12Organizer's Choice AwardNEW HOUSTONNew Houston, the first self-dependent space settlement planned for 2040, is a synthesis selected from reasonable models that conducted by countless experiments. The significance of New Houston is to make human beings leave the earth and step into space life to become "interstellar species".
33Runner-upOr1gyn Space PortThe year is 2040, and after winning a highly sought after role in helping to establish a second human settlement on MARS, young astronaut 'Ralph' embarks on his journey to Or1gyn Space Port, before launching into deep space.
23Honorable MentionFoundation 2040Foundation 2040 is set to be the first big structure to welcome and organize the colonization of the solar system.
142People's Choice AwardHexagon CityHexagon City challenges the norm by using materials at hand at the building side, by making optimal use of the land and by applying low-tech solutions to supply the city with durable energy, water, shade and cooling.Although it can be added we do not prefer high-tech solutions for their need of scarce raw materials.
18Honorable MentionSandcrete CityThe construction of the worlds first Sandcrete City is a response to the Global Sand Crisis currently sweeping the construction industry. The project explores the potential of constructing a self-sustaining city using only natural materials found in the Mauritanian desert, and aims to be a catalyst for a more innovative and responsible future.
0CommunitasBy designing a venue for festivals all over the world, a consistent communitas emerges when festivals where the liminality is produced by rites, take place around the clock.
3The Anti-PelagoOur world grows with the population dramatically and there are negative impacts on the quality of lives resulted by overpopulation, and The Sahara Desert is chosen to be the site for the conceptual development of habitat.
0THE FOOTPRINTSFootprints on Sahara desert that left by both nature and human beings is like a ?link?. The design aims to create a variety of social relations for human live in extreme environments like Sahara desert. The harmony between nature and human beings will be considered in the design.
13Growing My Life - EHCTransforming the existing nomadic society to a more stable mixed society through designing built environment. The proposed mixed society is formed by agricultural economy and new architectural space. It is different from traditional agricultural society, that the farm land is apart form living space, but become to be part of architecture itself.
4THE DESERT ATLANTISThe Desert Atlantis - the proposed prototype habitat design correlates the lost ideal city of Atlantis and the Eye of the Sahara as its backdrop with the technologically advanced Hyperloop system as its core .
3Respiratory Root ProjectThe keywords of our design are life and connection. The pursuit of our design is the romantic concept of turning desert into sea. We take the approach of modularization design: the entire habitat is composed of basic units - the towers, the shape and functions of which are inspired from the aerial roots of banyan and respiratory roots of metasequoia.
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.
