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The Design Educates Awards recognize, showcase, and promote globally the best ideas and implementations of architecture and design that can educate. We look for an additional benefit with long-term implications that takes into account the increasing complexity of our lives, both now and in the future. Something that will have a lasting influence beyond the everpresent effects of design and architecture. Each year, the esteemed panel of judges selects the outstanding ideas and implementations in the categories of architectural design, product design, universal design, and responsive design. So far, the awards have been joined by more than 500 participants from 176 cities, 35 countries and 5 continents, 40 members of the judging panel. 80 laureates have been selected.
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Winners 2021
Zheshui Natural Library
Winner for the year 2021 in architectural designLUO studio. Zheshui Village is located in Taihang Mountains, Shanxi. The village and the topography are closely articulated. Many houses there are built by leaning on the mountain. Zheshui Natural library is inspired by this traditional construction method, and the building is attached on the rock.
Public Library, Dornbirn
Solarlux Choice 2021Dietrich | Untertrifaller with Christian Schmoelz. The library of Dornbirn was designed as an inter-generational sharing, meeting and learning space. It promotes reading and the practice of languages, the exploration of computerized research methods and new forms of communication
Kö-Bogen II, Düsseldorf
Gold prize in architectural designingenhoven architects. 8 kilometres of hornbeam hedges, over 30,000 plants – Europe’s biggest green facade is a key element of the Kö-Bogen II commercial and office building – The ensemble marks the conclusion of an extensive urban renewal project in the heart of Düsseldorf.
Shougang No.3 Blast- Furnane Museum
Special recognition in architectural designCCTN Design. Located at the northwest end of Shougang Park, the project covers an area of about 2.53 hectares, which is next to the Yongding River and backed by Shijing Mountain. The project is the most distinctive and stunning area with highest density of iron making equipment, as the starting of enterprise construction a century ago.
THE VOXEL A Quarantine Cabin
Special recognition in architectural designVicente Guallart & Daniel Ibañez, Michael Salka. The Voxel is an autonomous, 12 square metre cross-laminated timber (CLT) structure clad in a parametric rainscreen, exemplifying an advanced ecological approach to architectural production.
Cafeteria for Anne Frank School and Heilbrunnen School in Stuttgart
Honorable mention in architectural designhammeskrause architekten bda. The cafeteria is the place for joint lunches and school functions. In terms of urban planning, the cafeteria is positioned so that it succeeds in integrating both school buildings structurally and spatially via the shared schoolyard.
ATELIER ALICE TREPP
Honorable mention in architectural designMINO CAGGIULA ARCHITECTS. The Trepp Atelier was developed for a person but also for a place. Designing an Atelier to mirror the thought and philosophy of an artist has long fascinated generations of artists and the architects charged with the task.
Nasushiobara City Library
Honorable mention in architectural designMari Ito/UAo. Through the stimulation of multiple senses, the design is intended to spark new realizations and learning. The first floor is a lively, accessible space filled with many intersecting subtleties, while the stacks on the second floor provide a comfortable space for getting lost in reading or research. Three key features of the building—"forest pockets,” radiating bookshelves, and the “leafline”
Waldorf School Barcelona
Honorable mention in architectural designEduard Balcells Architecture+Urbanism+Landscape, Ignasi Rius Architecture, Tigges Architekt. The El Til·ler - Linden Tree- School is carefully inserted into a large, mature and abandoned private garden close to Barcelona. The complex is articulated along the existing main access path, which becomes a “rambla” -the Mediterranean name for high street- that ends at a square which opens to the landscape.
Renaturalisation of wetlands in the City of Stalowa Wola
Honorable mention in responsive designLAX laboratory for architectural experiments. The main goal of the project is the renaturalisation of wetlands in the City of Stalowa Wola, which has seen a deterioration in its water-holding capacity due to draining and isolation from its feeding source - the San river.
PIROUETTE HOUSE
Honorable mention in architectural designWallmakers. Located smack in the middle of an urban and crowded locale of Trivandrum, the site was a small plot that was being suffocated by other residential projects from all four sides. The idea of this residence was to have an inward facing house with all its spaces opening into a funneling central courtyard. The house is aligned in the East-West direction with openings facilitating for maximum cross-ventilation.
Capsule Hotel and Bookstore in Village Qinglongwu
Honorable mention in architectural designAtelier tao+c. The site is an old house of wood structure and mud walls in the village Qinglongwu, facing the green mountains east side. The architect regenerated this 232sqm building by inserting bedrooms and bamboo bookshelves and transformed it to a capsule hotel that can accommodate 20 people, along with a community library into the 7.2-meter high two-stories space.
Winners 2020
Copenhill: Amager Bakke
Winner for the year 2020 in architectural designBIG, SLA. The project, also known as ‘Amager Bakke,’is a 41,000 m2 waste-to-energy plant that turns social infrastructure into an architectural landmark with new nature activities and high biodiversity. Winner for the year 2020 in architectural design
The Shed
Winner for the year 2020 in responsive designDiller Scofidio + Renfro, Rockwell Group. The Shed comprises a fixed structure with a stack of column-free galleries encased within a telescoping outer shell that slides onto an adjoining plaza, allowing the building to double its footprint on demand.
Guga S’Thebe Theater
Gold Prize in architectural design, Emerging Designers, Honorable mention in responsive designGeorgia Institute of Technology, RWTH Aachen University, PBSA / University of Applied Arts Duesseldorf , Frankfurt A.M./Cologne: Arne Kuenstler; CS Studio Architects, AIT-ArchitekturSalon. Focused on sustainability, this self-initiated design was developed alongside the local community to meet their diverse needs.
Light Phone II
Silver Prize in product designLight. Light Phone II is a simple, 4G LTE phone with a beautiful black & white E-ink display. It provides a way out from the constant consumption we are inundated with, and helps us get back to appreciating tangible experiences and regain meaning and purpose in our day-to-day lives.
Ecohouse V01
Bronze Prize in architectural designMAEB Students, IAAC Fablab Staff. Prototype showcases many inclusive, innovative, environmentally aware and self-sufficient solutions, including: an integrative design synthesizing inputs from the diverse building cultures of the international student body.
Experimenta Heilbronn
Special recognition in architectural design, Solarlux Choice 2020Sauerbruch Hutton. The Experimenta building is like a spatial tool for learning and understanding, whose architecture underlines the educational purpose of the science centre. It stands at the centre of Heilbronn, on an island in the River Neckar.
Ahsa Farmstay
Special recognition in architectural designCreative Crews Ltd. This project allowed the architect to examine Architecture as the relationship between buildings and culture. The Ahsa Farmstay project carefully considers sustainable tourism as a catalyst for cultural and knowledge exchanges, which benefits both tourists and locals, as well as positively impact the surrounding community.
Beelieve Preschool for Life
Honorable mention in architectural design3Arquitectura y Asociados, S.C. The spaces are not only destined for a specific activity, but these are flexible and dynamic, this is how space becomes a tool that contributes to generating an appropriate learning environment. Honorable mention in architectural design
Havé Etoe Dormitory
Honorable mention in architectural designStudents of Peter Behrens School of Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology, Havé Institute of Technology, Hochschule Koblenz. About 50 students have designed and built a midwife dormitory together with American students, German craft apprentices and Ghanaian vocational students during their semester break.
Museum Hotel Antakya
Honorable mention in architectural designEAA-Emre Arolat Architecture. The archeological findings discovered in an excavation on the project site in Antakya which is close to St. Pierre Church, directed the employer who was planning to build a five-star hotel, to build a museum-hotel on the site.
Phonotype
Solarlux ChoiceWalda Verbaenen. This masterproject tries to show a visual identity for a language according to its phonology, that is both functionally and aesthetically new. By making adjustments and additions within the visual structure of a typeface, language can develop a proper visual identity.
Wondrous Light Children’s House
Honorable mention in responsive designChang Architects. Physical play is often replaced by virtual play that does little to engage the physical senses. More children are engaged and addicted to the digital medium than interacting face-to-face with their peers. Wondrous Light Children’s House offers a living, breathing form of education.
Spring Art Museum
Honorable mention in architectural designPraxis d’Architecture. In the design we sought a piece of architecture that is open, culturally rooted, and arousing a feeling of sublimity, which we believe, although through different means, shares the same purpose as the art it accommodates.
Winners 2019
National museum in Szczecin – Dialogue Centre Przełomy
Special recognition architectural designRobert Konieczny. The building reconciles two conflicting traditions: the quarter and the square. This is how the urban hybrid was created, it encloses the space like a quarter, while maintaining values of open space.
Smog Free Project
Winner for the year 2019 in universal designStudio Roosegaarde. A series of urban innovations to reduce pollution and provide an inspirational experience of a clean future. The project aims to create an immediate impact on a local scale and activate new solutions towards smog-free cities.
Ecocapsule
Special recognition in universal designEcocapsule Holding. Ecocapsule educates people towards energy saving consciousness. It is designed as a smart home, via a smart home app users get real time overview of how much energy and water is being spent for e.g. taking a shower, cooking pasta or charging phone.
Egg-Shaped Cradle
Honorable mention in universal designCai-in Interior Design. Our design seeks to evoke the feelings of safety; the white, egg-like exterior is suggestive of a uterus, whose purpose is to elicit feelings of safety, relaxation and security, to soothe children’s excitable and restless nature.
Three Cubes in the Forest
Finalist Universal DesignThree Cubes in the Forest Kotoaki Asano Architect & Associates. Playground equipment for children, public furniture, art objects, meditation rooms, arbors, small rest spaces, waiting rooms, chairs with roofs. Three cubes are the micro-architectures with the various characteristics and functions.
Social (Justice) Media
Finalists in universal designSocial (Justice) Media EUS+ Architects, Folio. When people send messages (tweets) to this museum about their city’s human rights and social justice using their smartphones, each unit connected wirelessly to each area receives the electronic signals and changes the angle of the unit by the mechanical system. The angle is towards that region.
Corridors of Mosul
Honorable mention in architectural designMaria Abi Raad. Architecture has the power to educate the people by communicating solutions around a certain theme. Because reaching sustainable development is globally the biggest challenge, it would be expected from our designs to respect and project the principles of success regarding this theme.
Haven House
Honorable mention in architectural designA Gateway in the Rocks Anastasia Elrouss Architects. Carved out in the rocky mountain and hidden between rocks and trees, a sloped cantilevered roof shelters the main reception space. The house creates an intense experience for the five senses in a short sequence of moments.
Exterior Skin (Wynwood Mixed-Use)
Honorable mention in architectural designFaulders Studio. With a non-repeating pattern across the entire façade, we use geometric shape-shifting to perceptually alter the visual scale of the building. Delineated outlines are more expansive higher up, and address visual registration from a distance.
Haddad Compound
Finalists in architectural designAnastasia Elrouss Architects. The Haddad Compound is engaged in an ongoing conversation with its surrounding forests. A building that is composed of many parts, the “exploded” house encompasses a series of pavilions that surround the existing main house, which is geographically located on the highest point of the site.
Unikato
Honorable mention in architectural designKWK Promes Robert Konieczny. Modernist buildings of Katowice, once bright, for many years exposed to the smog, gradually got dirty and became almost black. Their white windows always contrast with the black of the façade. This observation has become an inspiration for the project.
Chirath Residence
Honorable mention in architectural designWallmakers. In today’s world, it is a prevalent trend to add the prefix of sustainability to most things. However, there seems to be very little that is done to represent the concept. We, as a community, have devoted ourselves to the cause of using mud and waste as the chief components to make structures which are alluring and utilitarian.
Tetris Nursery
Finalists in architectural designIroje KHM Architects. Design concept of Nursery was to create diverse events of learning experiences. As for the programs of learning diverse experiences for kids, we tried to introduce various spatial events which are continued by strolling all around the places in this kindergarten.
Today we eat a cow!
Honorable mention in product designToday we eat a cow! Katharina Karras. The children started laughing and replied that this could only be nonsense. Seeing this real scenario it was obvious for me to create something that reacts to the problematic of our unconsciousness towards food and its origin.
Histheory
Honorable mention in product designBokor Gyöngyi, Csizmadia Zsolt, Kókai András, Mihalkovics Edina, Pipei Borbála, Szilágyi András. A board game with alternative theories of history, motivating students to think about history as a logical network of politics, sociology and human psychology.
Frozen Mountain
Honorable mention in product designNapp Studio. Trained as architects, we often focus on large developments, buildings or urban plannings in hopes to create a better world and environment. Frozen Mountain, on the contrary, is a tiny artifact, compared to ordinary architecture-scale, yet, probably capable of achieving a much greater impact.
SIMS: Snap-Interlock Modular System
Winner for the year 2019 in product designDioinno Architecture PLLC. The system can achieve limited geometric freedom. Despite further structural analysis and new interpretation necessary, this ‘part to whole’ system can be applied to the building structure, facade application as sub-structure, sheer wall, partition wall, and more.
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