AA Diploma 1 alumnus Boji Hu’s project has been selected as the Overall Award Winner of The Warming Competition 2021. The Warming Competition is an architecture competition run by Arch Out Loud.

Participants were asked to propose new or adapted architecture that addresses our changing climate and the environment. Hu’s project was selected as the overall Award Winner by a judging panel of 10 architects, including Thom Mayne, Asif Khan, Sou Fujimoto and Rossana Hu.

In his winning project, Urban Sedimentology, Hu investigates an architectural approach that opposes excavation, demolition, expansion and provokes reuse, repurposing and reassembling what we already have. It starts from the investigation and adaptation of the existing building of the Museum of London and then to the larger city. The project introduces architecture as a resistant force against climate change by reflecting on the construction process within a geological time scale and by questioning the life cycle of urban artefacts, seeking solutions to stimulate the pursuit of longevity.

Boji Hu was an AA Diploma Honours Nominee, and his Urban Sedimentology project was awarded Best Environmental and Technical Studies Thesis at the AA in 2021.

View the project here.