13WinnerINNThe building, which was designed to create a landmark in the middle of the vast desert and attracts the attention of people even from afar, consists of accommodation units and social areas. The name of the project is inn because it evokes the inn culture in the past. It is aimed to preserve the vitality by keeping the tradition alive.
12Shade for CultureShade for Culture is a concept of cultural centre fourty kilometers away from city of Marrakech. The idea of the design was to connect a typical dwelling in the desert - tent, the self-shading effect of a cactus and windcatcher towers. The design is made of ecological and sustainable materials and uses one of the oldest construction methods - rammed earth.
21Honorable MentionMILIEUThe concept of the project was to design a building that would make full use of local culture and local ecological raw materials. The main idea was to create a visually and materially fascinating building that would fit into the surrounding landscape, stand out, but would not overshadow it.
75Institutional Excellence AwardFlower of the DesertChoosing arid climate and Following Biomimetic design, we came to across a plant that lives in the Namibia desert, Welwitschia which is extremely sustainable in Arid areas and lives about 1000 to 1500 years. The unusual form of this plant keeps the soil under the plant cool and moist. The thick leaves lay on the sand surface and prevent wind erosion aswell.
2THE GREEN EYE OF SAHARAIn order to face a variety of possibilities of future people's way of life, urban development. We provide a super vision of its highly compatible habitat, as well as its construction methods and processes. It made it possible to build cities in the desert.
0Sahara completionHe made up his mind to be a tourist to hell, because the city's inhabitants could not keep calm. I am not a dove, or even a crow, and I must play now for peace.
5Seed City:Wadi Al-HitanBy planting "cities" underground, the space and time of resource regeneration are freed for the surface environment to balance the overuse of resources, and how to achieve sustainable human habitat design in the extreme environment of Sahara in the future is discussed.
11Honorable MentionThe Nomadic Nest of SaharaThe design is intended to find a construction that based on local materials and adapted to the desert living environment through the study of ?Saharan traditional tectonic? and ?modern temporary construction technology?.With reference to modern structures and materials, find the current and future desert living patterns.
