUR LEHRSTUHL FÜR ENTWERFEN UND KONSTRUIEREN BETREUER

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DIPL.-ING. MAX ZITZELSBERGER VERFASSER LEO BETTINI OBERKALMSTEINER 03612524 TU MÜNCHEN SOMMER 2015

Not only does the plaza, being public, add something to the site, but especially the building itself adds something there. It can make people believe in the strength and power architecture can have. And proportionally it is very nice — a light construction which consumes all the space on the plaza! Kazuyo Sejima

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Category 2 Honorable Mention

MONDIKOLOK HEALTHCARECENTER David Kraler Christoph Lachberger

Sudan

Ethiopia South Sudan

Central African Republic

Kajo Keji Kenya

Democratic republic of the Congo Uganda

UNIVERSITY

Vienna University of Technology (Austria) ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Peter Fattinger

TASK DESCRIPTION

The starting point of this diploma thesis was a real client, a real building site and a real problem: a small NGO — founded by an Austrian pediatrician — is aiming to improve the medical situation in the region of Kajo-Keji, South Sudan. From the beginning it was clear that the outcome of the thesis should not be a fictional work or theoretical paper, but a real building — constructed together with local people, built out of local material suited to the climatic requirements and in keeping with the Kuku people’s traditional culture, lifestyle and building tradition.

SITE DESCRIPTION

Comprehensive research was done on site: climatic, cultural, social and medical aspects were studied besides the building techniques and tradition. As the region of Kajo-Keji is a fertile land with sufficient rainy season, the majority of the Kuku people live

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a rather traditional life as peasants, growing their own grain and building their traditional houses (tukuls) out of local material themselves. They live a peaceful life in traditional compounds (a cluster of several families’ tukuls) that are connected by a diffuse grid of pathways.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Within the design process a combination of vernacular building tradition, local know-how and innovation was chosen to achieve the main goals: a durable and healthy building that is ecologically and socially sustainable and well-linked to the local way of life.

To achieve this we spent more than one year on site, also participating in physical building work ourselves. Thus it was possible to develop main parts of the structure together with local craftsmen and untrained helpers on life-size mockups on site and encourage a two-way transfer of knowledge and skills to gain long-term benefits for all participants.

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Mondikolok Healthcare-Center

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ÂťThe concept of the project suits the climate very well, which is dry and hot, and therefore the shading and ventilation are of great importance.ÂŤ Albert Dubler

JURY STATEMENT

This project is nominated because of its positive engagement with the local conditions and culture.

Furthermore it implements its concept very well in the project described. The project engages with its surrounding area in a very positive manner by including its residents, through the use of local material and by promoting the culture of the area.

At the same time, the project focuses on present healthcare issues, including the termite control. The structure is clearly defined and the concept has been implemented in the final result.

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pathway to nursery

pathway to neighbouring compound

pathway to school

road to Juba

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Category 2 Honorable Mention

TO CULTIVATE ONE’S CITY Justus Menten

Berlin Poland

Netherlands

Germany

Belgium

Czech Republic

France Austria Switzerland

To Cultivate One’s City UNIVERSITY

Berlin University of the Arts (Germany) ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Jean Philippe Vassal

TASK DESCRIPTION

Nature as known is a concept that belongs to the past. The city, in its understanding as the cradle of culture, has a long tradition of being opposed to nature. The differentiation and dualism of culture and nature today is not appropriate anymore and misleads the discourse of ecology. In the name of ‘nature protection’, we tend to over-technologize and distance ourselves from the environment we actually want to protect. How can we bring what we have separated closer together again? Imagining an architecture which critically reconfigures human and non-human cohabitation might be a worthwhile task.

SITE DESCRIPTION

In Berlin, many former industrial sites in the heart of the city are not developed. The widespread soil contamination makes human settlement difficult and expensive. But these sites are becoming

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more attractive for developers because of investment pressure. In many cases the rehabilitation means an enormous destruction of existing natural systems. The site in the northern part of Berlin is a wild and inaccessible space. It is a fiction symbol of untouched nature in the middle of a city, abandoned for twelve years.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The project is intended to start a process of rethinking our relation to ecology and the way of living.

Creating a nature sanctuary which is suitable for a residential project with an effect on its surrounding environment. The problem of contamination could be solved by adding special plants to the forest on the building site. The planning strategy is to bring together two systems, the natural forest and the living structure. A north/south-facing framework is superimposed to allow maximum light to reach the ground and to avoid damaging the trees. Making

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use of the seasonal appearance of the trees as a filter, the possibility of spatial proximity to your neighbor in the summer and transparency in the winter lets the light deep inside. Living with the seasons and the climatic conditions, the idea of the floor plans is based on the fundamental architectural concept of a cave and a tent.

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inhabitance in which the idea of living with the season in nature opens up freedom and maximum living conditions using few means.

JURY STATEMENT

Building in existing structures is challenging and mostly smart; even smarter is to use the existing structures on the site if these are trees! Marina Hämmerle

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The project addresses contaminated industrial sites in the heart of our cities. The treatment of the soil by phytoremediation is an interesting approach.

The use of plants to mitigate the contamination of the ground without the need for excavation is a sustainable and efficient solution. It may not be a global answer, but it shows improvement for this special site. The new spatial arrangement between nature and living generates a new artificial nature considering the relationship between internal and external space. The project imagines a form of

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Acer platanoides Acer platanoides

Ailanthus altissima Ailanthus altissima ( Götterbaum ) ( Götterbaum )

( Schwarz-Erle ) ( Schwarz-Erle )

Pyrus communis Pyrus communis

Populus tremula Populus tremula

Prunus avium Prunus avium

( Spitzahorn ) ( Spitzahorn )

( Kultur-Birne ) ( Kultur-Birne )

Alnus glutinosa Alnus glutinosa

( Vogel-Kirsche ) ( Vogel-Kirsche )

( Espe ) ( Espe )

Carpinus betulus Carpinus betulus ( Hainbuche ) ( Hainbuche )

Pinus mugo Pinus mugo

( Bergkiefer ) ( Bergkiefer )

Cornus florida Cornus florida

( Blüten-Hartriegel ) ( Blüten-Hartriegel )

Hippophae rhamnoides Hippophae rhamnoides ( Sanddorn ) ( Sanddorn )

Larix decidua Larix decidua

( Europ. Lärche ) ( Europ. Lärche )

Liriodendron tulipifera Liriodendron tulipifera ( Tulpenbaum ) ( Tulpenbaum )

Pinus nigra Pinus nigra

( Schwarz-Kiefer ) ( Schwarz-Kiefer )

Populus italica Populus italica

( Säulenpappel ) ( Säulenpappel )

Quercus robur Quercus robur

Quercus pubescens Quercus pubescens

Rhus typhina Rhus typhina

Rosa canina Rosa canina

Sorbus aucuparia Sorbus aucuparia

Salix eleagnos Salix eleagnos

( Säuleneiche ) ( Säuleneiche )

( Flaumeiche ) ( Flaumeiche )

( Essigbaum ) ( Essigbaum )

( Hundsrose ) ( Hundsrose )

( Vogelbeere ) ( Vogelbeere )

( Lavendel-Weide ) ( Lavendel-Weide )

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Buchloe dactyloides Buchloe dactyloides

Brassica juncea Brassica juncea

( Büffelgras ) ( Büffelgras )

Bouteloua gracilis Bouteloua gracilis

( Brauner Senf ) ( Brauner Senf )

( Moskitogras ) ( Moskitogras )

Festuca prolifera Festuca prolifera ( Schwingel ) ( Schwingel )

Lolium perenne Lolium perenne

( Deutsche Weidelgras ) ( Deutsche Weidelgras )

Panicum Panicum

( Rispenhirse ) ( Rispenhirse )

Populus nigra Populus nigra

( Schwarzpappel ) ( Schwarzpappel )

Populus italica Populus italica

( Säulenpappel ) ( Säulenpappel )

Salix daphnoides Salix daphnoides ( Reif-Weide ) ( Reif-Weide )

Portulaca oleracea Portulaca oleracea

( Sommerportulak ) ( Sommerportulak )

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Category 3 Innovative Systems and Detailed Solutions

Architectural detailed solutions can have a higher technical level of innovation, having a sustainable impact on the design of architecture.

Besides recognizing formal qualities, the category aims to select projects that focus on the thoughtful choice in materials, energy-saving processes of manufacturing, degree in quality and efficiency of use — all these aspects are prerequisites for the development of innovative systems.

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BRIDGING MZAMBA a suspension bridge built with the community in South Africa

Thomas Harlander Florian Anzenberger

Botswana

Namibia

Lesotho South Africa

Mzamba Valley

bridgingMZAMBA — a suspension bridge built with the community in South Africa UNIVERSITY

Carinthia University of Applied Sciences — FH-Kärnten (Austria) ACADEMIC ADVISOR

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TASK DESCRIPTION

The bridgingMZAMBA project deals with the local population’s desire for a safe crossing over the Mzamba River in South Africa. Any design aspects, from first sketches via executions, drawings to construction and details were part of this diploma thesis. Due to the difficult access all parts needed to be carried to site manually. Constructing the bridge in collaboration with mostly unskilled local workers had to be taken into account. The need for all parts to be easily replaceable had to be designed in detail too.

SITE DESCRIPTION

The project is situated on the Mzamba River, a geographical border between one of the richest regions in South Africa (KwaZulu Natal) and one of the poorest regions (Eastern Cape). This social and infrastructural gap can be observed all along the Mzamba valley. On one side of the river there is an infrastructure such as schools, a small market

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and medical care whereas on the other side there are widely spread clay huts with no access to waste water or electricity supply, no infrastructure and no roads. The construction site was therefore only accessed on one side of the valley, so it was necessary to design manageable components to be carried to the site manually.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Mzamba River separated the inhabitants from necessary local infrastructure such as educational facilities, healthcare and general food supply. Often medical care could not be reached in time and the elderly had no means of accessing the local retail market. The main aim of the design was to construct a secure bridge that engages with its surroundings topographically as well as through its craftsmanship and the social environment in close collaboration with the local community.

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The bridge allows the population to cross the Mzamba River safely and therefore proves its social impact. It is a collaborative project between the local workers and the designer and thereby highlights the value of the bridge for the population. The prefabricated elements are considered as positive, if the steel elements were available locally. All the details were thoughtfully designed to ensure that this bridge construction is easily repairable and accessible to unskilled local workers. The three-year planning process seems too long. One open question: if the bridge has sufficient horizontal bracing in high winds?

As the project is implemented 1:1, the social sustainability of the bridge is well shown and seems to be proven by the pictures. It is a very simple, almost subliminal design.

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Category 3, Prize Winner

PLANNR 02 DATE

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SELF-COOLING FACADE FOR LOW-COST DWELLINGS Phuong Quan Trinh

China

Thailand

Laos

Vietnam

Cambodia Ho Chi Minh City

Self-cooling facade for low-cost dwellings

UNIVERSITY

KU Leuven (Belgium) ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Asiya Sadiq

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To design a new self-cooling facade for a tropical climate based on the natural water evaporation effect to cool the building without using energy and the application of the new facade in a low-cost housing project in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

throughout the year, and with an average humidity of 78 — 82 percent. Due to the rapid industrialization, a large amount of material such as metal panels, nets, burlap sacks from rice exporting activities and advertising hoardings panels become redundant without any recycling solution.

SITE DESCRIPTION

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Despite rapid industrialization and economic development, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) has to cope with many serious problems such as rapid urbanization, environmental pollution and the lack of accommodation in urban areas. Ho Chi Minh City has the dominant tropical monsoon features, characterized by a large amount of solar radiation and a high rate of rainfall and humidity. The annual average temperature is 28° C with little variation

The design focuses on the natural evaporation effect of water that cools the building by using a new adaptive facade. This design also finds the appropriate ways for the fabrication and realization of the new facade utilizing the used and recycled materials to reduce the building cost.

TASK DESCRIPTION

Self-cooling facade for low-cost dwellings

JURY STATEMENT

The project is characterized by a facade which features low-tech cooling elements. These cool the building in tropical conditions without using energy and thereby promote sustainability. The proposal works on a very simple principle and with local materials gained through the recycling of three main materials: a metal grid, jute bags and plastic tubes.

Needless to say this is a good solution that everybody can apply. The jury stated that the project reflects the spirit of the Blue Award. The innovative solution is easy to implement also in existing building structures and is highly affordable. The materials — plastic, water pipes, metal panels and a metal grid — also strengthen the exterior. Its flexibility means the solution has wide potential for other sites as well.

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»I believe it is completely in the spirit of the Blue Award, with the materiality and its structure!

And with the flexibility to be built on other sites as well!« Wolfgang Winter

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Florian Radner Czech Republic

Slovakia

Pettenbach

Germany

Liechtenstein Austria

Hungary

Switzerland Italy Slovenia

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Vienna University of Technology (Austria) ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Baris Cokcan

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The task of this project was to design and build a small shed mainly for storing garden tools. On the one hand the budget for this custom-built project was very limited, on the other hand the motivation for realizing a small hands-on project based on previous experiments and research was high. So the challenge was to design a structure that is not only cheap but can also be built by non-professionals.

The project is based upon a wall structure that was first developed in an academic course at the Department of Architectural Sciences, Structural Design and Timber Engineering.

SITE DESCRIPTION

The site is located in a rural area in Upper Austria in the municipality of Pettenbach. The medium-

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size village is located in the Alpine uplands and marked by an agricultural context that is typical for this region. Next to the site there is a little stream parallel to a country road, two square farmyards as well as some smaller single-family houses.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Dealing with timber and its mechanical properties as a material, especially the ability to bend it was probably the main issue for this project. The research lasted about a year and was based on prototypes developed in an academic course. During this time a few more models were built, until the construction conformed with the ideas in terms of functionality and aesthetics. For the compact building, a wallstructure based on stretched spruce planks was developed. The wall is the buildings’ primary

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structure — it transfers vertical loads and ensures the horizontal bracing. The 12—mm-thick planks were soaked in water overnight and then joined pairwise and stretched against each other by hand.

The spatial sealing is made out of a translucent PVC-coated polyester fabric. It is connected to the primary construction with expander ropes that ensure sufficient tension during summer when the material stretches. Apart from the gutter, which was made by a professional, the whole building was self-built.

is achieved with minimum material input. This should be one of the main goals of sustainability in architecture. Because of the simplicity of the building structure and the ingenious design decision to use small spruce planks, one person could erect the garden shed in a simple way.

The project creates a new, exciting atmosphere and because of the lightweight construction and minimal material consumption it is a case study for sustainable design.

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The jury notes the interesting space created by the translucent shell and light construction. The project seems easy to build, which is shown in a series of simple diagrams. The maximum load-bearing effect

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6 — Building process of the main structure; wall construction details 2

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DUST COLLECTOR Konstantinos Stefanidis Canada

United States

Nevada

Mexico

Cuba

Dust Collector UNIVERSITY

University of Thessaly (Greece) ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Apostolos Kalfopoulos

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SITE DESCRIPTION

The main goal of the project is to examine an organized reenactment of the countryside using the minimum of concrete and permanent solutions.

The proposal seeks ways to manipulate existing technological knowledge for reclaiming the forgotten origins of landscapes by inserting new forms of comfortable contemporary habitation into the wilderness. Yet the most crucial task of the project is to create a totally new ecological, low-budget and autonomous energy production system for mass contribution, whose function relies on existing facts, while at the same time energy development could be clearly connected with terms of waste management. More specifically the project explores the potentials of a new, alternative natural energy source depending on the use of dust as an unlimited and low-cost (if no cost at all) raw material. According to recent scientific research, the electrostatic field energy produced during a dust cloud could be an alternative and usable energy resource. Thus on this occasion energy and physical forces become the main design tools.

The proposal investigates the remote unmapped territory of the Nevada test site, using its anonymity in a process of countryside reenactment. Test sites are considered to be ‘no man’s land’, yet the limits of who can occupy such regions are blurred, since governments have been using them for military and scientific tests. The site represents a link between the remote naturalness of the desert and metropolitan artificiality in terms of camouflage by presenting a disguised military infrastructure agenda without concrete interventions. Since the project proposes the artificial creation of dust clouds for in-situ energy development and consumption, it is not only the geopolitical features that make this area useful for the application of this technology, but also the topological formation of the terrain, surrounded by a high mountain range, intensifying the isolation of the area by concealing any process that takes place there. Yet what makes this controversial site more challenging and suitable for subversion in this project is that the fragmentary results of the military activities seem to adopt the same vocabulary of a natural disaster; a kind of analogy of natural elements in a dire intensity.

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Dust Collector introduces the concept of a movable and autonomous power-generating infrastructure for secluded topographies resembling both the infrastructure attributes and the process of dust harvesting in order to produce energy and develop alternative agricultural techniques activating the meta-conditions of a rural wilderness in-situ. The design investigates the remote unmapped territories of ‘test sites’ by interconnection with the broader domestic technology culture, using their anonymity in a process of rural reenactment. In the context of reclaiming these isolated territories, the project triggers the notion of remoteness of the unknown countryside, converting it into a depository of dislocated seeds for alternative forms of living in comforts in the natural world. The project uses three basic design tools of “sabotage” in order to suggest a shift in paradigm concerning the distorted sites: a) the process of dust harvesting, b) the environmental “extravaganza” of dust clouds and c) autonomous machinery resembling the attributes of the infrastructure.

The project represents an imagined futuristic idea of collecting electrostatically charged dust particles to create energy. This utopian proposal represents and introduces one of the core tasks of responsible architecture regarding the aims of the Blue Award competition. Primarily the discussions on sustainability concern built projects, but this proposal shows imaginary invention. The jury recognizes the futuristic and utopian approach.

This is a very special idea in our future environmental conditions. The fantasy to discover resources and turn dust into energy has been never considered before. The jury points out the potential of this imaginary invention and highly recommends the re-evaluation of waste and leftovers as resources of the future. Dust is usually worthless, but this project shows a new targeting value. The Blue Award jury is honoring this idea of a new “green fiction”.

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»This project does not get rid of dust — it treats it!

There should be an extra category for such projects!« Albert Dubler

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»The aim of this competition is to support inventions!

Our jury should support such pioneering proposals. We need to support ideas like this, which think about using waste as a resource! This shows an imaginative invention.« Cuno Brullmann CAPTION 1 — General idea 2 — Dust-clouds as an alternative energy source 3 — Samples of mechanical and industrial typologies 4 — Visualization of the Dust Collector 5 — Drone cleaners, plug-in wall and electrical discharge attractors

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The Blue Award 2016 is presenting a special prize for efforts by students and their teachers in timber constructions or innovative ways of using wood in the context of sustainability.

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The task was to design and construct a wooden mountain chapel (oratory) using only locally available potentials and resources (materials, manpower).

Locally here means materials originating from within two km of the building and a workforce only from the owner’s family. With this focus, architecture is not only considered as the final product but a process of sustainable production from local materials in which the participants can incorporate their knowledge and competences. A vital prerequisite is the thorough analysis of the local conditions and the resulting creative possibilities to ensure a sustainable, self-contained implementation.

The chapel is situated in Kendlbruck, a rural, sparsely populated region in the south of the province of Salzburg (Austria) on a mountain at 1850 m above sea level. It was the wish of the owner, a local farmer, to replace their old chapel (situated in the vicinity of the farm and which had been destroyed in the course of road-building) by a new one up in the mountains, where he already owns an ensemble of two cabins. The new site (reachable only on foot) was found on an Alpine plateau above these cabins, with an impressive panorama of the surrounding mountains. The exact position results from a radiestetic test and the orientation toward the uprising sun.

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Built without a nail, that’s very interesting!« Albert Dubler

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The simple rectangular ground plan with a steep gable roof characterizes the appearance of the chapel and underlines the characteristics of the building. The entire structure, walls, floor and the roof structure are made from traditionally indented wood profiles resulting in a block construction without using additional fasteners such as screws and nails. One single profile cross-section determines the dimensions and proportions of the chapel, with the underlying golden section (the divine division).

The project has a strong emphasis on rationality.

The material used is local — it can be found within two km of the building site and the work is given to local workers. The chapel owes its clear but simple architectural language to a traditional construction with modern tweaks. Another interesting aspect of the project is its wood-block assembly which can be prefabricated easily. In summary, the construction is very simple and aesthetic. The construction details provide a very interesting solution. The project focuses on the unused potentials of the region. It uses regional building material and construction methods to emphasize the potentials of sustainable regional development.

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»It is a nice delicate work in timber. Aesthetic primary structure.

Very aesthetic and constructive! It translates historical timber techniques to the present day; this concept is a very good one!« Much Untertrifaller

CAPTION 1 — Traditional mountain hut 2 — Historical pictures of life in the Alpine regions 3 — Traditional timber joints 4 — Section of the roof 5 — Architectural model of the chapel 6 — Section: wall/roof junction

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University of Innsbruck (Austria) ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Ufuk Sagir Sabrina Aichner Lisa Kranebitter Dilan Basbuga Lisa-Marie Martach Manuel Bonell Alexander Neuwirth Andreas Wagner Jan Claßen Ana Turcan Gülsüm Coban Fabien Stoque Tobias Dorsch Veronika Koller Liechtenstein Nihan Mair Bernadin König Switzerland Sandra Rohrmoser Marlene Fromm Thomas Innerwinkler Jonas Koblmüller Lukas Köchendorfer David Kranebitter Julius Kreß Aleksey Moskvin Niklas Nalbach Evangelos Palaskas Ferdinand Rubach

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The challenge for this project is to design and to construct an experimental space — by young people for young people — as a school of art and architecture in the Rapoldipark in Innsbruck. A place for a change, which sees education as a work in progress and encourages active participation.

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Located in the Rapoldipark, in the center of the town, ‘Bilding’ creates a valuable asset for the park and transforms a former non-place into an atmospheric oasis on the banks of the River Sill. The new wooden structure opens up to the park and creates a link to its surroundings. Life and a creative and positive environment reform this place, formerly used as a rough skate park with a bad reputation.

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underused site and has a social and spatial impact on this area.

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‘Bilding’ is a unique and tuition free facility for aesthetic education and creative encouragement for children and teenagers. The experimental space, a workshop-like pavilion, invites everyone to enter, play and work with the new structure. Outside decks and floor-to-ceiling glass walls connect the curved building with its surroundings. Inside, slanting walls and floors create a continuum of spaces with various atmospheres and work opportunities. The structure is made of CLT panels, a locally produced and renewable source of material. The various different elements arrived on site CNC pre-cut and were directly screwed together and covered in white cladding, a polymer material normally used for truck

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potential for a 1:1 implementation. Dealing with realistic demands and accepting the existing structure of the chosen site — an underused urban situation in the middle of the city center — the project offers an interesting solution for a new space of education and social interaction. The planning process, design, construction and use are part of a continuous social process, encouraging active participation. ‘Bilding’ demonstrates the possibilities of a modern and sustainable 1:1 realization on its ‘European’ location for a daily use. The challenge to construct and build a complex wooden building geometry in a short time offers an intense experience for all participants.

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tarpaulins. The heating is provided by temporary use of the hot water from the neighboring municipal swimming pool. Created as a temporary project for five to seven years ‘Bilding’ can be dismantled and reassembled in a new location. The project was collectively developed to be realized by students and in cooperation with numerous companies, structural engineers, architects and expert planners. Regarding the students dedicated work effort ‘Bilding’ was completed at low cost after just five months. The whole project was mostly financed by private sponsoring and donations, which also shows the cultural importance of an independent project like this.

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Young people building for other young people. With ‘Bilding’ the creators of the realistic proposal focus on an open and experimental space and capture its

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»Young people built it for other young people.

The design is a result of a social and creative cooperation — Studio 3 filtered a design out of several suggestions and all students set their hands to it and built it together with enthusiasm.

Learning about architecture at its best.« Marina Hämmerle

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CAPTION 1 — Floor plan, sections and room program 2 — Inside view of the “Bilding” 3 — Outside shell of the building 4 — Floor-to-ceiling glass walls

»It’s a new material, prefabricated and a student design.« Wolfgang Winter

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STACK IT UP Frederic Quirion Melissa Duperron Camille Robichaud-Fortin Canada

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André Potvin and Claude Demers

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The project was to design a mixed-use building, with 300 habitations, a 3000 sq m public market and a 5000 sq m Andy Warhol Museum. The use of timber as the main structural material was strongly encouraged, as well as a particular consideration for environmental issues. The project was designed for the international competition Timber in the City, organized by de ACSA. SITE DESCRIPTION

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The project is located in the Lower East Side, New York City. This neighborhood has been changing a lot recently, becoming more and more effervescent while a lot of new stimulating projects take place.

The site consists of two blocks at the corner of Delancey Street (a major auto, subway, pedestrian

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Inspired by an artistic exercise at the beginning of the semester, we wanted to create a project that seems to levitate, using the possibility of combining new timber and concrete technologies. As a result, eleven vertical, structural concrete cores allow innovative CLT caissons all along the projects where the habitations and the museum are situated. The Essex Street Market occupies almost all of the ground floor, completely free of structural obstruction. The Warhol Museum pushes the limit of the structural system by being more complex, while

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The jury awards this project a special mention for the use of timber. The construction use of the wood panels is well thought out. The project is a good example that large wooden structures can be built due to wider spans of CLT elements, setting a precedent in urban environments. The use of a modular building system, with prefabricated elements combined with the concrete cores, results in a hybrid static system that the jury found to be very interesting.

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ÂťA multi-story house, with an innovative use of wood. The CLT walls available today are capable of big spans and this results in interesting architecture. Large structures in urban environments. Modular building systems, because wall elements are prefabricated. The walls are prefabricated! Structured walls! There are no beams, only structural elements. The wall is a beam, this is very particular!ÂŤ Robert Korab

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Stefanie Bachleitner • Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Laura Nefeli Chromecek • Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Sanela Franjic • Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Thomas Hasewend • Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Nicolas Hebeisen • Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Antun Jankovic Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Tanja Klampfer • Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Honorable Mention Barbara Mayr • Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Christina Mellacher Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Alisa Pekic • Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Michael Pleschberger Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Stefan Strohmayer • Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Hanife Tepegöz Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Marco Wenegger Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Jakob Zöbl Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Martino Hutz University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria)

Ewa Lenart University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria)

Stefanie Bauer University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz (Austria)

Christopher Gruber University of Fine Arts Vienna (Austria)

Michael Kröll University of Innsbruck (Austria)

Johanna Moosmann University of Innsbruck (Austria)

Melanie Aichinger • Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

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Stefan Gruber • University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz (Austria)

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Alice Eigner Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Andrea Geiser Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

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N Andriy Lemishko Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Rebecca Merlic • Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Madlyn Miessgang Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Manuel Pawelka • Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Honorable Mention Vlad Popa • Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Johannes Sicong Qiu Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Hanna Riedmann • Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Andreas Ritschl Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Andreas Ritschl Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Thomas Sommerauer • Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Maximilian Tobisch • Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Farasha Zaman BRAC University (Bangladesh)

Isabelle Matton • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

Hyun Jong Won • University of Waterloo (Canada)

Cheuk Sum Sampson Ip • Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)

Eva Staffova Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic)

Mariya Benovska Estonian University of Life Sciences (Estonia)

Minh Chau Nguyen Tampere University of Technology (Finland)

Morgane Jouin • École Nationale Supérieure d’architecture de Strasbourg (France)

Anna Vladimirova Bauhaus University Weimar (Germany)

Carolina Julaie Dastjerdi • Behrens School of Arts (Germany)

Ricarda Hartmann Berlin University of the Arts (Germany)

Honorable Mention Justus Menten Berlin University of the Arts (Germany)

Salomé Wackernagel Berlin University of the Arts (Germany)

Isabel Nora Zintl Stuttgart Acadamy of Arts (Germany)

Jonathan Hertling • Technical University of Berlin (Germany)

Max Rudolph • Technical University of Berlin (Germany)

Mirco Wieneke • Technical University of Berlin (Germany)

Christoph Helfrich • Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Namariq Al-Rawi • University of Stuttgart (Germany)

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Kristin Lazarova • University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Jasper Lorenz University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Anton Philipp • University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Yvonne Relet • University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Eleni-Maria Barmpalia National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

Foteini Bouliari National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

Maria Forouli • National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

Vasileia Panagiotopoulou • National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

Filothei Zisopoulou • National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

Rishabh Jain Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (India)

Maryam Hemmasian Ettefagh • Iran University of Science and Technology (Iran)

Piermaria Caponi The Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)

Elisa Brunelli University of Ferrara (Italy)

Najwa Hijazi Shibaura Institute of Technology (Japan)

Hu Tianxing Shibaura Institute of Technology (Japan)

Rula Alkhalili • Birzeit University (Palestine)

Lima Najjar Birzeit University (Palestine)

Agnieszka Kotschy • Wrocław University of Technology (Poland)

Maria Kikidou Universidade Lusófona (Portugal)

Daria Dubovetc • Moscow Institute of Architecture (Russia)

Djuliett Bobrova Saint Petersburg University of Architecture (Russia)

Roman Berdnik • Southern Federal University (Russia)

Polina Komarova Ural State University of Architecture and Art (Russia)

Arina Sivova • Ural State University of Architecture and Art (Russia)

Vid Bogovic • University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Gregor Ferencak University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Ursa Kljun University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Pablo Cuellar Alvarez • Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla (Spain)

Maria Argelich Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain)

Oihane Garcia Meneses University of the Basque Country (Spain)

Ana Rosa Maroto Gomez Technical University of Madrid (Spain)

Prize Winner Charlotte Fredriksson KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)

Sameh Abbara Al-Watanyia Private University (Syria)

Amoni Hendry Ardhi University (Tanzania)

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Ben Munro • Bath School of Architecture (United Kingdom)

Sarita Rahman New York Institute of Technology (USA)

Beidi Zhan University of Pennsylvania (USA)

Mstafa Broq IBB University (Yemen)

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Alisa Pekic • Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Fritz Walter Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Vedran Zonic Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Special Prize — Honorable Mention Hannes Sampl University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz (Austria)

Prize Winner Sophie Irene Schrattenecker University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz (Austria)

Johannes Sebastian Vilanek • University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz (Austria)

Fabian Sebastian Brand • University of Innsbruck (Austria)

Pascal Leitgeb-Spörk • University of Innsbruck (Austria)

Special Prize — Honorable Mention Ufuk Sagir • University of Innsbruck (Austria)

Rita Slodicka University of Innsbruck (Austria)

Günther Benigni Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Michael Brandstetter Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Constanzia Delort-Laval • Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Elisabeth Graf Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Eva Huber Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Honorable Mention David Kraler • Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Ivan Matas • Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Olivera Milosevic Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Johannes Sicong Qiu • Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Philippe Charest Laval University (Canada)

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Ziqi Lin Shao Xing University (China)

Alice-Nisa Vuap • University of Nicosia (Cyprus)

Petr Selnik • Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic)

Elisabeth Felicitas Kofler • Aalto University (Finland)

Laura Goncalves École Nationale Supérieure d’architecture de Paris Malaquais (France)

Didem Senyurt • École Nationale Supérieure d’architecture de Paris Malaquais (France)

Kim-Loan Nguyen INSA Strasbourg (France)

Konstantinos Papadis • Berlin University of the Arts (Germany)

Maria Loebjinski Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany)

Anton Samorukov HafenCity University Hamburg (Germany)

Konstantinos Stathopoulos National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

Timoteo Goldschmidt Technical University of Berlin (Germany)

Omorinsola Otubusin • Technical University of Berlin (Germany)

Florian Rizek • Technical University of Berlin (Germany)

Leonie Wipf • Technical University of Berlin (Germany)

Yingyi Zhu Technical University of Berlin (Germany)

Prize Winner Leo Bettini Oberkalmsteiner Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Rolf Enzel • Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Simone Salfner • Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Timm Bergmann • University of Kassel (Germany)

Marianthi Eirini Kladeftira • National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

Amalia Maria Konidi • National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

Sofia Nikolaidou National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

Maria-Eleni Papandreou • National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

Dhruv Aditya Jain Birla Institute of Technology (India)

Alessandra Clelia Fiore • Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy)

Panagiotis Dimakidis • Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy)

Simona Casciaro • Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)

Marco Cecchetto • University of Padua (Italy)

Rodolfo Morandi • University of Padua (Italy)

Shan Lin Chin Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)

Winnie Bahati Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (Kenya)

Eva Kukurite University of Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein)

Lukasz Wenclewski Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)

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Romina Iulia Pasculovici Polytechnic University of Timisoara (Romania)

Anna Kalinicheva • Moscow Institute of Architecture (Russia)

Roman Berdnik Southern Federal University (Russia)

Julia Davletbaeva Ural State University of Architecture and Art (Russia)

Jure Henigsman University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Monica Contreras Figueroa • Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla (Spain)

Carmen Fernandez Perez • Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla (Spain)

Maria Garcia Gutierrez • Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla (Spain)

Maria Jimenez Campos • Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla (Spain)

Juan Jose Martinez Vazquez • Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla (Spain)

Maria Isabel Vizoso Cao • Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla (Spain)

Jonathan Cruz Recalde Madrid University of Technology (Spain)

Pascal Lang • ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

Alina Wyder • ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

Florencia Collo • Architectural Association School of Architecture (United Kingdom)

Matthew Webb Leicester School of Architecture (United Kingdom)

Nina Manchorova University of Bath (United Kingdom)

Phuong Quan Trinh Ho Chi Minh University of Architecture (Vietnam)

Mario Haring • Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Christian Car • University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria)

SUBMISSIONS CATEGORY 3 Innovative Systems and Detailed Solutions

Benjamin Grabherr Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Austria)

Prize Winner Thomas Harlander • Carinthia University of Applied Sciences FH-Kärnten (Austria)

Thomas Grundner • FH Joanneum (Austria)

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Thomas Hinterholzer University of Innsbruck (Austria)

Teresa Kloibhofer • Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Roman Paratscha Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Honorable Mention Florian Radner Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Harald Rothwangl Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Stefan Schadenböck Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Markus Stürzenbacher Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Prize Winner Phuong Quan Trinh KU Leuven (Belgium)

Special Prize — Honorable Mention Frederic Quirion • Laval University (Canada)

Sophia Sin Man Au Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)

Elisabeth Felicitas Kofler • Aalto University (Finland)

Sabina Heermann • Dresden University of Technology (Germany)

Maria Milbredt Dresden University of Technology (Germany)

Julia Wark Dresden University of Technology (Germany)

Fabian Franciszkiewicz RWTH Aachen University (Germany)

Hannes Goetz • Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Diana Indira Cano Escobar University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Anna-Lena Weik • University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Aristeidis Misiaris • National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

Honorable Mention Konstantinos Stefanidis University of Thessaly (Greece)

Giulia Azaria • Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy)

Giacomo Iovane • University of Naples Federico II (Italy)

Alessandro Muggetti University of Pavia (Italy)

Shingo Sato • Shibaura Institute of Technology (Japan)

Dmitry Konovalov Southern Federal University (Russia)

Marina Tynterova • Ural State University of Architecture and Art (Russia)

Lara Gligic • University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Alina Wyder • ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

Maria Englezou • University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)

Clair Dias • Clemson University (USA)

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Blue Award 2016 International Student Competition for Sustainable Architecture

Initiator Blue Award Organizer

Françoise-Hélène Jourda Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design, Vienna University of Technology in cooperation with the registered Society of Architecture and Spatial Design: Basma Abu-Naim, Mariam Al Gorgi, Hannah Aufschnaiter, Ernst Beneder (Guest Professor a. a. 2015/16), Thomas Gamsjäger, Nikola Hergovich, Franz Karner, Marijana Klasan, Anton Kottbauer, Peter Kuttner, Bernhard Laukoter, Paul Leifer, Sonja Leitgeb, Eva Manhart, Günter Pichler, Veronika Suschnig, Verena Theil, Shuruq Carlotta Tramontini, Claudia Maria Walther, Ina Wiltschko, Luise Wucherer, Allen Zwatzl.

Karlsplatz 13/2533, 1040 Wien www.raumgestaltung.tuwien.ac.at, office2533@raumgestaltung.tuwien.ac.at www.blueaward.at, office@blueaward.at

Project management Assistant to the project management Preliminary examination and judging panel Graphic design Homepage

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Claudia Maria Walther Paul Leifer

with the cooperation of Ernst Beneder, Corina Binder, Andreas Hofer, Robert Korab, Annalisa Mauri, Erik Meinharter, Ines Nizic, Helmut Schramm, Wolfgang Winter. buero bauer — Gesellschaft für Orientierung und Identität mbH, www.buerobauer.com System development and implementation: Zalán Somogyváry, Ondrej Hošek, Marijana Klasan, Paul Leifer, Shuruq Carlotta Tramontini Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design: Paul Leifer and Eva Manhart Vienna University of Technology Public Relations Office Eva Manhart, Marijana Klasan, Ina Wiltschko Dörte Eliass WCTE — World Congress on Timber Engineering University of Vienna, August 22th — August 25th, 2016 Vienna University of Technology, August 29th — September 2nd, 2016 Vienna University of Technology, October 2016 Manfred Pichler and Claudia Maria Walther Claudia Maria Walther Paul Leifer and Shuruq Carlotta Tramontini Mariam Al Gorgi and Paul Leifer

Summer Design Studio: Sustainability, Tactics, Now! Vienna University of Technology, August 29th — September 2nd, 2016 Basma Abu-Naim and Anton Kottbauer

Ernst Beneder, Guest Professor, Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design, Vienna University of Technology András Pálffy, Head of Institute of Architecture and Design, Vienna University of Technology Rudolf Scheuvens, Dean of Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology Dörte Eliass, Alireza Fadai, Anne Hofmann and Monika Rosenkranz (buero bauer), Ondrej Hošek (EDV LAB, Vienna University of Technology), Mladen Jadric, Ute Koch, Christian Kühn, Herbert Kreuzeder, Teresa-Elisa Morandini, Martina Pöll (WCTE), Gertrud Purdeller, Thomas Rief and Iris Mach (JASEC, Vienna University of Technology), Stephan Santinelli and Abraham Hartmann (Team GUT Vienna University of Technology), Gudrun Schach, Karin Stieldorf, Michael Strasser, Ayame Tsunekuni (SANAA), Franziska Ullmann, Andrea Wölfer and Georg Penthor (Dean’s Office, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology), Andreas Zemann (International Office, Vienna University of Technology).

Blue Award 2016 Catalog

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