“A bold proposition to understand the city as a type of ‘self-sustaining’ machine” – Holcim Awards Jury

The jury admired the freshness of the scheme’s underlying hypothesis as well as its translation into architecture. Particularly valued was the project’s bold proposition to understand the city as a type of “self-sustaining” machine in which one component feeds the other – a collection of superimposed eco-systems in a state of equilibrium. Notwithstanding its utopian facets, the design proposal frames a valuable discussion on potential forms of relationship between the constructed and natural environment, offering the grounds for understanding the art of building as a practice in symbiotic relation with nature.