The Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) today announced the 20 shortlisted projects for the 2022 award cycle. The projects will compete for a share of the $1 million prize, one in every of the biggest in the sphere of architecture.
20 qualified projects were chosen by the independent Main Jury from a pool of 463 projects nominated for the fifteenth Award Cycle (2020-2022).
The Aga Khan Prize for Architecture was established by His Highness the Aga Khan in 1977 to discover and support constructing concepts that effectively meet the needs and aspirations of communities during which Muslims have a big presence. Since its launch 45 years ago, 121 projects have received the award and almost 10,000 construction projects have been documented. AKAA’s selection process emphasizes architecture that not only meets people’s physical, social and economic needs, but additionally stimulates and responds to their cultural aspirations.
Photographic presentations of the 20 shortlisted entries might be displayed at an exhibition in King’s Cross, London, from June 2 to 30 as a part of the King’s Cross Outdoor Art Project to coincide with the London Architecture Festival.
Bahrain
- Manama Post Office Rehabilitation, Manama, Bahrain by Studio Anne Holtrop: Built in 1937, the Post Office was restored to its original form and role as a functioning post office, and a brand new wing was added to the present constructing.
Bangladesh
- Social spaces in response to Rohingya refugees, Teknaf, Bangladesh, by Rizvi Hassan, Khwaja Fatmi, Saad Ben Mostafa: Sustainable structures on the earth’s largest refugee camps that were built collaboratively in the sphere, without drawings or models.
- Urban river spaces, Jhenaidah, Bangladesh by Co.Creation.Architects / Khondaker Hasibul Kabir, Suhailey Farzana: Community-led project providing public spaces in a riverside city of 250,000 inhabitants, offering walkways, gardens and cultural facilities, in addition to environmental conservation activities aimed toward aimed toward increasing biodiversity along the river.
Cape Verde Islands
- Revitalization program for other districts, Mindelo, Cape Verde, by OUTROS BAIRROS / Nuno Flores: Urban regeneration and the redesign of public spaces have enabled residents to work in their very own neighborhoods and strengthen their sense of belonging.
India
- Lilavati Lalbhai Library at CEPT University, in Ahmedabad, India, by RMA Architects / Rahul Mehrotra: The library, a living case study in passive climate change mitigation strategies, integrates seamlessly with the present campus while creating its own distinct identity.
Indonesia
- Blimbingsari Airport, Banyuwangi, Indonesia, andramatin: Serving greater than 1,100 domestic passengers every day, the airport’s rooftops clearly separate the departures and arrivals halls.
- Possibility of expanding the home, Batam, Indonesia by ETH Zurich / Stephen Cairns with Miya Irawati, Azwan Aziz, Dioguna Putra and Sumiadi Rahman: This latest sustainable home prototype is designed to be flexibly reconfigured over time based on its (often) uncertain resources inhabitants.
Iran
- Aban’s house, Isfahan, Iran, writer: USE Studio / Mohammad Arab, Mina Moeineddini: On a narrow rectangular site within the historic center of Isfahan, the three-story home is arranged around three open courtyards.
- Argo Museum of Contemporary Art and Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran by ASA North / Ahmadreza Schricker: Unique materials distinguish latest additions from the historic brick fabric at this contemporary art museum housed in an abandoned 100-year-old brewery.
- Primary School in Jadgal, Seyyed Bar, Iran, DAAZ office / Arash Aliabadi: A primary school run by villagers and teachers and financed by tourism and native women’s handicrafts is a sustainable development center for the encircling areas.
Lebanon
- Renovation of the Niemeyer Guesthouse, Tripoli, Lebanon by East Architecture Studio: Designed by Oscar Niemeyer but abandoned after the outbreak of the Civil War in 1975, the guesthouse was converted right into a design platform and production facility for the local timber industry.
Kuwait
- Wafra Wind Tower, Kuwait City, Kuwait, designed by AGi Architects: The 13-story constructing designed as a wind tower has a central, vertical courtyard that gives natural ventilation to every apartment.
Morocco
- Improvement of the Issa Valley, Ait Mansour, Morocco, by Salima Naji: While improving palm orchards and water reservoirs, the primary phase of a bigger valley project also modernized trails and tourist facilities.
Niger
- Niamey 2000, Niamey, Niger by united4design / Yasaman Esmaili, Elizabeth Golden, Mariam Kamara, Philip Straeter: In response to housing shortages because of rapid urban expansion, this prototype residential constructing consisting of six family units goals to extend housing density while maintaining at the identical time, an appropriate cultural level.
Palestine
- Courthouse in Tulkarm, Tulkarm, Palestine by AAU Anastas: The courthouse, consisting of two buildings, one for administration and the opposite housing 10 courtrooms, is anchored within the urban context through public space.
Senegal
- CEM Kamanar High School, Thionck Essyl, Senegal, Dawoffice / David Garcia, Aina Tugores: For this highschool, volunteers used local techniques to create clay vault modules that (along with meshes) act as evaporative coolers.
Sri Lanka
- Lanka Science Center, Parangiyamadu, Sri Lanka by feat.collective / Noemi Thiele, Felix Lupatsch, Valentin Ott and Felix Yaparsidi: A multi-purpose cultural center and an adult school where locals learn crafts create a multi-ethnic meeting place.
Tunisia
- African Garden, Zarzis, Tunisia – Rachid Koraïchi: The ecumenical cemetery provides a sanctuary and a dignified final resting place for a whole bunch of unburied bodies that washed ashore.
Turkey
- Rehabilitation of the Old Ginerarnia Tars, Tarsus, Turkey, Sayka Construction Architecture Engineering Consultancy: Adaptive reuse of abandoned nineteenth century ginnery enables modern archaeological research center and community engagement.
United Arab Emirates
- Rehabilitation of the Flying Saucer, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates by SpaceContinuum Design Studio / Mona El Mousfy: The Flying Saucer, a 1978 brutalist-style constructing that has been fully restored as a community art space, contributes to Sharjah’s collective cultural memory.
The shortlisted projects were subjected to rigorous on-site inspections of every project by independent experts including architects, conservation specialists, planners and structural engineers. The Grand Jury reconvenes this summer to review on-site reviews and determine the ultimate Award winners.
The nine members of the independent Main Jury that chosen the 20 shortlisted projects were: Nada Al Hassan, architect specializing within the conservation of architectural and concrete heritage; Amale Andraos, Professor at Columbia University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Kader Attiaan artist exploring the wide-ranging effects of Western cultural hegemony and colonialism; Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, Director General of the Bengal Institute of Architecture, Landscape and Settlement, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Sibel Bozdogan, visiting professor of recent architecture and concrete planning on the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University; Lina Ghotmeh, a French-Lebanese architect with a practice where each project draws from the local past to construct a brand new déjà-là; Francis Kere, AKAA laureate and world-renowned Burkinabè architect, who received this award in 2004 for his first project – a primary school in Gando, Burkina Faso; Anna Lacaton, founding father of Lacaton & Vassal in Bordeaux in 1989, which focuses on the generosity of space and economy of funds; Nader Tehrani, founder and director of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to design innovation, cooperation and dialogue with the development industry. More information will be present in the biographies of Father Master of the Jury.
The Aga Khan Prize for Architecture is run by a Steering Committee chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan. The remaining members of the Steering Committee are Sheikh Mai Bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, President, Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities, Manama; Emre ArolatFounder, EAA – Emre Arolat Architecture, Istanbul; Meisa Bataneh, Principal Architect, Founder, Maisam Architects and Engineers, Amman; Sir David Chipperfield, Principal, David Chipperfield Architects, London; Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Director, Institute of Africana Studies, Columbia University, New York; Nasser Discount, Aga Khan Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Marina Tabassum, Director, Marina Tabassum Architects, Dhaka; AND Sarah M. Whiting, Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in Cambridge. Farrokh Derakhshani is the director of the Award.
