The 2024 RIBA Bronze Medal for the best design project produced at RIBA Part 1 or equivalent was awarded to Victor Williams Salmeron at the University of Kent for Forget Me Not. It is the university’s first ever RIBA medal.
‘Forget Me Not’ is an almshouse for former carers on the remains of a Victorian chapel, which questions the idea of the hospital or care building as a sterile, transient non-place through an ontological approach, drawing on ancient almshouse traditions. It proposes an anthropological and sacred space permeated by culture, narratives and memory, defined by the personality of its inhabitants in how it remembers and reinterprets their familiar spaces.
On receiving the medal, Victor Williams Salmeron said:
“It is a great honour to have won the Bronze Medal and I am indebted to the judges and RIBA for it. To receive this level of recognition for something so dear to me is incredible and so motivating. I hope that my work can keep questioning and promoting the betterment of current standards of architecture and care. I owe the biggest thank you to my family, my tutor, my school and my peers, all of whom created a tremendous place and time to work in, and without whom I would not have gotten this far.”
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