DIGITAL ATMOSPHERE AND INNOVATIVE REPRESENTATIONS

Awarded to those who are pushing the boundaries of visualisation and embracing the creative possibilities of new tools and emerging technology. The Beyond Visualisation Award is supported by Hayes Davidson

Dystopia of the Omnicidal Landscape by Thomas Biscaro

Winner of Beyond Visualisation Award 2025

Université Laval, Canada

Near the China–Mongolia border, the city of Baotou silently reshapes our reality by extracting nearly half of the world’s rare earth metals—key to the devices that embody our belief in inevitable progress. Ten kilometers away, a toxic lake swells with radioactive waste. Nothing lives there. This project explores speculative architecture as a catalyst for awareness, staging a doomed decontamination plant at its center. The worker returns daily, repeating futile gestures as the lake rises. Architecture becomes a witness—an anti-memorial—making visible what we strive to forget: our denial, our inertia, our collapse.

The [Ordinary Man] by Charles-Antoine Lauzon

Highly Commended for Beyond Visualisation Award 2025

Université Laval, Canada

Natural light is often perceived as a resource capable of creating infinite atmospheres. However, it is too often taken for granted and seen as eternal. The project seeks to reexamine the use of direct natural sunlight in architecture by exploring the consequences of humanity’s relentless pursuit of « constant evolution ». The House of Anthology becomes a satirical apology of our conditions of existence in a world where direct light has been replaced by a diffuse luminosity, scattered by an infinite number of suspended particles in the atmosphere. The man embodies [the ordinary man], the path that has led to the current state. He is the sole master on board but does nothing to improve the situation.

Beacon of the Forgotten by Srividya Muralidhar

Highly Commended for Beyond Visualisation Award 2025

United Arab Emirates

When the world turned inward and cities fell silent, only this tower remained lit.
What began with the hikikomori became the new way of life—never leaving home because there was no need to.
Outside, nature reclaimed everything. Buildings crumbled. Streets vanished.
But from the dark sea, through the fog, this lone tower glows.
A final refuge.
A quiet signal from a world that chose to stay inside.

The Threshold Below by Devanshu Sharma

Commended for Beyond Visualisation Award 2025

India

Beneath the crust of the known world, in a chasm carved by time and absence. The cavern is neither architecture nor ruin, but something more primordial: an archive of silence, moisture, and memory.

The Wall by Yingpei Li

Commended for Beyond Visualisation Award 2025

China

The wall both delimiting and perforating space. We only see, when our sight stumbles over.

Contemplation Sculpture by Jay Adi

Special Mention for Beyond Visualisation Award 2025

Indonesia

You are stronger than you think, braver than you believe and more capable than you imagine.

Virtual Room NO.4 by Kuang Peipeng

Special Mention for Beyond Visualisation Award 2025

China

At some point in the future, in a virtual world that breaks free from the material foundation, imagination can be unleashed, everything does not have to follow the laws of physics, the concepts of time and space are blurred, and the boundaries of people's various senses can be extended infinitely.

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