World Architecture Awards 10+5+X Submissions

The project is located in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, located in East Africa. Located in the Gacuriro area, the plot is located on an alley that connects to the main road. Office building is designed near the first residential apartment as second phase. Apartment building has cantilevers to one side. These cantilevers gave inspiration for new office building design. Opposite direction setbacks is designed on the each corner of office building. While designing that building, we thought about how we could give an architectural identity to an office building consisting of 3 floors. We designed the structure without losing too much space by staggering in the opposite direction at the corners of the building. The setbacks designed in different directions at the corner points define an inverted Z-shaped sign on the front of the building. This resulting façade area was designed as a grid with vertical and horizontal wooden profiles. After parking the car on the basement floor, you can reach the 3 office floors on the upper floors of the building or the cafe area on the roof terrace. Triple spheres were used as night lighting in the garden landscaping. These triple spheres and the rational geometric rectangular design of the building contrast with each other and strengthen each other's existence. Although it is a very low-rise office building, the design of the building is unique and has the architectural design quality that will provide the prestige required to represent a company's brand.



G 2 floors rooftop basement
Selim Senin

De Soie - the story of Asian silk strips - is a small-scale resort project in the center of Vietnam urban city. The challenge was developing a place that offered a secluded place and different experience from high-density urban status quo. Guiding for this idea is an image inspired by Asian silk ribbons which is telling a story about Vietnamese identity in resorts, traditional earthy colors, sustainable local materials, and a spirit of reused old items.
With an area of 150 m2, this project is planned with 8 floors. We are focus on developing a culinary space on the 2nd floor. The 1st floor is devoted for creating a traffic landscape that connected to the 2nd floor, and connecting the street f&b business model around the 1st floor sidewalk at the same time. The receptionist is at a small area in the lobby with moderate service needs. The soft image of multi-colored silk strips interwoven is the main idea guiding this connection. Dry grass bushes, old steel structures, salvaged floodwood,... all of these materials create a space full of nostalgia for old things - bringing a "slow down" experience when people enter this place. 3rd-7th floors are designed for resort rooms with many multi-purpose amenities but it is very close to rustic local materials: polished stone, natural wood, rough concrete... The entire open space connecting with each other and prioritizing the inward experience, separating it from the outside through layers of greenery and wooden lamellas. The rooftop is designed for a garden combined with a swimming pool, but it is covered with layers of greenery that makes it feel like entering a high-altitude forest with rustic local materials such as pebbles and recycled old wood.
The overall exterior is composed of interwoven concrete "silk strips" that break the dry structure of a vertically developed building. De Soie has demonstrated our spirit in developing sustainable architecture with local colors, while building a unique and rustic resort experiences in a new urban area. It feels like the way we can touch a soft silk strip.

Location : Da Nang , Viet Nam
Area : 150 m2
Area construction : 1.500 m2
Main material : concrete, dry grass bushes, old steel structures, salvaged floodwood
Project Development Consultant : ENSEM Hospitality
Architecture Design : MAS Architecture Workshop
Lead Architect : Nguyen Cong Thanh
Team Member : Le Tinh Tam, Tran Phuoc Hoang

Located right next to Yuguang Island, Tainan, the site is surrounded by water, trees, and a diversity of species. Combining water, greenery, and our material, the project ensures sunlight in every corner of the building and cools down the overall temperature with a great amount of water. As seasons change, the architecture provides the best visual scale through its interesting structure and comfortable living environment for the residents inside.

The project site is close to the nearby mangrove environment, known for its biological diversity. Unlike traditional buildings that line their entrances with the site territory, Green Oasis seats at the middle of the site and is surrounded by natural-like parks, blurring the boundary between the road and the site area by planting lots of local greenery around, extending the nearby mangrove system deeper to the human activity area. Thus, the project invites local species to thrive, provides a larger space for migratory birds to stay, and creates a visual immersion between the architecture and the environment. On the second floor of the architecture, the swimming pool is sheltered by the greens around, creating a comfortable and private environment for one to enjoy the space. In addition to plants, we use glass to shape the façade of the architecture, reflecting the green’ shape and shadows on the walls. The glasses around invite sunlight to shine in the interior space with the artificial light, creating intriguing and playful visual interaction and light movement throughout the multi-layer structure and height differences in the library and public spaces.

To design a space that co-exists with the environment, we discover nature with the form of architecture by using the simplest manufacturing technique. The beauty of nature reflects upon the chosen natural materials and texture, creating a sense of grandiosity and luxury through natural imagery, using deciduous trees to perform the change of season as residents enjoy themselves in the public space.


The structure of the architecture fuses the indoor and outdoor spaces by creating a two-building-like appearance. The outer façade blocks the west exposure, preventing the severe sunlight of southern Taiwan. At the same time, there is an atrium design between the outer and the inner part. When the outer façade heated up the upper air, the hollow space draws in colder fresh air from the bottom to purify and improve the interior ventilation. With the landscaped pool and the shade of the outer façade cooling down the air on the ground floor, the architectural structure forms a convection cycle that helps save energy costs by lowering the overall temperature and creating better living spaces and public activity areas.
Chain10 Architecture & Interior Design Institute

Our Client asked us to design a mosque for 200 people. The location of this mosque is in a rural area outside the city of Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC. The project land is located in a completely green area, and there are no buildings around it that can serve as a reference in the design of the building. We decided to make green, the only design element in the environment, a part of the design of the building, rather than as an element next to our project. We used the green texture to define a semi-open courtyard between the classroom buildings to be built for learning the Quran and the Imam's room and the mosque, which is the main prayer area. This courtyard, which is closed on some sides and open on some sides, makes us feel that we are part of a building community and allows us to establish a visual and emotional connection with the magnificent green texture around.

When we look at the development of Renaissance and Islamic art, in the Renaissance, there was the ability to draw and describe what existed in the best and most aesthetic way on the rules of perspective, while a completely abstract understanding of aesthetics developed in Islamic art. Non-figurative abstract art, which does not allow human perspective in Islamic art, was the main reference point when designing this project. The architectural language established with geometric shapes was defined in a way that would strengthen the existence of the single-domed mosque structure. The single-domed mosque structure is defined by a geometry that descends in steps towards the ground from 3 corners. On the entrance front, the building becomes different by opening up for users.

200 person capacity
6 classrooms
Selim Senin
Alev Doru
Bilgehan Kucukkuzucu
Busra Solmaz

The project is located in Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda.Rwanda's topography consists of thousands of hills and the project site is located on the sloping surface of a hill. The plot continues with a vertical slope after a flat area at the upper level.At the lowest level of the land, there is a green forest area that is not open to project design according to the city master plan. For this reason, 2 row houses blocks, each consisting of 9 villas, were designed on the flat area above. where the slope starts, instead of designing row houses in the form of blocks, single villas sitting on the slope were designed.The individual villas located on the slope are designed by leveling according to the vehicle road level slope.Access to the villas has been provided by designing the road on a slope where vehicles can be used. When you enter the villas from the back level, the slope continues towards the front of the villas and villas are designed with retaining walls in this inclined area.

The retaining wall formed in front of each villa is of different height, the retaining walls of the villas change as the slope changes. In front of the villas sitting on the slope, there is a front garden with an incredible view, this garden is defined as a cube with a wooden pergola, creating a semi-open garden in front of the villas.In order to maximize the number of villas, the villas sitting on the slope are designed to be side by side. This cube-shaped wooden pergola design adds permeability to the villas on all slopes so that the villas located next to each other when viewed from the lower view do not create a wall effect.

The 2 block-shaped rows of rows located on the flat part of the plot have front and back gardens, the backyard is a car parking area. It is possible to pass from the back garden to the front garden with a direct corridor without entering the house. The floor plans of each villa in these blocks are the same, but the 1st floor designs are different from each other. The first floor sits on the ground floor like a plinth and the design style changes in each villa, creating a facade specific to that villa. There is a balcony on the 1st floor between each villa. On the ground floor there is a kitchen, a living room, a servant's room, and on the 1st floor there are 4 self contained rooms.

The social area was designed in the area between the sloping villas and the row houses in the form of blocks. Running track, sitting areas, playground are social equipment areas that all villas can use.

Reinforced Concrete
Selim Senin