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The Blue Award

The Blue Award is an anonymous, international, single-phase competition and is intended for students of architecture, regional planning and urbanism. The competition selectively recognizes and awards prizes to design projects that deal with the topic of sustainability in architecture, urbanism and regional planning.

For the Blue Award 2014, the third edition of thecompetition, announced in autumn 2013 with a kick-offevent at the Vienna University of Technology, 90projects have been submitted from all over the world.39 universities and schools of architecture, regionalplanning and urbanism, from 22 countries worldwide,participated.

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Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design, Vienna University of Technology

In cooperation with the registered Society of Architecture and Spatial Design, the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design from the Vienna University of Technology organises the Blue Award competition.

The Department places a growing emphasis on planning processes incorporating resource management and ecology, both in the fields of teaching as well as in research. The Departments philosophy towards architectural academic education focuses on the soft factors of design that are beyond the basic concerns of construction technique and building physics. The approach incorporates a holistic view towards design: sustainability is not only dealt with in terms of construction methods, but also within a broader context encompassing social, cultural, economic and ecological factors.

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Foreword

by Franoise-Hlne Jourda 6

Blue Award 2014 8

International Jury 12

The Organizer 16

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A Taste of the City Catadores towards Cradle to Cradle (C2C2C)

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A Stone and a Brick Hut for a Permaculture Center

Here After: The Material Processor

Life Pissing Jelly Cloud

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The poorest population in this part of the world is liable to suffer of cultural, educational and economi-cal underdevelopment in the years to come. This new but very serious and complex situation in Europe and the Middle East concerns each and everyone who is an active member of society. Within this context, pro-moting sustainability becomes increasingly difficult, despite a large number of architects improving their projects in terms of energy efficiency or the respon-

sible sourcing of materials.

For the last few years the European Union has adopted a policy that will force all member

countries to reduce their energy consumption and CO2 equivalent emissions. These measures will increasingly engage the European population and in turn lead architects, developers and politicians to design and propose new solutions.

Europe is suffering at the moment due to the international climate. Islamic pressure in both the Middle East and northern parts of Africa has led to, or threatens, civil war and this affects the European community. Even in Western Europe, people are scared of each other, of anyone who could destroy their peaceful living.

Those countries that were part of the Arab Spring, instead of enjoying democracy, freedom and the hope of peace are now frightened and insecure in their day-to-day lives. Having removed their dictators, they are now facing terrorist attacks and are con-fronted with a lowering of their living standards.In parallel, the economic crisis in Western Europe has left millions unemployed and both the social and educational systems dangerously challenged.

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But what about social and economic sustainability?Not to mention other issues such as embedded energy, flexibility of buildings and cities, public transportation? We urgently need to transform our practices in order to show that new solutions are possible.

In North America, in Africa, in the Middle East, designs which respect the social, economic and environmental climate could facilitate the rebuilding of communities by providing a safe and respectful environment.

By way of collaborating, consulting and communi-cating with all those directly or indirectly affected by our architecture, we are demonstrating through the agency of our philosophy and our actions how the quality of life can be improved for all.

In the third category of the Blue Award Competi-tion, three projects were noticed by the jury to be addressing our fears today: The earths ecosystems start to collapse and the oceans flood the land, the problem of the contaminated land and of the increas-ing demand in meat resulting in high emissions of methane. These projects are asking very important questions concerning the future of our life on this small planet. We must react as deeply and strongly as possible in order to make a real contribution to a new world, living in PEACE.

Among the many outstanding submissions the jury found two first prizes and two second prizes. The quality of all projects has noticeably increased. Most of the planners students and teachers have understood that the issue of peace could in part be answered by means of sustainability.

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Franoise-Hlne JourdaArchitect Univ.Prof. Mag. ArchInitiator of the Blue AwardHead of the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design, Vienna University of Technology

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The Blue Award is a biennial, international, anonymous, single-phase competition for students of architecture, regional planning and urbanism; it nominates projects that specifically address the topic of sustainability.

Considering its economic, cultural and social di- mensions, sustainable development needs to be approached alongside technical and functional issues when projects are developed and problems solved in architecture, regional planning and urban-ism. The competition is an open invitation to dem-onstrate pioneering and sustainable solutions. How will our built environment present itself in the years to come? A comprehensive view of the tasks at hand, rather than a one-dimensional approach, will improve results and yield an environment worth experiencing.

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The main intention of this project is to encourage and foster the topic of sustainability in the academic fields of architecture, regional planning and urbanism in universities worldwide. The Blue Award is to recognise and nominate students and teachers dedicated in pursu-ing this topic within their studies. In order to submit a project, it must be part of a coursework at either a university or a school of architecture.

The initiative of the Blue Award aims at building a net-work of architecture schools and at creating an insti-tution for the exchange and integration of innovative and promising solutions developed by faculties and students involved in the topic of sustainability, in the areas of teaching as well as of research. It will support and intensify the international exchange between faculties and architecture schools that are develop-ing innovative and promising proposals in the area of

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sustainability. Subsequently, it purposes to prepare future planners in implementing the proposed solu-tions in an ecological and economical context, as well as in a setting concerned with globa-lisation and climate change. These developments will establish and preserve a built environment worth living in, for current and future generations.

The Blue Award intends to showcase a collection of students design work that addresses the issue of sustainability in architecture, urbanism and regional planning; thus the award is to provide an impulse for improving the teaching in the area of sustainability.

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The unusually large amount of feedback for the first appearance of the competition, Blue Award 09, held in 2009 and 2010, is a testimony to the strong interest and high standing of sustainability among students and teachers alike. 163 projects from 86 faculties and architecture schools from 49 countries were submitted. These showcase an intensive exami-nation not only of the ecological aspects of building, but also of the social and cultural tasks at hand.

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The second edition of the international competition for students, announced in spring 2011 with a kick-off event at the Vienna University of Technology, turned out an unanticipated success yet again: 232 projects were submitted from all over the world. 101 universities and schools of architecture, regional planning and urbanism, from 38 countries worldwide, participated.

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The kick-off event in autumn 2013 at the Vienna University of Technology marked the start of the third

international competition Blue Award 2014. 90 pro-jects from all over the world were submitted. Though less in number compared to 2012, the quality of these works has clearly increased. 39 universities and schools of architecture, regional planning and urbanism, from 22 countries worldwide, participated and demonstrated solutions in many fields such as urban development, ecological building and so on.

T h r e e C A T e g o r i e s

The Blue Award 2014 is handed out in three cat-egories. All three categories of the Blue Award 2014 emphasize the efforts in sustainable architecture, particularly in innovative timber constructions and on the visionary use of renewable resources.

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

T h e J u r y

The jury, with British architect Lord Richard Rogers as Honorary President, met on 12 September 2014

at the Vienna University of Technology. The jury nominated nine projects: a first prize

for category one and two, two second prizes for category one and three special mentions for category three.

The Blue Award 2016 will be announced in spring 2016.

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Richard Rogers is the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate and the recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal in 1985. A Member of the Order of the Com-panions of Honour since 2008, he was knighted in 1991 and subsequently made a life peer in 1996. In 2014, he was made a Freeman of the City of London.In 1998, Richard was appointed to chair the UK Gov-ernments Urban Task Force on the state of our cities.He was Chief Advisor on Architecture and Urbanism

to the Mayor of London and advised the Mayor of Barcelonas Urban Strategies Council.

Richard Rogers practice, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, is best known for such pioneering buildings as the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Lloyds of London; Terminal4, Barajas Airport Madrid; Terminal5, Heathrow and the Leadenhall Building in the City of London.

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Cities are at the heart of our culture and our economy. They are the birthplaces of civilisation, the place for meeting friends and strangers and for the exchange of ideas. Creating successful cities for all people has been at the heart of my practices design for the past half century.

But during the Industrial Revolution, our cities also came to be seen as dangerous and dirty, as places of poverty and darkness. People who had the choice fled our cities and sought cleaner air and better lives in the sprawling suburbs.

But these suburban lifestyles not only ruin the city centres, they also create car-dependent patterns of sprawl that have been a major contributor to climate change, which is affecting all of us, endangering the lives of some of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in the world.

Growing urbanisation across the world gives us the opportunity to change this pattern, and to reassert the social, economic and environmental advantages of city living. As we move from 50% urban living today, to 70% by 2050, the only sustainable way to grow is the compact city. This means: well-designed built homes and offices, with the highest density clustered round transport hubs; urban planning for mixed-use live-work areas with a range of different housing affordability, and access to vital services;

a green grid of beautiful parks and public spaces, and excellent walking and cycling routes and public transport; good governance, which supports balanced economic growth, social justice and environmental responsibility; innovative environmental design, from energy saving technology in individual homes, to new building methods, to neighbourhood planning that enables walking and cycling, low energy lifestyles and waste reduction.

We need to take action at every level, from the thermostat on the wall, to urban density, to car parking regulations. Research by the Sierra Club shows that even a draughty old building in a city centre is a less carbon-intensive way of living than a top spec eco-home in the countryside.

It is exciting to be here in Vienna, and to see the range of innovation being brought to bear on these urgent environmental, but also social and economic challenges.

The successful city of the future will be the compact city where sustainability is built in at all levels, being expressed as the DNA of urban development. I hope the projects submitted for this prize will form part of that DNA.

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President of International Union of Architects, 2011 2014. Signing of the Durban Declaration for Responsible Architecture with many partners of the International Union of Architects on the 10 August 2014 in Durban.

Albert Dubler is a practising architect in Strasbourg. www.uia-architectes.org

The world has a finite amount of resources and we have no other choice than to share those resources. Otherwise, we can build as many protection walls as we want, more and more poor will inevitably knock those walls down some day.

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Robert Lion (FR)President of AGRISUD (NGO)

Education: Paris Institute for Political Studies (Sciences Po) Law University of Paris (19521956), Ecole Nationale dAdministration (ENA) (19591961). Inspection gnrale des Finances; Chairman, Paris Region Economic Devel-opment Agency; Member of the Paris-Region Council (Europe-Ecology-the Green party); Chairman, Agrisud International, an NGO; Trustee, Doctors of the World (London); 19821992: President (direc-teur gnral), Caisse des dpts et consignations; 19811982: Chief of staff to the Prime Minister of France; 19741981: CEO (dlgu gnral) of Union Nationale des Organismes HLM; Member of Conseil conomique et social (19741979); President of Comit daction solaire, an environmental NGO; President of Gochaleur, a company developing geothermal solutions; President of the Habitat section of Conseil suprieur de lhygine publique; Board member of Agence pour les conomies dnergie, the first stage of the French EPA; 19691974: Head of Housing Department (Directeur de la Construction), Ministry of Equipment; 19611969: Inspection gnrale des finances, Ministry of Finance; councilor

for Edgard Pisani, Minister of Equipment (196667); councilor for Paul Delouvrier, governor of the Paris Region (1967-69).

Miscellanous, since 1992: Chairman, Greenpeace France; Vice-president of Haut conseil de la co- opration Internationale; Chairman of Association franaise daction artistique AFAA; Member of CNDD (Council for sustainable development); Member of the Earth Council in San Jos, Costa Rica; Senior Advisor to the GEF (Global Environment Facility); Professor, Dauphine University: Cities and Sustainable Development.www.agrisud.org

In this competition, I have seen high requirements and a great deal of liberties. It is highly liberal to let candidates choose, on an open register, their field and their subject. But the folders have been studied with rigour and professionalism, thereby sending a clear signal: theres no cheating on sustainable development. A fine synthesis, well done to the organisers!

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Jana Revedin (DE)O.Uni.Prof. DI Dr.techn. Arch and theorist

Manfred Hegger (DE)Prof. Dipl.-Ing. M. Sc. Econ Architect BDA

Sustainable architecture is resource-efficient and environmentally friendly; it is durable and adaptable and its construction and operation are economic. It fulfils highly functional, social and aesthetic requirements. Planned and operated with care and a strong sense of responsibility, it occupies well integrated sites. It could be said to embody an architecture of common sense.

The contributions to the Blue Award illustrate how students from all over the world successfully implement this common sense. Their creative contributions, that fascinate the jury, show that the architectural task is increasingly understood as social art. Defined as environmental development, it is able to address the global resource problem and to mitigate climate change.

Professor, Department of Design and Energy-Efficient Construction at the Faculty of Architecture, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, 2001; Director of UIA International Work Programme Sustainable Architecture of the Future, 1998 2007; President of DGNB (German Sus-tainable Building Council), 2010 2013; Member of Sustainable Building and Construction Initiative UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme), 2003 ; The EU-Programme Sustainable Construc-tion Methods and Technologies, 2004 2006; World Economic Forum, Global Agenda Council on the Future of Sustainable Construction, 2008 ; IBA counsellor for Klima und Energie, IBA Hamburg, 2008 2013; counsellor for IBA Thringen, 2013;Honorary Professor, University Hannover, 1993

The Blue Award is a recognized reference within the discourse of Sustainable Urban Planning and Urban Futures. The Awards objectives meet my theoretical research and teaching in elective affinity.

Jana Revedin is a German architect and theorist educated in Germany, Argentina, the USA (Prince-ton School of Architecture) and Italy; she obtained her diploma at Milano Politechnical University in1991and her PhD and Teaching Habilitation in Architecture and Urban Planning at IUAV, University Venice, in 1999. During her formative years spent on these three continents, she focused on the mission posited by the German Reformatory Avant Garde, her reference period for understanding Architecture and Urban Planning as a tool for adequate living condi-tions and civic rights and as a catalyst to the right to the city. Owing to this expertise, she has researched and published on the Italian Tendenza movement as Aldo Rossis scientific assistant since 1991. Called to a professorship in Austria in 2000, then to Sweden in 2008, Jana Revedin launches Master Classes and PhD research in Sustainable Urban Planning, contra-posing the Northern City of Governance to a globally emerging City of Change.

Jana Revedin explores her Radicant Design theory and methodology in the community projects of her LOCUS-Foundation: collective creativity proves to be a valid bottom-up tool for social and gender empow-erment, sustainably leading to the fulfillment of civic rights. www.locus-foundation.org

Jana Revedin supervises Masters and PhD theses on Participatory Design Processes and Urban Futures in several European countries. She serves as the UNE-SCO Delegate to the UIA Education and Research commission and was knighted French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2014.

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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.

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.

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.

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 Jrg Schlaich.

Chief assistant professor at the chair for timber con-structions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Techno- logy in Lausanne. 1986: Visiting professor at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, (Prof. Schweitzer): post gradu-ate 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 Univer- sity of Technology, Faculty of Architecture. He directs the department for Structural Design and Timber Structures and teaches civil engineering.20012007: 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.

Wolfgang Winters 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 Soci-ety, 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.

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Robert Korab is founder and managing director of the research and consulting company Raum&Kommunikation. He is member of the board of experts of the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund.www.raum-komm.at

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In cooperation with the registered Society of Archi-tecture and Spatial Design, the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design of the Vienna University of Technology organises the Blue Awards competition biennially.

The Department, headed for more than ten years by French architect Univ. Prof. Mag.Arch. Franoise-Hlne Jourda, places a growing emphasis on plan-ning processes that incorporate resource manage-ment and ecology, both in the fields of teaching and of research. The Departments philosophy towards architectural academic education focuses on the soft factors of design that are beyond the basic concerns of construction technique and building physics.

The approach incorporates a holistic view towards design: sustainability is not only dealt with in terms of construction methods, but also within a broader context encompassing social, cultural, economic and ecological factors. The subjects of the courses and the research cover content in all consecutive phases of planning, from urban aspects to the implementa-tion of the material.

In order to support the issue of a sustainable devel-opment in architecture and to prepare the future generations of planners to meet the challenge of preserving an environment worth living in, the Depart-ment launched a series of themes, tools and activities as part of the academic education and research.

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As we accept responsible design and planning deci-sions, we can contribute towards a more sustainable progression of society. An ecologically meaningful performance can only be reached by studying climatic conditions, by planning in a way that takes life cycles into consideration, by using renewable materials and by integrating topographic and geological aspects. The interdisciplinary modules Constructing within

Ecological Systems and Spatial Design, which are offered as part of the masters programme, attend to the above-mentioned focuses with interdisciplinary expertise and a diversity of auxiliary and complemen-tary courses.

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Over the last years, cities have become increasingly significant as cultural and economic environments. Architects future tasks will be strongly linked with re-newing structures in already existing urban systems.

The topic Building in the South has been offered by the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design, as part of the curriculum, for over 10 years. Over the last 2 years, excursions and design assignments have brought us to Foa (Turkey), Saranda (Albania) and Amman (Jordan). Getting to know foreign cultures and experiencing different climatic zones does train future planners to develop more sensitivity and com- petence while dealing with variable design challenges.

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The Material Library came into being in 2008, its aim set on displaying samples of building materials relevant for construction, as well as on processing specific data from product technologies and their ecology. The opportunity to lay hands on more than 700 different materials, to sense their weight, their surface quality or their smell, supports this research-oriented teaching. The selection of classified materi-als is accessible to any interested lecturer or student and provides information about design potential and ecological qualities.

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The Blue Award is one of the Departments initiatives. It not only aims at awarding design projects address-ing the topic of sustainability, but also highligths the theme within the academic field so as to facilitate international exchange and to collect and preserve innovative solutions, developed by students together with their teachers.

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Category 1Urban Development and Transformation, Landscape Development

This category encompasses areas from urban renewal and the restructuring of existing city fabric to the development of new housing systems and building typologies. Concepts dealing with 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.

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T A s k d e s C r i P T i o n

The project task was to prepare an urban design proposal, with following projects subsequently deriving from the greater masterplan. After carrying out initial research and analysis, the project pro-ceeded to develop a series of holistic and integrated propositions. The project exemplifies the potential of creative design in built environment to promote and realise transformational change. It employs low carbon strategies at both urban and building scales, which are at the leading edge of current practice, in order to create a truly sustainable urban future.

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In Cyprus, the violent scenes of the 1974 conflict occurred recently enough to still be present in the minds of many of Nicosias residents. Subse-quently the process of reunification can be a painful personal experience as well as a political

hurdle. As such, the city remains divided and what was once the centre of the island is now an abandoned edge. As a consequence, the migration of people out of Nicosias Old Town (80% have left over 40yrs) has caused it to deteriorate. This dereliction and neglect overshadows the numerous historical monuments that can be found within the citys unique Venetian walls.

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During the last forty years the unoccupied buffer zone has been transformed by ecological systems. In response to this, our urban design proposal presents an ecological solution to an architectural problem, and petitions the idea that this scar can be reborn as a catalyst for healing. The project endeavours to tackle the serious environmental issues the island is facing, as the rise in temperature and the increasing water shortage are arguably a greater threat than

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human conflict. Like the oasis Ludwig Salvator de-scribed it as, Nicosias old town should once again become a symbol of hope in the desert, a dream of the Arabian Nights realised.

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The political division in Nicosia remains a problem that influences the development of the city. The conditions that led to this division are part of the collective memory of the inhabitants of Nicosia. The former historical centre along the borders between Turkey and Cyprus has been neglected. The substance of the buildings has deteriorated in the past 40 years. These problems require a very sensitive approach, which this project succeeds to offer. The projected development within the next 50 years allows for processes of change to take place.

Greening the existing division line does not only provide for an appropriate ecological solution but also sustains the line as a visible scar in the city. The jury regarded this as a very important aspect in order to integrate historical moments and incidents in the future development of the city. A comparison is drawn to the city of Berlin, where the traces of the dividing wall were erased and replaced by mostly insensitive architecture. Current attempts to retrieve the division lines as a fundamental part of the identity of Berlin fail.

The relationship between politics and architecture is well exemplified in this project. Introducing small interventions lead to social and political change. These interventions operate on different levels and succeed to address ecological, historical as well as economical questions. The jury appreciated these aspects as well as the clear and comprehensible presentation of the project.

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A Taste of the City started as an exploration of Guatemala Citys neglected landscapes, its ravines. They are considered invaluable territory, nothing but an obstacle to urban growth, by the citizens, the real estate market, even the local administration. The project investigates into the ravines potential, thus addressing the citys severe problems. Unsuitably, the ravines are used by squatters and other urban poor to grow food therein. With the appropriate technical and financial support and policies, ravines reforested with agroforestry systems can develop into productive landscapes and become active catalysts of change.


Ravines adjoining prosperous neighbourhoods are beautiful areas of environmental preservation. But many others have been deforested for economic

reasons and are exclusively conceived as areas of criminal activity. Three sites exposing the necessity and the potential for an intervention were identi-fied: deforested slopes, underused lots alongside the ravines and a vulnerable community with limited resources and opportunities. The sites differ in size, urban fabric, neighbourhood context, social and infrastructural necessities and are therefore proto-types open to evolve into a project of their own.


The project proposes the development of an Urban Fruit Forest in deforested ravines, based on the implementation of agroforestry systems that were originally developed for a rural environment. The focus is set on efficient food production and the reduction of environmental degradation at a low cost through community management with governmental

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The project addresses the neglected landscapes in Guatemala City. Ravines that were deforested for economic reasons and have over time evolved into wastelands harbour severe social problems. Squat- ters living in the ravines, work as street vendors a long way off. The area is a twilight zone, criminality branching into daily life.

Based on a simple idea which impacts many levels, this proposal foresees positive and sustainable

development in an area that is socially and economi-cally seriously disadvantaged.

The plantation of the ravines with deep rooting crops counteracts soil erosion, soil heating, the leaching of nutrients and the loss of biodiversity. This benefits the reemergence and reestablishment of flora and fauna.Food production, sales thereof on local markets which would need to be created, the inhabitants involve-ment and community management are emphasised. As a result the area would not only benefit from the creation of jobs, but also supply its own community in a self-organised and affordable fashion. The jury appreciates the projects focus on community-build-ing and identification.

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What defines a community is its specific culture: how people go about their daily lives, their social ways and habits, often as a result of profession. These aspects determine the design of any kind of space for living, working and socializing along with the geographical, climatic, topographical qualities or issues. If a com-munity is involved in the same profession, these cultural aspects will be all the more present in the realisation of space. Our task is to study the develop-ment of a culture, to link it to its place and to assess how this place loses its meaning if the profession is either transformed or abandoned, due to a variation of local up to global factors.


The site is situated at the centre of the citys tour-ist network. The project uses a vacant land for infill development. By opening a blocked road, vehicle traffic on the narrow street running through the site

is reduced. This segregates the incremental work-live space on one side - merging with the existing settle-ment - from the institutional framework on the other using the 200 years old structure.


Since the 17th century, 16 families have been involved in the hand-loom silk saree weaving craft and have thus shaped the neighbourhood of Reori Talab - one of many weaver neighbourhoods - in the historic city of Varanasi. The site is degenerating as the weaving profession is changing, the traditional craft loosing out to cheaper imitations and infrastruc-ture bottlenecks. This has lead to a deterioration of both working environment and living conditions, drastically altering the quality of life for the weavers.

The project is based on a study of the specific site in terms of its culture and its day-to-day manifestations understood within the configuration and use of

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space to propose an incremental work/live space. An institutional framework for developing tourism to garner appreciation, link weavers and designers, as

well as to help equip the weavers so they can meet their needs in the competition of the silk industrys globalised market. The design proposes incremental working spaces that may generate living spaces around them. Each artisan chooses how to build and how far to build according to their needs. Only the resources and materials mutually agreed upon will be used. A flex-ibility of increment is achieved as the community best knows its needs. The design is based on a study of each workspace, revolving into living spaces, as the work requires the combined effort of family and friends. The proposed design strengthens the weavers social network generating the neighbourhoods cohesive function as of a family.


Radical economical changes are seen to take place in India and around the world. These modifications are often reflected in the living conditions and the social make-up of traditional residential areas. The proposal can be seen as a kind of step-by-step guide to a new home-building process. The residents themselves take part in the process of creating their living and working arrangement over time. It is clearly not solely aimed at attracting tourists, but sees potential and possible advantages in doing so, at the same time as affording a practical solution to the generations of weavers who will be able to stay in their existing family arrange-ments. The area will develop over time depending on income and economic success. It will combine living and working space in the one spot, as it has tradition-ally been done. It is a very sensitive approach of hand-ling the working and living areas around Varanesi and convinces the jury it will bestow this urban neighbour-hood with a durable existence into the future.

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The Project is located in Afghanistans capital Kabul, more precisely along the Kabul River.The chosen section comprises the area between the Kabul Zoo on the left hand side of the Jadde Maiwand and the Ghazi Stadium on the right hand side of the Jadde Maiwand.


The project consists of four areas: work & rest, education, trade and sports. Additionally, the river

banks are included in the planning. The overall goal is to render Kabul more sustainable. Water needs to be managed in the close vicinity of its consumption. This can be done by implementing detours, filtration, storage and re-utilization. Thus water could be held in several closed water cycle systems all over the urban fabric and beyond. The social infrastructure will be invigorated while better living standards will be achieved for the residents.


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The decentralised water treatment as an essential part of the picture is appreciated: the envisaged methods involve social aspects in order to improve the inhabitants 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,actsas a powerful symbol of renewal and recommencement.By interpreting the river as the citys 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 sup-plying all those intentions with the most important resource of all: water.

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We chose the favela Moinho, in Luz, near the city centre of Sao Paulo for our project. It consists of a brownfield with 60.000m located between two railway tracks. A highway bridge divides the field into two almost equal areas. The western part is covered with trees and features a ruin. The eastern part is occupied by a favela where about 700 families have built their homes. An old silo in the middle is probably used as water storage tank. At the far west of Moinho, an old factory building was housing several families until it burnt down in September 2013 due to a gas explosion. No longer a shelter, it is now a massive black ruin. Beyond the railway tracks, the catadores living in the favela of Moinho have set up their recycling centre.


We developed a scheme for an area of waste land (as seen from a developers point of view) in Sao Paulo and showed that it is possible to develop a city coming from a different angle. The catadores (waste collectors) transform their land into an acceptable part of the city with little help from outside. Their initiative is modelled on developments in other areas such as urban farming, transportation, local markets leading to the transformation of their homes in the favela. Over a period of 25 years, the inhabitants of Moinhos favela may upcycle their living standards.


The Project employs a very local approach to a prob-lem existing in the centre of the city of Sao Paulo. The basic elements are derived from prevailing conditions in and around the site. The transformation of the favela takes place through the agency of

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self-organised action on part of the stakeholders only. The cradle to cradle concept has a lot of po-tential, especially in similar contexts. The catadores or waste collectors are empowered to change their own living circumstances through activities they are already performing.

Similar projects exist elsewhere around the world and are successfully implemented. In this sense the project is not very innovative and leaves a few ques-tions open. However, the clarity of the idea and the immediate link to the inhabitants and the surround-ings were valued as positive aspects of the project. The obvious emphasis on social considerations was appreciated by the jury.

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The projects task is to create a new and sustainable concept for the construction of a two-storey Per-maculture centre for a local client near the town of Mazunte in Mexico.

The design focuses on taking an active part in the development of a new field of sustainable and agricultural experimentation. Taking local resources, craftsmanship and climate into account, la Apoteka attempts to create an atmospheric place that integrates well into the surroundings, especially its beautiful landscape. The projects entire process from its design to its use involves a close collabora-tion between the architects and clients, a construc-tion team of 3 local workers and members of the local community.


The new Permaculture centre la Apoteka is situated close to Mazunte, a small beach town on the pacific coast in the Oaxaca Region of Mexico. The tropical climate divides the year into two main seasons hot and dry in winter followed by hot and wet in summer. These parameters are translated into the centres design, its building materials and hybrid-construction. The project comprises a site with 2 hectares of jungle in Zapotal, which is as much land as is necessary for Permaculture production.


The centre aims at combining social, agricultural and educational functions, local resources and building traditions in a sustainable way. A small hut to host workshops, to house guests as well as some storage

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facilities for tools were the local clients main require-ments. What are needed are new structures for the shared experience of sustainability. The two-story building includes private and shared spaces upstairs with bedrooms and terraces, a working area down-stairs, tool storage and an open air workshop. Com-menting on the immense use of concrete and metal in Mexico, the whole building is made of local resources such as handmade fire bricks, bamboo, palm leaves, stones and earth. The inclusion of members from the local community as teaching agents to the surround-ing areas are also important parameters.


La Apoteka is a modern appreciation of using local materials, local craftsmanship, the climatic conditions taken into account. In addition the project only

claims as much land as is necessary for permaculture production. As its key aspect the project highlights the collaboration between client, architect, local workers and local community, especially as regards to their exchange of know-how. The construction and planning process of the small and rural hut are well documented. The accessible illustrations highlights the design and building process. The fea-sible character of this project is what makes it both appealing and inspiring. The project La Apotheka demonstrates the possibilities of a sustainable architecture that is both cost-effective and based on lots of personal initiative.

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Category 3Innovative Systems & 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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Instead of common post-green solutions and treat-ments, I believe the key component in sustainability actually belongs to our understanding and accepta-bility of nature as the one indispensable and funda-mental component in the architectural design right from the beginning. Hence, with this project, I wish to advocate a new perspective towards nature, time and decay. My thesis sprang off from my observation that a newly constructed building may represent the architects aspirations best in its pristine state, howe-ver, would immediately be subject to numerous forces that will slowly bring it down. While we commonly ignore, or even deny, such natural processes, namely decay, through great efforts of maintenance, there are always too many unforeseeable and unpredict-able agents that nullify our endeavours. My argument posits that decay being a natural and inevitable phenomenon, why not embrace it and use it as an op-portunity? I see the ageing of materials and buildings not as deterioration, but instead as a process of how these materials and components change their norms and meanings over time. Like wine increasing in value with age, so could architecture gain an additional layer of value, e.g. textural, spatial effect or even

memory, through weathering and usages. This project, as a testing ground, would like to question the above hypothesis - a piece of real sustainable architecture that transforms, absorbs and grows with the natural surroundings.


The testing site for my thesis is a copper mine called Ruashi mine, located at the edge of the city Lubumba-shi, in central Africa. The city relies heavily on copper mining and is currently undergoing severe develop-ment and expansion since the cessation of civil war. However, due to such large scale expansion, it has led to a great shortening of the mines lifespan, with only 1020 years left until all the mines are exhausted.

Ruashi mine is the closest mine to the city, where current development already touched upon the rim of the site. Worse still, by 2020, at the time of mine ex-haustion, a common problem associated with mining named Acid Mine Drainage would occur, due to the release of sulphuric acid at the bottom of the mine.Common measures dealing with AMD involve either backfilling it with soil or immersing it with water to slow down the reaction rate. However, both measures


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would leave the mine untouchable for the next hund-red years, leaving a huge void in the city.


Embracing the left-over, e.g. the mine, waste soil and sulfuric acid from acid mine drainage, from the former copper production, I see it as an opportunity for creation and continuation. By first implementing a machine that reutilizes the waste soil as a neu-tralization agent to the sulfuric acid, while at the same time, through erosion, generating unique raw building blocks that would be used to construct new public spaces on-site, i.e. an auditorium, a library, a museum and a media centre. As the machine operates, starting from the South end, the remaining structures from the former neutralization process would be reconfigured as a university campus. The programmatic insertion of a university, in contrast to the one-end mining economy, would provide a sustainable future foundation for the city to develop upon. Hence, as time goes by, the relationship bet-ween machine, contour (mine-form), campus and the public spaces would evolve continuously. Throug-hout the process, left-overs from various former processes are embraced, the left-overs that are

embedded, imprinted with memories and narratives - an architecture that anticipates, responds to and records time flow.


This project is very imaginative and raises some interesting questions. It is a moving attempt to solve a dramatic local problem. It reminds us of the poetic work of Yona Friedman. The hole in the earth already exists; there is a good reason to build something in it or to use it as a base for development. The area around it is projected as an over populated area. The social approach of creating a university might be a good answer to improve future conditions in this area. The drawings have a very high quality. Many aspects are left open: how much gypsum will be extracted? How does the machine work? How would it be possible to create a mega structure in this form and dimension? Although it points out to important ecological problems that also exist elsewhere in the world, the answer remains utopian. It offers a systematic answer rather than giving an architectural one. This project belongs to a category that is not part of the Blue Award, a category for visionary approaches towards sustainability.

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As a result of the massive exploitation of the planets natural resources, the Earths ecosystems start to collapse. Floods, the substantial deterioration of air quality as well as mass extinctions are among the first consequences. The melting of polar ice caps threatens the quality of life on Earth as uncontrolla-ble floods would cover most of the inhabited land and continuously reduce the amount of dry land. However this would not be the only disaster the planets biodiversity would have to face. It appears the oceans would flourish at first, though the drastic effect of global warming on the temperature sensiti-ve oceans would contribute to their salinization.


Salinization causes the dying off of the most fun-damental part of the maritime ecological pyramid: phytoplankton. Phytoplankton a mixture of micro-algae and bacteria is not only responsible for up to 80% of the atmospheres oxygen, it is also the

main food source for most marine creatures. But due to rising water temperature and salinity both caused by global warming phytoplankton stocks decrease. The main target of the project is to bring phytoplankton back into marine wastelands to (re)start a cycle of growth and natural balance. The pro-posed flying cities, where thousands of people will live, are regenerating plankton stocks in the water and purifying the atmosphere on their flights over the oceans. Phytoplankton will be cultivated on one hand, conditions in affected areas will change on the other, so that phytoplankton and all other (marine) creatures can live here once again.


Human beings and plants such as phytoplankton share a symbiotic relationship: through oxygenic photosynthesis plants transform CO into O while humans do the opposite. So the new flying cities supply the atmosphere with oxygen while their po-pulation supports the growth of phytoplankton by


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an energy core provides the electricity needed in the cities. At the top of the hydrogen chute, water can also get vaporized through sunlight, thus permeating the atmosphere with steam as a protective layer against the suns rays.


The projects task is to start developing a specific fictional scenario for the world in a hundred years time, taking the year 2114 as a basis. The projects core idea is to heal the planet by regenerating the worlds oceans. When all sustainable measures and efforts have failed and the ocean have flooded the land, this project could be a fictional proposal of how to survive and rebalance the marine ecosystem. As much as it is bizarre, this proposal offers an interesting vision of a live machine dealt in bio-techno-logical terms rather than technological ones. It is a very sophisticated concept and addresses a real problem.

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This project points to the question whether the relocation of manufacturing industries into thecity helps to educate the public and create a more vibrant working city. The quality of beef is greatly affected by the grooming methods used in the 150 days prior to slaughter. For this reason, costu-mers bid for their Wagyu cows and invest in a choice of quality grain, wine and gym workout hours before consuming them later. This royal treatment is further diversified by a choice in the cattles living conditions at the hotel.


The building occupies an existing multi-storey car park in Melbourne CBD opposite the high-end dining precinct, thus re-using the ramp to accommodate

the continuous manufacturing line of the slaughter-house. Advocating the practicality of vertical farming due to the narrow footprint, a vertical feedlot con-veyor system is incorporated within the exoskeletal structure to feed the cattle automatically and reduce labour.


The specific design of the cattle hotel and abattoir shows how Melbourne CBD can integrate food production industries to help raise awareness of where our food comes from, especially as in Australia peo-ple are very conscious of what they eat. By means of optimum animal handling and proper waste management the unsustainable effect of beef con-sumption, due to the cattles release of green house gases, can be turned into a sustainable venture and


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generate additional benefits. By recycling cattle ma-nure in the power station above, thereby extracting Methane, the tower produces 7 times more energy than its consumes. The slaughterhouse adopts Temple Grandins serpentine cattle ramp so as to move the animals efficiently without needing force. Publicly promoting the humane handling of animals, this process can be viewed from the street.At the same time, the slaughterhouse is clad in steel mesh, so that people within are able to see out wit-hout being themselves seen.


A new design developed for an all-in-one cattle farm, slaughterhouse and restaurant located in central Melbourne. Relocated to the city, it noticeably raises awareness about cattle farming.

The project strikingly shows the whole process of bidding for cattle, their grooming and slaughtering, the processing of meat and its final consumption. The value of the chosen endproduct can be traced back to the grooming categories. This simply shows the effect and the value of fee- ding. Slaughtering literally where the cattle was raised reduces the level of stress hormones in the meat. The environmental problem of cattle farming due to their emission of methane is reversed by ex-tracting the gas in a biogas plant situated at the top of the building. Questions remaining open are: Whe-re does the fodder come from and how is it going to be transported? It is a very comprehensive project that addresses a lot of interesting problems.

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Alan Lau Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology(Australia)

2nd Prize Claudia Mara del Cid Caldern Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Bernd Schifko Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Barbara Poberschnigg Leopold Franzens Universitt (Austria)

Wolfgang Fischer Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Yuliya Ivanova University of Architecture, Civil Engi-neering and Geodesy (Bulgaria)

Carolin Vorwerk RWTH Aachen University (Germany)

Kyeong Hee Seo Leopold Franzens Universitt (Austria)

Corina Liliana Negrila Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Nazia Roushan BRAC University (Bangladesh)

Alejandro Martin RWTH Aachen Univers ity (Germany)

Patricia Wess Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Andreas Friedwagner Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Katharina Lutz Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Yifan Zhang Tianjin University (China)

Nomination Meltem Yavuz Technical University of Berlin (Germany)

Susanne Weissenbck Leopold Franzens Universitt (Austria)

Christoph Koehler Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Loreto Ramon-Solans ULB Faculty of Architecture (Belgium)

Steffen Stupp RWTH Aachen University (Germany)

Nomination Carlotta BonuraGraz University of Technology (Austria)

Andreea Suteu Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Nazia Roushan BRAC University (Bangladesh)

Catarina Almeida University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Regina Enhuber Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Urban Development and Transformation, Landscape Development

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Qiuyun Zeng Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Katrin Gartenlhner Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Sinan Tiryaki University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Mennatullah Hendawy University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Todor Kesarovski University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Lisa Deister University of Stuttgart (Germany)

2nd Prize Nayan Srivastava School of Planning and Architecture New Delhi (India)

Riccardo Conti La Sapienza (Italy)

Elisa Medaglia Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

Alexandra Starostina Novosibirsk State Academy of Architecture and Fine Arts (Russia)

David Salavarra Fuentes Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

Miguel Angel Peate Mederos Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

Mireia Reixach University of Girona (Spain)

Christian Brugada Pimentel University of Girona (Spain)

Eva Casadevall University of Girona (Spain)

Celia Jimnez University of Sevilla (Spain)

Youssef Chourabi University of Carthage (Tunisia)

1st Prize Nathan Ovens University of Bath (United Kingdom)

Birgit Schwarzenberger University of Portsmouth (United Kingdom)

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Truong Minh Quoc Uong UTS (Austria)

Alexander Eberl Graz University of Technology (Austria)


Srdjan Tomic Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Daniel Bleh Kaiserslautern University of Technology (Germany)

Friedrich-Maximilian Fischer Leibniz Universitt Hannover (Germany)

Anna Ladurner Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Kim-Loan Nguyen National Institute of Applied Sciences Lyon (France)

Anna Parlow Kaiserslautern University of Technology (Germany)

Mahy Mourad Stuttgart State University of Art and Design (Germany)

Tomislav Zorica Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Stefanie Lesnigg Kaiserslautern University of Technology (Germany)

David Matthias Eickhorst Leibniz Universitt Hannover (Germany)

Nicole Kreuzer Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Carolin Feldmann Bergische Universitt Wuppertal (Germany)

Monika Swider Kaiserslautern University of Technology (Germany)

Anna Hagen Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

1st Prize Timur ErsenEcole Nationale Suprieure dArchitecture de Montpellier (France)

Ceyda Altuna Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh)

Jaroslaw Siwiecki RWTH Aachen University (Germany)

SubmissionsCategory 2Ecological Building and Buidling in Existing Structures


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Adela Lucaci Universit degli studi Roma Tre (Italy)

Mira Conci Technical University Delft (Netherlands)

Onur Oezdemir Technical University of Berlin (Germany)

Marta Rota Technical University Delft (Netherlands)

Jagoda Antos Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland)

Ekaterina Kotlyarova Rostov State Civil Engineering University (Russia)

Chameera Udawattha University of Moratuwa (Sri Lanka)

Charlotte Farrouch Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)

Bettina Steuri Bern University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland)

Lukas Rckerl USI Universit della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland)

Lukas Rckerl USI Universit della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland)

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Special Mention Alan Lau Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia)

Ricarda Reicher Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Sophia Spiss Leopold Franzens Universitt (Austria)


Special Mention Christoph Windsperger Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

Rubaiya Nasrin BRAC University (Bangladesh)

Special Mention Aron Wai Chun Tsang The University of Hong Kong (China)

Farah Omar The American University in Cairo (Egypt)

Dafina Shllaku University of Prishtina, Hasan Prishtina (Kosovo)

Charlie Cognon Ecole Nationale Superieure dArchitecture de Strasbourg (France)

Anna Esbjrnsson Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)

Laura Mssener Kaiserslautern University of Technology (Germany)

Sarah Behrens Stuttgart State University of Art and Design (Germany)

Rodrigo Ortega Stuttgart State University of Art and Design (Germany)

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Blue Award 2014 International Student Competition for Sustainable Architecture

Franoise-Hlne 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, Thomas Gamsjger, Elisabeth Graf, Feria Gharakhanzadeh, Franz Karner, Anton Kottbauer, Sonja Leitgeb, Jakob Martinsson, Gnter Pichler, Cornelia Schicker, Dominic Schwab

Karlsplatz 13/2533, 1040 Wien

www.raumgestaltung.tuwien.ac.at, [email protected]

www.blueaward.at, [email protected]

Feria Gharakhanzadeh

with the cooperation of Ernst Beneder, Karin Stieldorf, Elisabeth Leitner, Daniela Kain

buero bauer Gesellschaft fr Orientierung und Identitt www.buerobauer.com

System development and implementation: Jakob Martinsson, Elisabeth Graf

Vienna University of Technology Public Relations Office

Christina Thirsfeld, Irene Titscher

Michael Klbl

Franz Karner, Cornelia Schicker, Eva Manhart

Gabriella Attems, Manfred Rudy

Exhibition venue: Vienna University of Technology, December 2nd, 2014 December 12th, 2014

Fiona Fleck, Niklas Gssl, Michael Klbl, Herbert Kreuzeder, Bernhard Laukoter, Paul Leifer, Eva Manhart, Gudrun Schach, Leonard Swennen, Shuruq Carlotta Tramontini, Team Dekanat fr Architektur und Raumplanung der TU Wien, Team GUT der TU Wien.

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Karlsplatz 13/2533, 1040 Wien www.raumgestaltung.tuwien.ac.at

Feria Gharakhanzadeh

Elisabeth Graf, Niklas Gssl, Jakob Martinsson, Shuruq Carlotta Tramontini

Gabriella Attems

buero bauer Gesellschaft fr Orientierung und Identitt

(Erwin K. Bauer, Stephan Gschl, Christian Konrad)

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