Participants

Sunny Jackson

Artist / Designer at Sunny Jackson Studio

Nathaniel Banks

CEO / Design Lead at PolyGone Systems

Junghye Yoon

Designer at Honeydew Rabbit

Dagmara Oliwa

Architect / Lead Designer at FORMA CAPRICHOSA

Bill Price

Professor / Architect at Prairie View A&M University

REBOOT addresses the plastic water bottle as one of the clearest artifacts of contemporary life: lightweight, disposable, globally distributed, and nearly impossible to make disappear. Begun in 1987, the project approaches plastic waste not simply as an environmental problem, but as an ethical and architectural one. Rather than treating the bottle as refuse, REBOOT reconsiders it as matter capable of transformation through connection, repetition, and assembly.

Oliver Schütte

Architect / Project Director at A-01 (A Company / A Foundation)

The No Footprint Wood House (NFWH) is the third in a series of interrelated prototypes that explore the potential of sustainable modular construction. Based on a three-by-three-meter spatial grid layout, the project combines industrial techniques with locally harvested and regenerative building materials. The multi-award-winning project received more than 60 awards for sustainable design worldwide, including the A' Design Award Platinum.

Bruno De Lazzari

Designer at De Lazzari Mobiliario Urbano

Vela Bench is a multifunctional urban furniture piece by De Lazzari Mobiliario Urbano, a family-owned brand based in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Adam Dayem

Principal at ASLASHO

Oriented in relation to the rolling hills of its site and views of surrounding mountain ranges, the house is conceived as two elongated volumes — a smaller one sleeved into a larger one.

Yiqing Wu

Designer at Lili Design Studio

The design proposal emphasizes the importance of giving the land back to nature. To achieve this goal, the design proposes to increase the number of trees in the park by almost 40%.

Fabrizio Alborno

Architect & Designer

The SEA chaise longue is part of the VESSEL project, initiated in 2006/2007 and still ongoing, which is based on a design approach inspired by historical avant-gardes.

OYU

Creative Director at ATELIER OYU

"Sho no Hana" is a work based on Sousaku Ikebana, a contemporary approach to ikebana. The word "Sho" signifies auspiciousness. It explores the boundary between form and presence.

Alena Bulataya

Designer

INCLINE is a modular soft furniture system built on a precise architectural logic. Each module is defined by inclined side planes that interlock and structurally support one another.

Mingrui Jiang

Architectural Designer at Columbia University

BuildingNEW reimagines the New Museum not as a static monument, but as a living social hub that is closely connected with the community and neighborhood.

David Guerra

Principal Architect at David Guerra Arquitetura e Interiores

Tucked away in a lush mountain valley bordering an ecological reserve, this 745-square-meter weekend retreat is a masterclass in blending contemporary architecture with the raw tranquility of nature.

Yuchen Qiu

Designer

Spira Silva reimagines the high-rise by allowing a single cross-laminated timber panel to twist. Drawing on research in self-shaping timber, that one move generates the building's structure, envelope, terraces, and shading.

Peter Kuczia

Principal at Kuczia Architecture

The Linara building in the Innovapark Kaufbeuren industrial estate represents a significant step forward in sustainable, solar architecture.

Hao Zhong

Architect

Located in the historic water town of Wuzhen, Ascending Ground is a community library that reinterprets traditional architectural typologies through a contemporary lens.

Simone Hutsch

Photographer

This series captures vast architectural pieces in surreal, foggy landscapes, blurring the line between reality and dreams. All landscape images were taken in California, US, and shot on iPhone 14.

Fei Hu

Designer at FMPART

It is a modern style design with white marble-shaped curves as the main decorative shape of the space, inspired by the feathers of the phoenix. The design integrates artistic aesthetics with practical functionality.

Xiyao Wang

Founder at Extended Play Lab

Urban Symbiosis reimagines Hudson Yards as a metabolic hub of infrastructure, nature, and architecture. Sitting directly above the 7 Train station, this mixed-use supertall celebrates the "great underground" — transforming the subway entrance into a naturally lit civic heart while a 7-block sunken garden extends the High Line to ground level.