The team from King Mongkut’s University designed its Adaptive House based on the needs of residents of the district of Bang Khun Thian, a suburb in the city’s south-west region prone to flooding.
The team’s two-floor steel structure comprises sandwich foamed polyurethane between panels of fibre cement for the insulation.
Italy's Team Rhome was declared overall competition winner with second and third place awarded to Phileas by France's Atlantic Challenge and Pret-a-Loger by Dutch team TU Delft respectively.