Young Talent
Works
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Government & Civic
People and Outlaws
Young Talent 2025
YT Finalists
Karla Hvidsten
People & Outlaws offers a critical response to the Norwegian prison model, aiming to align with legal principles and humanistic values. The project envisions a typology built with local, eco-friendly materials, where young offenders serve their sentences close to society and nature.
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Social welfare
Continuity of Aging
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Klarisa Ach-Hübner
The thesis deals with an alternative solution to the current of health and social care for the elderly.
It addresses the problem of over-specialisation of care, which results in the deteriorating condition of the client being reflected in the need for more frequent changes of environment.EUmies Awards Young Talent
Collective housing
Revitalization of the architectural heritage of the 1970s, adaptation of Leipzig – type buildings for low budget housing
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Michał Kiercz
Project explores the modernization of Leipzig-type buildings, by converting them into low-budget housing. It aims to preserve 1970s architectural heritage and propose a reuse model, updating the Leipzig-type system from the GDR to fit contemporary urban needs while addressing housing accessibility.
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Collective housing
A GARDEN FULL OF HOUSES. RESTRUCTURING THE IN-BETWEEN SPACES OF THE LATE ROMANIAN SOCIALIST BLOCKS. SOCIAL HOUSING.
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Marius Indrei
The project explores the analysis and reconfiguration of a distinct urban void within the contemporary city—a space shaped by the radical urban expansion of the 70s in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It is the necessity of infill a sequence of architectural objects that will structure today’s disorder.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Social welfare
Come Here, Sit
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Mark Tay
Intertwining concerns of the waning Singaporean hawker trade and an ageing population, this project puts forth a reimagination of the chair as a form of personal and spatial storytelling to rehabilitate elder agency, bring new cultural context to the hawker centre and form strong community identity.
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Social welfare
Santurapia
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Cristina Mantrana Gallego
Located in Finca de Vista Alegre, Santurapia transforms an old abandoned building placing it as a link between the existing Occupational Centre and its greenhouses. The project includes modules for animal-assisted therapies and a landscape design giving the setting a distinctive character.
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Social welfare
Beyond bare life
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Medina Ćatović
Project addresses the Rohingya refugee crisis, migrations and evolution of Cox’s Bazaar Camp, aiming to target the uncontrolled shelter growth and bring urban regeneration. The orphanage design carries the potential to transcend bare life conditions, as a reference for mitigating social issues.
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Social welfare
PECC: Penang Elderly Community Centre
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Wai Yee Loh
PECC (Penang Elderly Community Centre) is an integrated senior living resort in Penang, featuring a proposed-built Active Living Resort that provides accommodation and services to active seniors who are looking for independent living and assisted living.
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Health
Remodeling. Adaptation of a building
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Theresa Emilia Schleinitz
This thesis examines the term ´Umbau´ (remodeling) as a feminist metaphor for restructuring the social-economical system, and as a tool for architecturally remodeling existing structures – concluding that architecture can create sustainable, inclusive spaces to contribute to gender equality.
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Collective housing
Living Under a Common Roof. Adaptive Tube Houses for Social Housing
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Thu Nga Nadine Do
This work tackles HCMC’s housing challenges by activating urban leftover spaces to provide quality housing for low-income groups. The suggested low-rise, high-density approach, inspired by the traditional tube house, focuses on adaptive housing forms that evolves with residents’ needs over time.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Collective housing
Volantem Civitatem
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Markus Welte
Volantem Civitatem attempts to rethink the city from the big picture down to the smallest detail to create a more livable environment. Through a vertical layering of functions, the city is being reorganized from a previously two-dimensional arrangement into a spatial structure.
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Ephemeral
Elementary Parts. Phenomena of Order
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Helena Marit Oberholzer
In the form of short essays formative moments from architectural theory relating to construction and building components are collected. The use of language and drawing encourage a deep search for the actual process of becoming form – both of an architectural project and the graphic expression of it.
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Ephemeral
The Paradox of Architectural Value
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Wiktoria Piotrowska
This thesis critiques Britain’s reliance on demolition in modernist social housing. Based at Central Hill Estate, the project proposes an archival tower that mediates between Lambeth Homes and residents. It examines UK planning laws, preserving architectural fragments as records of urban change.
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Ephemeral
AD RIPA – anchoring, docking, mooring.
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Jinte Kockelbergh
“Ad ripa” is the result of the exploration into the role of space within the process of anchorage. I propose the term “anchorage” as a replacement for the well-known term “rootedness,” as it is metaphorically more accurate when discussing the sense of being deeply connected to a particular place.
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Ephemeral
SINFUL LEISURES
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
ASTON YAP KAI JUN
Sinful Leisures envisions a speculative future where the state prescribes leisure as a cure to digital fatigue. Set on Sentosa, leisure towers treat symptoms of digital exhaustion. Yet, this indulgence fuels a new cycle of addiction, revealing leisure as another form of control in the digital age.
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Collective housing
modular housing units for crisis accomodation
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Dimitrina Dimitrova
Issue: Disaster victims need rapid, adaptable, and sustainable temporary housing.
Challenge: Traditional emergency shelters lack flexibility, sustainability, and personal comfort.EUmies Awards Young Talent
Health
Care Through Culture
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Gerd Parlade
The project explores a prototype of a micro-hospital for rural and marginalized areas that is culturally competent through the use of Transcultural Nursing Theory from an architectural perspective to provide better design solutions aside from addressing healthcare needs for the community.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Ephemeral
Displacement; a mass of women’s refugee stories conveyed through one
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Emma Esmeralda Domino · Maia Alva Martinsen Garrido
Weaving the recollections of a woman forced to flee into spatial narratives, tracing her journey through four pivotal sites. Stemming from the intimate interview, her story is recounted through architectural tools. Emphasising social responsibility through research, storytelling, and design.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Broken House 3+1 Engagements
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Yana Pencheva
Set in Sevlievo, BG, where architecture and the everyday seem distant, the project reimagines an old house as a site of learning, repair, and collective care. The materials and rituals embedded in traditional making offer a quiet call to reimagine a more engaged and empathetic architecture practice.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Remind Me of Remeți
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Vincent van Spaendonk
Remind Me of Remeţi explores the architecture of migrant work, tracing the transnational exchange between rural Romania and metropolitan Paris. Through a speculative scenario, the project examines how architecture can engage with the instability of migrant labor, economic agency, and belonging.
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
Proud to be Suburban.
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Guido van Laar
This project regenerates late post-war neighborhoods in the Netherlands. It addresses monotony of types, architectural language and program in modernist planning by proposing small-scale, gradually developed supports for a (re)productive neighbourhood utilizing outdated garages as a tabula scripta.
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Landscape
Tunis Wetland center
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Sarra Mraihi
The project proposes a CESP center as a transition between urban development and the TP4 wetland in Tunis. Inspired by the “in-between” concept, the architecture integrates sustainable strategies to ensure environmental preservation while allowing responsible human interaction.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Building on Layers of Narrative Sediment
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Nina Čegar
The project proposes a spatial strategy for revitalizing The Old Fairground – Staro Sajmište – a complex site in central Belgrade. Architectural interventions aim to reinterpret the site’s layered history, transforming it into a memorial park that reflects its evolving narrative.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Virtual construction in existing buildings
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Tolgahan Gücüyeter
We Are Together turns abandoned department stores into hybrid spaces merging architecture with the Metaverse. Using AR it links vacant stores in Stuttgart, Berlin, and Wuppertal, preserving urban structures while creating new social and commercial hubs that redefine spatial and digital interaction.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Aleph
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Agustín Espí Cea
Rocks, volcanoes and waves sculpt the culture of Lanzarote, the soul of an island that is dying at the hands of the foreign. This soul is the Aleph, a volcanic rock on the coast that gives meaning to the island’s capital. A building based on Magic Realism, a union between the fantastic and the real.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
DOUBLE VIEW
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Iñigo Unceta-Berrenechea Merino
Double View is an urban regeneration project in Southwest Besòs, Barcelona, aiming to reconnect the isolated neighborhood with the city. It transforms two plots, creating a mixed-use masterplan that integrates local and metropolitan programs, fostering growth and revitalization.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
IANUA
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Carlos Montero Pérez
Located within the future Vallès Metropolitan Avenue, the project reconnects urban and natural spaces through a modular, demountable design based on Design for Disassembly. This approach ensures a sustainable, ecological solution adaptable to different environments and contemporary urban challenges.
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Urban planning
Ditch and watercourse
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Amaya Olivé Alemany
Can there be too much open space? This project explores how unused urban spaces can be transformed into public areas. Understanding the city as the legacy of its traces, the project restores historical orientations to activate urban voids, create pathways, reactivate heritage, and densify the block.
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Collective housing
Rejuvenate
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Kyunga Kim
This project explores the spatial qualities of aging Korean apartment complexes through drawing analysis and proposes subtle interventions to restore their social and environmental ties, offering a renewed perspective on their significance in contemporary Korea.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Collective housing
Empty Beauties
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Lilly Irmer · Sophie Kalwa
The project explores repurposing office buildings for housing. Using a 1960s skeletal structure, it assesses adaptability, costs and CO₂ impact. By preserving key elements and integrating flexible systems, it promotes resource-efficient transformation over demolition, extending building lifespans.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Deep Fragmentation
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Anna Higgisson
Through the process of ‘Deep Fragmentation’ – a methodology and concept inspired by the Beat Writers’ ‘cut-up’ technique and a Cursed Island off the coast of Naples – this project responds to the threats of the climate crisis within the Bay.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Terra Mortem
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Xiangyu Li · Jia Hao Low
Due to the lack of calamity, the abandoned town of Rione Terra is revitalised, as our thesis suggests. The proposal reclaims the abandoned town as a research site. The Earth Observatory may be used as an exemplar on different dangerous sites like Pozzuoli with similar conditions.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Sacred Landscape
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Lucy Hegarty
This thesis project responds to the need for a new way of thinking about sites of anthropogenic violence. The project proposes a site strategy and three buildings for the Bagnoli Works in Naples – a site polluted with heavy metals of the steel industry once situated there.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
STRUCTURE (&) CHANGE. An adaptive system for redensification in the urban context of the Gründerzeit
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Matthias Treviranus
STRUCTURE (&) CHANGE deals with the rapidly changing needs of our society when it comes to to housing and general urban public life. The project is an adaptive system, which on the one hand can be interacted with and changed by the users, on the other hand be applied to different sites in the city.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
The weight of time
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Jana Riernössl
The work deals with the question of how art offers a possibility of remembrance of the Shoah. It is divided into two books, the first contains a poetic examination and the latter the architectural design. It reflects spaces of memory in three structures: Kreuzstadl, Erinnerungsgitter, Zeitgehöft.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Life underground
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Clarissa Fabri
Urban expansion leads to land sealing, biodiversity loss, and rising temperatures. This project repurposes the underused Votivpark parking garage in Vienna into underground living space. Through courtyard architecture, it ensures natural light and energy efficiency while preserving surface greenery.
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Culture
Fiction Machine
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Axel Gillblad
Architecture is the stage that enacts intriguing and emotional stories of life. In a time where social sustainability must be trivialised in war-stricken Ukraine, this project explores the role of a theatre in fostering civic engagement, by blurring the boundaries between performance and audience.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
The Servant’s Tale
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Jonathan Andersson
This is an architectural✏️ prototype 🏗️🛠️ of setting the standard for the 👁️VISIBLE👀 domestic servant 👀🛎️💙. This prototype is a statement of a multi-purpose dwelling 🏢🏠 where hierarchies🪜 between people of labour 🛠️👷 and people of leisure 🛋️😌 are challenged💪 and ignored👂❌.
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Urban planning
Everywhen
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Daan de Jong
The climate crisis urges us to rethink the future. In his graduation project, Daan explores the role designers can play in this shift. His work is guided by Everywhen: a perception of time where past, present and future are interwoven. The project shows how this concept can reshape design thinking.
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Landscape
The Box
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Luïsa Jacobse
‘The Box’ responds to short-sighted thinking about ‘boxification’– the large-scale construction of box-shaped commercial buildings along major roads – in the Netherlands by introducing an alternative approach by repurposing an existing distribution centre into an publicly accessible enclosed garden.
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