Pura

Observation Center design challenge: A safe interface between humans and nature

Tanzania

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Winner

1 Entry

Szymon

PURA

Viewing deck with watchtower

People's Choice Award

1 Entry

Tanya and 3 others

149

Mashika

The project is based on 7 principles. MIGRATION of animals is the configuration of the observation deck. ADAPTIVE exterior. SUSTAINABLE architecture. HI-TECH technologies used. INITIATED point of the journey. KNOWLEDGE about the animals of the park and residents. AUTHENTIC design details.

Editor's Choice

4 Entries

Filipp

Expanding nature

Designing safe interfaces between humans and nature

David

Maji

Can we use water as nature-inspired barrier instead of raising walls?

Tanya and 2 others

110

The wild bird in Serengeti

Inspired by an abstract wild bird, the observation deck-bridge is supposed to be located on the Grumeti River, among the vegetation. The location is due to the migration routes of wild animals, which will be convenient and comfortable. Easily erected structures ensure a careful introduction into nature, production efficiency and environmental friendliness.

Tanya and 3 others

125

TERRA

The atmosphere of the location of the object being placed takes our emotions into the world of antiquity and primitiveness, filled with dangers. This world quickly returns us to our natural instincts that fill us with vivid emotions. One of these instincts is the need for water. This need has become the key to shaping our concept.

Shortlisted

5 Entries

Szymon and Agnieszka

Uzuri Centre

Uzuri Center – a place to take a break, relax and admire the view.

Misak and 2 others

Nature Observatory

“Someone who robs another freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness. No one is really free if snatches another freedom, just as no one is free if his freedom is taken away. Both the oppressor and the oppressed are deprived of their humanity.”

Mao

ARCHIMAL:BECOMING-ANIMAL

Our building is an unprecedented hybrid, where human and animal parts meet again, mix and assemble to form a giant beast. Nests, branches, fangs of wolves, spears and sticks of local Maasai people, feet of flamingos, bellies of hippopotamuses, manes of lions, fences, windmills, Platonic geometry... They interweave together and showing the fate of the world.

Mohamed and 2 others

120

KOPJES

Humanity began to experience its evolutionary process thousands of years ago, and in this process, it formed a part of the ecosystem along with other fauna species for many years. But in this process, with the evolution of man, his relationship with nature also changed. When human beings who lived with nature, developed and started to establish civilizations

Kimberley and 2 others

Immersive Migration

This project aims to stage a poetic meeting of the animals and visitors of the Serengeti and on the edge of the Ngorongoro Crater. The design proposal focuses on curating this long-existing interaction between these two “users” through the lens of curiosity.