31WinnerThe Koala PavilionThe Koala Pavilion explores a friendlier typology of animal rehabilitation centre by integrating the natural environment into the design. The Pavilion Is envisioned as a sanctuary for both koalas and humans, helping to promote a harmonious coexistence.
5Runner-upWooden WallWooden Wall is a shelter for koalas victims of the fire, located in Queensland, Australia. This place will become the second homes for small creatures and will help them not only to recover, but also to increase the population and draw attention to the problem of animal welfare.
162People's Choice AwardKoala VillageThe project is built around the vital ecosystem for the majority of animals – the forest. It provides koalas with food, shelter and security, producing the foundation of their very existence.
4Editor's Choice#LET`S MAKE A HABITAT# LET`S MAKE AN HABITAT seeks to promote a paradigm shift in how we typically create buildings to heal animals out of the wild. This ideology seeks to create a more sustainable, bio-centric architecture that is founded on prevention/awareness and rehabilitation across different scales.
20Editor's Choicekoala hEaven The focus of the project is to create a building, which, by being harmonically integrated in the existing natural landscape, allows either visitors, staff or koalas to immerse in nature.
8Editor's ChoiceA Haven for Australia A state-of-the-art Koala rehabilitation and visitors center that can be completely removed from site and reestablished elsewhere in the space of a single day. A redeployable asset for the future of Australia.
8Editor's ChoicekoalaThe Koala Homeland consists of the environment where the koala lives, a tourist center, and an emergency rescue center.
5Editor's ChoiceEmbdded into forest: Koala aid centerNow we are going to set up a koala hospital at the border of the koala protection habitat.In order to facilitate the treatment of injured koala, but also to receive visitors, call on people to care for animals, care for nature.
162Organizer's Choice AwardHuLa Village- A Future for Human and Koala - By studying an eco-system for Koala's sustainable development and modular building systems that change in stages. Humans can be proactive in conserving Koala and they will learn to adapt to living conditions with humans. And this is also the profound human goal of Koala conservation.
9The Borobi SanctuaryThis project aims to raise awareness regarding its severity through a rescue and rehabilitation center. A series of spaces are formulated from the process of koala rehabilitation to form a closed loop of informative and engaging experiences. The concept stems from the idea of reinterpreting “enclosure” by breaking down barriers allowing a shared experience.
9THE LOOPSThis design proposes a continuous fluid space integrating and hovering over the existing topography, creates two separate systems facilitate the different functions of the building, ensures the safety and security of the medical zone while increase the interaction between visitors and koalas.
8Insterspecies RefugiumDynamic interfaces to regenerate a Koala's ecosystem: Nurturing mutualistic relationships between human and wildlife. The project coordinates three major flows - visitors, staff and wildlife, structured into three distinct programs: research, educational and rehabilitation.
2Koala Habitat in Mount Tamborine - AustraliaProject made for Heaven competition. Building is a habitat for koalas in Mount Tamborine in Queensland, Australia.
4KOALA HEAVENThe theme of this design is koala paradise, designed to establish a guardian base for koalas. Using eucalyptus leaves as the design concept, create koala rehabilitation area, tourist center area, staff dormitory area, etc., to provide a safe haven for koalas in Australia.
4Koala HabitatThe koala habitat fixates on fostering an experience of clusters. Whilst the rehabilitation for Koala remains the integral focus of the scheme, the necessity to create a sustainable environment is crucial. The koala habitat then becomes a holistic enterprise accommodating ecological diversity, koala’s rehabilitation, and learning experience.
3GumnHuts For KoalasWhat is more natural than that a solidarity, a complicity, a bond should be established between visitors, thanks to architecture? Does this mean that the architecture has become an instrument, a channel of communication, a “rendez-vous”? If architecture is not only what is built, then we are connected with the mystery of our presence between heaven and earth
