Tulane Prize for Susann Ahn and Philipp RW Urech

In May 2026 Susann Ahn and Philipp RW Urech won the international "Tulane Prize for Climate Change Curriculum in the Built Environment" for their design studio „Making Greenways: A Typological Transposition between Vienna and Seoul“. 

Making Greenways was a climate-responsive design studio at TU Wien examining climate-change impacts along the Wien River. Responding to flood risk, heat stress, and ecological fragmentation, students explored how urban rivers can be restored through topological transformation. Students developed site-specific, idiosyncratic design approaches using high-resolution point-cloud models derived from LiDAR-based 3D reassembly and photogrammetry. The studio treats precision modeling as a design instrument beyond mere visual representation, aiming to reimagine flood-resilient, biodiverse, and publicly accessible urban rivers. A comparative study between the Wien River and Cheonggyecheon in Seoul expanded.

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