Retro - Fit 2020

Bringing Modularity to Balconies.

Worldwide

Brief Grants Schedule Awards & Fees Jurors Partners2 Discussion Entries (10)Leaderboard Rules & Guidelines

Winner

1 Entry

Dong and 3 others

[To] SHARE

[To] SHARE (Uber for balcony) celebrates the power and potential of a sharing economy as a vision for a sustainable Singapore.

People's Choice Award

1 Entry

Nikhil and KEVAL

380

SLUM AUTONOMY - A PARADOX

The idea is to design a balcony for slum dwellers, (rehabilitated into new housing apartments)by understanding their lifestyle & activities in slums and how efficiently space was used. The project aims at providing a multifunctional use of balcony which gives them a sense of independence in terms of its usability and variations according to their needs.

Institutional Excellence Award

1 Entry

Daniel and 2 others

ECOTent

Project Submission for the Retro-Fit Competition. Redefining the function of the urban balcony with post pandemic considerations

Editor's Choice

4 Entries

jgfrontado

Urban Retrofit The Collective and the Individual

Architectural competition

Ceyda and 2 others

Symbiotic Pack

The symbiotic pack allows the dweller to atone for the lack of balcony, as an unpleasant result of increase in population and vertical growth, presenting a practical foldable structure, and also a flexible space of creativity, observation, and leisure.

Hanna and Adam

Balco

The project is the answer to the questions based on the future balcony. Because of the modularity, “Balco” can have different dimensions. Inspired by origami art the product has flexible shapes that can transform according to the needs.

Langdon and JAcob

TOP HAT!

as an intervention onto existing buildings, “Top Hat!” seeks to revitalize the urban fabric of modern cities by bringing open space, customization, and dynamism onto intervention sites. kit-of-parts, parametricism, and modular nesting design methods result in a system that is deployable in a wide variety of scenarios.

Shortlisted

3 Entries

Vid and Saša

MODULAR BALCONIES

Project introduce the idea of uniform but diverse design for balcony unit. Although the solution seeks for design and construction which would unified the overall look of the neigborhood's block unities, its great importnace to create this micro enviroments depending on individual needs. Therefore complex set of tools and principles should be introduced.

Subhajit and 3 others

361

Extended Shell

Our aim is to connect people with the inside and the outside of world with the modularity balcony using the conservation of heritage and to fuse the basic requirement, modular future and legacy of veranda.