World
Front
Design
Award
Aiden Tsai
Architectural & Urban Design
Best Sustainable & Innovative Architecture
Gold Prize


"A climate-responsive architectural proposal that rigorously transforms wind, heat, and humidity into form and space through a well-reasoned passive system, demonstrating strong environmental logic and conceptual clarity grounded in real climatic conditions."
- World Front Design Award Review
Structural Climate Control
This project presents a strong climate-driven architectural system in which environmental forces are not treated as constraints, but as the primary generators of form, structure, and spatial organization. Rather than relying on mechanical systems, the design transforms wind, heat, and humidity into an integrated passive performance strategy—an approach that aligns well with contemporary international sustainability discourse. The two-layer environmental envelope is conceptually sound and clearly articulated. The outer porous layer operates as a pressure-diffusing and solar-moderating filter, intentionally avoiding assumptions of uniform airflow—an important and often overlooked issue in typhoon-prone climates such as Taiwan. The evolution from early concepts to the final geometry demonstrates iterative reasoning rather than formal experimentation for its own sake. Complex geometry is justified by environmental performance, not visual expression alone, which is a key distinction in jury evaluation. At its current stage, the project is strongest as a conceptual and systemic proposal. Its competitiveness would be significantly enhanced by incorporating quantitative performance evidence (CFD simulations, airflow reduction percentages, thermal or humidity metrics).