Awardee

Jonathan Heid

Appreciation Student Award

Jonathan Heid’s master’s thesis ‘Building Consciousness – A Centre for the New European Bauhaus’, with its complex of topics and choice of location, is directly related to the ongoing climate change and the simultaneous above-average consumption of finite resources. As a test laboratory for practical applications and as a location for scientific investigations, Heid has chosen four buildings on KIT’s South Campus that have been vacant for several years due to high levels of pollution and can be used as examples. The building complex he selected is a cityscape-defining ensemble in the immediate vicinity of Karlsruhe Palace. The work is characterised by a high level of expertise in the application of refurbishment and circulation strategies for the building ensemble and transfers these skills equally to the potential for redensification and the architectural appearance of the interior and exterior of the refurbished research buildings.
The work was supervised by Prof Ludwig Wappner and Prof Dirk Hebel.

 

Silvi Kociu

Prize winner Student Award

Silvi Kociu received the main prize of 2,000 euros for her master’s thesis ‘Sand dumping in Hamburg’s Spree harbour’.
In her work, Silvi Kociu shows how the maintenance work in Hamburg’s shipping canals can be used to create a new landscape for animals and plants. She uses the sand dredged from the canals to maintain navigation to create a cohabitative ecosystem consisting of a habitat for animals and a natural leisure pool.
The work skilfully spans a wide cultural arc from the beginnings of land occupation by humans to the withdrawal of humans from strategically selected areas called for by Kociu. The architectural objects she proposes are variations on typical harbour infrastructures such as crane runways and conveyor belts.
The work was supervised by Prof Simon Hartmann and Prof Christian Inderbitzin.

 

Teresa Galí-Izard

Teresa Galí_Izard Landschaftsarchitektin
Teresa Gali-Izard

Nominated

The Catalan architect Teresa Galí-Izard is nominated for the Schelling Architecture Award 2024. She sees her task as a landscape architect as influencing how people connect with living systems.
The systemic nature of the projects that transform the logic of nature has many layers and scales. Teresa Galí-Izard is familiar with the language and behaviour of water, vegetation, soils, tree architecture and plant life cycles. At the same time, she knows how to identify parameters that intervene in rule-based systems, including infrastructures, management, urban metabolism, temporality and seasonality.
Her Chair of Being Alive at ETH Zurich is a kind of statement through its substantial name alone and deals in the truest sense with life cycles, living beings and the landscape as a basis for life to be rethought.

 

Bas Smets

Bas Smets
Bas Smets

Nominated

Bas Smets, a landscape architect with an office in Brussels, is nominated for the Schelling Architecture Award 2024. He is a seeker of an understanding of the city based on ecology. Smets, who trained in Leuven and Geneva and then worked with Michel Desvigne in Paris, pursues a new understanding of landscape planning in his work.
According to Smets, many things need to be rethought. Landscape planning can play a pioneering role. Smets’ aim is to generate spaces in local urban environments that can be used for longer periods of the year in terms of climate and that are at the same time more resident-friendly.
How closely will landscape planning and urban development have to cooperate in future? Bas Smets believes in the need for
‘biospheric urbanism’. Smets has shown how this can be realised in Arles in the area surrounding Frank Gehry’s Luma Museum.

 

LOLA Landsape Architects

LOLA Landscape Architects
LOLA Partners

Prize winner

The Schelling Architecture Award 2024 goes to LOLA Landscape Architects.

There are few planners who have such a broad base and focus on the big picture as Lola Landscape Architects from Rotterdam. In addition to employing landscape architects, architects and urban designers, they also collaborate with a large number of partners. They conduct research, for example in the large dike project that resulted in the book “Dutch Dikes” and not only mapped and systematized all the dikes in the Netherlands, but also showed how this greatest Dutch invention is likely to play an increasingly important role in the future. This resulted, for example, in plans for a future-proof port of Rotterdam, even with rising water levels. Lola was founded in 2006 and works mainly in the Netherlands and its neighboring countries and in China.
Many of its projects involve the transformation of disused industrial sites or large sports facilities, which, along with parks, is one of the drivers of urban redevelopment.

 

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