The INDE Awards celebrate progressive and innovative design and architecture within the Indo-Pacifiic Region.

Our partner category, ‘The Influencer’, explores products or projects that represents how design impacts the region and the world at large, demonstrating how progressive design can improve the world.

This year’s shortlisted projects were dynamic ranging from floating pavilions and collaborative housing villages to urban reserves for physical, mental and social wellbeing.

As a two-day event, the INDE Summit kicked off on the 9th of August with the topic ‘The Future is Here’. Hearing from engaging minds across the industry, the summit explored a new age of working and living and how these changes will inform the new norm for architecture and design. These discussions dissected ideas of housing, education, working and sustainability in alignment with today’s priorities, values, social structure, culture and requirement.

Our CEO Erna Walsh partook in the design conversation on “How we Live and How can we make it better?’ alongside Olya Yemchenko at Gaggenau and Cristian Brugnoli at Technogym. Check out the live recording of the discussion here with the full INDE.Summit library on demand.

The INDE Awards Gala was an extraordinary event at the Art Gallery of New South Wales – Sydney Modern on the 10th of August.

We loved celebrating all the projects across the categories and would like to congratulate the winner of our partner award, ‘Angsila Oyster Scaffolding Pavilion’ by Chats Architects with Angsila Oyster Scaffolding Studio as International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA) from Chaulalongkorn University Thailand. Additionally we congratulate the honourable mention going to ‘Dairy Road’ by Craig Tan Architects.

Angsila Oyster Scaffolding Pavilion

The historic coastal fishing village of Angsila in Thailand was once a thriving small-scale fishing town. However over the past three years ocean pollution, market disruption and a dwindling local workforce has left the population struggling to sustain their way of life.

The Angsila Oyster Scaffolding Pavilion rises as a solution to this: aiming to raise awareness and appreciation of the historic coastal village and revitalise the local economy through a “sea-to-table” dining experience. The pavilion acts as a floating restaurant, allowing local fishermen to bring small groups of visitors from shore to the pavilion where they can select their own oysters in the ocean and prepared fresh to eat.

The structure itself hybridises the traditional bamboo scaffolding used for oyster and mussel cultivation. Like these scaffoldings, the pavilion is built entirely by Angsila fishermen, utilising native shallow-ocean bamboo construction techniques that requires no power tools.

The fishermen manually drive each bamboo column into the ocean floor, tying them together with “Rejected” car seatbelts. A graphic red agricultural tarp, commonly used in nearby nurseries, shades visitors from the ocean sun, yet allowing the passage of ocean breezes.

*Text from INDE Awards Website

‘Dairy Road’

Dairy Road is a 14 hectare site in Fyshwick, Canberra that is being developed over a period of 10-15 years to become an ecosystem encompassing light industry, living, recreation, retail and entertainment.

To establish the neighbourhood’s industrious character and attract a diverse community of makers, the first phase of the master plan was to deliver a light industrial precinct at the centre of the site. At approximately 7,000sqm, two existing 1970s central industrial warehouses, significant in terms of history, character and resilience, have been adaptive re-used to create a village within a building, and offer affordable workshops for a community of makers and producers. New tenants include coffee roasters, a brewery, industrial designers, printers, chocolatiers, gin distillers, creative co-working, video producers and a boat builder.

Designed as a sensory masterplan that connects the precinct as a holistic experience, Dairy Road has established a new quality for an industrial precinct. Intimacy has been created through internal laneways that extend inwards from the exterior of the building, meeting at 3 central courtyards. The design has created a village inside a building, providing places to linger that encourage interaction, gathering and neighbourly sharing.

*Text from INDE Awards Website

More details on these award winning projects can be found on the INDE Awards website.

Inde Awards Gala & Summit