Student Design Awards winners: Building better
Brief 6: How might we apply circular and regenerative principles to build better homes for a resilient future?
Winner: ShellStyles
A circular product and systems design proposal of tiles created from eggshell waste to enhance sustainability and replace conventional ceramic tiles.
ShellStyles is an innovative proposal of sustainable tiles produced within a system of circular economy principles with strong consideration of life cycle analysis to achieve zero waste. The designed tiles are made from eggshell waste and this impactful proposal aims to channel change into the construction industry by replacing ceramic tiles and the accompanying waste and emissions with this.
Satchitanand Kulangara
Leeds Beckett University, England
Winner of £2,000 Aviva Award
Commendations
Highly commended
Chenger Song, Kingston University, England
Mycelium Materials Experience: An experiential space that uses used coffee grounds to cultivate mycelium materials shows the concept of a circular economy led by local communities and tidal rivers, and raises awareness of more sustainable ways of living.
Commended
Gregory Pike, Bournemouth University, England
Sanctum: Providing power over poverty to 75% of the world’s poorest people, enhancing their quality of life, providing clean drinking water, power and shelter from an ever-abundant threat, typhoons and rising sea levels.
I’ve been impressed by the high level of innovation, there a lot of problems in the world but through this competition I’ve seen a lot of energy to solve them.
