First Prize: Rebirth: a food’s tale

Team: Aikaterini Ntavou / Laura Peralta /

Rebirth: A Food's Tale successfully combines urban food production with social inclusiveness and, more broadly, issues of environment and public space. It achieves many goals seemingly intertwined on an aesthetically confident site plan. The team envisions a different future on a small scale, suggesting new uses while establishing a fruitful and inviting space for social interaction and also a platform for biodiversity. The project also acts as an advocate, raising awareness of the food production processes and healthy urban environment.

Second Prize: The Golden Connection

Team: Alex Pontes de Albuquerque / Isabelle Caroline de Freitas / Mariana Coelho Andrade Horta / Mayara Ledo Mendes /

The Golden Connection deals with stitching together a highly fragmented campus space in Porto. Besides connecting the spaces into a new functional whole, the team took the assignment further and introduced a notion of verticality of the landscape. The brass-textured skywalk, in playful relation with the space and trees, offers a new, vibrant dimension to the space and acts as an amenity. The project further excels in using a creative palette of materials and establishes its own formal language resulting in a series of inviting and useful ambiences.

Third Prize: RESURFACING – designing with instability

Team: Delacoste Lucie / Federico Marchese / Steffy Chammanikkodath /

Resurfacing is a poetic intervention that deals with the potential for the design with natural processes hidden below the asphalt surface. It uncovers the underlying strata and focuses on various levels of found effervescence. The jury recognized the depth of the analysis and the imaginative use of simple design means that establish a landscape with almost nothing, simply through subtraction, namely, perforating the asphalt surface.