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Buildner is pleased to announce the results of The Home of Shadows #4, an international architecture ideas competition exploring how light and shadow can shape domestic space through a home designed without artificial lighting. Participants were challenged to rethink how natural light alone can define atmosphere, orientation, and everyday living, with submissions from diverse contexts worldwide.
The competition received a wide range of proposals that investigated courtyards, filtered openings, excavated spaces, and layered spatial sequences, often closely integrated with landscape and topography. Across the entries, natural light was used as a primary architectural material, shaping both spatial organization and emotional experience through changing conditions of illumination and shadow.
First prize was awarded to Taekhoon Lee (South Korea) for Below the Shadows. Second prize went to Marc Izaguerri Serrano (United Kingdom) for Lava, and third prize to David Costantino Cirocchi (Spain). The Student Award was presented to a team from MSA, Münster School of Architecture (Germany), and the Sustainability Award to Alexander Fong Kit Kindlen-Cheung (Austria). Honorable mentions and shortlisted projects are available on the competition website.
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1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Prize
Sustainability Award
Student Award
