ENVIRONMENTAL

ENVIRONMENTAL WINNER ANNABELLE TAN

A Sliver of Housing by Annabelle Tan
Winner of Environmental Award 2022
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
‘Cutting through individual housing units within the proposed design, the drawing pushes the design process by speculating on the possibilities of dwelling and appropriation by individual inhabitants. The new infrastructure proposed necessarily creates new interfaces between people and the environment, inevitably also allowing new daily practices and moments of sociality to be enacted around this new everyday infrastructure. Drawing into spaces within the architecture forces the author to question whether desirable habits and relations are created, or if the design still embodies current paradigms of neocolonial tropicality.’

Judges’ comments

Tan’s work clearly demonstrates the representation of a sustainably driven design project, one that holistically considers social and environmental sustainability. The judges admired the juxtaposition of the framed spaces and emphasise on the home spaces to the outside world. “The provocative focus of areas of interest and composition captures the essence of the proposal, placing the emphasis on the inhabitation of spaces rather than the structure as a very interesting form of conversation towards the project’s principles.”
The judges praised Tan’s meticulous hand drawn representations. “We wanted to commended Tan’s series of drawings as standout examples of how drawings can be, and in Tan’s instance, are such strong mechanisms in communicating critical project narratives. It’s great to see such strong sustainability critique at its core agenda of discussion.”

HIGHLY COMMENDED YOUNGBIN SHIN

A New Mt. Everest Habitat by Youngbin Shin
Highly Commended for Environmental Award 2022
Architectural Association School of Architecture
‘The project proposes the shelter for the new type of social space to replace traditional tents at Mt. Everest which also can value in the lives of locals with using natural materials as building envelop to close the cycle of camping equipment waste. The Everest and local villages have the issue of hiking tourism causing the environmental stress. The project responds to issues with offering local the structures by indigenous material and engaging them to self build for the new Everest habitat.’

COMMENDED ALEXANDRA FRANCIS AND ELLE THOMPSON

The Carbon Conscious Collective by Alexandra Francis and Elle Thompson
Commended for Environmental Award 2022
University of Sheffield School of Architecture
‘On approach to Manchester Piccadilly, a passenger looks out of the window to see the North elevation of the Renold building, within the now completed Carbon Conscious Collective masterplan. The tower of the building is clad in experimental façade panels with children learning about growing fresh vegetables in their morning lessons in the school below. The building outwardly speaks of it's experimental low-impact design and flexibility, as well as the autonomy of the residents over their space.’

COMMENDED HEATHER BLACK

Trading Boundaries by Heather Black
Commended for Environmental Award 2022
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
‘The image deconstructs a system of tokenisation in which tree saplings are transported around an infrastructural matrix to be grown, registered, and sold. The scheme prays off the ‘buzz’ surrounding non-fungible ownership to create an evolved green investment industry.’

SPECIAL MENTION JONATHAN EDWARDS

Porth Wen Circular Economy Isometric by Jonathan Edwards
Special Mention for Environmental Award 2022
De Montfort University Leicester
‘This isometric drawing visualises the interlocking building elements and resources utilised in my thesis project (Lost Wales: Reviving Porth Wen) which is a biogas powerplant and eco spa. The design utilises the abundance of seaweed off the coast of anglesey in which it is harvested and sorted by lignin content. Low ligning seaweeds are placed in anaerobic digesters where biogas is produced, powering the spa facility and heating up its pools. High lignin seaweed is used as a spa treatment and combined withe local china clay to produce a variety of spa treatments.’

SPECIAL MENTION IZZY FARQUHARSON

An Assembled City by Izzy Farquharson
Special Mention for Environmental Award 2022
Royal College of Art
‘This project proposes a new market typology: the ‘market garden city’, situated on London’s periphery and intended to increase awareness of the importance and potential of local food production. It questions how, by growing more food in and near our urban areas, we might build capacity and resilience into the food systems of our cities and presents a model for how land might be productively and sensitively developed on the city’s Green Belt.’

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