Reclaiming Modernity

Celebrating Geoffrey Bawa

Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka

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Sydney and 2 others

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Wind Conduit - Reclaiming Modernity

The building is organized as a multi-tiered base for flooding and circulation, a mat infill of program and modules, and a roof that utilizes wind conduits and creates a civic presence. The base and wind conduits reach through the modules to perform passive cooling, while the modules serve as an adaptable structural framework.

People's Choice Award

1 Entry

Nishant and 3 others

127

BRAID

Culture and Learning Centre Rajagiriya, Colombo A cultural and learning center for the people of Sri Lanka which welcomes people of all groups and encourages and promotes the traditional culture of Sri Lanka. Braid is a center which encapsulates flexible spaces enabling collaborating and outdoor learning.

Editor's Choice

5 Entries

Youssef

Reclaiming Modernity

We are proposing a school for the performing arts that strives to maintain public space at all cost.

Andrew and 2 others

A 21st-Century School

The urbanized 21st century is characterized by increasing political, ecological, and social uncertainty. At a time when the public realm is increasingly given over to private control, we believe modern civic societies require the school to evolve beyond its traditional conception to address the transience and metamorphosis required by our time.

Michael and 2 others

Reclaiming Modernity

We are proposing a vocational culinary and agricultural school in the Colombo district of Sri Lanka. Our concept stems from a focus on sustainability as a form, and on creating a school which becomes a part of the public infrastructure by continuously generating interest in the larger civic condition.

Studio

Reclaiming Modernity

Situated within a residential colony in Colombo, the Learning Centre seeks to establish itself as a refuge for designers, artists, students, performers as well as the general public.

Dezhong

Celebrating Geoffrey Bawa

This is a design school which including a lot of public space

Shortlisted

8 Entries

Hani and 2 others

Becoming Aligned With All

“Rising from earth and falling back to earth"

James

The Colombo Institute of Technology

Tropical Modernism and building as machine in the age of climate change

Joseph and Subhadeep

TULA

Balancing the tropical modernist & the contemporary

Hugh

The Garden Pavilion

One of the most fundamental responses in traditional Sri Lankan architecture is its connection with nature. The form of the Garden Pavilion was conceptualised as a series of open terraces or platforms where activity could take place. Through the building’s response to the natural environment, it could make full use of passive ventilation strategies.

Yathindra and Akbar

Reclaiming Modernity-City School of Design

The true essence of architecture lies in the history, traditions and culture of the site we aspired to resurrect this through the use of traditional modernism and our key concept of ‘Simplicity and Fluidity’ in the design

Sangeeta

Reclaiming Modernity

The Institute of learning and Design thrives to strike a Balance between the Traditional and Modern Sri Lanka, keeping Geoffrey Bawa's principles in mind.

Mohamed and 3 others

Liberation

Claiming moderniyu

Anubhav and 3 others

CEYLON INSTITUTE OF DESIGN

Whether designed to embrace or enclose, every building exists within unique cultural and environmental conditions. Specifically designed to address a range of natural elements, Geoffrey Bawa's tropical mordernism focuses on issues of integration of building with landscape and people, climate and carbon footprint by utilizing modernist ideas. Made to reorgani

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Raquibul and 2 others

(UN)BOX

(UN)BOX aims to empower the people and children to play and build. The modular arrangement creates flexibility to explore and create their own space. The strategic approach to explore the space to learn and play in three different scales create a holistic approach to find solutions at a macro level and provide connectivity.

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