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COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Home for the
Blind
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Home for the
Blind

Bee Breeders Competition Organisers is pleased to announce the results for its Home for the Blind Competition!

The Home for the Blind competition is part of a Bee Breeders Competition series focused on accessible architecture. It seeks designs for a semi-detached house for a single blind occupant, including basic amenities such, as a kitchen, bedroom, living room, and bathroom, as well as a small courtyard. The competition asked the questions: How can architecture influence the way a person moves through a home? How can it help people to feel safe, comfortable, and independent? Participants were asked to select a theoretical site from their own home country.

The fantastic international jury consisted of: Jos Boys, co-founder of UK-based The DisOrdinary Architecture Project, a platform bringing together disabled artists and built environment students, educators and practitioners, author of Doing Disability Differently: an alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability, and designing for everyday life (Routledge 2014), and editor of Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader (Routledge 2017); Maya Mahgoub-Desai, Chair of Environmental Design at OCAD University and a practicing urban designer and planner with Moriyama Teshima Architects, whose interdisciplinary research interests focus on public health, socio-ecological models of urban development, and decolonization of design pedagogy; Chris Downey of Architecture for the Blind, who has over 30 years of architectural experience, continuing without sight since 2008 and whose lived experience with blindness has added unique value to projects for or relevant to the blind and low vision community; Rosa Lorenzo Downey of Architecture for the Blind, who has honed her creative use of colour theory and materiality on a broad spectrum of architectural and interior projects over the past three decades;  Alan Dunlop of Alan Dunlop Architects, an architect with a portfolio of award-winning buildings, including the internationally renowned Hazelwood School for children and young people who are dual sensory impaired: blind and deaf; and Rion Philbin, creative director of No So Studio and previous founder of So & So Studio, whose past projects include the Casa-mac project, a home in Italy for a blind woman.

Bee Breeders and its jury panel were pleased to receive many well-considered proposals from around the world. We congratulate the winners and thank each participant for the time and energy contributed to this event.

We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise

Jos Boys

Co-founder of UK-based The DisOrdinary Architecture Project

UK

Chris Downey

Architecture for the Blind

USA

Rosa Lorenzo Downey

Architecture for the Blind

USA

Alan Dunlop

Architect, Alan Dunlop Architects

UK

Rion Philbin

Principal at No So

USA

Maya Mahgoub-Desai

Chair of Environmental Design, OCAD University

Canada

1st Prize Winner +
ARCHHIVE Student Award

Project name

The Guiding Wall

To work with friends and learn from each other.

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Authors
Claire Hicks
Joshua Tan
Christina Zhang
Country
United States
+176 points Buildner University Rankings

2nd Prize Winner

Project name

Because every step counts

Authors
Aleksandra Maszczyk
Oliwia Karapuda
Artemis Athanasiadi
Country
Poland
+92 points Buildner University Rankings

3rd Prize Winner +
BB GREEN AWARD

Project name

Barn Home

Authors
Lucie Perretten
Arthur Stepczynski
Country
Switzerland
+122 points Buildner University Rankings

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

Treading Time

Authors
Sari King
Vang Anh Tran
Ching-Han Chiang
Seonwoo Kim
Country
Germany
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

The Flow

Authors
Sophia Liu
Yichen Zhang
SongYuan (Cindy) Wang
Country
Canada
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

A home built around senses

Authors
Mafalda Mota
Mariana Simões
Henrique Andrade
Country
Portugal
Project name

Home for the Blind

Author
Horatiu Bran
Country
Romania
Project name

BASIC RULES Project

Author
Kateryna Kulish
Country
Poland
Project name

Through the Tube

Authors
Ida Jonassen
Suzan Amato
Laura Kupka
Country
Italy
+76 points Buildner University Rankings

Shortlisted projects

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In-Habit

Connor Simpson
Australia

Connections in Height: in between sensations

Duarte Gonçalves
Ana Margarida Calheiros

Porto School of Architecture , Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Portugal

ON SOUND SOIL

Matthias Guillois
Gabriel Yvon

France

a tender embrace

Mouriya Senthilkumar
Anoushka Thatte
Rianna Tan
Kai jun Ng

University of New South Wales

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Australia

Because every step counts

Aleksandra Maszczyk
Oliwia Karapuda
Artemis Athanasiadi

Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk

+92 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

SPACE-TIME

Chaewan Kim
Geewon Park
South Korea

The Light Shift

Zhanyang Cen
Yuheng Lai
Abudjana Babiker

Waseda University Art and Architecture school

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Japan

BASIC RULES Project

Kateryna Kulish
Poland

Circle Orientation

Dong yeop Kim
South Korea

The Flow

Sophia Liu
Yichen Zhang
SongYuan (Cindy) Wang
Canada

Barn Home

Lucie Perretten
Arthur Stepczynski

EPFL École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

+122 points Buildner University Rankings!
Switzerland

Home for the Blind

James Furzer
United Kingdom

/ Forward \ Backward Slash House

Sang mook Lim
United States

D I U R N A L | | I N W A R D · O U T W A R D

Luna (hyunsoo) Kim

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

BLUR THE EDGE

Zhengyan Jin
Ming Li Liu
Jianing Sima
Xiang Ye
Canada

Loop Home

Samine Bagherzade
Mohsen Bahmanyar
Mehek Asaria
Mehrnaz Miri

Ferdowsi University Mashhad

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Iran

SENSORY HOUSE

Sam Lee
Sharon Hung

UTS - University of Technology Sydney

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Australia

House-I

Ho chun Au-yeung
Hong Kong

ENFILADE

Miruna-liana Alexandru

Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism - UAUIM

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Romania

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Michael Nemkov

University of Applied Arts Vienna (Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien)

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Austria

HOME OF SENSES

Gizem Zeyrek
Ayşe Buldurur
Spain

Treading Time

Sari King
Vang Anh Tran
Ching-Han Chiang
Seonwoo Kim

Architectural Association School of Architecture

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

SenCella

Léa Trouvé
Negin Armioun

Arrak Arkkitehdit

Finland

Home for the Blind

Horatiu Bran
Romania

Lucid step: affordable house for the blind

Natwadee Kleawsirikul
Eakkriddi Punnalerdkun
Yanisa Rungruengphol
Itsree Chamnankit
Thailand

The Ribbon House

Katharina Hoerath
Katie Donahue
United States

The Paper Clip House

Mania Minasvand

Glendale Community College

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Touch House

Shin Yang

University of California, UC Berkeley

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Fence for the Blind

Simeon Chua
Georgia Huang

The University of Melbourne

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Australia

SEN HOUSE

Baran Akkoyun
Esma gül Aydeniz
Dilek sihem Hüzmeli
Turkey

8 HOUSE

Miguel Steiner
Juan Diego Rojas
Manuel Alejandro Lombana

Universidad de los Andes – Colombia

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Colombia

Through the Tube

Ida Jonassen
Suzan Amato
Laura Kupka

IED Istituto Europeo di Design

+76 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

re-inclusiveness

Weronika Lis
Dominika Jezierska
Jakub Biernacki
Poland

Blindnest

Valerija Bajrami
Lucija Radelja
Croatia

WALLS

Andre Halim
Indonesia

The Track House

Erfan Behroyan
Canada

HOUSE OF AUTONOMY AND JOY

Peter niels Heller
Jisu Yang
United States

The Guiding Wall

Claire Hicks
Joshua Tan
Christina Zhang

Yale School of Architecture

+176 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Home

Blerine Hoti
Barda Kelmendi
Artan Millaku
Fatos Shala
Kosovo

A home built around senses

Mafalda Mota
Mariana Simões
Henrique Andrade
Portugal