The research project "New York City Resource & Mobility" by Joachim's Terrefuge ONE. Source: www.zumtobel-group-award.com

Plain Green 10 keynote Mitchell Joachim was selected for the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment at a meeting at Roden Crater, Arizona in February. The award honors sustainable solutions in architecture and engineering that make pioneering contributions to the future quality of life. The award in the “Research & Initiative” category went to the non-profit design groupTerreform ONE, jointly founded by Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova, for the research project ”New York City Resource & Mobility“, a visionary plan for New York City that converts waste to buildings and reinvents the city transit system.

From TerraForm1 blog: “The work for this on-going urban project is fundamentally based on the activist notions of self-reliance in the profound writings of Henry David Thoreau, Bill Mollison, Buckminster Fuller, and William Mcdonough.”

“This project is a rich source of interesting ideas of real substance. The research team is not afraid to think in whole new directions and presents a range of visionary potential approaches that are already acting as catalysts in the urban development debate.” – Zumtobel Jury

The winners were selected by interdisciplinary and international jury of leading architects from different parts of the world, an engineer, a representative of the UN, and the CEO of the Zumtobel Group. TerraFormONE will be awarded 60,000 Euro at an awards ceremony in September, 2010.

You must see the project photos here.