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Acknowledgement prize: White
Canvas, Bassikounou, Mauritania
The project takes on the difficult task to provide
public amenities in refugee camps. The proposal
for a health centre and school was specifically
developed for the Mbera refugee camp in
southeast Mauritania of more than 70,000 people.
Tent structures form the basic units for the school
and health centre facilities. Phase Change Material
(PCM) accumulators are used for air-conditioning
to create liveable and safe conditions without
additional energy requirements.
NEXT GENERATION FIRST PRIZE:
Fika Patso Dam, South Africa
Bio-mimicry drives this design concept, learning
from nature’s regulating processes to inspire an
understanding of architecture in sync with the
environment.
The project aims to amalgamate the land mass
and bodies of water with a dam constructed on
existing pillars to form a hybrid landscape. The
building evolves into a kind of living creature or
organism with a roof-like structure opening or
closing according to the seasonal rainfall.
NEXT GENERATION SECOND PRIZE:
Agadir, Morocco
An earthquake devastated Agadir in 1960. The
fortified town on the hill was entirely destroyed
and the site abandoned. The project establishes a
place of contemplation in memory of the 15,000
residents who died in the earthquake.
The scheme incorporates a memorial on the
site and an archaeological museum retracing
the history of the city. The building, integrates
the ruins of the fortification wall, establishing a
dialogue between the old and the new, between
the past and the present
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