International competition for students "Blue Award 2012" - Winners
Dr. Dorinda Bixler - 29.05.2012
Dr. Dorinda Bixler - 29.05.2012
From amongst the 232 projects submitted this year, the jury for the ‘Blue Award’ for sustainable architecture selected 11 projects from 8 different countries as recipients for the 3 prizes, the 2 special prizes and honourable mentions.
The three prizes were awarded to:
- Nikhil Chaudhary (CEPT University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India) in the Urban Development and Transformation, Landscape Development category for his project on restructuring the urban fringes along ring roads, in this case, Nagpur City.
- Gregor Fasching (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) in the Ecological Building category, for a bamboo and earth construction school in Guarabira, northeastern Brazil, for underprivileged street children.
- Veronika Holczer (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) in the building in existing structures category for a project transforming a shed into a community space in the village of Markoc.
The jury’s special prizes went to:
- Chi Lu, Bin Xie, Zi’ang Wang, Shuo Liu, (Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, China) for their project entitled Living with earth, a design study of ecological architecture suited to poor villages on the lœss plateau in northern China.
- Georg Pichler, (Graz University of Technology, Austria) for the experimental ‘DUMPLAB’ project based on the principles laid down by Michael Braungart and William McDonough in their ‘From cradle to cradle’ essay.
The Blue Award is organised every two years, with UIA support, by the Department for Spatial and Sustainable Design at the Vienna University of Technology to highlight forward looking sustainable architectural design. The jury was chaired by the honorary president Sir Michael Hopkins and composed of Albert Dubler, UIA President, Nikos Fintikakis, UIA Council Member and Dominique Alba, Robert Korab, Françoise-Hélène Jourda, Rudolf Scheuvens, Dominique Gauzin-Müller.
View the prize-winning and mentioned projects on the competition web site
http://www.blueaward.at/showcase/nominated-projects-2012.html
More information
http://www.blueaward.at/
The three prizes were awarded to:
- Nikhil Chaudhary (CEPT University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India) in the Urban Development and Transformation, Landscape Development category for his project on restructuring the urban fringes along ring roads, in this case, Nagpur City.
- Gregor Fasching (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) in the Ecological Building category, for a bamboo and earth construction school in Guarabira, northeastern Brazil, for underprivileged street children.
- Veronika Holczer (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) in the building in existing structures category for a project transforming a shed into a community space in the village of Markoc.
The jury’s special prizes went to:
- Chi Lu, Bin Xie, Zi’ang Wang, Shuo Liu, (Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, China) for their project entitled Living with earth, a design study of ecological architecture suited to poor villages on the lœss plateau in northern China.
- Georg Pichler, (Graz University of Technology, Austria) for the experimental ‘DUMPLAB’ project based on the principles laid down by Michael Braungart and William McDonough in their ‘From cradle to cradle’ essay.
The Blue Award is organised every two years, with UIA support, by the Department for Spatial and Sustainable Design at the Vienna University of Technology to highlight forward looking sustainable architectural design. The jury was chaired by the honorary president Sir Michael Hopkins and composed of Albert Dubler, UIA President, Nikos Fintikakis, UIA Council Member and Dominique Alba, Robert Korab, Françoise-Hélène Jourda, Rudolf Scheuvens, Dominique Gauzin-Müller.
View the prize-winning and mentioned projects on the competition web site
http://www.blueaward.at/showcase/nominated-projects-2012.html
More information
http://www.blueaward.at/
