Choose the Audience Award in the "Best Diploma ARCHITECTURE" competition.

Voting in the 9th edition of the competition within the "A&B Academy"

We encourage you to vote for the best diploma project - the Audience Award of the ninth edition of the "Best Diploma ARCHITECTURE" competition. To indicate your favorite, just cast your vote for it - you can only vote once for one project only. Voting lasts from January 11 to February 14 this year. The author or author of the work with the highest number of votes will receive a diploma and a one-year subscription to "A&B" monthly.

projects participating in the competition

System of accessible housing development
based on prefabricated timber frame
[see full project presentation]

proj.: Wojciech Zientek
Faculty of Architecture, Silesian University of Technology

The project "System of accessible housing based on prefabricated timber frame" is a proposal for a solution that can increase the availability of housing by reducing the elements that make up its price: the cost of construction, the square footage of housing and the cost of land.

Expansion of the Municipal Cemetery in Sopot
[see full project presentation]

proj.: Karolina (Pietruszka) Maciejewska
Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology.

"Searching for new urban-architectural solutions in contemporary funerary arrangements. Extension of the Municipal Cemetery in Sopot" is a project for a park-like necropolis, which presents a new approach to funerary themes

Prince Henry's Shelter in the Karkonosze Mountains
[see full project presentation]

proj.: Kamil Szymanski
Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Technology

The Prince Henry's Hostel is to combine the advantages of a classic mountain hostel with the quality of contemporary standards of accommodation. The author of the project, wanting to reduce the visual impact of the building on the landscape, lowered its body in relation to the hiking trail and placed it in a gully.

SerpenTime. Museum of Language in London
[see full project presentation]

designed by Zofia Fedorów
Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Technology.

The idea for the design of the Museum of Language in London arose from the author's reflections on the history and origin of language. Focusing on functional classification, a linguistic timeline was created, which in turn determined the linear form of the building. Fitted to the context and shape of the plot, the SerpenTime edifice resembles a serpentine in form.

On the edge. Expansion and adaptation of the Sanctuary and Pilgrim House into a Place of Serenity. Cape Espichel. Portugal
[see full project presentation].

designed by Michalina Frątczak
Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology

The author of the project, through the adaptation of a 15th-century complex of historic buildings falling into disrepair and the introduction of a new building into the existing fabric, proposes to create a Place of Calm for people on the verge of physical and emotional exhaustion.

Molecules. An intergenerational village
on Grabin
[see full project presentation]

proj.: Tadeusz Szaraniec, Aleksandra Śliwa, Demi Tran
Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology

"Molecules. Intergenerational Village on Grabin" is a project for a senior citizen's home combined with a therapeutic center for children located on the Grabina hill in Kielce. The proposed space, according to the authors' assumptions, is to be part of the healing architecture trend.

Design of a regional beer brewery
in the village of Laziska
[see full project presentation].

proj.: Paulina Pernak
Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology

The author of the project "Project of a regional beer brewery in the village of Laziska" took up the subject both on an urban scale, wanting to organize the existing spatial layout of the village, and on an architectural scale - proposing to create a regional beer brewery based on local raw materials.

ReCity. Redefining the concept of "urban quality of life" in a post-industrial city on the example of Lodz.
[see full project presentation].

proj.: Kinga Butlewska
Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology

The author of the project "ReCITY. Redefining the notion of "urban quality of life" in a post-industrial city on the example of Lodz" seeks solutions to the problems of cities, especially post-industrial ones, acting both on a macro and micro scale.

Space habitat for two thousand astronauts. Space Station "Lem"
[see full project presentation].

proj.: Filip Jakubczak
Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology

The project "Space habitat for two thousand astronauts. Space Station "Lem""" concerns a large-scale space facility created as a response to the problems of civilization facing the Earth.The station was designed to achieve both resource and functional self-sufficiency.

Stanislaw Wyspianski Museum in Krakow
[see full project presentation].

proj.: Wioletta Nowak
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow Academy of Technology.

The "Stanisław Wyspiański Museum in Kraków" project envisages an underground connection between the Main Building of the National Museum and the projected building, as well as the Cracovia Hotel and Kijów Cinema. The resulting open space between the buildings is to constitute a cultural center - a "Krakow forum."

Center for education and research on climate change
[see full project presentation]

designed by Mateusz Mikolajow
Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Technology.

The "Center for Education and Research on Climate Change" project was located in the former Odra I limestone pit in Opole. The square building symbolically unifies the surrounding areas, and through a large patio - incorporates the natural environment into the operation of the facility.

The Teddy Bear Bastion in the Lower Town in Gdansk as a place for pro-environmental activities. Project of the New School of Arts and Crafts based on the idea of upcycling
[see full project presentation].

proj.: Karolina Jankowska
Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology

The concept proposed by the author concerns the adaptation of a complex of 19th-century buildings located on the grounds of the Teddy Bear Bastion in Gdansk. The largest of the buildings has been earmarked for the headquarters of the New School of Arts and Crafts, where students will use upcycled everyday objects, giving them a second life.

Voting continues until February 14, 2021. See the current summary below: