DIGITAL DRAFTING AWARD 2025

2D CAD, 3D MODELLING AND DIGITAL REPRESENTATIONS

Works produced through two dimensional CAD drafting or three dimensional modelling processes, or other digital drafting software; in any typology, view and in any style. The Digital Drafting Award is supported by Bentley’s MicroStation.

Concrete Plant Revitalization Isometric by Shing Hei Hui

Winner of Digital Drafting Award 2025

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Exploring the potential of deconstructing and reassembling on-site materials to accommodate farming purposes .By employing an original approach to sourcing natural resources, the aim is to convert the environmentally detrimental concrete plant at Hong Kong urban area into an ecologically sustainable bamboo farm and urban agriculture production facility.

Bridging Home by Michael Lewis + Luke Macnab + Andy Wardrope

Highly Commended for Digital Drafting Award 2025

United Kingdom

A detailed sectional perspective through the ‘Bridging Home’ – a competition entry for a microhome and research hub located on a bridge perched above a river below. The drawing is primarily hand-drawn, supported by 1:5 details drawn in Microstation. The drawing is based on a 3d model built in SketchUp. The overall composition was prepared in Affinity Photo and text and annotations added in Affinity Publisher

2023 by Connie Beauchamp

Commended for Digital Drafting Award 2025

Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, UK

Rooted Landscapes examines British Woodlands, recognising their lack of sustainable management, productivity and poor disease resilience; without intervention, current monoculture forestry practices will force the collapse of woodland ecosystems and available British timber. Rooted Landscapes proposes a sustainable forestry model that ignites ecological wealth in partnership with high-quality timber and design innovation. Section AA depicts the Education and Research Facility proposed as Phase 1 of the intervention.

Tectonics I by Maria Antonia Vogeler Balcazar

Special Mention for Digital Drafting Award 2025

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

Mary Lacy, the carpenter of Deptford's Mnemonic Museum of Shipbuilding, peers into the 18th century gallery and a visitor looks into her bedroom. This gallery is starting to get populated, although is still empty. Another apparatus will be ready in two weeks on the next high tide.

What's Inside by Jia Lin Yue

Special Mention for Digital Drafting Award 2025

Columbia University, United States

This drawing explores how sunlight shapes our behavior within the dwelling. Light does more than illuminate—it organizes our time, affects our mood, and guides our movement. We gravitate toward patches of warmth, rearrange our routines to catch the morning glow, and slow down in golden hour stillness. Sunlight defines thresholds between rest and activity, inside and outside, solitude and connection. In its presence, the home becomes a responsive environment, subtly choreographed by the rhythms of the sun. The drawing becomes a study of this quiet influence—how architecture becomes alive when touched by light, and how we, in turn, are drawn into alignment.

Urban Labyrinth: Site Plan by Sahil Shah

Special Mention for Digital Drafting Award 2025

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Site Plan for a future labyrinth scheme in the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia

Rhizomatic Cartography : An Ecosophic Path Tracing of the Derry Textile Industry by Vysakh Veluthedath Pankajakshan

Special Mention for Digital Drafting Award 2025

University of Edinburgh, UK

Rhizomatic Cartography : An Ecosophic Path Tracing of the Derry Textile Industry meticulously maps Northern Ireland’s bygone textile heart. Though its mills have fallen silent, the drawing follows raw fibers through spinning and weaving to finished cloth, alongside the workers whose toil animated the city. Layered cartographic strokes chart the rivers’ engineered shifts—widened channels for shipping, accelerated currents for water‑powered looms—revealing the ecological imprint of industrial ambition and inviting reflection on commerce, community, and nature’s intertwined journey.

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