3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,BRONZE: BIG U contains a protective ribbon: 21 km (13 mi) of flood protection tailored to each neighborhood and the community it serves. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,BRONZE: View of BIG U from The Battery in the financial district. Berms are strategically located to protect the infrastructure below and create a protective upland landscape. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,SILVER: The common lobby with its panoramic window. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,BRONZE: The undulating berm in East River Park will rise 15 feet to provide flood protection and connect coast and community. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,BRONZE: Reprogramming: Dark spaces below highways are turned into urban community areas. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,BRONZE: Abandoned underpass becomes public space, activated by a continuous band of flood defense/amenities. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,BRONZE: BIG, in collaboration with the City of New York, proposes a protective ribbon in Southern Manhattan using a series of raised berms and other measures to create public spaces along the water’s edge, forming a large-scale integrated flood protection system. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,SILVER: The reading room: A series of formal and informal platforms for reading are organized in and around the library. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,SILVER: Social Capital: The army's human resource is assimilated for social building through carefully planned on-site training initiatives. This reduces immediate labor costs and produces a skilled workforce. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,SILVER: 3D view of the proposed library: The single-story building mass spans nonchalantly across the landscape, touching the earth as lightly as possible. The building informally wraps around an internal courtyard that is also an extension of the external landscape. The placement of the building on site retains all existing trees, while its linear footprint allows optimized natural ventilation and brings in sunlight to all internal rooms; rammed earth walls provide thermal mass. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,SILVER: Views across inside/outside: Building as a journey. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,SILVER: Plan of the ground floor layout: Towards a serene flow of space across landscape. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,GOLD: Water, light and the city landscape accentuate identity with place, and enhance an urban landmark. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,GOLD: Understanding the topography and the existing elements of the site to create landscape space and also using local vegetation to improve the environmental quality by creating birding and wildlife trails. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,GOLD: Reuse of the existing water reservoir as public space for encounters. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,GOLD: Outdoor auditorium: The architectural form adapts to the pre-existing elements to ensure minimal impact, and results in an affordable and sustainable building. The sustainable environmental design strategies tend to maximize passive solar design, natural lighting and ventilation, and food waste control, among others. Additionally, the corporate premises ensure operation of the water distribution network, as well as consideration of future projects that the promoter plans on site. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,GOLD: Rooftop view and design process: Level, reuse, articulate, integrate and illuminate. The project established continuity using public space as the articulating piece and transitional axis between the city and the architectural object. The topography and the pre-existing elements are understood and transformed into landscape space that contains the program. Furthermore, local vegetation is used to improve environmental quality by creating bird-watching and wildlife trails. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability,GOLD: Rooftop plan: Building merging with public space. Image Courtesy of Holcim Foundation

3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability

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3 Projects Win 2015 Global Holcim Awards for Sustainability