DNA Paris Design Awards 2021
Image: Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, by Barozzi Veiga. © Simon Menges
ARCHITECTURE
Barozzi Veiga
Architectural Design of the Year
Barozzi Veiga won the Architectural Design of the Year 2021 for the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne. Barozzi Veiga was founded in Barcelona by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga in 2004. The building, a monolithic volume parallel to the railway, echoes the industrial past of the area and defines a continuous public space where architecture becomes the frame of the urban life and the container of the new public art centre of Lausanne. The memory of the place is achieved through the preservation of specific fragments of the former 19th century station depot. The old arched window becomes the main protagonist of the building façade from the railway and, once within the foyer, it reveals its full role as a substantial structuring component of the museum’s sequence of spaces.
Image: Dois Tropicos by Mnma Studio. © Andre Klotz
INTERIOR DESIGN
Mnma Studio
Interior Design of the Year
Brazilian Mnma Studio won the Interior Design of the Year 2021 for their project Dois Tropicos. Mariana Schmidt was the lead designer of the prpject. The purpose is to create a contemporary element that when opened would bring back some lost time of ancient forms of construction, a slow passing of time, contact with earth. A commercial space that creates a homelike hosting experience, using nostalgia and natural matter, crafted by artisan hands that desire to achieve not perfection but real environments. Every material has its own characteristics and limits for its definition. To work on the threshold of its possibilities - but not defying it - is indeed a fertile ground for advanced thinking and technique development.
Image: Aux · Flora Bloom by Jumu Landscape Design Co.,ltd. Courtesy of DNA Paris Design Awards.
LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Jumu Landscape Design Co.,ltd
Landscpae Design of the Year
The Chinese company Jumu Landscape Design Co.,ltd won the Landscpae Design of the Year 2021 for their project Aux · Flora Bloom. The project is located between the municipal road and the park. It introduces people from the monochromatic landscape space to the secret back field garden step by step. People play in the sea of flowers and forget about the hustle and bustle of the city. And it allows people to experience the natural scenery without going to the field. The designer makes full use of the site conditions, changing the unfavorable factors into favorable ones, resolving the contradiction between the urban architecture and the style of the sea of flowers, bringing people to the unique city backyard.
Image: Posters for the Festival FILMAR en América Latina 2020 by WePlayDesign.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
WePlayDesign
Graphic Design of the Year
WePlayDesign won the Graphic Design of the Year 2021 for their project for the Festival FILMAR en América Latina 2020. The lead designers of the project were Sophie Rubin and Cédric Rossel. FILMAR en América Latina is the most important festival dedicated to Latin American cinema and cultures in Switzerland. It supports independent cinema and Latin American filmmakers, offers new films and great classics, promotes exchanges thanks to the many filmmakers invited by the festival. The visual identity created by WePlayDesign for the festival is based on the Mayan language, a means of transmitting knowledge and information. The glyphs selected represent hands which here refer to actions closely linked to cinema such as framing, shooting or even composition.
About the DNA Paris Design Awards
Conscious Design Awards for
Best Student Projects 2021
Image: The Refuge Island by Noémie Cruz and Louise Dequevauviller, DNMADE3 Espace — Habitat, mobilier et environnement, Ensaama.
DESIGN
Noémie Cruz and Louise Dequevauviller
Best Conscious Design Award
Noémie Cruz and Louise Dequevauviller, students of the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d’art (Ensaama), won the Best Conscious Design Award 2021 organized by WantedDesign, for thier project The Refuge Island. Like an island for the walker, their project is a thatched-roof refuge that emerges from a lake in the French Alps. Thanks to its vernacular form and sustainable approach, this micro-architecture advocates for the preservation of resources. Contemporary and archetypal, it offers an immersive and authentic experience in the heart of high mountain wilderness. In the current ecological context, thier project aims to question our daily practices and to initiate a transition towards new ways of inhabiting the world.
Image: OSTRA From Waste to Resource by Jade Echard, MA Industrial Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL.
DESIGN
Jade Echard
Best of Sustainable Solution
Jade Echard, MA Industrial Design student at the Central Saint Martins, won the Best of Sustainable Solution for her project OSTRA From Waste to Resource. Around 430 billion tons of oysters are harvested each year. Their shells represent more than 70% of their weight, resulting in tons of shell waste. OSTRA aims to rethink oyster shells as a valuable, sustainable and local resource of biomaterial by developing a range of products in the context of a circular economy. In doing so, the project helps to reduce the pollution load while also reducing production and transport costs. OSTRA is critically engaging with a complete supply chain. It involves local communities, creating a network of people (farmers, restauranteurs as material suppliers, designers) around oyster shells.
About the Conscious Design Awards for Best Student Projects
Role Models Contest 2021
Image: Flood Points by Eric Hu, Anthony Vesprini and Nalin Chahal, Parsons School of Design,
The New School.
DESIGN
Eric Hu, Anthony Vesprini and Nalin Chahal
Grand Prize
Eric Hu, Anthony Vesprini and Nalin Chahal, won the Grand Prize of the Role Models Contest organized by Parsons School of Design, The New School, for their project Flood Points. Flood Points asked the question "How do we design for rising tides?" For centuries, we have built structures that directly oppose the environment. Instead, Flood Points adapts to, rather than resists, environmental shifts. In their architectural proposal for the coastline of Northern Queens in New York City, students Eric Hu, Anthony Vesprini, and Nalin Chahal selected a multitude of problems to focus upon, including designing for sustainable energy sources, increasing transportation to the site, remediating harmful toxins from pollutants and sound pollution from the nearby airport. Yet, their primary focus was rising sea levels.
