UNI International Architecture Design Awards - Commercial buildings

Background

Consumerism has taken the world by storm, but like everything, it has its pros and cons. While it has increased global connections and economic output, on the other hand, it has come to be the cause of a lot of social and ecological problems, including a severe misuse of resources, pollution, and a cycle of waste, disparity, and poverty.

With the understanding that our physical environment has a significant influence on cognition, behavior, and perception, can specialized commercial architecture attempts to bridge the gap between built spaces, consumer behavior, and productivity at the workplace, based on a better understanding of interactions between consumers and their immediate surroundings, promoting healthier consumer choices, and mitigating risky behavior.

What does this mean for the dramatically changing consumer environments of today and the future?

Focusing on the most basic of frameworks (typologies) of built spaces, UNI introduces Architecture (A- Z).

Challenge

‘C for Commercial’ aimed to bring together global design talents that explore one of our most primary needs as a population.

This challenge invited entries of commercial spaces that ranged from retail to restaurants to workspaces, this theme aimed to recognize spaces that have evolved with the utmost understanding of its user groups, their function, its adaptability, and its environmental responsibility.

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Some of the Best of competition projects are as follows:

Winning Project: E2E Offices

By: Maurizio Angelini & Banjamin Oportot Frigerio  

Description: In the middle of an old factory, the project aimed to integrate nature into the workspaces of a new industrialized building solutions company. Through a mass timber structure, based on coffered beams and CLT that allows wider and more flexible spaces, the building exhibits the main materials used in the company production, such as wood and fibre cement.

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People’s Choice: The Adsequor

By: Naz Kaplan 

Description: The Adsequor is a sustainable hotel project on the seashores of Izmir where the historical Meles Stream forms an important but unfortunately neglected wetland called Meles Delta, around which a skyscraper zone poorly develops. The main objective of the project is to heal both the wetland and the river through a new approach towards the highrise typology.

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Jury Commendation: FAMA Restaurant

By: Paulo Martins

 

Description: The FAMA restaurant is the first gastronomic project of chef Luis Lavrador. Located in a recent building, in a relatively new zone of the city of Aveiro, this restaurant aims to be a meeting point, a place for lingering over a meal, and a reference.

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Jury Commendation: PLANSTONE

By: Paulo Martins

Description: This industrial warehouse is located in an area without any architectural references and surrounded by forest. With no relevant references and a layout which consists of a warehouse area for finished product storage, a cargo area, and office space, the proposal is intended to reflect the simplicity of the solution, given the simplicity of the requirements.

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Jury Commendation: Araksa Tea House

By: Jan Jakob Glasmeier

Description: Araksa Tea Garden is situated on the foothills of the rich forest of Mae Tang, Thailand. This boutique tea garden produces high-quality organic tea that achieved EU Organic certification. Simple Architecture was approached to design a Tea House by using sustainable and locally available material. The goal was to embed the building into its natural habitat.

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Discover the design brief here: https://uni.xyz/competitions/commerical/info/about

Discover the full results here: https://uni.xyz/competitions/commerical/entries 

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