Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation
Nine visionary projects focused on living within the relatively unexplored terrains of sea and space have been selected as winners of the 2017 Jacques Rougerie international architecture competition.
Established in 2011, the competition aims to foster the creativity of young architects by challenging them to complete “innovative, audacious and promising projects” that imagine new methods of sustainable development within the realms of sea and space.
Architectural submissions were awarded this year within three categories: Innovation and Architecture for the Sea, Innovation and Architecture for Space, and Architecture and Sea Level Rise. Within these categories, projects were selected in three disciplines: the overall Grand Prix, the “Focus” theme award, and the Coup de Coeur.
Check out the winning projects below.
Innovation and Architecture for the Sea
Grand Prix
Currents for Currents, Blue is the new green / Deo Alrashid T. Alam, Robert Andrew P. Galano, Pierre Michael Monjardin; Phillippines
Focus Award: “Ports of the Future”
Ephemere Highrise Floating Power Station & Liquid Metal Battery Charging Station / Dimo Ivanov; Bulgaria
Coup de Coeur
BIOLUM_REEF : an eco-friendly inhabited reef / Olivier Bocquet, Lisa Tanet, Laurence Casalot, François Desruelles, Christian Tamburini; France
Innovation and Architecture for Space
Grand Prix
Platinum City, Worlds First Post-Human City / Sean Thomas Allen; UK
Focus Award: “Solar Power Satellites”
Martian Chronicle : Informed strategy for the urbanisation of Mars / Dylan Collins; France
Coup de Coeur
SOLAR SPORE, An algae photobioreactor in outer space / Pierre-Jacques Truyman, Alexandre Brassart, Sylve Truyman; France
Architecture and Sea Level Rise
Grand Prix
Translated Utopia: a Tuvaluan Archipelago in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Elizabeth Yarina; USA
Focus Award: “The African Coastline”
Tofinu: living ‘on the path of the water’ on the Beninese coast / Kemi Amede, Don Do; Benin, France, Australia
Coup de Coeur
Refuge-ground : Towards habitable offshore salt platforms / Lambert David, France
Learn more about the winning projects, here.
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