Foreword

Bee Breeders Competition Organisers is excited to announce the results of its Humble Architecture: Everest Challenge!

The Humble Architecture competition series seeks designs for toilet facilities that could improve the lives of their users and consider the highest environmental standards for their sites. This first event tasked participants with designing sustainable toilet facilities on Mount Everest - a remote location with a harsh climate that sees many visitors, but is programmed with limited waste facilities.

Bee Breeders and its jury panel sought designs fitting for this unique site that are cost-effective, resistant to heat, cold, rain, snow, and wind, environmentally responsible and energy-efficient, low maintenance in terms of effort and costs, and considered the limited road access for construction or installation.

The jury panel for this event consisted of: Diego Baraona, founder of the Chilean architecture office DBAA - Diego Baraona Arquitectos y Asociados; Martin Beverfjord,  co-founder of Oslo-based Rever & Drage, whose portfolio includes a triangular, aluminum toilet near the Farstadsanden beach on the west coast of Norway on one of the country's national scenic tourist routes; Greg Corso of Syracuse NY-based SPORTS Collaborative and Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, School of Architecture; Gonçalo Marrote, an architect and CEO at Madeiguincho, based in Cascais, Portugal and known for its merger of carpentry, architecture and art; Stephen Pimbley, the founding director of SPARK Architects, which has developed an easily transportable 3d printed toilet module in support of the UN initiative to combat open defecation and the associated issues of hygiene and sanitation in India; Angelo Renna, an architect that recently published the book Monkey Factor – Small stories for a reconciliation with nature; and Erik “Rick” Sommerfeld, an Architect, Assistant Professor and the Director of ColoradoBuildingWorkshop, the design-build program at the University of Colorado Denver, which annually designs and constructs a small-scale project such as that for a toilet in Rocky Mountain National Park.

We thank the participants for contributing their excellent design ideas, and congratulate the winning submissions for their thoughtfulness and innovation.

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Humble Architecture:
Everest Challenge

1st Prize Winner +
BB GREEN AWARD +
BB STUDENT AWARD

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THE PEAK

We believe that various architecture competitions are an opportunity to explore further a variety of diferent topics as well as to experience an adventure. It is a great chance to work in diǗerent settings with your team and learn new skills from each other.

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Authors Aurelija Kniukštaitė, Jonė Virbickaitė, Kotryna Bajorinaitė
Country Lithuania
+226 points Buildner University Rankings

2nd Prize Winner

Project name

Cairns

We participate in architectural competitions to feed our desire to explore idseas without the bounds of a commercial or corporate setting and use the process as a speculative steppingstone towards a one day built destination. But most of all because we enjoy designing

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Authors John Clayson, Andrei Dinu
Country United Kingdom

3rd Prize Winner

Project name

Crests

Competitions give the opportunity to experiment topics distant from our daily life and what we are used to work with. It helps to sharpen your design skills and diversify your knowledge. Through the different competition we took part in, we got to know more about different cities, places and cultures around the world. More importantly it gives the opportunity to propose solutions regarding the current needs of modern society without certain boundaries. This process of research by design is for us a great tool to understand the major problem/needs of our time.

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Authors Jean Trottet, Stefano Teker
Country Belgium

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

SEASONS

Project name

The Healer Beyond the Clouds

Author Mingshan Fang
Country United States
Project name

EVER-REST

Authors Irish Feryle Barruga, Elenie Joyce Pagtulingan
Country United States
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
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PITSTOP

Authors Shrijan Pradhan, Mitchell Coenraads, Mikhail Singh
Country Australia
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PorterLoo

Authors Sam Brown, Eva Albiston, Pete Taylor
Country New Zealand

Shortlisted projects

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Humble Everest Challenge_ Portable Loo_121721

Ho kong Yung

Canada

toilet for ME

Adam Salacz

Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem)

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Hungary

Red Dot

Irina Kartun

Alika Son

Aleksandra Krasheninnikova

Russian Federation

BOULDER POINT

Hyunwoo Kim

Yumin Lee

Byunghoo Kim

South Korea

cabion shelter

Simon Flückiger

Switzerland

a synergistic relief

Chang yuan max Hsu

United States

BASE CAMP LOO

Oliver Jordan

New Zealand

Khumbu Cairns

Joe Myerscough

Ryan Lawlor

United Kingdom

Folded Moments

Youna Lee

Hyunjin Lee

Eugene Shim

South Korea

Thor Retzlaff

Coby Vardy

Tenzing Sherpa

Do Good Shit

United States

The Healer Beyond the Clouds

Mingshan Fang

United States

Snowflake

Donny Xie

Canada

Public Rest House / Plywood Temple

Jeff Schaefer

United States

Cairns

John Clayson

Andrei Dinu

United Kingdom

Get Your Feces Together

Hana Turnovská

Mariana Chavikova

Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (Umprum (Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová))

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Czech Republic

ARK

Xian Zhu

Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Darmstadt)

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

The LooKit

Clémence Gavel

Kenza Stiki

Coraline Naturel

ENSAS - Strasbourg National School of Architecture, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Strasbourg

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
France

Crests

Jean Trottet

Stefano Teker

Belgium

Everest Base Camp Toilet

Kateryna Cherednyk

Ukraine

Trekker Vessel

Daniel Cano

United States

Mountable

Jannah lyn Dela cruz

University of Hawaii at Manoa

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

EXPANDABLE EXCREMENT-REUSING TOILET FOR HIKERS

Yifan Shen

China

THE PEAK

Aurelija Kniukštaitė

Jonė Virbickaitė

Kotryna Bajorinaitė

Lithuania

Encased

Hannah angelika Valencia

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

The Ever-I

John carlos Buted

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

OASIS

Eleonor Lomboy

Liezel Ballesteros

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

PITSTOP

Shrijan Pradhan

Mitchell Coenraads

Mikhail Singh

Australia

Resurgence

Jeanette lei Julian

Sukhyun Hong

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

endure

Ah lam Lee

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Alpine Renewal

Aidan Brown

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

EVER-REST

Irish Feryle Barruga

Elenie Joyce Pagtulingan

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Preservation संरक्षण

Marcus Freeman

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Rupture

Paulo henrique Saliby

Antonio Carmagnani

Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, The Mackenzie Presbyterian University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Brazil

WCc

Gianmarco Biasin

University of Trento / Università degli Studi di Trento

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

BAGLOON

Han Kong

Peilin Liao

United Kingdom

Everest Challenge

João Moraes

Dario Uriah

Brazil

A cabin for a trip

Maxime Gaillard

Bruno Palak

Switzerland

PorterLoo

Sam Brown

Eva Albiston

Pete Taylor

Arête Architects Ltd.

New Zealand

SEASONS

Guillaume de Pontaud

Zoé Bouillet

France