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03 July 2025
The 2025 Benilde Architecture and Design Innovation Prize (BADIP) wrapped up with a showcase of bold ideas that reimagine everyday living through adaptive, sustainable, and community-centered solutions. Held on June 13 at the Design + Arts Campus, the competition brought together student teams from across programs to present future-facing concepts that intersect architecture, product design, and urban innovation.
Spearheaded by the School of Environment and Design (SED) in collaboration with the Peter D. Garrucho Innovations Institute, the inaugural edition of BADIP took inspiration from the theme “Island Heat.” Entries responded to climate realities and challenged students to envision futures shaped by empathy, ecological awareness, and socially engaged design.
Launched last January 28, the open call welcomed Benildean students to form cross-disciplinary teams and explore categories spanning architecture, short films, conceptual objects, and more. Finalists presented their work in two sessions before a panel of esteemed jurors and an audience of peers and faculty.
First place went to After Hours: Pagsiga sa Suga by Team Jiro. The group included Robert Kervine Tan, Maia Martin, Kara Danielle Co, Eljin Ray Wagan, and Reina Cruz, mentored by Ar. Philippe Jiro Coronado. Their project explored how discarded pineapple skin could be reimagined into fabric-based lighting objects. The concept addressed shifting activity patterns and proposed sustainable materials for nighttime illumination.
Second place was awarded to Transient Tales by Team Enzo. Composed of Hans Chua, Keith Gorgonio, Vince Rosales, Cuia Eugenio, and Kristine Yobhel Valenzuela, the team was mentored by Jose Lorenzo Belandrez. Their speculative urban design reimagined public infrastructure in Mandaluyong City through modular, weather-adaptive interventions. Each element emphasized cultural continuity, community care, and slowness in urban experience.
Third place was given to Everyday Futures: Ephemeral Architectural Innovations for Human-Centered Tech-Enabled Living by Team Moses. Students Mikael Matthew Hilapo and Juan Pablo Federico Nunag, mentored by Ar. Moses Gabriel Fetalvero, proposed weather-responsive structures that embrace rain and flooding rather than resist them. Using passive, movable systems like inflatable pavilions and biodiesel reservoirs, the design highlights flexibility and coexistence with climate realities.
Dean Harvey Vasquez opened the event by sharing how BADIP began through conversations with benefactor Sir Peter Garrucho, whose support of Benilde’s Hi-Fi Building laid the groundwork for this design-forward initiative. “We’re hoping this isn’t the end, but the beginning of this kind of thinking and advocacy,” Vasquez said, expressing plans to hold BADIP biennially with industry partners taking turns leading future installations.
The panel of jurors featured:
Each juror brought distinct perspectives to the scoring process, challenging students to push form and content while remaining grounded in human-centered design. Projects were evaluated using detailed rubrics, with all teams briefed on criteria beforehand.
BADIP offered a glimpse into how Architecture at Benilde positions itself at the forefront of human-centered, multidisciplinary, and climate-responsive design. Through imaginative proposals and collaborative research, students transformed pressing social and environmental challenges into tangible possibilities rooted in storytelling, process, and innovation.
At the College level, SED brings together disciplines that explore the human-designed environment, from urban systems to wearable technologies. The school offers programs in Architecture, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Fashion Design and Merchandising, and Textile Design. While distinct in their approaches, these fields share a common thread: the fusion of design, storytelling, and social innovation. Students learn to address real-world problems through human-centered thinking, applying technologies and aesthetics that serve both practical and cultural needs.
BADIP 2025 signals Benilde’s commitment to shaping architecture and design practices that are progressive, interdisciplinary, and ethically grounded. As Dean Vasquez reminded participants, the goal is not just to win awards but to spark enduring modes of thinking, and ways of making, that challenge norms and imagine futures built on care, resilience, and innovation.
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