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Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant visits the Ammodo Architecture Award-winning project VinziRast am Land

On 18 January 2026, Dutch national newspaper de Volkskrant published a feature report on one of the winning projects of the Ammodo Architecture Awards 2025: VinziRast am Land, by architecture firm gaupenraub.

The project received the Ammodo Architecture Award for Social Architecture worth €150,000 for its innovative approach to housing vulnerable groups, including the homeless, while reusing existing buildings and rural structures.

In the article, gaupenraub architect Alexander Hagner and current residents of the complex reflect on the project’s invigorating impact. One inhabitant, Bashir, says: ‘The best thing this place has given me is “family”. We eat together, we talk –we help one another.’

Read the full story here (Dutch only).

 

Publishedon 27 January 2026.