“Aspires to achieve harmony with all elements of the surrounding ecosystem” – Holcim Awards Jury

A new campus for an architectural university in the middle of the Mekong River delta aspires to achieve harmony with all elements of the surrounding ecosystem: the waters of the river and the flooding of the rice fields, the mangroves, the winds and their patterns as well as with the seasonal changes of light and shadow. The project avoids massive reclamation of land. It so also emulates traditions of Southeast Asian agricultural civilization.