Young Talent
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Gallery Haven dock Ghent
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Barbora Kristkova
The thesis deals with an abandoned industrial dock in Ghent, Belgium. The proposal is concerned with integrating the excluded site into the context of the city, creating new social connections for the inhabitants and promoting the identity of the place with respect to sustainability.
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Collective housing
Repairing Robin Hood Gardens
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Monet Alexis
Facing its imminent demolition, Robin Hood Gardens, the large-scale housing project by Alison and Peter Smithson asks for urgent attention. Our project proposes the radical repair of the building and tackles simultaneously the precarious situation of student housing in the UK.
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Urban planning
Disappearing Territory
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Melsida Babayan
This research project examines how, throughout and after the war, architecture, reconstruction of new settlements, technology, and infrastructure have been used as war weapons in claiming and colonising territories by the investigation of real-life examples in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh).
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Urban planning
SUBURBIS: From Identification and Genesis to a Regeneration Model for the Banja Luka Periphery
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Zoran Uljarević
The paper deals with the study of the suburban phenomenon, as the starting point of the transformation process of human settlements. The work shows that changes within the periphery should aim towards the humanization of space through the harmonized modification of physical and social layers.
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Landscape
Kalamas: Management and exploitation of natural resources and cultural heritage
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Katerina Kyriazopoulou
Situated in Epirus, Greece, this project proposes an environmental planning focusing on the different sources of pollution along the river Kalamas, by focal point, defining alternative management and practice that will be sustainable and self-regulating.
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Industrial
DATA ISLAND
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Tomáš Rausz
The project repurposes decommissioned oil rigs into data centers using submerged server cooling, minimizing infrastructure needs and optimizing costs. This innovative approach preserves the iconic structure of oil rigs while providing a sustainable solution for their future use.
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Culture
Terrestrial Post-Anthropocene
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Miriam Löscher
The project seeks to create an environment of microperformative structures accomodating non-human agencies, allowing natural systems to flourish within the built environment, creating sustainable living systems for humans too – ones that breathe, decay and revive, mirroring the cycles of nature.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Contemporary Perspectives for the Alțâna Village
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Maria Radu
My diploma project arises from my hands-on exploration of architecture, bridging theory with real-world practice in the rural setting of Alțâna, Sibiu County. The process itself is essential—dynamic and continuous—addressing built heritage, multiethnic communities and volunteer heritage involvement.
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Health
A Last Home
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Alexandru Florin Ardelean
The palliative care center goes beyond functional solutions, focusing on the symbolic and emotional aspects of ontological moments. It integrates medicine, philosophy, anthropology, and psychology, addressing the vulnerability of those suffering and the needs of their loved ones.
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Social welfare
De-Mistifying Ageing in an age-less future
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Dawn Briscoe
Growing old is often seen as a time to decline and become redundant. Dictionaries explain “ageing” as the process of getting older and becoming less healthy and efficient. This study aims to propose a new definition, one where “ageing” means becoming older and free to choose your own pace in life.
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Industrial
Opportune Resourcefulness
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Owen Degiorgio
This project addresses construction waste by introducing carbon-neutral materials in Malta. Using Posidonia oceanica, it creates biodegradable panels to reduce reliance on extracted resources. The goal is to integrate organic materials into construction, promoting sustainability and resilience.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Beneath the Shadows of Palm
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Danielle Lee
Beneath the Shadows of Palm explores an innovative material by incorporating palm waste into sustainable building tectonics, reshaping the energy flows and risks associated with palm oil production through the integration of ecological dynamics and revitalization of socio-cultural relationships.
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Education
Nuclear Power Plant in Latvia: Research Center near the Nuclear Reactor
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Tils Zigmunds Ozoliņš
This project proposes a modern approach to power plant design, integrating a research center with a nuclear power plant in Latvia. It transforms a degraded site into a sustainable energy and research hub, addressing energy independence, multifunctionality and architectural innovation.
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Industrial
Construction Meterials Laboratory and the Museum of Unbuilt Architecture in Eksportosta, Riga
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Katrina Marta Peizuma
Thesis is a speculative reconceptualization for an undervalued waterfront warehouse with functions lacking in site’s planned development but crucial in the near EU future. It both ensures circular operations of the site and is an anti-gentrification anchor for the neighborhood’s strong genius loci.
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Culture
Echoes of Murrumburr Country
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Billy Swain
The architecture is rooted in Kakadu’s landscape, guided by the Murumburr. Structures emerge gently and ochre steels mirror traditional shelters and Bininj art. These porous, humble spaces foster storytelling, cultural exchange, and environmental respect, prioritising Country over built form.
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Landscape
Bridging the Maribyrnong
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Finalists
Santiago Borda Orellana
BRIDGING resides between a science fiction utopia and a plausible future. 3 interventions opportunistically graft themselves to existing bridges, guiding the river’s future through adaptive infrastructure, phytoremediation, floating habitats, and repurposed materials. Fostering community agency.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
The Embodiment Oval
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Kim Huang
The Embodiment Oval situates itself within a holistic Model of Care based on salutogenic principles, in response to the 2019 Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System in Australia. It uses adaptive reuse methods to re-purpose a community football oval into a therapeutic healing place.
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Urban planning
Entanglement and Public Affairs
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Shortlisted
Holly Shannon
Entanglement and Public Affairs is a project which attempts to view the idea of policy, property and procurement differently to the current way of things. Through a series of interventions, the project interrogates and engages with the varying private and public realms of place.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Ruins of Repair
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Edward Buckle
Ruins of repair explores how material left in the wake of resource extraction might be seen as a resource. Through creating a reverse mine, the reconfigured infrastructure of the gold mine extracts waste as a resource to form an architecture capable of reflecting the sites varied and torbid past
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Culture
Basel harbour site ahoy! Transformation of an industrial building ensemble on the West-Quay
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Zoe Fränkle
The transformation of Basel’s harbour reimagines the West-Quay as a vibrant cross-border district for Switzerland, France and Germany. With a media library, cultural center, university tower and theatre, the project blends heritage and innovation, creating a landmark hub for culture and interaction.
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
Role of housing in new centrality areas
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Enis Beqiri
Urban centrality evolves with socio-economic, cultural, and ecological changes. This thesis explores housing’s role in shaping urban cores, focusing on Rotuš 2 Center, Maribor. It emphasizes mixed-use development, inclusive housing, and strategic design as key to vibrant, resilient city centers.
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Education
resilient monument
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Maxi Anja Groß · Anna Okon
When, if not now should the architectural heritage of 1970’s modernism be appreciated? Criticizing Berlin’s neglect of monuments, the project proposes a mediating, prospective architecture. A neighborhood-integrated educational center reactivates the site while preserving its visionary conception.
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
Battery
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Hanna Hamann
A potential energy storage continues the well known approach of potential energy storage which is well known from pumped storage power plants on small scale as a residential building in an urban area.
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
The Bridges of Radolfzell
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Lukas Boß
In different scales the project reshapes the area around the train station in Radolfzell as a new link between the city and the lake. Seven context related bridges implementing interconnectedness, a quality of public space and the potential for appropriation and identification to the suburban space.
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Industrial
Distinct View. A Contemporary Winery in Quinta de Subserra
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Guilherme Filipe Silva Vieira
This work is dedicated to research of a different way to look at the existent architeture, a profound view at all that surrounds us, to search for the essence of the place. Places are much more than their matter and existence they’re an assembly of systems essential to the evolution of human beings.
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
The City and the Natural Environment
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Rui Miguel de Jesus e Castro
Lisbon shows a rupture between the city and natural environment. Once a fertile valley with farms, Alcântara underwent heavy modernization in the 20th century. This project restores balance by bringing the stream back to the surface, improving the use, management, and potential of natural resources.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Restructuring the Alcáçova and Reinventing Water in the Hill of Castelo de São Jorge
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
João Maria de Oliveira Martins Bastos de Almeida
Studying the before, interpreting the now and designing the after are the main actions of this project, which restructures the core of Lisbon’s city walls and reinvents a water system that supplies a range of spaces and usage deeply connected to their historical, cultural, social and urban context.
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Urban planning
Flooded Futures
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Ella Hens
Chau doc, a city in the Vietnamese Mekong delta, is growing rapidly, but the present living conditions are threatened by global warming. By rethinking the current ways of expansion, a counter proposal is made for the city’s masterplan which reintroduces water urbanism in the daily lives of people.
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
Transitions
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Lucas Verhaeghe
‘Transitions’ addresses the challenges faced by Flemish residential neighborhoods built in the 1970s. The project transforms one of these neighborhoods by drawing inspiration from Japanese cities, focusing on nature’s role within these urban environments.
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Collective housing
Primary Structure – Built Identity
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Louwies Pitteljon
Starting from a structural analysis of existing ‘village’ typologies, the design blends into the built identity of the Flemish village. By recognising the structural intelligence of the typologies, they are used to densify the Flemish rural area in innovative ways and in unexpected situations.
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
THE POST OLYMPIC TOURIST TRAP
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Vic Winters
The Post Olympic Tourist Trap examines how we experience reality, and experiments with ways to depict this reality. The goal of the project is to showcase aspects of our contemporary world through research and design, ultimately fostering an expanded awareness of our surroundings.
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
Spatial Flirts
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Leonie Overmeire
The project embodies collaboration and experimental space-making, challenging urban public space through temporary interventions inspired by nightlife. The so called ‘spatial flirts’ provoke reflection and interaction, fostering connections and resistance through shared experiences in the city.
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Collective housing
HARVEST HAVEN: Brainport Smart District & Circular Living
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
María Fe Montenegro Cerna
My project explores a new residential typology that seamlessly integrates food production with residential architecture, creating a model for sustainable urban living. It envisions a self-sustaining community where residents can grow their own food, recycle waste, and harvest water.
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Food & Accommodation
CIRCULAR LIVING. Brainport Smart District in Helmond, the Netherlands
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Catarina Gill de Barros Leonel
‘Living with Food’ closes the gap between farm and plate. The neighbourhood design provides pockets of both intimate and community environments under one roof. Food is something we cultivate. Food is something we prepare. Food is something we share. The dining table a central force for community.
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Collective housing
HEAVEN HOME
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Teodora Ribarova
The project aims to create a modular housing structure for the temporary accommodation of citizens affected by natural disasters and crises. Despite its temporary nature, the structure integrates modern trends in multi-family housing, focusing on comfort, social integration, and innovation.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Paral.lel Cultural Nexus
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Karine Bagdasaryan
The project transforms a non-consolidated block in Poble-sec neighborhood into public infrastructure, reactivating the abandoned Endesa factory. Prioritizing urban permeability and bioclimatic strategies, the intervention redefines contemporary hybrid spaces as catalysts for cultural exchange.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Châtel-Argent. Designing contemporary form in areas of ruins
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Jan Paniak
The idea of the project is to create a modern form within the area of the ruins while respecting the existing structure and integrating functions that will support the operation of the site.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Dzielnia: The Square of Culture in Nowy Sącz
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Zlata Hrabtsevich
Dzielnia project reimagines the once vibrant, yet now left underused, place in the city of Nowy Sącz – one of many examples of medium-sized Polish cities affected by depopulation – by transforming it into a hybrid cultural area interwoven with nature.
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Landscape
LA VIA DELL’ACQUA
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Katarzyna Jamioł
La via dell’acqua revitalizes the Is Cungiaus River in Quartucciu, Sardinia, by restoring its natural flow, mitigating floods and creating habitats for native species. It transforms neglected land into a vibrant ecosystem and features a climate shelter serving as a refuge and an educational space.
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