Search AZ Awards ...
Awards By Category

A proposal for a seaweed-processing plant near Bar Harbor, Maine, the Stack Politic makes ingenious use of hyper-local materials. The aquatic base of the structure would feature stones salvaged from a nearby quarry and arranged in a crib formation. On top of it are drying huts, made of timber with seaweed insulation and topped with a slate roof.

The most innovative building material of all, though, is the surrounding water, which would engulf the base of the structure during high tides, enabling seaweed farmers to canoe up to the huts and deposit their harvest.

AZ Awards 2021 Finalist: The Stack Politic

A proposal for a seaweed-processing plant near Bar Harbor, Maine, the Stack Politic makes ingenious use of hyper-local materials.

Explore more Award Winners

2017
Award of MeritA+ Award for Student Work
School
Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Team
Tomasz Broma
2016
People’s Choice
Award of MeritA+ Award for Student Work
School
OCAD University, Canada
Team
Kristoffer Paolo Aguila with faculty advisor Angelika Seeschaaf Veres
2022
People’s ChoiceA+ Award for Student Work
Team
Shree Kale and Anna Fritz
School
Rice University, U.S. (Professor Nicholas Gilliland)