Honorable mention (ex aequo)
Promotion in the Tubądzin Design Community, interview in Elle Decoration, publication in trade media, promotion on the competition partners' websites, promotion in the organizer's social media

Winner
Niels Geerts (Netherlands)

work
"Healing House"

author's description

Healing House is a graduation project and was started by a colleague who was diagnosed with a brain tumor. During the disease-rehabilitation process, he encountered the limitations of the current healthcare architecture. Therefore, a healthcare manifesto was created to improve healthcare buildings. Healing House is my reaction to the manifesto. What happens if a patient designs a health care center?
Healing House offers a different perspective on care. Where efficiency and medical technology are the basis of space plans in most care complexes, Healing House is fully justified from the patient's perspective. The goal is to make everyone feel more human, each patient is unique and has their own needs. Most importantly, Healing House is intertwined with the local culture.
On the one hand, it matches the Amsterdam-street Overtoom in terms of scale and material, and on the other hand, it matches the local park culture of Vondelpark.
The park was the inspiration for the soft and continuous design language of the complex, especially the tiled spa [...].

jury opinion

"Healing House is a design for an innovative medical center that follows the convention of ecology and a return to nature. It was inspired by the confrontation of the author, Niels Geerts of the Netherlands, with the limitations of healthcare building architecture. It is a kind of manifesto drawing attention to the need to redesign medical buildings to better meet the needs of patients. The center is connected to a phenomenal park, an extension of which was found inside in the form of original design concepts that refer to nature.