18"Heart of the Ocean"The main idea of the project is to combine the normally understood building structure with the power of the element into a kinetic hybrid. It aims to symbolize synergy between human activity and ocean power. The effect of this combination are two large oceanic waterfalls which appear flooding the existing object.
3Jury CommendationBuilding in Alferes Malheiro, PortoRehabilitation and expansion project of a residential building, in Porto, developed in accordance with its environment. Contributing to the consolidation of the character of the street between the new and the existing heritage in the city.
5Sherbourne CommonsSherbourne Commons is a radical social housing proposal in Toronto, Canada that attempts to create an antithesis to the saturated capitalist-driven developments in the Downtown East. The architecture encourages a greater notion of what a development in the downtown core could be – a place for learning, co-habitation, and social encounters.
65Atelier for an artisan: SculptorSculpture a form of art making concerned with the total ambience of a space rather than the effects of an object . They fall into a special physical and symbolic space that is hard to describe but easy to experience. The intention however is not to create an illusion but to suggest an ‘air of unreality’ that we doubt the verity of the scene we are viewing.
41CONTAINER CITYThe container city project has proposed the reuse of cranes in the reuse process of containers. With the use of the crane, the project is planed to be in an addible&removable structure that can be added to the increasing need in the coming years. With the crane being under the control of the stucture, an open-ended, unplaned process is left for the coming.
13Editor's ChoiceSymbiosisA residential building based in Hong Kong (China) - It's run by the ideas of a Biophilia and community housing.
9Bayside HavenPerceiving the human to nature duality not as two opposites, but as intertwined, balancing forces.
16Institutional Excellence AwardTian TowerThe design is based on a sequential concept that allows for a significant impact beyond the site context. Regarding Biophilia's primary purpose of providing human wellness, the project focuses on fulfilling several personal engagement instances with nature through modular customizable design.
29WinnerCloudburst Forest ('暴雨森林')Hong Kong's first biophilic 'plyscraper' A residential skyscraper that brings back the deforested sub-tropical rainforest back into the city by having different elements and vegetation of a rain-forest. Also, the very first wooden skyscraper in the dense concrete jungle skyline of Hong Kong
6AFloat Our design consists of one starshaped neighborhood with residential houses and additional services (community gardens, playground and park). One neighborhood fits the given site, but it can be multiplied in each side, so this concept can solve much larger area. In that scenario, a number of “stars” create a “constellation”.
85BEYOND "LIVING"Social Housing for Ready-Made Garment (RMG) Workers in Urban Bangladesh that rethinks the living space for the lower-income working community according to their demands and generates co-living as well as income generation for every household.
