Foreword

Bee Breeders Competition Organisers is excited to announce the results of the Iceland Volcano Lookout Point Competition! This event is part of Bee Breeders Iceland Competition Series - past events have included the Iceland Greenhouse Restaurant competition, Iceland Cave Tower competition, Iceland Volcano Museum competition, and several others.

For this event, participants were tasked with designing an observation point positioned on the southern edge of Hverfjall in northern Iceland - a landform resulting from a volcanic explosion that left a crater 1 km wide and roughly 140 meters deep. Hverfjall is a popular hiking destination where visitors can easily access many parts of the volcano’s crater via public hiking trails that climb 200m to its ridges. The platform for this observation point is to fit a 10x10 m base, offering a view from the top of the crater that overlooks Lake Mývatn and the Dimmuborgir Lava fields.

Bee Breeders worked with a stellar international jury: Marshall Blecher, co-founder of MAST, a maritime architecture studio based in Copenhagen: Greg Corso of Syracuse NY-based SPORTS Collaborative, and Assistant Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Architecture; Jake Heffington, an architect and activist promoting equity and justice in design and development and Executive Director of [Diversify Architecture]; Borghildur Indriðadóttir, an artist that lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland; Kyle Schumann, cofounder of After Architecture and Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, whose work explores how democratized and accessible technologies can empower designers to utilize nontraditional and irregular natural materials; and Erik “Rick” Sommerfeld, an architect, Assistant Professor and the Director of ColoradoBuildingWorkshop, the design-build program at the University of Colorado Denver, which embraces small projects with tight budgets, short timelines and challenging site constraints to create innovative architectural solutions.

Bee Breeders and its jury team thank all the participants for their submissions!

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Iceland Volcano 
Lookout Point

1st Prize Winner

Project name

Hverfjall Arch

We don’t. This is our first.

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Authors Francisco Saraiva, David Matos
Country Portugal

2nd Prize Winner

Project name

TOPOS

Participating in architectural competitions takes us out of the daily routine and gives us the opportunity to play in new fields that cannot be experienced much in the world of practical work. Moreover, we see competitions as an opportunity to interact with each other and explore our wildest ideas, with a chance to win. What could be more exciting than this?

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3rd Prize Winner +
BB STUDENT AWARD

Project name

The Edge

Participating in architectural competitions for me is a great way to gain experience in formulating and sharpening ideas and architectural concepts, practicing the skills necessary to translate my ideas and it is essentially what I love doing most: Problem-solving and inventing things.

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University ETH Zurich
Author Lorin Wiedemeier
Country Switzerland
+122 points Buildner University Rankings

BB GREEN AWARD

Project name

Grjótský

Competitions facilitate testing ideas that are often untenable in a regular architecture and design practice. For us specifically, they are invitations to work with our friends. Every entry was done as an opportunity to spend time with people profoundly passionate about architectural discourse. They are open forums to exchange ideas regardless if there was consensus or dissimilarity among us. Every competition is an intellectual exercise where every project incrementally hones the clarity of our design intentions, realization, production, and representation. They allow us to indulge in sometimes obtuse research, where accumulating resources and precedents is a challenge requiring as much innovation in acquiring as application. For this competition in particular we give thanks to our friends Shea Gouthro and Diana Franco for their energy and discourse in ideating on what a lookout might be.

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Honorable Mentions

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Project name

Opposing Balances

Author Maxim Seitter
Country United States
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

Dimmu Borg

Authors Rania Gegiou, Dionysia Tsakiri
Country Greece
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

Lookout Tower

Authors Wiktoria Szaratkiewicz, Zuzanna Mitera, Gabriela Pietras
Country Poland
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

borðið

Authors Michael Leckie, Jason Hall, Peter M Wenger, Melody Chen
Country Canada
Project name

Project-Q

Project name

Path of Light

Authors Arthur Vincent, Elliott Bellanger
Country France

Shortlisted projects

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Sid

Dylan Rosato

University of Texas at Austin

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

hverfjall point

Alex Matute

Emma Schnelle

The University of Texas at Austin

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Opposing Balances

Maxim Seitter

University of Texas at Austin

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Moment of Curation

Marcos Crane

University of Texas at Austin

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

borðið

Michael Leckie

Jason Hall

Peter M Wenger

Melody Chen

Leckie Studio Architecture + Design

Canada

Dimmu Borg

Rania Gegiou

Dionysia Tsakiri

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Greece

Fired Earth

Arseniy Rabotnov

Russian Federation

Swinging On The Edge: Iceland Volcano Lookout Point

Daria Modzelewska

Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk , Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

Moonwalk – volcano lookout point

Aleksandra Paszki

Julia Arcyz

Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk , Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

mooneggs

Ruxandra Eftenie

Felix Waldner

Technische Universität München , The Technical University of Munich

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Project-Q

Réka Szvath

Barnabás Rácz-Szabó

Nikolett Szemelveisz

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

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Hungary

AEOLIAN SPLIT

Zsuzsanna Gyetvai

Csilla Kosztya

Krisztián Kiss

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

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Hungary

The Edge

Lorin Wiedemeier

Switzerland

Colours of Hverfjall

Damien Lees

Australia

Triangle

Diana Heutschi

Diana Heutschi Architektur

Switzerland

Outside the Shadow

Benedikt Zeller

Germany

Reflections of Awe

Chen-Hsiang Chao

Taiwan

U confession

Luciana Paranzini

Tatiana Skorduli

Italy

Path of Light

Arthur Vincent

Elliott Bellanger

France

Panopticon

Sebastiano Verga

Marco Brighenti

Italy

VERNDA

Heidi Sukanen

Lotta Häkkänen

Finland

Lookout Tower

Wiktoria Szaratkiewicz

Zuzanna Mitera

Gabriela Pietras

Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny w Szczecinie

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

Pause and breathe

Haun Park

Hyeongyu Choi

South Korea

Hverfjall lookoutpoint - framed landscapes

Mads Bryld sørensen

Viktor Forchhammer Mortensen

Denmark

APERTURE

Paul Haigh

United States

THE EYE

Sybarite Architects, London

United Kingdom

The Knot

Andrew Chard

United Kingdom

In Time

Cheng-Yang Huang

William Chandra

Yu-Hsih Lin

Taiwan

The Fireplace

Yian Yang

Taiwan

Pinnacles

Jacinto Padin

United States

reCONNECT

Harun Sabljaković

Sabina Filipović

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Being Hverfjall

Junhyung Choi

South Korea

APOGEO

Gloria Tombolato

Luca Piazzon

Università Iuav di Venezia IUAV

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

Aluminum Movable Observation Platform

Takehiro Muramatsu

Japan

Grjótský

Brandon Bergem

Jeffrey Garcia

Martin Drozdowski

Canada

Tilda

Ekaterina Starovoytova

LLC “APEX project bureau”

Russian Federation

/ TAKE A BREATH /

Paweł Danielak

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

TOPOS

Farshid Roozitalab

Sadegh Kaveh

Ahmadreza Dehghani

Iran

volcanic senses

Opposite Office

Germany

Hverfjall Arch

Francisco Saraiva

David Matos

Portugal