Hospital Design | Landscape Hospital | International Hospital Design Competition | OfficeJarrik Ouburg

In order to break with the classical view of a hospital as a big anonymous building, there is a tendency at the moment to strip the hospital it to its ‘cure’ functions and decentralize ‘care’ programme like treatment centers. With an aging population and people having multiple diseases, a dispersed hospital may have a negative impact on the accessibility and functionality of a hospital. This proposal is an alternative for the hospital centralizing all ‘cure’ and ‘care’ in one building, stating that the size of a hospital is not the issue, it’s the way people experience the hospital.

The quality of the location, it’s size and surrounding greenery, led to the development of a new hospital typology. A terraced building whereby every patient will have his or her own front door connected to the landscape. A classical hospital experience with its labyrinth of endless corridors will be replaced by a stroll over a landscape leading directly to your relatives’ room.

The image of the hospital as a public building is enhanced by adding health related programme like a swimming pool, gym and contemplation space......more

Architectural Design Competition | High-rise development | Oslo | Norway | C. F. Møller Architects

A high-rise development, located at Norway’s most important traffic hub in central Oslo, and with fantastic views of the waterfront and fjord-landscape beyond. The idea is to create a landmark sculptural ensemble of towers, yet observe the harmony with the surrounding, low-rise urban fabric of the capital. The three towers of approx. 110, 65 and 55 m height, are arranged along the edges of the site, and the tallest tower is aligned with the existing nearby Oslo Plaza and Postgirobygget towers, while the lower buildings form the link to the city.....more

The Canadian Museum of Human Rights Competition | inFORM studio

The Canadian Museum of Human Rights Competition recognizes the participation of some of the most celebrated architects of our time. Thirty selectively chosen architects were commissioned to design an iconic and innovative museum space to address the issue of intolerance and inspire the world. The Forks site epitomizes the semiotics of meeting through its historical past and physical geography. The notion of intersection, convergence, and intertwining between rivers and land provide a rich palette in which to weave a profound program. The physical institution ought to redefine the seriousness of the place and yet resonate a sense of harmony with it. The promenade and park along the river, that include the Oodena Celebration Circle, the Healing Rock and a variety of contemplative spaces and sculptures, engender a quality of procession that present a sense of intersection through landscape. Topographical manipulations of the landscape allow the program to occupy the earth, the sky and the datum between the two.....more

Architectural Competition | Science and Art Park | Santa Fe | New Mexico | I+GC Arquitectura

Science and Art Park project presents numerous challenges of great magnitude, as seen from different perspectives.
On the one hand, the land is located in a strong commitment to urban sector, key to the future development and growth of the city of Santa Fe, In addition, a landscape level the game is through dialogue between the building program required to existing natural resources in the area, led by the Laguna Setúbal and the Ecological Reserve. Finally, it also highlights the fact the program content to hold in the park for education and training of people traveling through it.....more

Maribor Museum of Art Competition | Maribor, Slovenia

As the 2012 European Capital of Culture, the future of Maribor will arrive in a hurry for this intimate, vibrant city. There is therefore, an urgency about what this future will provide for the people there and to what extent the new UGM will accelerate the conditions of urban life. Museums, as we know, don’t simply reflect the identity of a city, they transform identities through the material life of architecture. In this, a building must have the nerve to respond to a particular cultural energy, to be assertive, but how? In what way? At what cost?
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The UGM is a 15,000 square meter contemporary art museum in Slovenia’s second largest city. With temporary and permanent galleries as its core function, the building also operates as a community and cultural center that houses three restaurants, a library, and a children’s museum.
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The most important condition of this project is the context. Even more than the program, the site demands manifold responses because of its ever changing views, peripheries, and topographic nuances. We have worked desperately to develop a project that “fits” the site in terms of massing and circulation, not only out of respect for the historical and geographic aspects of Maribor, but also of out of movement and acceleration. Indeed, while the site demands an understanding of place making in the traditional sense, the program demands that culture flows through the site. The project must address the static and the active at the same.
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We have invested most of the open space requirements in a large plaza / passageway that unites four major program elements at that level: the two level city living room of the UGM, the Architectural Center, and the studios and support spaces for the Creative Business Center. This deployment of programs across the footprint of the site will constantly activate the main plaza fronting the Drava River and its new edge condition and will allow it to remain a part of public space. By hollowing out the site on a loosely diagonal line, visitors and neighbors alike will be able to freely circulate through the complex enjoying an array of architectural micro-climates (led media ceiling, outdoor dining, residential scaled activities, etc.).....more

Architectural Design Competition | Castle College | Nottingham | Surface Architects

Castle College
Mixed Use Urban Development

Location: Nottingham

Client: Castle College
Status: Invited Competition, 2007
The existing college, adjacent to Nottingham Castle, is to be merged with another institution, providing the opportunity for the redevelopment of the sloping site. Surface proposed a tabula rasa and tower form, in which the college inhabited the higher north end. The south end could then become a mixed use development.....more

The Spiritual and Cultural Centre for Russian Orthodox | Christian Pottgiesser Architecturespossibles

The Spiritual and Cultural Centre for Russian Orthodox is created as a meeting place and cultural events for the Russian community of Paris, making knowledge of Parisians with the spiritual culture and the Russian Orthodox worship.

This objective requires a threefold challenge to this place: to find some serenity for reflection in this urban environment, while providing a world turned outwards and integrating perfectly consistent his current environment.
Spiritual and Cultural Centre Russian Orthodox


The plot in its urban context, particularly with its direct neighbor of the Palais de l'Alma at the foot of the Eiffel Tower called, in our view, a low building, which does not compete but rather as a landscape that integrates . We propose to consider that it is possible to imagine it in its entirety as a large garden.....more

Open Architectural Competiotio | University Campus Sonce | Koper Slovenia | Dekleva Gregoric Arhitekti

University campus Sun is organized as an immense introvert structure - “The Palace of Knowledge” with a series of open public and semi-public spaces. The establishment of a XL scale is crucial in order to position the new campus within the heterogenic context of biggest Slovenian harbor and shopping centers at the outskirts of a medieval city of Koper.
The system of open spaces arises to one of the major aspects of this Mediterranean campus. The roman concept of Cardo and Decumanus is rethought in order to link the campus with the city and to define an internal logic of clear connections in such a complex program: if Cardo links all the integral public programs of the faculties, Decumanus establishes the new spatial connection between the new library and the rest of the campus.
The library building becomes the mental and the spatial landmark of the area. Distinctive, terraced volume defines the special identity to the building regardless the scale - small or big.
Its strong structural design and position parallel addresses both of its potential users: the city centre inhabitants and the campus students. The importance of the knowledge emphasizes the Forum - the major open square of the whole campus, which acts as the outdoor foyer of the library.
The three faculties are forming the southwest perimeter of The Palace. Each faculty encloses a semipublic green patio - an oasis of peace and serenity. The subsystem of mini-parks assures the good quality living conditions of the students housing and helps to create the special ambience of the main pedestrian Cardo.
Multi-level organisation of the open and green spaces enables diverse levels of the openness, safety, privacy, visaul connections and intensity of use.....more

MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program | "Holding Pattern" by Interboro Partners

"Holding Pattern" is the product of a sustained dialog with MoMA PS1's courtyard and its neighbors. Instead of telling it what it should be, we patiently listened to what it and its neighbors had to say, then responded in kind. The result of this dialog is a scheme doesn't so much redesign the courtyard as reveal it......more

International Architectural Design Competition | Museum of the Second World War | Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam Architects

In human experience there is no greater contrast than the conditions of peace and war. The architecture of the museum building and its landscapes posits the conditions of contrast that invoke contemplation of the contradictions that war overlays onto human endeavor. Ultimately, the magnification and illumination of the museum’s message is the project of the architecture and the landscape. The Primordial Forest The museum landscape is suspended between a calm refuge and a tumultuous history—an archetype of the symbolic Polish forest transported to Gdansk. Like the landscape Adam Mickiewicz describes in “Pan Taduesz,” the Polish forest has been a refuge maintaining the continuity of Polish identity in times of political turmoil. Monumental trees symbolize the fatherland, and ancientness is felt everywhere........more

UTS Great Hall Upgrade Competition | DRAW

DRAW were invited as one of four architects to participate in the UTS Great Hall Upgrade Competition. Our winning proposal employs two key moves: a new ‘Balcony Room’ overlooking Alumni Green and enveloping the interior of the hall in an articulated metal ‘Mantle’.

Together these moves provide the University with a highly functional and uniquely iconic public space. Where the existing UTS Tower and Podium are defined by the mass production of repetitive elements the new work celebrates technological advances which allow mass customisation and the richness of experience that comes with these advances......more

National Memorial To The Spitfire | Architectural Design Competition Winner | Nick Hancock Design Studio

The 36-year-old Australian, who worked for Richard Rogers Partnership before founding Nick Hancock Design, was chosen above hundreds of other entrants and from a shortlist of seven.His design features a polished steel Spitfire soaring 40m into the sky on the end of a metal “vapour trail”. It will be twice the height of the Angel of the North.The memorial will be built on the waterfront in Southampton where the Spitfire was designed and built.Hancock said he was “over the moon”, adding: “The Spitfire is a true reflection of British ingenuity and tenacity.”Squadron Leader Alan Jones, a member of the Spitfire Tribute Foundation which is behind the competition, said the winning design was picked for its “clean, elegant deign”.....more at record

Architectural Competition Entry | Stjordal Cultural Centre,Stjordal,Norway By Reiulf Ramstad ArkitekterS

location: Stjordal, Norway
program: New Cultural Center with concert halls, library, church, cinema, hotel and the culture and music school of Stjordal
client: Stjordal Municipality and Stjordal Cultural development AS
size: 17.500m2
commission type: 1st prize with Lusparken Architects, JSTA Architects and Shcønherr Landscaping. Invited competition (2010)
status: Competition proposal
year: 2010


The Cultural Center of Stjordal will be an important node, both locally and in the region. The center will become an inviting place for all people interested in culture in one way or another; a building where people of all kinds can explore and develop their abilities and talent. With its church, the Cultural Center will function as a worthy venue for all kinds of ceremonies for the inhabitants. In addition to this, the visitors at the hotel will contribute to vitalize the house and the park.
The project is anchored in, and inspired by the place’s history and culture. At the same time the architecture should emit its modern function and the pulse of the time and place. The Center will be a platform for a wide cultural concept; a wide range of art, dance, music, film and other media. The Cultural Center of Stjordal should become an inspiring place that gives the visitors experiences and opportunities for personal display and development....more

The 3rd International Holcim Awards Competition

The 3rd International Holcim Awards competition offering a total of USD 2 million in prize money is open to: sustainable building and civil engineering works; landscape, urban design and infrastructure projects; and materials, products and construction technologies. The Awards are an initiative of the Swiss-based Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.

Entries must be submitted online at www.holcimawards.org by March 23, 2011. The competition celebrates innovative, future-oriented and tangible projects and visions from around the globe and is open to anyone involved with approaches that contribute towards a more sustainable built environment. The 3rd International Holcim Awards competition is comprised of five regional competitions in 2010/11 and the global phase in 2012. Step-by-step instructions on how to enter the competition are available at: holcimawards

International Architecture Competition | Global Design Competition

The Global Design Competition is open to individuals and organizations world-wide and aims to collect a broad variety of design solutions for low carbon restaurants by any means possible, including but not limited to reduction in the need for electricity, food product choices, localized power generation and waste energy capture and reuse. We encourage participants to form multidisciplinary teams to ensure feasibility of designs by taking into full account the areas of building design and construction, appliance engineering and restauranteering. The primary goal of the competition is to create a shareware reference collection of design solutions for sustainable restaurants and cafes that will serve as models, in Seattle and other cloudy places. The database will also function as a services directory for design teams. Extrapolating a design in this space is beyond the scope of this contest, which is solely to create a reference collection of designs that are usable across an array of building configurations that include ground floor retail spaces in mixed use buildings. The Global Design Competition is an entirely not-for-profit project. The organizers will not profit financially from the competition. All prize money is donated by sponsoring businesses and the organizer, a resident of Seattle who does not work in the renewable energy field. All solutions will be posted for public reference on the Internet, through the Department of Energy and other publicly accessible open-source/shareware sites. The deadline for entries is March 15th, 2011. A winner will be announced June 15th, 2011. The Global Design Competition will award a $10,000 prize to the winning design......more

Seoul Grand Park International Idea Competition | Chae Pereira Architects

Symbio Web is an open network park, a new version of the Seoul Grand Park. Multiple entranceways and activities are offered here, with every facility and activity seamlessly tied into different promenades all over the park and in contact with nature. Any activity can be connected to one another, as each individual is able to choose a set of activities according to their taste and with a new sense of freedom to choose any sequence of activity. A new multiple checkpoint ticket system allows visitors to choose their activity with ease, or simply do some shopping and let themselves be tempted along the way.

Somehow, Seoul is a situationist city, a place where the physical environment is constantly changing and facilities are piling up upon each other as the ground level has lost its meaning. With such an urban situation in mind, the painter Constant Niewenhuis’ New Babylon was used as a model to re-engineer the spatial relations in Seoul Grand Park as a network of facilities above ground level....more

International Architectural Design Competition | V&A Dundee designs revealed

The V&A has unveiled the six shortlisted designs for its new outpost in Dundee.
The shortlist was chosen from more than 120 entries for the international competition, and includes Sutherland Hussey, Gareth Hoskins Architects working with Snøhetta, Steven Holl Architects, Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, Kengo Kuma & Associates and Rex.

Proposals by all six practices have now gone on display at a public exhibition at the University of Abertay Dundee library, called V&A Dundee – Making it Happen, which opens officially on September 29 and runs until November 4.

Lesley Knox, chair of the jury panels, said: “These are fantastic designs and we hope as many people as possible visit the exhibition and the website and express their opinions on the models and designs.”“I am sure people will see things they really love, and some will also have opinions that go the other way. But the key thing is that they make their opinions known, as it will feed into the jury panel’s decision.”The winning design will house a new branch of the London-based museum at Craig Harbour on the banks of the River Tay.

The museum hopes that the V&A Dundee will become Scotland’s leading centre for design.The museum said it was looking for a “landmark building” that would “dominate Dundee’s waterfront.”....via

International Architectural Competition | eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2011

The annual eVolo Skyscraper Competition is a forum for the discussion, development, and promotion of innovative concepts for vertical density. It examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city.

The exponential increase of the world’s population and its unprecedented shift from rural to urban areas has prompted hundreds of new developments without adequate urban planning and poor architectural design. The aim of this competition is to redefine what we understand as a skyscraper and initiate a new architectural discourse of economic, environmental, intellectual, and perceptual responsibility that could ultimately modify our cities and improve our way of life.

The use of new materials, technologies, aesthetics, and novel spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution are some of the multi-layered elements that the participants should take into consideration. This is also an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of a dynamic and adaptive vertical community.

There are no restrictions in regards to site, program or size. The objective is to provide maximum freedom to the participants to engage the project without constraints in the most creative way. What is a skyscraper in the 21^st century? What are the historical, contextual, social, urban, and environmental responsibilities of these mega-structures?......more

Wyclef Jean’s Yelé Haiti Competition | Winners

John McAslan + Partners and Allied London have announced the winner of an international student competition to design a music studio in Cité Soleil (Port-au-Prince), Haiti, on behalf of Wyclef Jean and his charity Yéle Haiti. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) competition was launched prior to the devastating earthquake on January 12 to help instigate micro-enterprise opportunities and job creation for at-risk youth in the Cité Soleil area.

The competition winner is Christopher Morgan from Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, who along with second place winner Tak Kei Yip, a RIBA Part II student at Foster + Partners, London; and third place winner Christopher Bradley, a Post Part 1 Experience student at Norton Mayfield Architects LLP, Sheffield; will be awarded a share of a £1000 prize fund which has been donated by Allied London.

Christopher Morgan’s winning design ‘Broadcast Studio’ reaches into the spirit of the Haitian people and aims to empower the people of Cité Soleil with the opportunity to ‘make music with life’. The design incorporates two performance spaces – one opening towards the adjacent park and nearby waterfront, and another enclosed space which connects to Radio Boukman, the local radio station. Offering itself as a place not only for musicians, but for all who wish to make a music community, ‘Broadcast Studios’ is a place that is always open to the public through events. Musicians can perform as they record in the studio, which is elevated over the Cité Soleil to symbolize the empowering role of music.

Tak Kei Yip’s proposal ‘Tent City’ music studio is an architectural translation of Haiti’s Tent City - a symbol of joy, unity and hope. This evocative use of the existing housing pattern impressed the judges.
Christopher Bradley’s ‘The Air Brick’ proposal is constructed from found materials and features an internal courtyard to be used as a recording or community performance area.

The ideas competition, which attracted 108 submissions from secondary/high school and university/college students from around the world, was judged on criteria including: their ability to act as a beacon for the local neighborhood, to deliver ‘a lot’ for a limited budget, and for their economic, social and environmental sustainability. A shortlist of fifteen submissions was selected by a technical jury from John McAslan + Partners and Arup. The final winner, second and third placeholders were selected by Wyclef Jean and his team, and John McAslan
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Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2010 | Semifinalists

The distinguished jury will select a winner who will be presented with the OmniOculi sculpture and the $100,000 prize money to honor and encourage further development of their work at a public ceremony in Washington DC, on June 5, 2010.

The thirty proposals currently under consideration have undergone a rigorous review for adherence to the entry criteria including an interview with the individual or team behind the strategy. They were advanced from a pool of 215 entries submitted. The titles and project leads of these entries are listed below. The jury will spend the next two months reviewing the entries and determining finalists.

SEMI-FINALISTS for the 2010 BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE
(in the order they were submitted)

#	Project Title	Name	50 Word Summary from the Entrant
1	Watergy Greenhouse	Martin Buchholz, Inventor and Initiator of Watergy	Watergy is a bionic concept, immitating the biosphere within an enclosure, using wind, rain and related energy dissipation. It allows 85% recycling of irrigation water, while accumulation of CO2 leads to higher rates of photosynthesis. Further applications are plant protection (no pesticides), processing of greywater, desalination and heat supply.
2	Aclima: A system for creating and harnessing collective eco-intelligence for cleaner air and reduced climate change emissions	Antero Garcia, Davida Herzl, Reza Naima, Greg Niemeyer	Aclima implements a bottom-up approach to monitoring and managing air pollution and GHG emissions. Our distributed system relies upon and empowers individuals to measure air, as opposed to the current institutional approach. Leveraging affordable sensors, cloud-computing, crowdsourcing, and social networks, our system enables transformation at personal, community and global scales.
3	Barefoot Women Solar Engineers of Africa, Asia and Latin America	Bunker Roy of The Barefoot College, Tilonia, Rajasthan, India	The Barefoot approach has reached remote rural inaccessible villages in 15 of the least developed countries in Africa. Illiterate rural mothers and grandmothers who have never left their villages in their lives within 6 months of training (without using the written word) in India have solar electrified their own villages.
4	GrowTown: It's for Everyone - It's Sustainable - It Starts Now	Beth Hagenbuch Kenneth Weikal Stephen Deak David Peterhans Danny Bulemore	GrowTown is a non-profit organization dedicated to enabling neighborhoods, left fragmented in post-industrial cities and landscapes, to self-organize. Through grassroots community-driven design and local leadership, the Local Food Economy is the catalyst for growing resilient and sustainable neighborhoods that can respond to the important challenges of our time.
5	Operation Hope - Permanent water and food security for Africa's impoverished millions	Allan Savory on behalf of Africa Centre for Holistic Management Trustees and staff	This project demonstrates how to reverse desertification of the world's savannas and grasslands, thereby contributing enormously to mitigating climate change, biomass burning, drought, flood, drying of rivers and underground waters, disappearing wildlife, massive poverty, social breakdown, violence and genocide.
6	Jaaga	Freeman Murray Archana Prasad Matias Echanove Rahul Srivastava	We design and market pallet rack based housing kits which provide the urban poor and disaster relief organizations with inexpensive high density shelter & services. Our systems are extremely modular, can be erected and disassembled very quickly, and have a positive environmental impact on the land upon which they rest.
7	Tibet is the High Ground - 3rd Variation	Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison	The work "Tibet is the High Ground III" proposes an ecologically conceived resolution to the present de-glaciation and subsequent catastrophic outcomes to the 2.5 million square kilometer Tibetan Plateau and the seven major rivers that flow from it through Asia, a bio-cultural approach at the scale of the problem.
8	The Acceleration Of Innovation	Jeff Rose- Executive Director Jock Brandis-Director of Research and Development	The Full Belly Project (FBP) – Acceleration of Innovation Program empowers the entrepreneurial poor by training them to manufacture and sell locally produced low-cost technologies. Simple technolgoies catalyze change by creating new businesses, increasing household income, increasing efficiency, improving the environment and improving health.
9	Seed-Scale: A Universal Process for Community Change	Daniel Taylor, President of Future Generations Carl E. Taylor, Professor Emeritus of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Senior Health Advisor for Future Generations	There are no universal solutions for cultural, economic, and ecological sustainability, but there is a universal process to identify local solutions. The Seed-Scale process enables communities to gather their own human energies and invent sustainable solutions that expand to more communities.
10	Sheltering U.S. Persons Unsheltered: Creating Legally Conforming, Economically Sustainable Emergency and Transitional Shelter	Bruce LeBel, Executive Director, World Shelters Steven Elias, Co-Founder, World Shelters	World Shelters' mission is to provide temporary and transitional shelter for persons in need, including persons unsheltered in the U.S., a.k.a. "homeless". We have developed an economically sustainable, jurisdictionally conforming and technically unique design for emergency and transitional shelter that we propose to demonstrate in three jurisdictions in California.
11	LIFT	Prithula Prosun	The design solution addresses the critical need of low cost housing to provide shelter for the rising number of slum inhabitants in flood prone areas. With the alarming rate of urbanization along with projected effects of global warming, flood protection will soon be a necessity for many low income communities.
12	Sustainable Disaster Response	Scott Gibson, Eric Klein, Simon Draper, Alissa Sears	Sustainable Disaster Response, SDR, is an integrated, sustainable disaster response and recovery system that utilizes available people and resources to implement innovative renewable energy solutions that transform tragedy into sustainable community reconstruction. SDR uses disasters time of change to maximize efforts towards building a sustainable future.
13	Synchronicity 2: Public Water Purification Island	Jakub Szczesny	The island is a floating platform with nine outdoor fitness machines pumping polluted Vistula water through four filters to a basin placed in the center of the island giving drinkable water. The platform will be floating on Vistula river in the center of Warsaw.
14	ColaLife	Simon Berry	ColaLife harnesses sea-changes in corporate social responsibility and mobile-based micro-payments, proposing its AidPod distribution system, allowing local health agencies to make simple low-cost life-saving health supplies and awareness materials, ubiquitous, well-understood and easily available in the developing world, over-coming current transport, logistical and commercial barriers.
15	Plastic Island	Mr. F. K. R. Eilander Mr. D. J. Den Hartog	The goal of the Plastic Island Project is to use the existing Great Pacific Garbage Patch that was discovered twelve years ago by Charles Moore, to develop a self-sustaining island inhabited by around 800 people that will collect and recycle the tons of plastic floating around our oceans.
16	Fighting SAM (Severe Acute Malnutrition) in India	Compatible Technology International	Produce shelf stable, high energy, high protein ready to eat food products suitable for community-based treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition for children under 5 years old. We will utilize locally available ingredients and transfer the technology to women-led local self help groups and small scale enterprises to promote self sufficiency.
17	GoodBank - a high transparency design for ethical banking	Bruce Cahan, President of Urban Logic (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit)	GoodBank is the high transparency design for a commercial bank, reconnecting money and meaning. Saving, shopping and investing true to one’s ethical values improves customer's credit rating at the bank, earns cash-back rewards for environmental and social causes, and inspires new transparency tools to enhance social financial literacy.
18	Resources	Elizabeth Damon	Re-Sources: Saving Living Systems: a replicable, multi-disciplinary, integrated-systems project addressing ecological degradation and cultural genocide. Phase one is the rich, undocumented water culture in the Tibetan areas of Western Sichuan. With grassroots, collaborative strategies, we will use the roots of this culture to teach sustainable practices for economic survival.
19	CITYSINK	Denise Hoffman Brandt	CITYSINK is a meta-park of dispersed landscape Infrastructure boosting carbon stocks in both short - term biomass storage and through formation of long- term sequestration reservoirs for soil organic carbon in New York City. Urban-landscape is reshaped into apparatus, empowering citizens to affect global ecologies through civic practice.
20	MicroEnergy Credits	April Allderdice, James Dailey	MicroEnergy Credits leverages the unprecedented growth of the $120 billion carbon markets as a catalytic source of funding to mobilize the 12,000 microfinance banks now reaching over a billion people, to help their microentrepreneurs affordably switch to healthy and clean energy sources as part of their journey out of poverty.
21	Living Building Challenge	Jason F. McLennan and Eden Brukman	The Living Building Challenge is a visionary strategy for creating a socially just, culturally rich and ecologically benign built environment. Rather than providing points for incremental improvements in building performance, it measures success against the end goal of true sustainability and provides a framework for restoring balance in the human ecosystem.
22	Eco-Boulevards	Martin Felsen + Sarah Dunn	Chicagoans discard over one billion gallons of Great Lakes water per day. This "wastewater" never replenishes one of the world's most vital resources. As a remedy, this project re-conceives the Chicago street-grid as a holistic Bio-System that captures, cleans and returns wastewater and storm-water to the Lakes via "Eco-Boulevards."
23	The Green Initiative: Self-Sufficiency for NGOs through Clean Energy	Dr. Basil Stamos, Social Investor John Tucker, CEO, Co-founder of New Hope for Cambodian Children (NHCC) Tim Waterfield, Chief Technology Officer for TGI Richard Cook, Partner Cook + Fox Architects	The Green Initiative is a social venture to increase the self-sufficiency of NGOs in the developing world through clean, affordable, reliable, and sustainable fuels. By allowing participants to simultaneously control operating costs and reduce dependence on fossil fuels, this solution reinforces the NGO network and represents a new model of financial and energy independence.
24	New York City (Steady) State (book, research, web project)	Terreform Inc.	New York City (Steady) State is an alternative plan for New York City based on a single predicate: it is possible for the city to become almost entirely self-sufficient within its political boundaries. At its conclusion, our project will have proven this and outlined the necessary steps to achieve it.
25	Light For All	Sameer Hajee	Reduce global CO2 emissions and light up rural households in developing countries by distributing an innovative and affordable lighting system to replace fuel-based lighting. The design and delivery model of Nuru Portable-on-demand (POD) lights, using human power to recharge, allows a greater reach and more immediate environmental impact than other lighting solutions.
26	The Green Island Project	Skip Staats, Dr. Tama Copeman, Glenn Rambach, Conrad Oakey, Valerie Kausen	Green Island Project is an isolated (or isolatable) municipality that meets some or all of its energy needs from local renewable sources. A post-industrial energy ecosystem that creates local jobs while reducing fossil fuel dependence, an opportunity to innovate next-generation sustainable infrastructures outside of the restrictions of legacy industrial models.
27	The S.A.T. Project, 4D City concept	Architects Jorge Serrano, Norma A. Pecorari, Valeria Serrano and Alejo Serrano, Sofia Serrano	Megacities around the world are at a crossroads, regarding climate change, sustainability of the built environment and urban gridlocks. The concept of 3D Transportation builds the technological platform to rethink the present concept of cities. S.A.T. PROJECT is the first mass public-private 3D Transportation system for people & freight in the world.
28	A Call to Farm : FarmShare	BK Farmyards	FarmShare reconnects farmers and consumers as co-producers of the foodscape. The strategy uses social media to pool all the resources of Brooklyn into a crowd-sourced decentralized farm. Voting for local food with their forks already, Brooklyn food activists will pool their time and their waste in A Call to Farm.
29	Samasource: Microwork for the Developing World	Leila C. Janah	Samasource enables marginalized people to receive life-changing work opportunities via the Internet. We provide microwork, technology's answer to microfinance. By training women, youth and refugees to complete paying remote tasks, we give them the ability to build livelihoods and become part of the digital economy.
30	STRUCTURES FOR WAVE ENERGY ABSORPTION AND COLONIZATION OF MANGROVES	The Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology	The research will test geosynthetic landscape systems to support human development in tropical regions simultaneous to critical mangrove biological processes. The interconnected structural networks are intended to facilitate ecosystem recovery, dissipate catastrophic storm impact, mitigate erosion and enable large-scale building development to co-exist with restorative mangrove-type vegetation.

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