Thank you to everyone who took the time to participate in the NATSPEC Architecture Student Prize 2024.
After careful deliberation, the 2025 Jury has awarded the following prizes:
Winner
Digital Rustics
Natalie Yeung Cho Yi and O Wen Lam - The University of Sydney
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High Commendation
Spatialising Menstruation
Penelope Cowell – University of Newcastle
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2025 Judging Panel
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Judges’ Comments on the 2025 Winning Entry
This proposal impressed the jury for its large-scale integrated thinking, from tools to town scale, and the adoption of new techniques for the traditional material bamboo. While the material itself is well known, the combination of structural, digital and broadly sustainable thinking was noted in the context of a small cluster of structures within a specific productive landscape scenario. In particular, the level of construction detailing following the prototyping of the bamboo joints, and subsequent translation into a specification was thorough and compelling. Overall, the judges felt this level of ambition and whole of life cycle thinking and its translation into technical detail and specification set the submission apart.