Iceland Lake Mývatn Community House Jury Panel

Buildner is pleased to announce the jury for the upcoming Iceland Lake Myvatn Community House Competition!

Marshall Blecher, MAST
Xuanru Chen, ZJJZ Atelier
Pip Cheshire, Cheshire Architects
Borghildur Indriðadóttir, artist
Magic Kwan, OOA - Orient Occident Atelier
Marta Frazão, Atelier Data
Filipe Rodrigues, Atelier Data
Inês Vicente, Atelier Data
Lera Samovich, Fala Atelier
Sigrún Sumarliðadóttir, Studio Bua

Marshall Blecher is Co-founder of MAST, a maritime architecture studio based in Copenhagen. His portfolio includes Copenhagen Islands, a cluster of roaming artificial islands designed in collaboration with Studio Fokstrot, set to be built in Copenhagen's harbour as a public park.

 

Xuanru Chen is a lead architects at Shanghai-based ZJJZ Atelier. ZJJZ’s projects have garnered numerous recognition, such as its Woodhouse Hotel being listed as one of the top 10 Chinese architecture projects by Dezeen in 2019.

 

Pip Cheshire is the Director of Cheshire Architects, based in Auckland, New Zealand. His career includes an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Auckland, competition and awards judging, institutional, residential and civic architecture. Pip is the recipient of the NZIA Gold Medal for Architecture, NZIA national awards for architecture, is a University of Auckland Distinguished Alumni and a published author and critic.

Borghildur Indriðadóttir is an artist that lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland. She has previously worked at Studio Olafur Eliasson, and has collaborated to produce installations such as MEAT shown in Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, and as an actress and designer for Club Inferno staged by Volksbühne Berlin.

 

Magic Kwan runs OOA - Orient Occident Atelier, a Cambodian architectural studio which focuses on discovering, researching and utilizing the interdependence of “objects” and connections with surrounding space as design inspirations.

Filipe Rodrigues, Inês Vicente and Marta Frazão are Partners at Atelier Data, a Lisbon-based office. Its team believes that each project is the “engine” of its own investigation, allowing a critical, creative and innovative approach. Diagrammatic and elementary representations are both the outcome of a process and a means of diagnosis, research and communication of new solutions.

 

Lera Samovich is an architect at Fala Atelier in Porto, Portugal. She studied architecture at Moscow Institute of Architecture and Moscow Architecture School. Previously she collaborated professionally with Bureau Alexander Brodsky, Asse Architects and Nowadays Office in Moscow.

 

 

Sigrún Sumarliðadóttir is Co Founder and Principal of Studio Bua, an architectural practice with offices in London and Oslo. The studio has to date realised a number of ambitious and concept-driven projects, including the renovation of an Icelandic farmhouse and cultural centre. Sigrún is an Icelandic architect with a background in visual arts. She is especially practiced in the design, procurement and construction of public buildings in Norway, and has–in her role as project architect at Oslo studio LMR Arkitekter–overseen a number of public projects such as schools in Kautokeino and Bærum. In recent years, Sigrún has also led a number of residential refurbishments and urban design projects. Our resident polyglot, she speaks fluent English, Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch and Italian. 

The Iceland Lake Mývatn Community House competition is run in partnership with Sveinn Margeirsson, mayor of Skútustaðahreppur. Participants are asked to submit designs for a community house that would serve as a prime example of the positive impact of a circular economy in the region and across Iceland. The community house would therefore be the region’s main location for trading, sharing, and recycling materials and resources in order to exemplify how a circular economy operates.