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Blue Award for Sustainable Architecture: Winners Announced Projects from India, Austria, Hungary, Sweden, UK, China, Italy, Greece The Blue Award is a biennial international student competition. It honours projects which address the topic of sustainability in the fields of architecture, regional planning and urbanism. On Thursday, April 26, 2012, the winners were announced at the Award Ceremony at the Vienna University of Technology. Honorary President of the Jury was Sir Michael Hopkins.<\/p>\n
Selected from 232 entries, 11 nominees from 8 countries were awarded first prizes, special prizes, special mentions and honourable mentions last night at the BLUE AWARD ceremony at Vienna\u2019s University of Technology. First prizes went to Nikhil Chaudhary (CEPT University Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India) in the category \u201cUrban Development and\u00a0 Transformation, Landscape Development\u201d; to Gregor Fasching (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) in the category \u201cEcological Building\u201d; and to Veronika Holczer (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) in the category \u201cBuilding in Existing Structures.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Blue Award is organized by the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design at Vienna University of Technology and overseen by the UIA (International Union of Architects). The competition is an open invitation to future-oriented and sustainable solutions. How will our built environment present itself in the coming years? Not a one-dimensional
\napproach leads to results, but rather a comprehensive view of the tasks at hand is necessary to provide solutions and protect an environment worth experiencing.<\/p>\n
Blue Award: Winners 2012
\nCategory 1: Urban Development and Transformation, Landscape Development
\nWinner
\n\u2022 Nikhil Chaudhary, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT
\nUniversity), Ahmedabad, Indien: \u201cReverse Thrust\u201d: Restructuring the Urban
\nFringes along Ring-Roads – Case of Nagpur City
\nHonourable Mentions:
\n\u2022 Laura Marcheggiano, Universit\u00e4t La Sapienza, Rom:
\nGaay Nagar [Cow District]: Re-housing settlement project for an inclusive design
\n\u2022 Jinglang Xia, Dan Wang, Heyan Zhang, Jinlong Zhao, Harbin Institute of
\nTechnology Shenzhen Graduate School, China: Children\u2019s Growth Path
\n\u2022 Anna Roussou, Bhairavi Dhoot, Athanasia Vasdeki, University of Edinburgh:
\nEmbedding Food Urbanism
\nCategory 2: Ecological Building
\nWinner
\n\u2022 Gregor Fasching, Technische Universit\u00e4t Wien: A school for Anaj\u00f4 – Escola Anaj\u00f4
\nSpecial honourable Mention:
\n\u2022 Zsuzsanna Meszaros, Moholy-Nagy Design Universit\u00e4t, Budapest: Community Farm
\nin Uszka
\nCategory 3: Building in Existing Structures
\nWinner
\n\u2022 Veronika Holczer, Technische und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Universit\u00e4t Budapest:
\nShed Transformation in Mark\u00f3c
\nHonourable Mentions:
\n\u2022 Vasilis Ingvar Raptis, Anna Vokali, Maria Pappa, Nationale Technische Universit\u00e4t
\nAthen: Re-define the City
\n\u2022 Daniel Widman, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm: Transformation<\/p>\n
Special prizes:
\n\u2022 Chi Lu, Bin Xie, Zi\u2019ang Wang, Shuo Liu, Xi’an University of Architecture and
\nTechnology, China: LIVING WITH EARTH – Demonstration Design Study of
\nEcological Architecture Suited for Poor Villages on China\u2019s Loess Plateau
\n\u2022 Georg Pichler, Technische Universit\u00e4t Graz: DUMPLAB
\nJury Members 2012
\nSir Michael Hopkins Honorary President of the Jury
\nAlbert Dubler Member of the UIA
\nDominique Gauzin-M\u00fcller Journalist of architecture\/ specialist for sustainability
\nRudolf Scheuvens Professor of Regional Planning, TU Vienna
\nDominique Alba Urban Planner\/Director of Pavillon de l\u00b4Arsenal Paris
\nNikos Fintikakis Architect and Director UIA work programme ARES
\nPresider of the Jury (not entitled to vote): Robert Korab<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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