Over the next few weeks we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year's Core77 Design Awards 2013. We will be featuring these projects by category, so stay tuned for your favorite categories of design! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com.
NUBE-PET is a cultural project that proposes the re-incorporation of waste material into structures with architectural potential. It is a collective initiative aiming to generate alternative forms of public spaces.
Capitalizing on horizontal communication systems and social networks, NUBE-PET seeks to generate ecological and urban awareness. Through the construction of a proto-architectural structure, this initiative seeks new environmental aesthetic horizons for the contemporary phenomena of urban recycling. A parametric PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) mantle transforms the space, changing its temperature, luminosity, colour, texture and dimension; inviting the visitors' senses to form an active part of the space and its metabolism.
- How did you learn that you had been recognized by the jury?
Well, form the beginning we were carefully following the schedule published by the website and in Twitter.
- What's the latest news or development with your project?
The project (NUBE-PET) has been storage to be recycled in to a hanging garden. We are also looking for other places to place the installation. We have also presented the initiative at the University of Kent, University of Houston, Centre for Canadian Architecture CCA, The Architectural Association and the University of Houston and Universidad de Los Andes.
- What is one quick anecdote about your project?
In a sense the whole project was a big anecdote, an event. Nevertheless the most important and surprising episode during the process was the interest that the installation brought. I'm referring to the different moments were the students and the institutions decided to participate and form part of a collective urban effort.
- What was an "a-ha" moment from this project?
I would say that the project had 2 great moments. The firestone was with out a doubt the moment of the opening where the public, collaborators and authorities had the opportunity to wonder around and experience the object in the space. The second a-ha moment happened when we realized the potential that design strategies have to engage the community and produce knowledge on the relation between architecture and the urban environment.
View the full project here.
Project Name: Bulgari Pavilion Designers: NotaNumber Architects - NaNA
The Bulgari pavilion is a temporary installation commissioned by prestigious luxury jewelry brand Bulgari for Abu Dhabi Art 2012, held at Saadiyat al Manarat Abu Dhabi, UAE. The pavilion is conceived as an exclusive and private venue with live music, a bar and a specially curated selection of Bulgari's high end jewelry. The centerpiece of the exhibition space is a translucent canopy with a built-in light installation trying to convey the art of jewel making into a single piece of architecture.
- How did you learn that you had been recognized by the jury?
We saw the winner names on the next day of the live announcement as there is a time difference of nine hours between Greece and Mexico.
- What's the latest news or development with your project?
Right now it is stored somewhere in Dubai. Hopefully it will come back to life someday soon.
- What is one quick anecdote about your project?
During installation in Abu Dhabi we experienced a sandstorm that caused destruction on the construction site. On that day we didn't know if would make it before the deadline - the opening of Abu Dhabi Art festival.
Luckily the pavilion was completed on time.
- What was an "a-ha" moment from this project?
We rarely trust a-ha moments when doing architecture. Every new idea has to be tested meticulously as in a trial and error method before it can be part of the design concept.
View the full project here.
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