Foreword

Buildner is pleased to announce the results of its Gaudi La Coma Artists’ Residences International Competition!

This is the first in a series of design competitions to be run in partnership with the Gaudi Knowledge Association and Inngenium Lab to celebrate Gaudi’s intellectual heritage. For this competition, participants were asked to submit proposals for a sustainable artists’ residence and education complex to be located in Huesca, Spain, designed in alignment with Antoni Gaudi’s principles of sustainability, functionality, aesthetics and innovation. Buildner and its jury sought designs that have the potential to become iconic landmarks while still remaining sensitive to the site’s natural surroundings.

Buildner worked with an outstanding jury consisting of a mix of Spanish and international architects to evaluate and select the winning entries: Bárbara Bardin and Julio Cano are co-founders of Madrid-based studio Canobardin; Julien De Smedt is the founder and director of JDS Architects based in Copenhagen and Brussels; Arturo Mc Clean is Communications Manager and Architect at Barcelona-based Miralles Tagliabue EMBT; Inés Olavarrieta is an architect and designer at Madrid-based selgascano; Anna Maria Orrù is an Affiliated Senior Lecturer at Konstfack – University of Arts, Crafts and Design with a focus on sustainability, and co-founder and co-director of Nordic Biomimicry; and Patricia Grande is Project Manager and Partner at Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Buildner and its jury panel would like to thank each of the participants and teams from around the globe who submitted proposals for this event.

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Gaudi La Coma 
Artists’ Residences
Official partner
Gaudi La Coma 
Artists’ Residences

1st Prize Winner

Project name

Opus Loci

We are extremely glad about this result, and we hope that this success will enable us to develop our collective. At the very least, the competition will help us create common basis for our urban and architectural approach, and debate about the shared values that we want to express across our architectural practice.

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Company Collectif Carré Noir
Authors Nathanaël Pinard, Marc Viaud, Victor Dussap, Félix Roudier-Canler
Country France
  • 10/10 Linework
  • 10/10 Quality of drawings
  • 9/10 Balance of color
  • 8/10 Layout
  • 8/10 Hierarchy
  • 8/10 Annotation
  • 8/10 Text
  • 10/10 Clarity of story
  • 10/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 9/10 Quality of overall presentation

2nd Prize Winner

Project name

Parc Modernisme'

Architectural competitions allow a sense of freedom to test my own ideas and inventions, free from client constraints and agendas of office life. To me, they provide the perfect training and challenge of my own architectural ability and provide a welcome break for architectural self-reflection.

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Author Matthew Pratt
Country United Kingdom
  • 9/10 Linework
  • 9/10 Quality of drawings
  • 8/10 Balance of color
  • 8/10 Layout
  • 9/10 Hierarchy
  • 10/10 Annotation
  • 9/10 Text
  • 9/10 Clarity of story
  • 9/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 9/10 Quality of overall presentation

3rd Prize Winner

Project name

THE METABOLISM OF RAW EARTH

Our team members include professional architect, young scholars, and students, and we are consistently exploring what design is and what architecture is. Participating in competitions helps us make these discoveries. We exchanged existing design principles during these processes, discovered new design methodologies, and disputed new techniques and materials. Regarding architecture as a living organism, and giving each part of the building a definition in biology is the new methodology we found, and is effective for connecting each part.

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Authors Delong Yang, Rixi Ye, Rongjie Zhang, Dan Liang
Country China
  • 8/10 Linework
  • 9/10 Quality of drawings
  • 7/10 Balance of color
  • 7/10 Layout
  • 7/10 Hierarchy
  • 8/10 Annotation
  • 7/10 Text
  • 8/10 Clarity of story
  • 8/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 7/10 Quality of overall presentation

BUILDNER STUDENT AWARD

Project name

Vine Art District

Architecture competition is field of opportunity to testify your architectural knowledge and aesthetic perception through out rapid pace of design process. From this process, you can strengthen your design ability by exploring yourself to the ocean of idea that you have never experienced. Also, it is the best resource for us to express our design capability to the public. Exposing our work throughout renowned medium can give us opportunity to develop ourselves as young architects.

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Authors Myungju Ko, Seonggeun Hur
Country United States
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
  • 10/10 Linework
  • 9/10 Quality of drawings
  • 10/10 Balance of color
  • 10/10 Layout
  • 10/10 Hierarchy
  • 10/10 Annotation
  • 9/10 Text
  • 10/10 Clarity of story
  • 10/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 10/10 Quality of overall presentation

BUILDNER SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

Project name

Canopy

We think that architecture competition is a really productive way for students to experience the architectural design workflow in the real world. The brief requirement is very detailed yet imaginative enough for us to propose progressive solutions that can best suit the social and cultural context. This is very similar to how professional architects are encountered in everyday scenarios. Given the immense time limitation, it also encourages us to work collaboratively and think outside of the box, while compiling it in a professional manner. The process of design also helps to strengthen our graphic and digital skills in a short time, such learning progress is very important in our education in the future.

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Authors Michael Kan, Kelly Tanim, Kevin Chen
Country United Kingdom
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
  • 9/10 Linework
  • 10/10 Quality of drawings
  • 10/10 Balance of color
  • 10/10 Layout
  • 10/10 Hierarchy
  • 10/10 Annotation
  • 8/10 Text
  • 10/10 Clarity of story
  • 10/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 10/10 Quality of overall presentation

Client Favorite

Project name

The Common Ground

Working in competitions challenge me to jump out of my comfort zone. To work on projects that are in a different context than my usual work. It is also a great way to test out my skills in problem-solving and graphic communication.

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Author Phoebe Tse
Country Australia
+22 points Buildner University Rankings

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

La Coma Hive

Project name

In nome di Gaudì

The main aim of the participating in architectural competitions is to keep up with the times and constantly develop creativity, to learn with others and from others.

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Company URGES SRL
Authors Ekaterina Ivanova, Pietro Giromini
Country Italy
Project name

A Local Symbol

Authors Mohamed Ait oual, Phan Dang phan
Country France
Project name

Natural Neural Networks

Author Yue Liu
Country Australia
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

embedded grounds

Authors Kwang Hoon Lee, So Jung Lee, Jeongwoo Kim
Country South Korea
Project name

Harvest Arches

Authors Franny Chang, Erin Judkins
Country Australia
+72 points Buildner University Rankings

Shortlisted projects

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El Fil

Daler sofia Alvarez medina

Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Spain

Organic Growth

Rose Niakan

The University of Adelaide

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Australia

Unfurling the Dragon

Aaradhana Aiyappa

Pragati Nayak

Purvi Sharma

Joel Joseph

Atelier Array

British Indian Ocean Trty.

Gaudi La Coma artists' residence and cultural center

Asa Barak

Daniel Cazap

Sofia Modesti Funes

Romy Zheng

United States

With Strings Attached

Melissa Cordova argueta

Raquel Arnaiz

Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Spain

A Local Symbol

Mohamed Ait oual

Phan Dang phan

France

Parc Modernisme'

Matthew Pratt

United Kingdom

Terrazas Artist Residences

Sergio Bernier

Abel Juarez

Isuí Rodriguez

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Spain

GüEBRA

Ignacio Pardo de santayana

Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Spain

Opened to the horizon

Gabriel Mascaraque navarro

Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Spain

Mimesis

Marina Del barrio

Paula Fernández-layos

Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Spain

Gaudi La Coma Artist Residences

Refael De la fontaine

Dima Zaretsky

Miran Calmanovici

De La Fontaine Architects ltd.

Israel

embedded grounds

Kwang Hoon Lee

So Jung Lee

Jeongwoo Kim

South Korea

La Coma Hive

Alexander Herrera-rojas

Kasia Ziolkowska

Rafael Dominguez

ARTES London

United Kingdom

The Stone Path

Gareth Cotter

United Kingdom

ILLUSORY TRANSLATED INTO GROTTOES

Jingyang Huang

Yu zhou Tong

Zeng jian Wei

Dan Liang

United Kingdom

THE METABOLISM OF RAW EARTH

Delong Yang

Rixi Ye

Rongjie Zhang

Dan Liang

China

JOYA - Residential and Educational Complex

Chang Yang

Leyang Ding

Jiayu Lu

United Kingdom

Canopy

Michael Kan

Kelly Tanim

Kevin Chen

United Kingdom

La Plataforma

Sabrina Findlay

Delan Aribigbola

Cristian Liu Chang

United Kingdom

Lines in the Landscape

Bartu Tort

Allegra Keys

Ellis Shiels

United Kingdom

Opus Loci

Nathanaël Pinard

Marc Viaud

Victor Dussap

Félix Roudier-Canler

Collectif Carré Noir

France

Retrace the Earth

Ryo Murata

Isabelle Nobayashi

Chenyin Xu

Hiroki Moriya

Japan

Gaudi La Coma - Artist Education Hub

Irwan arifin Lubis

Clarisa amanda Baker

Alifa azzahra Nasution

Reynaldi Azmi

Indonesia

Los Pasos

Atikah Rizkiyah

Deden ikbaltrus Kaban

Rafiqah Zhafirah siregar

Keumala Shatila Harahap

Indonesia

Natural Neural Networks

Yue Liu

Australia

La Rama : Connected Space

Laviana Tan

Kristin Regina

Devin defriza Harisdani

Puguh ramos Swardana

Indonesia

Gaudi La Coma Artists’ Residences-Nature

Maria Pepelanova

Bulgaria

The Olive Garden

Jared Clark

Australia

ROMPECABEZA

Aurora chiara Ianniello

Paolo Mezzadri

Chiara Felice

Lucia Concetta Vincelli

Italy

La C(,)ma, the place where imagination and reality meet.

Catalina Adelgoss-mejia

David Geiman

Germany

The Common Ground

Phoebe Tse

Australia

Herència Cultural Center

Orlando Echevarría garcía

Jean C Vega Díaz

Puerto Rico

Artestructura

Gerard thomas Joson

Kiel Aranda

Amado magne ii Lopez

Karlson spencer Ty

Philippines

Gaudi La Coma; La Puebla De Mosaic

Eunseo Choi

Myungsun Kim

South Korea

Harvest Arches

Franny Chang

Erin Judkins

Australia

Vine Art District

Myungju Ko

Seonggeun Hur

GSAPP, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

LEAF

Stephen Lloyd

United States

In nome di Gaudì

Ekaterina Ivanova

Pietro Giromini

URGES SRL

Italy

Gaudi La Coma Artists' Residences

John Le harivel

New Zealand