SDGs Design
International Awards 2021​

Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is one of the fastest megacities growing globally, with a population of 20 million. As the city grows, it stretches towards the periphery, dominating the wetlands, which has a significant capacity to store carbon. Unplanned filling, illegal encroachment and disposal of waste are some of the reasons before the degradation of the wetlands. Due to negligence, the city is increasing its carbon footprint, becoming unhabitable and vulnerable to many climate catastrophes. Thus, this situation calls for a cohesive design framework to establish a sensitive urban development & planning to reintroduce nature to the city fabric, forwarding towards Carbon neutrality. The design framework aims to demonstrate a carbon-neutral city by initiating a coexistence between urban sprawl & wetland ecology that acts as a trigger point to connect with many carbon minimizing parameters. The initial target group of this framework is considered the immediate surrounding communities of wetland areas. But the impact of this design idea will involve the entire citizens through creating awareness & guidelines on sensitive use of the natural resources. Wetlands have a remarkable capacity to sequester carbon through storing them in vegetation above ground and underground, in sediment beneath live plants. The design idea involves conservation & gradual construction of wetlands with natural filtration of polluted water, floating agriculture for the farming communities, ecological preservation of the island, amphibian structures as public space, production of electricity through using waste, floating plants with electrodes, water-based transportation & affordable housing with symbiotic measurements, including food production at home. This extensive framework allows people to participate, act & achieve the aim within the context of their own culture & landscape. Thus, the idea rejuvenates the edge of urbanization & utilization of natural resources to grow Dhaka as a Carbon Neutral City.

Since 2014, the Chinese government has been working with the Alibaba group on the Guizhou-cloud project to harness local climate and hydropower resources to build clusters of data centres. Guizhou's caves are a natural refuge for servers due to their low temperature, high humidity and secrecy, which has led many technology companies such as Tencent, Huawei and Apple to move their data centres to the caves. In addition, Guizhou's economic structure is dominated by tourism and farming, while educational resources are very poor, and most children do not have access to higher education. Hence, this project aims to address the issue of harmony between the local people, the natural ecology and the data centres.
Data centres consume a large amount of coal for power generation, among which the most power consumption is the air conditioning used to cool the servers. This idea proposed to use the abundant water resources in the area to cool the servers instead of air-conditioning. It then recycles the waste heat generated by the servers to heat a new tropical park, which is not seen in Guizhou because of its cold climate. Thus, attracting tourists. This tropical park can serve as an educational site for the children by learning how information works and how energy is reused through glass panels in the data centre.

By establishing sustainable and carbon-neutral accum Land in cities, our group aims to solve the problem of greenhouse gas emissions caused by e-waste recycling and get more people involved and pay attention to the environmental problems and greenhouse gas emissions caused by e-waste. During the lockdown, people began to rely more on the Internet for work and study. Therefore, many companies must provide better services and update their electronic hardware to support society.
More and more e-waste is being produced. However, the recycling rate of e-waste in China is extremely low, and most of it will be directly buried because of improper disposal. This causes a lot of pollution to the local land, which in the long term, can have a negative impact on the health of the local people. Therefore, accum land is designed. The land polluted by e-waste is optimized by planting plants of hyper-accumulator. The rare metals in the land can be extracted from the harvested plants. These metals can be recycled and reused. Hence, slowing down the consumption of rare metals. In the accum land, three-dimensional planting is used to improve the efficiency of phytoremediation and extraction of contaminated metals. It also helps to repair the soil. The plants can be reused as panels for the accum land and make into figures. In addition, we need to engage people of all ages and areas in a carbon-neutral approach to e-waste recycling through shared labs, regular workshops and apps.

This project is a series of research and reflection about the phenomenon of the Antarctic snow algae outbreak in 2020. The Antarctic ecological environment has been irreversibly changed by human interference. I will present this change to people living far away from the city in this project's installation, hoping that it will change the viewers' thinking and action.
From the user interviews and research, most of the viewers' first feelings about the phenomenon of snow algae bloom in Antarctica are negative, worrying and abnormal. They also think that it looks beautiful. As the Antarctic is far away from us, people feel a sense of distance and indirectness between the phenomenon and the viewer. Also, the negative impact on the animals at the North and South Poles leaves a deep impression on people.
The installation is designed to take a real-time interactive approach to show the damage that carbon dioxide causes to the natural environment by looking at the phenomenon of blood coat algae in Antarctica and the damage it causes to Antarctic animals such as penguins.
In the installation, touchdesigner and arduino are used to help reflect the carbon dioxide exhaled by the viewer in real-time, integrating the space of Antarctica, the victimized animals, and the blood-clad algae overpopulated by human behaviours, hoping to bring the message and warnings to viewers.

e-CONTAINERS are more than just unique kitchen appliances. It's a home education product that helps people learn about clean energy, which will play a major role in achieving carbon neutrality. What is it that we need to do to become carbon neutral? Isn't it enough to have a good knowledge and understanding of the issues? However, simply learning is not interesting enough. Children, in particular, quickly lose interest in learning if it is not interesting. This is where food comes in. The target is mainly families with children. Food is closely connected to our daily lives and is often talked about at the dinner table. The idea focuses on respecting food and making it fun to learn. Two common containers, a rice bin and a Tupperware, are redesigned to store clean energy through kinetic energy and solar panels to produce electricity. Furthermore, they are made of nature-friendly bioplastic.

Bukit Mertajam is not a tourist attraction, nor is it the powerhouse of the nation. It is merely a town people pass-by, before entering the tourist haven, Pulau Penang. However, similar to the other more infamous heritage towns, it also possesses an interesting and unique past that the locals and foreigners discovered. Therefore, a landmark like Bukit is crucial to have in this sleepy heritage town to preserve the history of the town to the next generation and the rest of the world.
Bukit's core concept is to preserve and share the most authentic Malaysian/Penang flavours and traditions with its visitor. As a boutique hotel, it provides a 70's nostalgic Penang themed experience for the guests and a completely opened air ground floor for all to enjoy. Without the boundaries of walls and see-through glass doors conventionally used by hotels, everyone will feel welcomed to enter the hotel without discrimination of classes and race. With the provision of private spaces all placed from the 2nd floor upwards, and the semi-public spaces in the sub-basements. The entirety of the ground floor serves as a park that also provides a variety of activities for visitors and guests. The best street food vendors and local artisans are invited to set up their stalls on the green grass fields on the ground floors so that the guests and visitors can feed their tummies and eyes in the fresh open air. At the same time, festivities are also organized on the plaza hills, right at the centre of hotel towers, so that the guests can enjoy the performances and shows right outside their hotel rooms whilst being encouraged to converse with neighbouring guests. The visitors can also enjoy them on the ground floor.
Bukit strives to provide an artificial jungle that would serve as recreational purposes for the locals. It also hopes to be the first high rise building made of timber in Malaysia to reduce carbon footprint in the construction industry.

According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's survey on global warming countermeasures in the road sector, sector-derived CO₂ emissions from the transportation sector accounted for 17.1% of total domestic CO₂ emissions in 2013, ranking second. CO₂ emissions from automobiles accounted for about 86.4% of the total CO₂ emissions from the transportation sector. It is considered necessary to reduce the total CO₂ emissions from road space.
Through installing the DAC system in public transportation buses, CO₂ in the road space will enter the DAC system with the airflow while driving, be absorbed by the DAC system, liquefied, and stored in the vehicle body. At rest, the liquid collected will be collected by a reuse company and be turned into fuel, products, and other resources using CO₂ reuse technology. At the same time, the total CO₂ emissions of the general automobile sector will be reduced by supporting the promotion of the use of public transportation to reduce the total CO₂ emissions of the road space. The method is to return a profit to the bus users in the form of　resources converted from CO₂. In addition, buses will provide users with information about the amount of CO₂ emitted while using the bus through the real-time visualization of the operation status of the DAC system and the display of carbon labels on public transportation tickets. The goal is to encourage people to use public transportation by transforming their transportation preferences into a more low-carbon means of transportation.

The goal is to reduce co2 emissions from households by reducing gas and electricity consumption, as well as reduce the expenditure of money in the household. The target is families with children. Children may unconsciously use too much water. The utility services can all be linked to an app for families to monitor their consumption. The app can also display a graph of the utility consumption throughout the year to compare it to the previous year, which will motivate them to save more. Even if they don't use the app to check on the consumption, they can easily see how much they have used this month by looking at the different lights indicators on the water tap and gas unit to control their usage. Hence, even if they are too lazy to open the app to check, they can still save money.