Foreword

Buildner is excited to announce the results of the Caramel Shore Traveller Rooms Competition! The project is organized as part of Buildner's Small-Scale Architecture competition series.

For this event, Buildner asked participants to design a prototype sleeping cabin of 20 m² with a sleeping area, kitchenette, storage, shower, and toilet, to be located in the Latvian town of Skrunda, on the golden-sand shores of the Venta River. The Venta River is home to the widest waterfall in Europe, and its bright yellow caramel-coloured sands make it an idyllic spot for rural tourists to visit.

Buildner worked with an international jury with a range of experience in projects of similar type and scale: Nancy Beka, an architectural designer and co-director of Studio Edwards, a Melbourne-based design practice; Willem van Bolderen, founding partner of Helsinki-based Studio Puisto Architects Ltd; Mari Hunt, an Estonian architect, partner and co-founder of the architecture office b210, a lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts, and a tiny house builder; Pablo Larroulet, a Chilean architect and founder of LARROU ARQ - Pablo Larroulet Arquitectura; Marco Lavit, founder of Paris-based practice, Atelier LAVIT; Jordi Riembau Ribot and Miguel Rusca Mestre, co-founders of Nordest architecture SLP, based outside of Barcelona; and Ahti Sepsivart, an architect, versatile artist, and teacher located in Tallinn, Estonia.

Buildner and its jury team thank all the participants for their submissions!

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Caramel Shore 
Traveller Rooms
Official partner
Caramel Shore 
Traveller Rooms

1st Prize Winner +
Client Favorite

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DIAGONAL

By participating in architectural competitions we learn the methods and ways of finding architectural ideas. It`s always suprising to find many different solutions for one location.

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Authors Grzegorz Mączka, Marta Mączka
Country Poland

2nd Prize Winner

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IT TAKES A VILLAGE

Architecture competitions are a great way to explore personal interests, test strategies, and have more creative freedom.

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Author Clara Copiglia
Country United States

3rd Prize Winner

Project name

a series of rooms

Architecture competitions are a useful exercise, essential for me to keep my mind trained. But most of all because I enjoy the design process.

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Author Alfonso Di Sabato
Country Switzerland

ARCHHIVE STUDENT AWARD

Project name

Promenade

Architecture competitions are a useful exercise, essential for me to keep my mind trained. But most of all because I enjoy the design process.

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AAPPAREL SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

Project name

myCO-cabin

We participate because it encourages us to explore and share some new perspectives about contemporary architecture, as well as the possibility of materializing these new ideas and to approach to other cultures. It also presents the opportunity to see the diversity and plurality of ideas developed under the same requirements.

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Authors Lucas Yael Ibarra Lages, Cun Hernandez, Juliana Lareu
Country Germany

Honorable Mentions

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Spine Stories

Authors Andra Panait, Oana doina Trusca, Adelina Jinga, Teodora Rotea
Country Romania
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permanent camping

Author Anselm Kranebitter
Country Austria
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STRICHKA HOUSE

Company Desirum
Authors Zlata Rybchenko, Kateryna Shumikhina
Country United Kingdom
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Under a haystack

Company OFFCON
Authors Peter Kholkovskiy, Aglaya Van van e
Country Russian Federation
Project name

Māra

Authors Jae Hwan Cha, Sung Min Lee
Country South Korea
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
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URA

Authors Javier Monasterio, Natalia Cuevas, Maria Eugui, Jonander Rodriguez
Country Spain

Shortlisted projects

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The Cabin Behind The Curtain

Austin Autrey

United States

MANY WORLDS

Agnieszka Wlazły

Weronika Wodras

Poznan University of Technology , Politechnika Poznańska

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

Revive

Kusum Sukhwani

Aman Gupta

Sanskriti Dogra

Udit Nyati

Accurate & Associates Infra Pvt. Ltd.

British Indian Ocean Trty.

Spine Stories

Andra Panait

Oana doina Trusca

Adelina Jinga

Teodora Rotea

Romania

Levitation

Junhyung Choi

Hyunji Choi

Yelim Oh

South Korea

LUCID DREAM

Jakub Awin

Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk , Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

Following the fire

Zofia Gancarczyk

Aleksandra Adamska

Klaudia Kochanowska

Aleksandra Musiał

Warsaw University of Technology , Politechnika Warszawska

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

THE BEAUTY OF THE BURL

Maja Chojnacka

Regina Andrzejewska

Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk , Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

myCO-cabin

Lucas Yael Ibarra Lages

Cun Hernandez

Juliana Lareu

Germany

a series of rooms

Alfonso Di Sabato

Switzerland

Baltā Cielava

艺锦 王

佳翎 黄

承志 林

Dalian University of Technology

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

Māra

Jae Hwan Cha

Sung Min Lee

Kaywon University of Art & Design

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
South Korea

Everywhere at Once

Christian Massi

Andrea Baroncelli

Italy

Kate at Venta

Johanna Schulze

Bauhaus - Universität Weimar

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

ZE Sanctuary

Alia Amer

Clara Bondi

Egypt

URA

Javier Monasterio

Natalia Cuevas

Maria Eugui

Jonander Rodriguez

Spain

permanent camping

Anselm Kranebitter

Austria

Folklore Retreat

Zofia Kracinova

Timothy Willment

United Kingdom

A Cabin On Stilts

J Flores

University of Texas at Austin

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Caramel Shore Cabins

Jeff Leopold

University of Texas at Austin

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Layer By Layer Cabins

Annie Hayes

The University of Texas at Austin

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Mise en abyme

Juseok Park

South Korea

Caramel Shores Joy Pyramids

Ramsey Robinson

University of Texas at Austin

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Body & Soul

Genesis Gadberry

University of Texas at Austin

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Caramel Shore Traveller Rooms

Marudina Julia

Logworks

Russian Federation

IT TAKES A VILLAGE

Clara Copiglia

United States

Venta • Vēna

Tobias Keller

Stefan Scheid

Germany

DIAGONAL

Grzegorz Mączka

Marta Mączka

Poland

River Hearth

Giovanni Lenci

Italy

Green Cabin

Antoni Grześkowiak

Politechnika Poznańska/Poznań University of Technology

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

The Tapestry of River Venta

Yuqi Zhao

Zihan Yuan

Nian Li

The University of Nottingham Ningbo China

+26 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

The Straw Village

Emiliano Barbani

Giovanni Morelli

Martina Costa

Matteo Pozzi

Italy

Nomadic Grounds

So jung Lee

Kwang hoon Lee

South Korea

Under a haystack

Peter Kholkovskiy

Aglaya Van van e

OFFCON

Russian Federation

Thatch

Alina Kalacharova

Polina Belets

Arsen Gabrielyan

Ekaterina Tretyakova

Master`s plan

Russian Federation

Promenade

Fabian Gottfried

Yihao Ni

RWTH Aachen University, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

+74 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Over the Horizon

Siran Huang

Hongwen Zhan

Hongye Zhu

Binzhu Han

China

STRICHKA HOUSE

Zlata Rybchenko

Kateryna Shumikhina

Desirum

United Kingdom

FIVE-CHARACTER CABINS

Yuxin Wang

Beijing University of Technology

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

TRIANGLE UNIT

Marco Tasso

Italy