NEXT EXTREME shortlisted for WAF Water Research Prize

Research project NEXT EXTREME was shortlisted for the Water Research Prize of the World Architecture Festival. The project dives into next generation infrastructure design under extreme conditions and is conducted by Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin and Filippo LaFleur (Urbanism). 

The research programme of the WAF has been launched to promote ideas for key challenges architects will need to address over the next ten years. The theme of water, water scarcity, security, and resilience, is an acutely pressing issue across the world. The 12 shortlisted projects were selected from over 60 entries, and are examples of exceptional and innovative research initiatives. Find the full shortlist and winner of the award here. 

NEXT EXTREME has been developed within the research theme Delta Urbanism, with funding from TU Delft DIMI (Deltas Infrastructure, and Mobility Initiative). The objective is to develop a new set of design principles, responsive to new societal, economic and environmental conditions, and following a reconceptualization of the field of infrastructure and environment in planning, engineering, and design. Spatial, societal, economic, and environmental impacts of new constructed natures are researched. The project focuses on plantation and cultivation as a large-scale infrastructural project, where plantation and cultivation are seen a strategy for carbon mitigation, adaptation, and compensation. As such, economies can be formed that rely on the material stream’s management of these new ecological zones.