Jury

Climate change needs actions; otherwise, the next generations will suffer. As architects, we should try to reach zero carbon in the built environment to create a better future for coming generations on mother earth.

Climatic Design for Sustainable Architecture

Designing for A Changing Climate

Sustainable Environmental Design

I am an impact design enthusiast passionate about a more equitable and just Africa. A firm believer in the potential and power of design processes and products to promote economic stimuli especially in under-served communities.

An alumnus of the African Design Centre in Kigali, a fellowship program by MASS Design Group that trains and empowers the youth to become creative design leaders, am currently working as a Designer at BuildX Studio that envisions a world made for people and planet by creating the buildings of a radically better tomorrow.

Gaetano De Francesco is the founder of DFR Architecture, a based in Rome design practice that investigates the contemporary condition of inhabited territory searching strategies and space solutions to make it livable, loveble, inclusive and resilient.

He is Phd in Architecture - Theories and Project at Department of Architecture and Project - Sapienza University of Rome, where make activities of research and teaching assistance and he is Authorized Rhinoceros Trainer and Adjunct Professor at Quasar Design University in Rome.

Architectural and Interior Design 

Founder of Pilcrow Architects, I believe that architecture should combine logic, aesthetics and performance.

It is not about the design, but the logic of the design; not about the shape, but the performance of the shape and finally not about aesthetics but the adaptation of aesthetics to our daily use.

To design and build comfortable and efficient spaces, that match everyone needs. 

Salma Begum is a Bangladeshi Architect. Having been a distinguished student herself throughout her academic career – from being the recipient of Vice Chancellor’s Gold Medal in Bachelor of Architecture to double masters from BUET, Bangladesh and KU Leuven, Belgium with distinction, she is now engaged in nurturing next generation architects in the Department of Architecture at Ahasanullah University as an Assistant Professor. She is also a practicing architect – involved in various notable projects both domestically and internationally. She frequently contributes in international architectural publications benefiting the community. Outside architecture world, she is an avid traveler and a photographer.

She is interested in designing public spaces and places. Her research interest is to see how the use of space changes its scenerio with time and politics. For a city , landscape plays an important role. Therefore, how urbanism and landscape can integrate togather to contribute a city is another topic of interest of hers. She is currently engazed as an indpendent researcher where the research tries to forsee the future of public green space: Envisioning a sustainable urban landscape as incubator of citizenship, social cohesion and alternative urban economics – the Case of Dhaka.