Sustainable Design
Design approaches that balance environmental responsibility with human needs across architecture and spatial planning.
Earth Made: A Rammed Earth Courtyard Housing Scheme Built Around a Stepped Water Kund
Three earthen bars frame a sunken, terraced pool in Gwalior, proposing that the oldest building material can still organise shared urban life.
Earth Made: Rammed Earth Housing in Accra Organised Around an Old African Courtyard
A shortlisted proposal stacks four apartment types around a planted courtyard, letting earthen walls and long openings do the cooling work.
Becoming Aligned With All: A Rammed Earth Campus in Sri Lanka That Rises From the Ground and Falls Back
Two white concrete shells lift off a riverside site and land again, framing a pooled courtyard, rammed earth walls and rooms that can be reshuffled.
Building Bureau Builds a Rammed Earth Ecolodge in Nepal's Tiger Country to Fund Anti-Poaching Work
Outside Bardiya National Park, stabilized rammed earth and salvaged Tharu roof tiles turn a five-room lodge into a conservation hub for the Terai.
Studio Font Raises a Mazunte House on Ten Hollow Concrete Columns above the Oaxaca Coast
On a 40-degree slope near Punta Cometa in Mazunte, one module repeated four times and shifted 50 cm lets a house hover over cacti and rock.
Field Architects Reworks Ladakhi Vernacular into a Passive-Solar Adobe House on the Banks of the Indus
In Chuchot, Ladakh, a naturalist's home pairs double-wall adobe, dry-stone footings and a glazed shelkhang to harvest winter sun.
CGZ Architecture Builds a Rampart-Inspired Playground Shelter for a Corsican Nursery School in Porto-Vecchio
In Porto-Vecchio, Corsica, limestone-aggregate concrete walls, laricio pine beams and children's handprint tiles turn a school shelter into a lesson.
Protoplain Architects Rebuilds Four Forest Restrooms in Taichung with Taiwan-Grown Bamboo
In Taichung's Basianshan forest recreation area, four public toilets use domestic bamboo and four construction methods to give each its own character.
Ghiya: Reinterpreting Cairo's Informal Skyline Through Brick, Recycled Wood, and Local Identity
A winning proposal that treats Manshiyat Naser's unfinished rooftops and exposed brickwork not as problems to solve but as an architectural language to ext
New Wave: Rethinking Barcelona's Eixample Grid as a Living Urban Ecosystem
A layered hyperblock proposal separates pedestrians from vehicles and threads continuous green infrastructure through Cerdà's iconic grid.
Resource City: A 120-Meter Tower That Makes Cairo's Waste Visible
In Manshiyat Naser, a vertical recycling complex turns garbage collection into public architecture, education, and commerce.
Anahata: A Modular Pilgrimage Village That Breathes with the Crowd
Triangular modules scale up and down across a mountain valley, replacing permanent infrastructure with adaptable pilgrimage architecture.
