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

Buildner 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.

We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise

Katie MacDonald

Co-founder of After Architecture

USA

Angelo Renna

Architect

Italy

Ricardo Gomes

Partner, KWY.studio

Portugal

Mikhail Krymov

Co-founder and CEO, Sleepbox

USA

Marta Frazão

Partners at Atelier Data

Portugal

Filipe Rodrigues

Partners at Atelier Data

Portugal

Inês Vicente

Partners at Atelier Data

Portugal

James Biber

Biber Architects

USA

Lydia Kallipoliti

Tallin Architecture Biennale, ANAcycle thinktank

USA

1st Prize Winner +
Client Favorite

Project name

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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Author
Christopher Taylor
Country
South Africa

2nd Prize Winner

Project name

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
Project name

¨A memory sustains us¨

Author
Felipe Vázquez
Country
Uruguay
Project name

the earth wall

Project name

The Fence

Author
Javier Roig Iglesias
Country
Spain
Project name

White memories

Project name

Laminated Boundaries

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ENVELOPE

Authors
Artem Alendeev
Kristina Ukhina
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