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

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!

We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise

Nancy Beka

architectural designer and co-director of Studio Edwards

Australia

Marco Lavit

founder of Atelier LAVIT

France

Mari Hunt

partner and co-founder of the architecture office b210

Estonia

Pablo Larroulet

LARROU ARQ - Pablo Larroulet Arquitectura

Chile

Suzanne Hunt

founder and principal architect at Suzanne Hunt Architect

Australia

Miguel Rusca Mestre

Co-founders, Nordest architecture SLP

Spain

Jordi Riembau Ribot

Co-founders, Nordest architecture SLP

Spain

Willem van Bolderen

Founding Partner, Studio Puisto Architects Ltd

Finland

Ahti Sepsivart

Architect

Estonia

1st Prize Winner +
Client Favorite

Project name

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

Project name

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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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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Project name

Spine Stories

Authors
Andra Panait
Oana doina Trusca
Adelina Jinga
Teodora Rotea
Country
Romania
Project name

permanent camping

Author
Anselm Kranebitter
Country
Austria
Project name

STRICHKA HOUSE

Company
Authors
Zlata Rybchenko
Kateryna Shumikhina
Country
United Kingdom
Project name

Under a haystack

Company
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
Project name

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.

India

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