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Special & Honourable Mentions

ELEVATING ELEGANCE

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Special Mention

Ouissal Delabarre & Octavie Warneys

Design Title

«Les Aulnays» Silence Reflection…

Ouissal DELABARRE is a French architect and the founder of Aperture Architecture, based in Lucé, France.
She created the agency with a direct and simple conviction: architecture must first serve people. It must answer real needs, not imagined ones. It must make places clearer, more useful, more comfortable and more meaningful.
Her work begins with listening, but also with questioning. What is really needed? What already exists? What should be preserved? What should be transformed? What can be made simpler, stronger, more honest?
Over the past ten years, Ouissal DELABARRE has developed an approach that brings together technical precision and human attention. She believes that architecture is not only about space, but about the way people live, work, wait, meet, rest and feel within that space.
For her, a strong project does not need to speak loudly. It needs to be right. The right gesture, the right material, the right balance, the right silence.
This vision shaped “Les Aulnays — Silence Reflection…”, developed with Octavie WARNEYS, a young graduate architect who recently joined Aperture Architecture.

Honourable Mention

Filip Feco

Design Title

A touch of infinity

Filip Fečo is a 21-year-old architecture student from Slovakia who has recently completed the second year of studies in Architecture of Building Contruction at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology. He previously graduated from a technical secondary school specializing in architecture and construction, where his work was recognized in the Xella Secondary School Student of the Year 2023/2024 competition and the SKSI Žilina Award for the best final-year project in Slovakia.
He is particularly interested in designing architecture that transcends its functional purpose, creating environments with a strong identity and a multisensory spatial experience that fosters a deeper connection between people and place.

Honourable Mention

Bálint Adrienn, Gencsi Katalin, Zsoldos Lehel, Magyari Andrea

Design Title

Slit

Honourable Mention

Samira Khazaz & Evan Savary

Design Title

Falaise

Evan Savary and Samira Khazaz are second-year architecture students at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles. Together, they form a complementary duo, driven by a shared commitment to context-aware and spiritually resonant design.
Evan Savary, with an international background spanning Spain and France, enriches his architectural practice through multifaceted engagement. As a student representative and Vice President of Communication for the Union Nationale des Étudiants en Architecture et Paysage (UNEAP), he integrates creative vision with strategic reflection on the challenges facing the profession.
Samira Khazaz, of Moroccan and Belarusian heritage, balances a distinguished academic record—marked by her success in the 2024 Baccalaureate examinations—with a vibrant presence as a content creator. She views architecture and social media as complementary tools for narrating the human experience, and her dual heritage informs her unique perspective on the spaces we inhabit.
United by a common ambition, Evan and Samira explore an architectural practice that is deeply rooted in the landscape, seeking to bring profound meaning to every space they design.

Honourable Mention

Sara Hashemzadeh & Mattia Zancanaro

Design Title

Janubio Horizon

Honourable Mention

Alena Ustina

Design Title

Nebula

Alena Ustina is an architect and founder of Parametric Box, working with parametric design, complex geometry, and architectural objects shaped by art, technology, and computational systems.
Her visual language began early: first through classical art education, then through architecture at the Moscow Architectural Institute. This background formed her ability to see beauty as structure, and structure as emotion.
For Alena, algorithms are a new architectural instrument, a way to make intuition exact.
She sees architecture as a force that changes the state of a person. A space can slow the body, sharpen attention, create silence, tension, intimacy, or awe.
She has lectured on Higher Mathematics in Architecture at ARCH Moscow, taught parametric design, and led training for leading architectural bureaus.
Her work has contributed to large-scale and distinctive projects: Moscow City, one of the largest business districts in Europe; Lakhta Center, the tallest building on the continent; and Sochi Riviera, a landmark of the Black Sea coast.
In 2016, she founded Parametric Box as a studio for architecture that requires invention and custom tools. The studio works with large-scale environments: airports, theaters, parks, and cultural spaces, where artistic vision becomes architectural language.