2022 WINNERS
2022 GRAND PRIZE Winner
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To redefine luxury hospitality, a team of designers from across the globe created a revolutionary concept, a vertical resort, Aera. Innovating to develop a new model for urban tourism, the team reimagined the horizontal guest journey found in traditional resorts to create a vertical destination in the middle of a city. Leveraging vertical architecture minimizes the footprint in areas where land is precious in value and availability, reducing the environmental impact on the surrounding land and decreasing flights by encouraging domestic travel.
Aera's design includes seven districts, dining, art, fashion, drama, garden, wellness, and family, and the sky deck includes a pool with a bird's eye view of the city to intrigue travelers and locals. Serving as an escape within the city, the walking trails lined with greenery allow for a true sense of escape from the stresses and challenges of the metropolis.
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Tim Peck is the Chairman of OBMI, a leading global architecture firm specializing in hospitality. His expertise in design for sensitive environments has positioned him as a trusted advisor to premier developers and hotel operators, resulting in an impressive portfolio of luxury resorts, boutique hotels, and vibrant destinations in some of the world's most spectacular places.
Tim is a registered architect and member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the International Society of Hospitality Consultants, the American Resort Development Association, the European Resort Council of the Urban Land Institute, and a founding member of the British Virgin Islands Society of Architects and Engineers.
2022 1st Runner Up
Eco Floating Hotel
Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio
hayriatak.com
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The eco-floating hotel is inspired by the sea with which it is associated in the first degree in terms of form and design principle. At this point, it is worth to mention that the project will work efficiently in areas where there is a continuous and certain flow. However, the sea which gives the structure physical and tangible power and receives the return it needs in a mutualistic form also directs the shape of the structure with the idea of the vortex. If it is accepted that the water formed and disappeared by itself forming a rotation around itself in a regular flow and the shape is considered to have risen with its borders and evolved into a platform, it will give a transparent mass silhouette.
It was this image that fed and supported the project. The idea of the vortex, which reflects the rotational effect found on the surface of the water to the upper cover of the structure does not only remain in this layer and seeps into the mass with a capillary effect.
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Hayri Atak is an architect, designer and instructor who conducts his works in several different scales such as environment, city, building and industrial design. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University department of Interior Architecture and studied architecture in Auburn University in part of his undergraduate education. He had the opportunity to participate in various workshops at Rural Studio.
Afterwards, he completed his master’s degree in Istanbul Technic al University “Facade Design and Technology” and then completed his “Hotel Design in Interior Architecture” education at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NA BA). In addition, he was awarded numerous awards in many competitions he participated in during his student period and professional business life. Hayri Atak who carries out workshops with different concepts in universities also participates in various courses as a guest lecturer and teaches at ma n y different universities such as ITU, IMU, F SMVU. In addition to the afore mentioned workshop s he takes p art as a jury member in many national and international competitions.
He adopts concepts such as futurism and informatics in architecture and stands out with his modular and organic formed works in line with these sense of design. He closely follows many topic s such as parametric design, prototyping techniques, robotic s in architecture and continues on his works with Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio(HAADS).
2022 Student Project Winner
Shopping & Camping
Kseniya krepkogorskaya & danil nazarov
A large number of supermarkets around the world have huge unused roofs. We propose a solution to this problem by landscaping and improving the roof and creating an entertainment and glamping site on the roof of the supermarket in our project. Thus, we are rethinking the traditional type of city hotel. In addition to accommodations, the “campsite” includes green areas, a cinema, and an open-air swimming pool, which makes staying at the venue even more exciting and attractive to visitors
- Kseniya Krepkogorskaya & Danil Nazarov montored by Ilnar Akhtiamov and Rezeda Akhtiamova. TIArch Kazan State University of Architecture & Engineering
2022 Hospitality Product Winner
Follow Me
Ocean Buiilders
Follow Me is a technology that was designed to make the tedious tasks that we face in our lives a little easier.
You will have an NFC smart ring or another NFC-enabled device that will automatically configure any compatible smart home devices in the home or room to your settings as soon as you walk in. You can also make a wake-up routine that will open the shades, simulate a sunrise with the lights, start the coffee maker, adjust the temperature, and turn on the music automatically at whatever time you pick. Or it can go in reverse when you go to sleep. Our NFC smart ring allows you to wave it over hidden sensors that will act like a switch or button.
This technology could be used in hotels and resorts so that your preferred settings will always be automatically applied, no matter where you are in the world so that your sleep routine is not disrupted when you travel.
- Grant Romundt, Omer Larranaga & Sergio Ramirez, Ocean Builders
2022 Student Product Winner
BSR+
YU-Chien Chien
BSR+ is a towel rack with the functions of air purification and UV disinfection. BSR+ can not only dry towels, but also disinfect them, so as to improve the germs caused by damp towels and cause the infection of viruses and bacteria. BSR+ uses micro turbine to introduce and purify air, which can increase air flow and make towels dry quickly. The ultraviolet (UV) lamp can disinfect the towel and slow down the growth of mold. Through the operation of power regulation, the bathroom space can maintain air circulation to achieve the drying and disinfection of the whole room.
- Yu-Chieh Chien, Ming Chi University of Technology
2022 Student Special Jury Award
Urban Air Mobility
Aero AI
obmi.com
As room service is slowly replaced by Uber Eats, and traditional car traffic slows those orders, This project envisions drone delivery of everything from food to medicine, to luxury items satisfying guests' needs. Fast forward a few more years, and drones for transportation can be a part of the programming of integrated resorts. Each of these constitutes a different design change for resort architecture. Just as these mega-structures have evolved with our relationship to the car: valet, parking garage, ride-share lanes, drones as part of business operations would influence new forms of receiving/loading docks, concierge services, security, passenger queuing, and more. This project analyzes multiple sites for vertiport feasibility along Las Vegas Boulevard provides a starting point for the largest hospitality properties in the world to plan for a drone-driven tourist experience
- Osarodion “Victory” Igbinobaro, AERO Ai