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.