DETAIL Award 2022

Wanted: Trendsetting architecture

Shortlist

Online-Ceremony

17 November 2022, 5 pm

Format: Public

Language: English

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Shortlist

We are pleased to present the 15 nominated projects for the DETAIL Award 2022. The winners in all three categories have been chosen and will be announced at the online ceremony on 17 November 2022.

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Rigot Collective Dwelling Center, Geneva, Switzerland
acau architecture sa

The project is located in Rigot Park in Geneva, just off Avenue de France. The choice of location in the park was prompted by an urgent and temporary measure to house 370 migrants. The project consists of two symmetrical buildings with 5 floors, made of 230 prefabricated wooden modules. Access to the flats is via an external gallery leading to a public courtyard. Through its construction method, based on the repetition of a prefabricated all-wood module, the project promotes reuse, versatility, sustainability, fast and economic construction and supports local industry.

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Kiln Tower for the «Ziegelei-Museum» (brickworks) Cham, Switzerland
Boltshauser Architekten

The brickworks, which is now run by the Brickworks Museum, is the only intact hand brickworks in German-speaking Switzerland. The protected ensemble includes a wooden brick drying hut, an unused kiln, the biotope of the historic clay pit, a residential house with associated garden and a museum building. The pre-stressed clay-wood structure is the world's first pre-stressed building in clay. The building material shows clay in its unfired form and demonstrates the archaic rammed earth building method in a contemporary development. The new tower allows visitors to gain an overview of the site. It allows the staff to fire bricks again with the new kiln. In addition, a room will be created to display further exhibits of the museum.

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Gleis 21, Vienna, Austria
Einszueins Architektur

Gleis 21 is a compact low-energy house in wood-concrete hybrid construction, which is effective in terms of supporting structure through the flat partition walls and through three concrete cores. The construction of the prefabricated ceiling elements (timber-concrete composite ceiling) is also special. The cantilevered concrete slabs are flexurally rigidly connected to these with thermal separating elements and mounted on site with an anchor on the timber wall. This system was planned and executed in this way for the first time in Austria. Gleis 21 was planned as a participatory project with the involvement of future users. By sharing infrastructure and common use of spaces, high efficiency is combined with comfort for all residents of the building.

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House Extension Südkreuz, Berlin, Germany
Praeger Richter Architekten

As part of a concept process in Berlin the building group was awarded the property to build a house with a mixture of condominiums, subsidized rental flats and neighbourhood-related commercial. The French balcony generously extends the living space into the exterior. In the future, today's new buildings will no longer be torn down and disposed of but modernized or converted in a materially conscious manner. Since living circumstances and uses can change quickly, in the sense of a building the "short-term" conversion of units is likely and practical. That is why the materials of the building, constructed in wood-concrete hybrid construction, are used adequately for their life cycle: The permanent supporting structure positioned in the dense urban context is built in concrete and allows high flexibility of use of the spanned units in the long term. Units can be converted without producing waste, and materials can be recycled by using screw- or stick-connections for walls and floors.

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UP! Berlin, Deutschland
JASPER Architects

For the over-all redesign of the building of the former “Centrum Warenhaus” department store of the GDR, built in 1979 triangular-shaped prisms were cut out on each side of the square building to flood the interior with natural light and, by this, loosen up the massive monolithic geometry of the existing building. The resulting voids redefine the building’s urban presence entirely, opening the volume up on all four sides. These canyons, as well as strategic terracing and twisting of the floors, optimize views of central Berlin. All floors have access to outdoor communal spaces for working, entertaining, and relaxing. Wrapped in high-quality glass, what was once an interior-focused shopping center has been reimagined as an outwardly focused center for productivity, creativity, and community.

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Basic Refurbishment “Neue Nationalgalerie”, Berlin, Germany
David Chipperfield Architects

The Neue Nationalgalerie is an icon of 20th century architectural history. The aim of the comprehensive renovation of the listed building, was to preserve as much of the original substance as possible during the unavoidable interventions in the existing architecture. For the renovation of the reinforced concrete structure and the complete renewal of the technical building equipment, deep interventions in the existing building were necessary. In order to expose the shell of the building, around 35,000 original components were dismantled, including all the natural stone slabs and all the components of the interior fittings. After their restoration and, where necessary, modification, the individual components were returned to their original positions. The aim was to largely preserve or restore the building's original appearance.

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Theater-Auditorium in the old quarter of Illueca, Spain
Magén Arquitectos

Integrating the area required by the new auditorium into the fabric of the old town has been the main aim of the project. The materialization of the project is accomplished through red klinker brick walls – topped by copper roofs - evoking the ancient pottery tradition of the area and integrating the building with the reddish tones of the surrounding buildings. Historically, the reddish tone was achieved with rodeno stone, as seen in the quarries of the place and in the stepped plinth of the auditorium. In the first structure, the light filters through ceramic lattices, windows, and skylights, creating a characteristic interior atmosphere while at the same time evolving throughout the day. At night, the light coming from the building, especially from the porch-lattice surrounding the lobby, declares itself as a scenic addition to the landscape.

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Primary and vocational school Längenfeldgasse, Vienna, Austria
PPAG architects

In terms of lighting and open space, the new school building takes into account the existing building in that only the former sports field was built on and the garden remains. The large terrace above the primary school and the jumping terraces tapering towards the top in front of the vocational school are integral parts of the educational spatial considerations. All roofs are learning terraces, which are designed in a differentiated way with pergolas, covered outdoor classes, climbing frames and planting beds. The garden as well as the large terrace on the second floor enable cross-age encounters. Another important space-connecting element is the staircase between the floors, which also leads to the garden. The perforated profile façade allows for an ephemeral building closure without a parapet and a silhouette that runs out towards the sky. The appearance of the façade changes depending on the light and weather conditions.

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Cafeteria and Media Library Darmstadt, Germany
wulf architekten

The new building for the refectory and media library is designed as a two-storey solitaire with a square base and positioned as an address-forming building block on the campus at the edge of the Bürgerpark. With its wooden supporting structure, folded glass façades and cladding of perforated black folded sheet metal, it appears open and filigree. Characteristic is the floor plan geometry, which is based on a structuralist overall concept with a square modular grid and is rotated 45 degrees relative to the building edges, resulting in the jagged façade with interior and exterior seating niches. Covered balconies accompanying the façade offer outdoor seating with panoramic views over the campus. The low structural depth, the glass façades and the central skylight above the staircase create open interior spaces that are at the same time clearly defined and bright due to the grid and seem to blur with the exterior space.

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Casa Rossa Chemnitz, Germany
bodensteiner fest Architekten

For Wilhelminian style building from 1910, which had been vacant for 30 years, the exposed Reichsformat bricks were the defining element of the renovation. The aim was to retain or reuse the building fabric as far as possible, to bring out its qualities and yet to bring the building into the present day. The saving of grey energy / CO2 was as much a guiding principle as the preservation and elaboration of the existing architectural qualities. The sustainable materials brick, oak, black steel and glass are left in their natural state, oiled or glazed, and their materiality remains tangible. The energy concept supported by solar thermal energy - together with a well-insulated building envelope - ensures an excellent energy balance that corresponds to that of a new building and achieves the KfW Effizienzhaus 100 standard.

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RATP Habitat Headquarters, Paris, France
Atelier du Pont

The three-story building designed in a wood frame is nestled amidst a densely constructed block. Sculpted into different levels, the south-facing terraces make the rooftops fully inhabitable, blending architecture and nature. The project was designed to promote interaction and exchange among everyone who work here, both in and outdoors. The building’s interior layout fundamentally disrupts the traditional office model to meet the needs of today’s workspaces: flexibility, upgradability, multiple use, and creativity. Ranges of color and graphic rhythms subtly delineate the various functions.

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The Plus, Magnor, Norway
BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

The Plus is Vestre’s new furniture factory, visitors center and explorable forest - a colorful manufacturing village dedicated to the cleanest, carbon-neutral fabrication of urban furniture. Made of local mass timber, low-carbon concrete, and recycled steel, it is set to become the first industrial building to achieve the highest environmental BREEAM Outstanding rating. Inside the factories, each wing has one alternating ceiling corner lifted to create inclined roofs that allow views into the production halls as well as the forest outside. From all four sides of the buildings, visitors and staff will be invited to hike around the facility and end their walk on the green roof terrace. On the rooftop, 900 photovoltaic panels are placed according to optimal solar efficiency while effective construction and materials methods, rainwater collection systems, heat and cooling systems, green roofs, electric vehicles and much else contribute to ca 90% lower energy demand than that of a conventional factory.

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The Natural Pavilion, Floriade Expo 2022, Amsterdam, Netherlands
DP6 architectuurstudio

The Natural Pavilion is an almost 100% bio-based, circular inspiration-building that will be completely disassembled and rebuilt in a different configuration at a different location. It has been designed for Floriade 2022 Expo, and reflects the challenges faced by spatial planning in The Netherlands: the energy and resources transition, solutions to the housing shortage, increasing sustainability in the agricultural sector, recovery of biodiversity, and climate adaptation. The project is a textbook example of innovative construction, the project represents a highly valuable contribution to the proliferation and scaling-up of bio-based building solutions. An elegant matrix of indigenous, locally-sourced wooden beams forms the clear construction framework, connected by universal steel joints. A versatile application of components into the framework with bio-based and re-used materials such as CLT floors and walls, and windows of re-used glass, permitting the creation of any desired space – including specific conditions such as acoustic or fire-safety demands.

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Concert hall Haus Marteau Lichtenberg, Germany
Architekt Peter Haimerl

Haus Marteau in Lichtenberg, a three-storey villa from the early 20th century, impresses with its unique structure and striking silhouette in the middle of an elegant park. The park and the building were to remain unchanged as far as possible. Thus, only two framed openings reveal that the building volume of the new underground hall is completely integrated into the slope on the south side of the historic villa. A narrow sloping gallery connects the newly developed cellar with the concert hall. The cellar of the existing building was extended by 60 cm in depth. The resulting additional room height allows for a full floor. Inside this hall, huge granite chips recall the mining past of Upper Franconia. Splinters fly towards each other from the two opposite corners of a parallelogram. They explode in the middle of the room and settle on the walls as crystalline shapes. The hill of the park does not reveal the secret within its monumental interior. The view of the listed house and the park remains from all sides.

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Light Railway Tunnel Karlsruhe, Deutschland
allmannwappner

With the realisation of the Karlsruhe light rail tunnel, there are now seven tram stops underground. As a rule, the stops consist of two spatial categories, each of which follows its own design principle. The transfer space comprises the area from the surface access, through the mezzanine, to the base of the stairs at platform level. The configuration of the engineering structure can be read directly; structural cladding is largely dispensed with. With the bush-hammered wall surfaces and a non-directional light guide, the transfer room noticeably withdraws in its effect - as a transition to the actual stop area at platform level. Passengers and trams are exposed as actors on the light background and atmospherically staged via the light.

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