Foreword

Bee Breeders Competition Organisers is excited to announce the results of its ‘Columbarium – The Chamber of Memories’ competition.

Participants were invited to submit designs for a columbarium of 500 niches and a comprehensive landscape design solution for the Forest Cemetery in Riga, Latvia. The event was planned in collaboration with the Riga City Council in Latvia, which has expressed an interest in constructing one of the winning submissions. It was requested that design solutions be long-lasting and consider the best of green practices.

The Forest Cemetery has been in use for over a century and became a memorial cemetery for those that died fighting during World War I. The site contains many sculptural memorials and tombstones dedicated to the important and influential figures entombed within the cemetery, including notable Latvian politicians, military, and public figures.

Bee Breeders collaborated with a strong jury panel comprising: James Biber, an architect and partner of New-York based Biber Architects which has completed projects including the USA Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015; Marta Frazão, Filipe Rodrigues, and Inês Vicente, Partners at Atelier Data, a Lisbon-based office; Ricardo Gomes, partner of KWY.studio; Lydia Kallipoliti, an Assistant Professor at the Cooper Union, author of The Architecture of Closed Worlds (2018), the Head Curator of the upcoming Tallinn Architecture Biennale and principal of ANAcycle thinktank; Katie MacDonald, cofounder of After Architecture and Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia; and Angelo Renna, an architect and author of the recent book Monkey Factor – Small stories for a reconciliation with nature.

Bee Breeders, along with its jury panel, congratulates the winning participants, and thanks the designers from around the world that submitted an outstanding range of ideas.

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Columbarium - 
The Chamber of Memories
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Columbarium - 
The Chamber of Memories

1st Prize Winner +
Client Favorite

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HALO

We find it necessary to participate in architecture competitions as they offer a chance to exercise and challenge our design capability within a limited time frame. They can also provide a diverse and interesting array of briefs that are not normally on offer to us professionally.

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Country South Africa

2nd Prize Winner

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UNDER A BLANKET OF PLANTS

Continue to challenge ourselves as designers. Exploration of details in design. Details can be small, but the details always matter.

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Authors Mengru Wang, Rachel Reinhard
Country United States

3rd Prize Winner +
BB GREEN AWARD +
BB STUDENT AWARD

Project name

Urn field - Line and decomposition

This was my first time I ever evolved into an international architectural competition. I was looking for something new after several years of working on multiple projects, sometimes at the same time.

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Authors Matej Gurka, Karol Gregor, Andrea Bočková
Country Slovakia
+176 points Buildner University Rankings

Honorable Mentions

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RELIEF

Authors Michalina Linkowska, Zuzanna Zdanowicz, Joanna Spychała
Country Poland
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
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¨A memory sustains us¨

Author Felipe Vázquez
Country Uruguay
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the earth wall

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The Fence

Author Javier Roig Iglesias
Country Spain
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White memories

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Laminated Boundaries

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ENVELOPE

Country Russian Federation

Shortlisted projects

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Laminated Boundaries

Josh Ren

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

TIMESCAPE

Akkarawin Valinluck

Pimchid Chariyacharoen

United States

Circle of Life

Jiries Alali

United States

Urn field - Line and decomposition

Matej Gurka

Karol Gregor

Andrea Bočková

Technical University of Košice

+176 points Buildner University Rankings!
Slovakia

Aleksandra Bieszka

Dominik Buchting

Uniwersytet Artystyczny w Poznaniu

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

Songs of Amber

Feifei Feng

Michelle Boyde

Ye Wang

United States

Zona

Ignat Todorov

Bulgaria

WOODLAND CEMETORY

Chang Liu

Jian Du

Italy

MEMORIES UNDER THE TREES

Marco Sorrentino

Leone Spita

Chiara Mobius

Jacopo Mannello

Italy

Recollection

Siteng Xu

Bo Zhang

Canada

Columbarium. The memory line.

Michał Grądowy

Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Politechnika Wrocławska)

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

RELIEF

Michalina Linkowska

Zuzanna Zdanowicz

Joanna Spychała

Poznan University of Technology

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

The Fence

Javier Roig Iglesias

Spain

Invisible Chambers

Shenglan Xu

Jiaqi Li

China

Memory in stone

Svetlana Zyubina

Yaroslavl State Technical University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Russian Federation

RESTING LINES

Maxime Matuszezak

Jules BERGÉ

France

Passage

Jeremy Delcroix

Lobjoy Delcroix

France

THE URN GARDEN

Gustav Kragh-jacobsen

Erlend Lindstad

Denmark

Sculptures in the Clearing

Amalie holm Pedersen

Alberte hyttel Reddersen

Denmark

Curtain of Reunion

Ziqi Chen

Yilan Zhou

United States

The Passage

Muhammad Alam

Raymin Sidhar

Carl Xavier jules caliva

Morgan Staples

Canada

ENVELOPE

Artem Alendeev

Kristina Ukhina

Russian Federation

Vārti

Sebastian Krawczyk

Szymon Chrzanowski

Poland

The Homestead Columbarium

Alexander Lockhart

Shun Yuguchi

Geoff Goerling

Australia

¨A memory sustains us¨

Felipe Vázquez

Uruguay

The Tesseract

Diem Nguyen

Sebastian Hicks

Tul Srisompun

Phan Do

United Kingdom

the earth wall

Martynas Degutis

HOCHSCHULE DARMSTADT University of Applied Sciences

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

PAUSE

Fidel Moyano

Julieta Derdoy

Argentina

Void's negative

Marzena Stasik

Janusz Ziobrowski

Poland

in between.

Demián Flores

Max Colorado

Fernando Gutiérrez

Mikhail Ortiz

Faculty of Architecture (Facultad de Arquitectura UNAM)

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Mexico

MIERA SIENA

Thanatorn Namsrithan

Sirut reinhard Huehne

Pitiwat Thitiyaphat

Thailand

STELAE FOREST

Jake Heffington

Emily Fiedler

United States

Columns of Remembrance

Marwân Hamama

France

Uz Aizsaule

Elena Bushell

Daniel Silver

Canada

HALO

Christopher Taylor

South Africa

Through Light / Caur Gaismu

Harry Jia

Kelvin Zhang

Peter Song

Lyric Barnik

United Kingdom

Forest Pillars

Victoria Rusina

Germany

The Last Shelter

Lukas Kerner

Switzerland

UNDER A BLANKET OF PLANTS

Mengru Wang

Rachel Reinhard

United States

White memories

Zhenya Zhenev

Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Ukraine