Volume Zero, an international architecture and design magazine, has announced winners for its recent architectural design competition, Aquatecture 2018. The contest encouraged the participants to imagine a utopian world on water and design the same considering the aspects of innovation, originality and sustainability.

The jury for the competition consisted of revered designers Anouk Legende (Xtu Architects), Marco Lavit (Atelier LAVIT), Abraham Cota Paredes (Cotaparedes Architects), Richard Coutts (BACA Architects), Anuj Gudekar (Professor), Mridula Pillai (Professor), Chris Precht (Penda), Andrew Patterson (Patterson Associates) and Moon Hoon,

The top three winners were awarded a total prize money of $4500 while ten entries received honourable mentions. The full results for the Aquatecture 2018 competition can be found on thecompetition's website. 

https://competition.volzero.com/competitions/result/6

See the winners with short info below:

1st prize: Daniela Lamartine (Sweden)

The ‘Float Hub’ goes beyond design, and merges the vital aspects of infrastructure and economicdevelopment. “Float Hub aims to achieve a long-term economic and residential security through a catalogue of typologies that benefits the floating community. The existence of resources in thecommunities enables an economy where any surplus generated is recycled back”. The important activities of the proposed floating community are production, recycling and vending.

2nd prize: Wandi Jin and Jin Yi (China)

The ‘Nuevo Mundo’ looks at traditional Chinese architecture for inspiration. The designers wanted to create "a water building that can flexibly cope with its living environment and can freely control its own dimension, move freely and can easily dock, with the control room diving into the water. The energy of the new water building is supplied by solar and its surrounding environment can producefood and purified water".

3rd prize: Sidharth P T and Balaji B (India)

The design of the ‘Water Miner’ is a "torus pod with all amenities and food production technology.Multiple pods would come together to form a floating settlement with shared food production and programs. The design also has the capability to mine for fresh water while in the sea throughosmosis, with the help of synthetic membranes".

Special Mention: Miguel Angel Vargas Sanchez and Andres Torres Rodriguez (Colombia)

Special Mention: Neha Agarwal, Kaustubh Kulkarni and Raghu Vamshi (India)

Special Mention: Nguyen Phuc Minh, Hoang Thanh Hai and Nguyen Xuan Ngoc (Vietnam)

Special Mention: Kash Moghaddam, Perry Katropoulos and Kanishk Meghani (Australia)

Special Mention: Silvia Angeli, Sophie Angrilli and Xhesika Pfriti (Italy)

See upcoming competitions on WAC Competitions page. 

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