Foreword

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.

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Home for the
Blind
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Home for the
Blind

1st Prize Winner +
ARCHHIVE Student Award

Project name

The Guiding Wall

To work with friends and learn from each other.

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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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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
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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
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BASIC RULES Project

Author Kateryna Kulish
Country Poland

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

medium

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