Global jury report
The work is merited with high distinction for its sensitive and skillful treatment of a challenging range of environmental, cultural, and communal dilemmas.

By deploying competitively priced, sustainable technology and material processing, the project offers a model of global importance for improving the living conditions of human settlements while also serving to advance local resourcefulness.

The project is also merited for encouraging proactive participation by users in planning as well as implementing improvements to their surroundings.

Such an integrated approach offers beneficial contributions to the formation of collectively viable habitats and values.

Also worthy of merit are the innovative measures explored for integrating building services and infrastructural elements within a more ambitious initiative to cultivate a constructive symbiosis between natural and fabricated contexts.

Great care is given to combine restoration with rebuilding, thereby drawing attention to untapped possibilities of existing conditions as well as to cost-effective measures for augmenting their performative capacities.

Promising immediate and long-term enrichment of the region, the work promotes awareness of the subtle interdependencies of landscape, civic fabric, and architecture.

Of particular interest is the attention given to providing a variety of functional responses to the needs of the local population such as the school, nursery, and health service facilities.

Their strategic positioning at the base of the hill along the existing road is not only a logical precautionary measure against landslides, but also promises to reinvigorate social exchange and enhance public pride of place.

Equally significant, the venture endorses an ethically responsive approach to alleviating socioeconomic hardship, proving that attention to indigenous traditions and respect for the limitation of means available does not necessarily compromise aesthetic quality or spatial variety.