Strays 2020

Designing an animal-welfare shelter

Bucharest, Romania

Brief Grants Schedule Awards & Fees Jurors Partners Discussion Entries (8)Leaderboard Rules & Guidelines

Winner

1 Entry

Shiying and Menghe

SCENTLAND - FEELING, SEEING, SMELLING

Through penetrating sensations, the project aims to form a multilayered bond among humans, animals, and the neighboring landscapes. By questioning the inhumane and cold-hearted side of animal rescue facilities, the architecture ought to have the power to construct both physical and mental interconnections between lives.

People's Choice Award

1 Entry

Barbora

Temporary home for dogs

The uniqueness of this project stems from the fact, that the main goal of the shelter is to keep the dogs at this place as short as possible and therefore the shelter is designed for people to choose the best (the corridor concept) and to make friends with the chosen dog (the zoo concept).

Editor's Choice

6 Entries

Małgorzata

ANIMAL HARBOR

ANIMAL HARBOR is a place of equality between humans and animals. Residents are provided with proper living conditions, care and care. Thanks to this, they live in peace and comfort, and the designed space also serves those who visit this place.

Beth and Bart

DIGS

DIGS interrogates distinctions between standard vs. luxury, kenneling vs. homing, domestic vs. wild, and confinement vs. freedom by superimposing a LUXURY HOTEL onto a SHELTER for STRAYS.

Jordan

ADAPOST VAGABOND

a shelter for strays.

Pablo and 3 others

One community

Bucharest is a city that has been facing the problem of strays for over a decade and it has affected both the strays and the communities. In this project we provide an alternative that allows architecture to answer this so-called problem in a way that ensures the well being of the strays and provides a space of connection for the humans.

carlo alberto and Andrea

SOCIAL NATURE

Three are the founding elements that characterize this project: The creation of a certain number of protected areas for animals to establish a natural sociality made up of small compatible communities. The creation of a web of relationships - observations between animail and men to gradually rebuild a natural and healthy relationship.

Jiamin and Yunghan

Home for Homelessness

Our project is dedicated to providing a shelter for homeless animals, homeless people and impending food. The main function of this shelter is to adopt stray animals, but at the same time, it provides shelter for the local homeless people, so that they can become the staff of the shelter and work and live in society with dignity.

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