Danilo Petta

Danilo Petta is an international award-winning Italian Watches and Luxury Industrial Designer at MASK Architects in Italy. He studied Architecture at Polytechnic of Milan and Interior Design at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Milan. He began his multidisciplinary career in the design center of “Bvlgari” in Rome as a “Watches Designer.” He led the design of “Serpenti Tubogas” with other many successful timepieces for the brand. In November 2010, he joined the brand “OMEGA”, and his new challenge was the development of the new collection of “DeVille” as Senior Product Manager.

He has been awarded “ Europe 40 Under 40 ®” as one of the most innovative and contemporary emerging talents as a Watch and Luxury designer worldwide by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum. Between 2015-2018, he designed many different Luxury goods like the “Astronomia Sky,” “Astronomia Solar,” and “Astronomia Table-Clock” for Jacob & Co. “Astronomia Sky” was awarded in 2019 with the MUSE Award in the Fashion Design Category. In 2021 Danilo Petta was nominated by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic, one of the 100 Design Ambassadors representing Italian Creativity in the World.

Kristina Loock

Kristina Loock is heading up gmp’s Business Development Team at its headquarter in Hamburg. A licenced architect with demonstrated success in creative problem-solving Kristina worked with design offices in Los Angeles (Morphosis & Michael Maltzan Architecture) and New York (WORK AC) prior to joining gmp in 2015. Kristina studied at the ETH Zürich, received her Diploma from the Technical University in Braunschweig and has a Master of Science from Columbia University.

At gmp Kristina is responsible for new projects, team building, ESG reporting and strategic communication. A dedicated team player with deep technical expertise across a diverse range of typologies Kristina is fostering knowledge-sharing and coordinates peer workshops within gmp and its partner network.

Sonsoles Vela Navarro

Sonsoles Vela Navarro, holds a BArch from the University of Valladolid, a Master of Science in Architecture and Sustainable Environment from the University of Extremadura, a Master`s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Kühnel Business School, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Design and Digital Architecture from the San Jorge University.

Sonsoles is a practicing architect with almost 20 years of experience working alongside private clients and builders to develop architectural designs on residential, commercial, health care projects. Sonsoles is also a founder-partner of studioVRA and her work has been distinguished with several architectural awards, both design and built, and published in international architectural magazines. Currently, she is also a Lecturer at Tulane University (New Orleans, USA).

Irene Kronenberg & Alon Baranowitz

Baranowitz + Kronenberg Architecture is the interior design and architecture studio of Irene Kronenberg and Alon Baranowitz based in Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. For the past twenty years the studio has become renowned for creating hotels, restaurants and public and commercial spaces that
attract modern nomads and locals alike.

B+K Architecture has proven able to turn historical landmarks and rough, sometimes inaccessible spaces into instant design classics that are open and welcoming, drawing on the stories of the past. With their unique contextual awareness, they are not only keeping local history relevant but are also serving the needs of global cities of the 21st century.

Irene Kronenberg and Alon Baranowitz have developed a narrative driven mode of developing their designs which gives context and meaning to what would otherwise be a collection of easily forgettable facts, things and places. They are storytellers. Drawing implicitly on the sensuous connection between life, selves, history, memory, craftsmanship and experience, the choices B+K Architecture make in every act of design embody this connection in a fresh way.

Among their projects are The Sir Joan Hotel in Ibiza, The Sir Albert and W Hotel and Spa in Amsterdam, the Mad Fox club and the Duchess Restaurant in Amsterdam, and award winning restaurants Topolopompo, Jaffa-Tel Aviv and Pastel Brasserie in Tel Aviv.

Valerie Schweitzer

Valerie Schweitzer AIA is principle of the New York-based, multi-award-winning firm, Valerie Schweitzer Architects. Her inventive reinterpretations of American vernacular, and emphasis on carbon-friendly solutions combined with bold and expressive forms has drawn global attention. Her recent Outside-in pavilion in Southampton, New York, was used to launch a new section of the New York Times in 2020.

Her firm’s current project, a multi-residential building in West Los Angeles, Hide and Go Seek, is nearing completion and animates the streetscape with pocket gardens inserted into a glass and concrete façade. It signifies a playful ode to the ubiquitous palm tree, helping to animate and sensitize the neighborhood to their environment.

Françoise N’Thépé

Born in Douala, Cameroon, Françoise N’Thépé has been working as an architect for more than twenty years. She graduated from Paris’s Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in 1999. In 2000 she began a collaboration with the architect Aldric Beckmann, with whom she went on to found Beckmann-N’Thépé Architects. The two worked together until 2017.
In 2018, Françoise N’Thépé decided to set up her own agency, FRANÇOISE N’THÉPÉ ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN.
Strongly aware that architecture draws on every aspect of experience, Françoise N’Thépé is committed to reevaluating what it means to be a female architect with diverse origins. With her well-established professional expertise and many years of experience, having worked on the design and construction of many major projects, Françoise N’Thépé is now keen to turn her skills to international projects.

2018: Profiled in the documentary Woman Architect, by Thierry Mercadal (On Stage production, Paris)
2016: Becomes part of the intangible permanent collection of architecture of the Pompidou Centre (Paris)
2013: Two nominations for the Prix Femmes Architectes, ARVHA (Paris)
2008: Généro-Cité exhibition at the 11th International Architecture Biennale in Venice (Italy)
2001: Winner of the “New Young Architects Portfolios” (NAJA) prize, awarded by the Ministry of Culture (Paris)

Öznur Pınar ÇER

She is an International award-winning Turkish Architect and founder,founding partner and principal at MASK Architects in Italy. She graduated from the first place prize of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Cyprus International University in 2014. She has led award-winning international competitions such as the “Oasys+System” artificial breathing modular palm structure system that has been one of ten winners of the “Cool Abu Dhabi Challenge” competition between 1,540 participants. The same project has been awarded A+Architizer 2021 in the USA and Golden Trezzini Awards 2021 in Russia as one of three finalists. Another important project that she led is “Villa G01” new generation Luxury Villa was awarded honorable mention prize by LOOP Design Awards 2021. She led and designed the “Exosteel Mother Nature” modular house project.

She and her partner will build the world’s first steel 3D printed structure of modular houses in Orani, the city of Sardinia. The office is the first architecture and design studio in the world to use a steel 3D-printed “exoskeleton” construction system that supports and distributes all the functional elements of the building, using their new solution of construction technique which they called “EXOSTEEL”. She won first prize at World Architecture Community Award 29th circle with the “Kırşehir Automobile & Aeroplane Museum” project. Another project of her “Seoul Photography and Art Museum” was awarded the “one of the best Museum of the Year” in Turkey by the “UNIMUZED 2021” International University Museum Association Platform. The same project has been awarded the 2020 Golden Trezzini Awards for Architecture and Design in the Best Architectural Design for a Museum category In Russia.

Stephanie Bower

Stephanie Bower  provides watercolor renderings, pencil sketches, and concept design drawings to many offices in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Clients include Olson Kundig Architects, MITHUN, and Perkins Will @ Atlanta.

Combining her background as both an architect, teacher, and artist, she is also passionate about passing on hand drawing and painting skills through architectural sketching workshops offered both locally and internationally. Stephanie is a blog correspondent for Urban Sketchers and a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society.

Author
The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective, 2016, now available in 9 languages
The Urban Sketching Handbook: 101 Sketching Tips, 2020
The Urban Sketching Art Pack, 2017
The Complete Urban Sketching Companion, 2020

Another big book is coming out in November 2023, it’s called The World of Urban Sketching. It features 156 sketchers from 39 countries.

Teaching
Sketching Workshops and Demos around the World
Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle WA | Interiors and Visual Communications programs
University of Washington, Seattle WA | Architecture program
Parsons School of Design, New York NY | Design | Environmental Design, Interior, and Architecture Programs | 10 years

Hans Jakob Wagner

Hans Jakob Wagner ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Doktorand am Institut für Computerbasiertes Entwerfen und Baufertigung (ICD) unter der Leitung von Prof. Achim Menges.

Während seines Studiums arbeitete er für renommierte Architekturbüros in Wien, Paris und Vöcklabruck, an der Technischen Universität Wien und an der Universität Stuttgart.

Sein Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt auf der Entwicklung digitaler Holzbausysteme und deren entsprechende robotische Produktionsprozesse im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts „Holzbau 4.0“, sowie im DFG Exzellenzcluster „Integratives computerbasiertes Planen und Bauen für die Architektur“.

Er lehrt im ITECH Masterstudiengang und hält internationale Vorträge sowie Workshops.

Seine Forschungsprojekte wurden vielfach ausgezeichnet. Zuletzt konnte er mit dem Team des BUGA Holzpavillons den Deutschen Nachhaltigkeitspreis gewinnen.

Gonzalo Lopez

Gonzalo J. Lopez Garrido is an architect and educator based in New York City, co-founder of knitknot architecture and Adjunct Associate Professor at Pratt Institute and New York City College (CCNY). He holds a Masters in Architecture from the Architecture School of Barcelona (ETSAB) and is a PhD Candidate in Sustainability and Urban Regeneration at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Knitknot architecture is a collective practice of architects, urban designers, researchers, artists, and thinkers that have created an international framework for experimenting with new ways of addressing professional practice. The collective was awarded in 2015 with the prestigious prize Europan, in Norway, and the INTBAU Excellence Award for Community Engagement for El Jicarito School, in Nicaragua in 2018.

Florian Seidl

Florian Seidl is a creative designer from Austria and currently responsible for Lavazza Design. He has set up a small in-house team in Turin, and in that function, he is responsible for the corporate design of the Italian group. Ranging from domestic and professional coffee machines to vending solutions, tableware, accessories, and their packaging.

Numerous products designed for Lavazza are on the market and have won design awards. During the last years, he helped to firmly position Lavazza on the map of modern Italian Design, making sure it’s approach and design are communicated properly on a national and international level.

Rubén García Rubio

Ruben Garcia Rubio, holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Valladolid (Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award); and a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Roma Tre. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Tulane University (New Orleans, USA) and, previously, has taught in several schools of architecture and international institutions in Europe and the Middle East.

Ruben is co-founder of studioVRA (with Sonsoles Vela) and his work has been distinguished with several architectural awards, both design and built, and published in international architectural magazines. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the architectural weblog CajondeArquitecto.com.

Hotel Le Bouton

Platinum Winner

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AWARDS 2022

Hospitality Architecture Built

Studio: D1 architectural studio

Architect / Designer: Linh Nguyen

Design Team:

Tan Nguyen, Linh Nguyen, Mi Sa Do, Nhut Bui

Country: Viet Nam

Copyright: Photographer: Quang Dam

The Hotel Le Bouton had previously been suspended after one year in construction, as the client wishes to avoid the path of modern hotels that are built for commercial use without long term consideration of sustainability. Upon receiving the commission, D1 Architectural Studio committed to place guest experience at the center.

Humans are born biophilic, according to American biologist Edward O Wilson (1984). Being near nature makes us happy, while being distanced from it decreases our health and wellbeing. And hotels, where people run to for a brief moment of sanctuary in order to recuperate, need to incorporate green spaces first and foremost. But how can we “go green” without making the design too bushy that it compromises the beauty of the hotel? Relying on ancient wisdom to answer modern architectural problems, the architects took various site checks to Hoian in order to find references in how ancient Hoianese has created spaces that welcome nature to come and live with the inhabitants. Traditional houses in Hoi An always have a yard, a pond, a miniature bonsai to invite the sunlight into the space. In this way, Hoianeses ensured the harmony between living space and nature. D1’s architects brought this idea into the design.

The hotel makes space for a miniature sand garden, filled with natural sand from the beach, and the dry garden on the terrace. In the basement lies Le Bouton’s unique offer: a hot mineral pool modeled after a cave with a natural stream, gushing from a steep limestone cliff. The architects placed the pool in the basement and empty the spaces separating the building with the surrounding walls to create the buffer zone for air to flow into the building, enter the basement, absorb the mist from the pool and disseminate it across the floors, through the skylight at the heart of the building. The skylight does not only function to expand the view, take in natural light and circulate air flows, but also connect spaces together.

To solve the challenges that comes from the tempestuous weather of Central Vietnam, D1 Architectural Studio worked with artisans from local craft villages – Non Nuoc Stone Carving Village and wood handicraft villages – to select durable materials that are capable of withstanding the harsh climate of the central region, while still entertaining architects’ creativity, permit negligible construction deviations, and above all, environmental friendly.

For the finish, D1 Architectural Studio used pebble wash and exposed aggregate sourcing from the nearby crafting village. This locally available material is cost efficient, easy to maintain, yet strong enough to endure the scorching sun. Wooden furniture and whetstone are also used extensively in interior design. The artisans cleverly integrated local materials to breathe the sense of local intimacy into each design elements. The vertical direction of the building is also calculated carefully to take advantage of natural wind and thereby limit the use of air conditioning.

Nanhua Glimmer

Winner

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AWARDS 2022

Public Landscape Design Built

Studio: Atelier Let’s + JR Architect

Design Team:

Design team：Atelier Let’s + JR Architects
Clients: Pingtung County Government, PAN, MEN-AN
Structural engineers：Yuangang Engineering Consultant Co., Ltd.
lighting consultant：WEDO Lighting
Planting Design：Yuánshēng Environment Design
Construction Co. : Jiuteng Construction Co., Ltd

Country: Taiwan

Photographer: Yuchen Chao Photography 

Movie credits：JT VFX STUDIO

Nanhua Glimmer – A New Geometric Landscape Under Taimu Mountain

The site for Nanhua Glimmer locates in the countryside of Pingtung, Taiwan.
Sitting at the foot of Taimu Mountain, the site previously served as an elementary school. The now decommissioned school campus has transformed into the Pingtung AI Agriculture Hub with a new landscape park for the community and the elderly. The landscape park creates a more inviting atmosphere for the locals by opening up the campus boundary and linking the new greenery with the surrounding.
Key challenges:
1. Removing the former school campus wall. We negotiated and agreed with the client and authority to open the boundary and introduce lighting for the campus and the community.
2. Retaining the mature trees within the campus. We achieved this by carefully planning the facilities and structural foundations considering the tree roots.
3. Creating a space for all. We designed the space with barrier-free passages and eliminated the height difference across the project site.

Controlling the mist effects preciously. We investigated the wind direction and the design of the mist generating facilities to create the misty effect as the design intended.
The reborn campus celebrates the regional nature features and translates them into geometric forms in the landscape design. The continuous curvature of the concrete retaining walls echoes with the patterns of the pineapple fields and the folds of the mountain ridges. The selected variety of plants within the campus presents an ecological education opportunity for the public, including the edible plants on the green hills and the restoration of aquatic plants in the eco pond.

One of our focuses in this project is to develop an aesthetic and recreational irrigating facility. In the initial three months of the project, we investigated the wind direction and environmental conditions of the project site. We worked with local suppliers in developing new irrigating facilities that fulfil two purposes – providing sufficient water to the plants and creating a misty scene inspired by the mountain mists. The mist generating facility is integrated with the lighting system to ensure safety at night.

The elements of mist and glimmer resemble the collective memory of the locals – at nights, the mountain mist flows along the ridges, creating radiances around the street lights afar. The natural mountain mist runs through the mahogany forest and pineapple fields. The recreated misty scene brings up the visual memories of gazing afar towards the mountain covered in mist and clouds.

Sagô Marista

Winner

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AWARDS 2022

Residential Architecture Concept

Studio: Séren Inc

Architect / Designer: Renato Tadeu de Oliveira Leal

Design Team:

Escritório de Arquitetura Lins Galvão
Séren Incorporadora

Country: Brazil

Copyright: Séren Incorporadora

O Sagô Marista é um empreendimento moderno, estiloso e, ao mesmo tempo, singular, como ninguém jamais viu. Um projeto exclusivo da Séren Incorporadora em parceria com o escritório de Arquitetura Lins Galvão.
Os apartamentos foram projetados com esquadrias piso teto em alumínio preto, com brises para gestão do sol. Isso significa, além da vista e o design incrível, muita iluminação natural. Já imaginou poder observar o mundo em 360º dentro da sua própria casa? É isso que o Sagô vai oferecer.

Haberdashery House

Platinum Winner

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AWARDS 2022

Residential Interior Built

Studio: OOIIO Architecture

Architect / Designer: Joaquín Millán

Design Team:

Joaquín Millán Villamuelas, Alba Peña Fernández, Sandra Butautaite

Country: Spain

Copyright: Javier de Paz

Change of Use Project from a former Shop to a Home in Madrid.

New opportunities for obsolete spaces.
As societies patterns fluctuate and evolve, the habitats of life existence follow in parallel. Spatial boundaries are therefore required to become more flexible and functional in which such hybrid models can allow digital and physical realms to coexist. This notion in turn provides opportunities to recreate and enhance the user experience on a variety of scales. That said, proposed project consequently demonstrates the transformation of an apartment typology with the embodiment of a haberdashery ideal.

Reimagining spaces are common practices in large cities such as Madrid. Footprints of neighborhood shops, parking lots or work placements now are overtaken by apartments. As family scales minimize and single user occupants become more common, smaller living quarters overtake the redevelopment of major and minor cities. This reality can be seen from a negative perspective, if we look at the loss of the commercial, economic and social fabric that shaped the neighborhoods a few decades ago; or from a positive point of view if we value the opportunity of recycling and revitalization degraded areas brought to light by these Changes of Use Projects.

In just 55 m2 this apartment focuses on what is necessary for a contemporary urban life. The rectangular space that occupied the old store is now embraced by an “L” of storage voids. This allocation frees the entire space, providing the new “living room-working area-dining room-bedroom” as much natural light as possible from outside. Golden slats direct unwanted light while also giving privacy when required. In addition, the old commercial warehouse is used now as a bathroom, being hidden behind the “L” of cabinets.

The materials used in the project are simple, cost sensitive and appropriate to the scale of the intervention, without giving up its expressive opportunities. The combination of colors and textures are very important in this small house. In overview, two large rectangles open up on the fronts of the mint-colored cabinets, framed with white marble and tiled with coral ceramic tiles, intentionally placed in front of the windows so that natural light makes it appear more vibrate. Equally enticing, in the narrow bathroom, bright turquoise tiles are also used and reflect light, making the small available space more sensory. Finally, the gold of the directional slats is repeated in the details of the cabinets, lights and the veining of the marble on the floor.

In essence, this small apartment recycles and reinvents an obsolete space, designed for 21st century urbanites.

Illusio House

Platinum Winner

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AWARDS 2022

Private Residence Large Architecture Built

Studio: RSI Group

Architect / Designer: Revano Satria

Country: Indonesia

Copyright: Andreas widi

Using illusion as the design language in order to make building appears different from what they actually are. Forced perspective illusion can be used to make building and object look stronger than they actually are.

Playing with the geometry shape, line, and adjusted building faces to change peopel’s perspective about design’s vanishing points, distance and dimension. Keep the human eye experiencing factor in people mind. Using forse code pattern opening as a windows, and shifting the horizon that adds more distraction from the basic shape.

Cavatina Hall

Platinum Winner

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AWARDS 2022

Commercial Interior Built

Studio: Cavatina Holding

Architect / Designer: Cavatina Holding

Design Team:

Piotr Jasiński, Michał Koterba, Jacek Mielewski, Jan Juraszczyk, Filip Knapczyk, Adam Derlatka

Country: Poland

Copyright: Cavatina Holding

Cavatina Hall is a concert hall and recording studio that combines commercial functions with the promotion of art in a unique and modern office building. No matter where you sit, Cavatina Hall concert hall was designed so that any type of music could perfectly resound throughout its interior. Its acoustics allow the full range of colors to come through during symphonic concerts, intimate encounters with classical music and hit tours of pop stars. Behind the exceptional sound quality is the state-of-the-art L-ISA (L-Acoustics) sound system that enhances your enjoyment of every note.

The building in a unique way combines office and cultural functions. In addition to the office space, the facility will house a recording studio and concert hall designed to the highest acoustic standards. The 1,000-seat hall can also be successfully used for conferences and presentations. Combining these functions is a kind of response to the region’s needs. Bielsko-Biała is one of the most rapidly developing cities in Poland with a demand for high quality facilities, and at the same time it is a city which has so far lacked a large concert hall of any real standing.

Gradient Furniture Collection

Platinum Winner

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AWARDS 2022

Furniture Design Built

Studio: Philipp Aduatz Design

Architect / Designer: Philipp Aduatz

Design Team:

Philipp Aduatz Design
Incremental3d

Country: Austria

Copyright:  Paris Tsitsos

The 3D printed gradient furniture collection is Philipp Aduatz latest project in the field of 3D concrete printing in collaboration with the Austrian manufacturer incremental3d. 3D concrete printing is a new and innovative fabrication technology that allows to print very large and complex structures in construction and design in a very short time period. The advantages are not only from ecological and economic reasons, no extensive mould production is necessary, but also from new aesthetic qualities. As part of a research project, incremental3d is currently exploring the dying of concrete.

The strategy is to apply dye during the printing process directly into the nozzle and therefore reduce workload, waste and time delay. This allows a coloured design in concrete applied locally point by point and not globally, like it used to be before only possible. Incremental3d teamed up with designer Philipp Aduatz to further evolve its technology by the implementation of the developed research in product design. Together they developed a new collection of benches, a chair and a large vase. By the application of a gradient and the exploration of possible shapes through an interactive working method they developed an approach to exercise the design process throughout 3D concrete printing. Another challenge during the product development for this project was to develop a suitable reinforcement technology to provide the load capacity for the design language. Concrete is by its nature a material with very little tensile strength; therefore, it should be reinforced. In this case, a customized semi-automatic strategy was developed. The required payloads had been calculated, tested and proved by the high performance of steel. This was visually perfectly integrated into the design.

The Gradient

An image gradient refers to the change of intensity of color within an image. In image processing, the gradient of an image is one of the fundamental building blocks. Designer statement about the gradient:” For many years, I have been obsessed by the concept of a gradient which reflects elegance and harmony to me. I believe that the gradient is, in regards to the perception of the environment and its digital reflection, a fundamental design principle. It has a mathematical aesthetic and precision that I have always been admiring. With this project I want to combine the design of the gradient with different functional objects by the use of innovative fabrication technologies.” Philipp Aduatz

3D Printed Gradient Vase

The inspiration and tool for the design of the Gradient Vase was subdivision modelling, a computer graphics technique that generates a surface by the representation of a coarser polygonal mesh using a recursive algorithmic method. One half of the Gradient Vase shows the polygonal mesh which works as a functional limit and inner mesh. The other half shows the curved surface generated by an iterative process of subdividing the polygonal faces into smaller faces till the coarse mesh transforms into a smooth and elegant surface.

H.S.S. Hotel

Platinum Winner

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AWARDS 2022

Hotel Interior Built

Studio: IN-Xian Design Co. Ltd.

Architect / Designer: Wang Wei Lun

Design Team:

Xiang Qiu Zhou , Wei Lun Wang , Zhi Kai Zeng

Country: Taiwan

Copyright: Ar Her Kuo Photography Studio

The space resonates with the spirit of our local. It maintains the original and undecorated appearance when dealing with materials, space, and texture expressions, creating dialogues between the metal, the wood, the cement, the glass, and other materials. While allowing travelers to stay, they can also blend into the natural atmosphere of the hotel.

Sustainable Austrian Expo Pavilion

Platinum Winner

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AWARDS 2022

Pop-ups and Temporary Architecture Built

Studio: querkraft architects

Design Team:

werkraum wien, ingenieurbüro jung, obkircher plus, kieran fraser landscape desing, green4cities, wme engineering consultant, nüssli group
text credits: querkraft architects

Country: Austria

Copyright: andreas keller fotografie.de, carmen egger, querkraft architekten

EXPO 2020 Dubai, with the slogan “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future” tries to answer questions of future visions, concepts and technologies for living together in an increasingly interlinked world. In line with this overarching theme, the Austrian pavilion offers adequate space to enter into a multicultural dialogue on questions of a sustainable future. “Austria makes sense” is the ambiguous slogan according to which Austria presents itself in a sensual way.

The architects were inspired by historical wind towers and climate-regulating properties of traditional Arab clay architecture. Re-interpreting the host country’s building traditions, 38 intersecting cones of different heights form the unmistakable shape of the Austrian EXPO pavilion. Arranged around three green courtyards, exciting and unique room sequences with different atmospheres are created inside and outside. With it’s haptic surfaces made of clay plaster pleasant to the touch, the canopy of leaves rustling in the wind over the open cones and the omnipresent interplay of light and shadow, the building itself appeals to all senses.

With an interculturally understandable imagery and media art installations, the international audience is brought closer to culture and technical innovations from Austria in an intuitively understandable way.

Emotional and ecological sustainability

In the midst of the hustle and bustle of the EXPO business, visitors to the Austrian Pavilion will find a place to slow down and relax with pleasant climate, daylight and references to nature. Thanks to its iconic shape and positive charisma, the temporary building will not only live on in the appreciative memories of its international guests beyond EXPO 2020. Conceived with economical use of resources in mind from the beginning on, the pavilion will also persist in the physical sense – made possible by the construction of just eight different types of precast elements. After 182 days of EXPO 2020, the cones will be dismantled into their individual parts and reassembled in a new location in the Arab world.

The interplay of local building tradition and intelligent climate engineering from Austria makes it possible to largely dispense with conventional air conditioning technology, even in this hot desert climate. The energy requirement has been reduced by more than 70 percent compared to buildings of similar type and use. The Austrian pavilion thus makes an intercultural contribution to the energy debate and questions of climate-sensitive building.

Charles Nègre media library

Platinum Winner

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AWARDS 2022

Cultural Architecture Built

Studio: IVRY SERRES ARCHITECTURE & BEAUDOUIN ARCHITECTES

Architect / Designer: Ivry Serres, Emmanuelle Beaudouin, Laurent Beaudouin

Design Team:

Project management team:
Ivry Serres Architecture & Beaudouin Architectes
Ivry Serres Architecture (Ivry Serres, Benjamin Vassia, Hugo Marquet)
Beaudouin Architectes (Emmanuelle Beaudouin, Laurent Beaudouin, Farida Aroun, Aurélie Husson, Noémie Gaineau, Christophe Thierry, Charles Signe)
C&E Ingénierie – BET structure
INEX – Fluid BET
TOUZANNE AND ASSOCIATES – Economist
A.C.V. – Acoustician

Client team:
City of Grasse – Client
APAVE – Control office
OPC – BTP CONSULT
SPS – Bureau VERITAS
SSI – Namixis & SSICoor – Groupe Systéa

Country: France

Copyright: Simone BOSSI – HIGO – Beaudouin Architectes – Ivry Serres Architecture

The city of Grasse in the south of France is particularly touching because of its urban characteristics: narrow streets, freshness, colours, relationship to the sky, vaulted passages, steep slopes…

The new Charles Nègre media library is based on an architectural approach that is very attentive to the context and fits in well with the town’s heritage. It gives the site a charming atmosphere but also provokes feelings of pleasant surprise and emotion. The media library is inspired by the unique character of the urban structure and plays with the tensions and proximities between the buildings. The project also takes up the subtle material relationships between the public buildings and the urban fabric and uses, with a modern vision, some of the traditional language and materials. As a counterpoint to this density, the building offers visual and scenic openings to the neighbourhood and to the distance. The building thus becomes a place from which to contemplate the city. A tower/ belvedere on the street allows a direct view towards the house of the great Grasse artist Charles Nègre (1820-1880), while the terrace on the top level highlights a frontal view of the sea and another framing leads towards the tower of the Cathedral Notre Dame du Puy.

The media library is truly designed as a space that is permeable to light, while preserving the interior coolness. Its architecture is designed to filter the sun during the day and restore a lace of light in the evening. The dual appearance during the day and at night is one of the major qualities of the site. This luminous presence will be gentle, discreet and without excessive glare.
The greatest attention is paid to the quality of the lighting inside. The reading areas receive subdued daylight, softened by the fluted white concrete columns that surround the building. These columns protect the recessed glass façade from direct sunlight. The sunlight also penetrates directly into the interior through a skylight that crosses the two levels of reading rooms to illuminate the reception area. This solution becomes reversible in the evening so that the building gently illuminates the public space like a lantern. The building is a light sponge during the day and becomes an urban photophore in the evening.

The project responds to the paradox of being both visible through the strength and quality of its presence, and discreet in its volumes and materials. The activities of the media library are revealed without being totally displayed to the public. It is an urban project as a large covered public space that improves pedestrian relations within the neighbourhood. The media library, located in the heart of the city centre, is not conceived as an isolated monument: it is intended to be a real catalyst for a cultural life on the scale of the entire city.

Here, more than an integration, the project proposes a poetic of the situation.

Canairi

Platinum Winner

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AWARDS 2022

Housing Interior Concept

Studio: Canairi

Architect / Designer: Hans Augustenborg

Design Team:

Hans Augustenborg, Andreas Kofoed Sørensen

Country: Denmark

Copyright: Albert Sommerlund

The minimalistic yet playful Canairi monitors the indoor climate with a CO2-sensor and encourage you to ventilate your home. The idea for the Canairi stems from the old practice of using canaries in coal mines to warn miners of poor air. When the air quality is poor Canairi will drop down, encouraging you to bring it back to life by opening your windows and ventilate your home. The democratic design language makes it simple for children to understand, but also invites the minimalist adult to play along. Canairi is made of recycled plastics and equipped with a rechargeable battery and a wall-mount.

IKEA the good neighbour in the city of Vienna

Platinum Winner

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AWARDS 2022

Commercial Architecture Built

Studio: querkraft architects

Design Team:

Building physics: Ingenieurbüro P. Jung
Green space: Kräftner Landschaftsarchitektur / Green4Cities
Structural engineer: Thomas Lorenz ZT GmbH
Structural engineer (competition): Werkraum Ingenieure
Building services: RHM GmbH
Cost management / calls for tender: Werner Consult ZTGmbH
Electrical engineer: TB Eipeldauer + Partner GmbH
Fire protection: FSE Ruhrhofer & Schweitzer GmbH

Country: Austria

Copyright: Christina Häusler / Hertha Hurnaus / querkraft

Car-free + urban This building makes an important contribution to the future of a living and ecological city and also to the future of retailing – this is an urban IKEA with excellent connections to the public transport system and an inviting roof terrace – a good neighbour. From a three-phase architecture competition involving several workshops querkraft emerged as winner. At the briefing stage already, the client formulated the aim: “We want to be a good neighbour”. querkraft’s approach to achieving this goal is reflected by a building that represents an added value, also for its surroundings.

The roof terrace accessible to the public that offers somewhere to drink coffee, to relax and to enjoy the view of the city, and the large amount of greenery on all the facades – these are all aspects that contribute to being “a good neighbour”. External shelving The building’s external shell recalls a set of shelves. This about 4.5-metre-deep, shelf-like zone runs around the building and provides shade. It allows spaces to expand, provides room for terraces and greenery, as well as for servant elements like lifts, escape stairs and building services. Openness allows interaction The entrance level is a lively place – a generous void will link it to the retail areas that stretch in front of it along Mariahilfer Straße. A void extending right through the interior of the building will allow visual contacts between the different storeys. 160 trees on and around the building Trees on the facade and on the roof have a perceptible impact on the microclimate.

As the trees could be placed at different heights and depths in the building there is more planting than would be possible on the building’s ground area. In the “Urban Heat Island-Strategy Plan“ of the City of Vienna planting is one of the most important measures. The climbing plants and trees of the IKEA furniture store have a cooling and humidifying effect – like a kind of natural air conditioning system. The air temperature will be improved at the pedestrian level, too. Computer simulations indicate a relevant temperature decrease of 1.5°C. Centralised + efficient building services To ensure efficient conditioning of the building the services are based on a simple principle: short distances and direct access. In the building the infrastructure is left visible, which increases the perceived height of the space. Mix of functions through open floor plans The prefabricated reinforced concrete columns stand on a c. 10 x 10-metre grid that allows flexibility in the use and design of the spaces.

Adaptations to meet changing demands can be made easily, as is already becoming apparent. IKEA retail occupies the lower floors, the Jo&Joe Hostel with 345 beds is located on the top two floors. This mix creates a building that is alive 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.