Award Entries All • Built • Speculative • Emerging Voices • Critical Dialogue One Heart Foundation - Orphanage & Children's Eco-Village O2 Design Atelier - Kenya The project is to create a conducive place to learn, play and live for Kenyan orphans. The Children's Eco-Village design inspired by Kenyan Maasai architecture emphasizing on the community, robust in-between spaces and use of local materials. The design reinvents traditional form for a large institutional and housing facilities. Read more People's Choice Total Votes:15 DADA Architecte - Sénégal l’Académie renvoi à un temple du savoir et du savoir faire s’intégrant naturellement dans un véritable espace vernaculaire entre terre, ciel et mer au large des cotes de l’Océan Atlantique. il s'agit d'une juxtaposition de formes entre architecture, nature, cultures, autonomie énergétique et de matériaux écologiques. Read more People's Choice Total Votes:3 Off the Grid House Architecture for a Change - South Africa The main idea was to create a lightweight, off the grid, and affordable house. The design philosophy relates to critical regionalism within architectural theory. The South-Africa residential design market is still stuck with conventional building methods that aren’t suitable for our environment (colonial building methods). Read more People's Choice Total Votes:17 Kleinsee Renovation Project Faculty of Fine Arts - Architecture Department - Helwan University - South Africa Since2007 the world's leading diamond company, De Beers, has drastically cut operations at its mines as the precious gems run out .Statistics says the population in the area dwindled from about10000to just under100 today.Our plan is to convert kleinsee from a ghost town into a sustainable city in 10 years Read more People's Choice Total Votes:13 Tropical Building University of Rwanda - Rwanda Our cities are growing at a rapid rate, and with all the construction of buildings going on, we tend to copy more from western cities that are more developed and we loose our identity that we have been given by our nature, focusing on our climate, terrains,etc Read more People's Choice Total Votes:227 Nakayale Private Academy WES Architects - Namibia Nestled between beautiful trees and lush vegetation of Northern Namibia, one will find Nakayale Private Academy. The school opened its doors in January 2016 with 60 students, all receiving free tuition and boarding on 50 hectares land donated to the Dirk Mudge Trust by the Western Diocese of ELCIN. Read more People's Choice Total Votes:67 Catambor CEICA - Centros de Estudos e Investigação Científica de Arquitectura - Angola The safeguard plan of Catambor is to rehabilitate spaces and to revitalize sociocultural values. It is important to reflect deeply on the articulation between these aspects and the socio-spatial dynamics of the urban space where it is inserted in order to highlight the contrast between global and local urbanities. Read more People's Choice Total Votes:1469 Revolution Room Visual Arts Network of South Africa-Waza Arts Centre-DRC Revolution Room explored participatory art practice in Johannesburg (South Africa), Lubumbashi, Moba and Fungurume (Democratic Republic of Congo). The project sought to explore the ways in which artists and residents create and assume collective responsibility for creative projects that mediate and reflect the concerns of people, history and place. Read more People's Choice Total Votes:5 Weaving The Communities of Taita Taveta County- Voi Resource Centre University of Nairobi - Kenya The Building design draws its origins from sisal Farming which has long been a major economic activity among members of the Taita Taveta Community. From the Basket weaving, a centre generates a spiral that represents: -growth,continuity,awareness,Balance,Progress,Connection which are the main principles ordering the design. Read more People's Choice Total Votes:26762 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35