Young Talent
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
Eco-resort at Lake Fjollë in Tirana
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Gazmir Lami
The challenges of rural abandonment and orientation towards cities are complex issues that impact the development of both rural and urban environments. Some of these challenges include:
Rural abandonment
Urbanization and its resulting problems
Loss of cultural heritage
Pressure on natural resourcesEUmies Awards Young Talent
Industrial
Discrete Blockbau Architecture
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Matteo Deval
By merging the ancient knowledge of Blockbau architecture with the latest technologies in robotics, augmented reality, and generative design, the patented wood-based LokAlp system has been produced, enabling maximum architectural expression and reversibility for a real architecture for reuse.
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Landscape
Grazing in rural regeneration and fire prevention
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Beatriz Madeira Duarte
The project seeks to propose a process of regeneration and transformation for a rural territory, abandoned and constantly affected by rural fires. Through a unifying gesture, applying the concept of commons on the margin of the Cabril reservoir, enabling the use of this dormant territory.
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Food & Accommodation
(Re)designing the Platform. Inhabiting Memory
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Filipe Cruz Almas
The project is structured around a large platform, redesigned from an existing landfill. Throughout a single bold gesture, the hotel and public baths take shape, while the restaurant emerges in the old fortress. The main goal is to achieve seamless integration with the surrounding landscape.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Ecosystem Strategies for Urban Co-Habitation
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Franziska Vey
Challenging anthropocentric planning, the framework offers 8 strategic steps to achieve resilient co-habitats for our future. It empowers voices from human, flora, fauna, and water as equal protagonists and utilizes natures ecosystem and adapts the concepts for regenerative urban design strategies.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Ankara Exquis
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Nusret Atakan Harmancı · Alp Yılmaz
The project introduces a methodology for reading and designing the city of Ankara and its collective memory. Using the Surrealist game Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite Corpse) as an analogy, it explores ways to re-fold natural and cultural fragments by linking them across various dimensions of fold lines.
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Industrial
story mine*
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Pelin Gezer
The project explores how architecture can mediate care in post-extractive landscapes by rehabilitating a depleted limestone mine. The structure, emerging from decaying industrial ruins, can serve as a political emblem of transformation, symbolizing how architecture can confront environmental trauma.
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Collective housing
Ci.Re.Vi Circular Regeneration Viikki
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Martina Riva · Giulia Valleise
Ci.Re.Vi Circular Regeneration Viikki stems from design and environmental challenges in Helsinki. The project focuses on light optimization, climate resilience, and carbon neutrality, using prefabrication and parametric design to boost efficiency, reduce impact, and ensure sustainability.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Athens, the Old Acropolis Museum. Rediscovering Traces of the Ancient.
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Matteo Mornata · Simona Talerico · Annalisa Vaghi
The thesis proposes a project for the Acropolis of Athens, creating a dialogue between ancient and modern. The intervention focuses on the Old Museum, uncovering hidden archaeological traces and new exhibition spaces. An expanded atrium and hypogeal area reveal remains of the Sanctuary of Pandion.
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
Muros Habitabile
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Kellens Jules
Muros Habitabile addresses flooding by proposing seven inhabitable walls along the Meuse. These walls give the river horizontal space to expand, reducing flood risk. The project redefines urban resilience, where architecture and nature collaborate to mitigate floods and create a sustainable future.
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Landscape
A guideline for a productive bocage landscape
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Vansteenkiste Leen
The project conducts research through design into the past productive bocage landscape around the Abbey of Herkenrode. A resilient re-introduction of this landscape – from the remains found in the landscape – is explored through the design of a nomadic barn and landscape profiles.
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Urban planning
Along the banks of Via de Cintura Interna: A regenerative proposal for Porto’s urban fabric
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Marcela Percú de Oliveira Solon Ribeiro
This proposal transforms an express ringroad into a structuring element of the urban ecossystem, promoting urbanity and articulating centralities. Centered on decarbonization, it integrates sustainable mobility, public spaces, and environmental structures, regenerating the urban and social fabric.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Vieiros Mines: beyond memory.
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Rita Almeida Baptista
On the steep slope leading to the river in Amarante, lies the abandoned Vieiros Mining Complex, the core of this project.
The proposal envisions a Museum and Residential Spaces while preserving the Historical Structures, honoring its past.
A first step in restoring this site as a Place once more.EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
bombyx-mori
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Hernán González González
It’s a chance to raise my concerns: mixed use, tectonic & stereotomic, ground as formwork, periphery as connexion to nature, landscaped urbanism without cars, architecture for animals, modest high technology, no to programmatic specifications, architect as a DJ and not as a director…
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Landscape
Re-nature
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Jose Zacarías López Pausa
Renaturalization of the lower Tajo river valley in Toledo. The objective will be to transform the current damaged section of the riparian forest. In a naturalized section that allows continuity and ecosystemic relationships.
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Industrial
Decontamination Plan
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Marina Van der Linden Martínez
The alga Rugulopteryx Okamurae, also known as invasive seaweed, arrived in Spain in 2015. This project focuses on creating a port device to harvest and transform the invasive algae into usable raw material.
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Religion
GAROÉ
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Marta Morato Costa
Garoé is a sacred space—a hidden temple in the red stone quarry. Three ethereal tensile structures descend delicately shaping and inhabiting the wounded landscape.
This temple is a gesture of healing the scars of the territory, reviving ancient legends, and breathing life into once-forgotten spaces.EUmies Awards Young Talent
Collective housing
N. E. S. T.
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Beatriz Whitham Agut
Suburbia: an outdated formula, consuming land, isolating people and erasing nature. N.E.S.T. is not a building—it’s a system: a porous, evolving framework where housing, community and landscape merge. A network of modular cores enables flexible living, connectivity and ecological preservation.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Anomalies of the Landscape
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Art Lubishtani
Ruins are more than remnants; they shape urban identity. This book explores Leukerbad’s “ruins” through art, architecture, and personal experience, revealing their cultural, historical, and emotional significance. Ruins are not decay—they are unfinished narratives, waiting to be reimagined.
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
Architectures of foam
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Tobias Furter
The project examines the urban sprawl in Switzerland. It transforms randomly developed Spaces into a multi-layered potential and opens up new relationships between architecture and infrastructure. The goal is a sustainable development strategy for the urban sprawl.
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Landscape
Secrets of Ges
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Albert Ferraz Xufré · Clàudia Órpez Sánchez
This project aims to rediscover the ruins of the hydraulic flour mills of the Ges Valley. The mills are cataloged, analyzed, and studied. Their connections with each other and the surrounding villages are restored. Finally, an action plan is established to experience the mills in a renewed way.
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Government & Civic
Hermetic architecture
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Schäfer Lür
The project reimagines prisons by interpreting waiting not as enforced inactivity but as a productive process of self-reflection and reintegration. It aims to transform incarceration into a pathway for personal and social renewal, supporting this often-neglected process through architectural design.
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Industrial
Room for Reuse
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Marieke Stritzke
The thesis synthesises theoretical research and architectural design to develop concepts and frameworks for circular construction hubs, while exploring their spatial requirements and potential at the building level.
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Industrial
MA STUDIO ABOUT TIME / URBAN FOOD HALL
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Gamerdinger Moritz Constantin · Kuttler Patric Nicolas Marie
Our project examined how industrial production cycles, particularly in flour production, could inform a vertically dependent architectural logic. We also explored the temporal correlations between available energy and production rhythms-once fundamental to planning but now often overlooked.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Care at the center
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Klingler Theresa · Späth Viktor
Care centers extend care networks beyond the overburdened nuclear family by fostering egalitarian communal care. Through interactions with residents and experts at our research pavilion, we developed a needs-based concept for a model care center that places care at the heart of neighborhood life.
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
Disruption of the Horizontal
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Jungel Kilian
The Ground is a complex structural artefact that has a profound impact on architecture, not only structurally but also socially. This Thesis proposes that adjustments to it can significantly alter a building’s character and functionality, making it an important resource in the reuse of buildings.
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Food & Accommodation
Industribønne
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Laura Hastings
Industribønne proposes the adaptive reuse of an existing coffee factory located in Filipstad, Oslo. Intending to interrogate inhabitation of the monumental wall through depth and preserve industrial heritage and explore circularity; spent coffee grounds as aggregate in rammed earth construction.
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
as deformed fragments get informed
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Hiroaki Yamane
To archive a progression of urbanisation through the network of obsessive captures.
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Urban planning
Behind the Facade
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Rachel Caul
‘Behind the Façade’ offers a retelling of the city of Bristol through its domestic spaces to reveal the relationship between property speculation and the transatlantic slave trade, and dismantle existing conservation frameworks that continue to conceal and preserve these associations today.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
L‘AGORA DU QUARTIER
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Paul Leon Pollack
In response to growing urbanization and loneliness, this project reimagines a shopping center in the Banlieues of Paris, transforming it into an inviting hub for people with all backgrounds. By creating divers, open spaces, it fosters community interaction and revitalizes the heart of the city.
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
Architecture as Action Research
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Maximilian Sinn
Combining architectural and artistic practice with the social science method of action research offers a way to analyze and address the current phenomenon of hostile architecture in the city’s urban public space. The result is a new concept for research about architecture and its social effects.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Wanderlust
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Yuxuan Jiang · Theodoros Venetsanos
The project explores the reconnection of body and mind through architecture. On Insel der Jugend, a spatial journey unfolds, guiding visitors through detachment, immersion, and engagement. The design invites a sensory experience, reawakening physical awareness through space and movement.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Ad memoriam: Salvia officinalis
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Magdalena von Fritsch
Ad memoriam: Salvia officinalis is about the reuse of a former shelter as a seed vault to save our biodiversity in case of natural disaster or war. The added research centre ensures preservation for future generations. A memorial for plants we´ve lost and a symbol of destruction as a warning.
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Infrastructure
The Seed Bank, Gornja Bucica
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Josip Fabijanac
Along the local road, I find an invisible layer of geological processes: sinkholes. By superimposing technologically sophisticated and technologically primitive systems, a structure of global character is created, an artifact in the landscape, an insurance policy for humanity’s survival.
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Infrastructure
The Mont St-Michel bay face of climate change : a history of a territory’s habitability
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Bilal KHANNAT · Nathan WISTRAND · Nils ZEHNTER
The project aims to anticipate rising sea level risks and make human activities in Mont St-Michel Bay more sustainable. Architectural interventions include a shell concrete production site, many transformation sites for quackgrass-based insulation, and mobile saltbushes sheepfolds.
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Urban planning
OPENING 59° 39´ N, 25° 42´ E
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Kristofer Soop
The project offers a transboundary spatial approach for opening up the potentials of Loksa port, Loksa and Lahemaa in the context of the Baltic sea region, Central-Baltic sea and Finnish coast area. As an outcome, 6 visions, each in every scale, and 4 planning options for the port, were proposed.
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Industrial
SINKING & SHRINKING: Adapting to Subsidence on an Example of Shrinking Kohtla-Järve City
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Diana Drobot
The extraction of mineral resources leaves a significant spatial footprint with a recognisable rhythm and strong identity – post-extracted landscapes. This thesis proposes a revaluation of the underground industrial heritage, restoring and reusing its elements. Architecture of utopia and dystophia.
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Education
Darmstadt System
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Bea Johanna Engelmann
A flexible building for TU Darmstadt’s Faculty of Architecture, serving first as temporary faculty space and later as a guesthouse. Its adaptive design ensures sustainability, efficiency, and long-term campus integration.
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Mixed use – Commercial & Offices
Sendling‘s Kitchen <3
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Philipp Reidar Ludwig Schmitz
Sendling’s Kitchen develops a new typology. It combines the wholesale market with cooking, teaching and exhibition uses. It creates an experimental space for research, community and learning through infrastructure, construction and circular processes in the food industry.
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Collective housing
LIVING IN GREEN. Intergenerational coliving.
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
María José Palomo Montero
This project proposes an intergenerational housing to respond to population ageing, a current global challenge. Its main objectives are to improve people’s health and reduce the environmental impact of construction, by applying biophilic strategies and active ageing concepts.
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