Architecture Competition Iceland Movie Pavilion Buildner Sustainability prize winners – ASAS arkitektur

We’d like to take the opportunity to introduce you to the Buildner Sustainability Award winners of our "Iceland Movie Pavilion" competition – Ola Spangen, Rikke Sandbugt, Marius Erikstad and Kathinka Magnus from Norway!

Sustainability Award winners from Norway

ASAS is a well-established and independent architecture office founded in 1980 and based in Hamar and Oslo, Norway. The company consist of 20 architects, interior designers, urbanists, graphic designers and administration in a nonhierarchical system with a social profile. We have a strong reputation as a versatile, playful, and tidy architecture office, and are focusing on a healthy working culture. Our mantra is precision at all levels. We always promise ourselves and our clients to deliver solid and innovative projects. We always discuss and agree on why we are doing a project. Thereafter how to do it, and finally what it shall become. A variety in approaches is essential to a successful result. Ideas and concepts are brought to paper by hand as our main working tool. Hand sketching is supplied by testing spatial qualities in physical models before the projects enter the 3D digital world. This gives our team time to investigate the optimal relation between form, space and function, and to choose the correct strategy for sustainability, systems and materials. This is valuable architecture and the purpose of our office.

Brief information about the projects that you/your company have been involved with. For instance, what scale have you focused on/preferred, any significant projects where the company/ individuals have been involved?

Our field of knowledge spans from the in situ furniture to big master plans through 43 years of experience and references. Typical building typologies are museums, health care buildings, housing, schools, kindergartens, town halls and offices, in both private and public sectors. From our more recent portfolio we have received architectural awards and positive publicity due to the sustainable wooden project for student housing at Toneheim, Hamar, a triple bottom line housing project in Lillehammer, and the transformation of an old military bunker to the Pavillion Brekstad, Fosen.

What does architecture mean to you, and what is the role of an architect in your society?

Architecture is still well described as including the three attributes of strength, utility and beauty (Vitruvius). But in a modern world the definition also has to be expanded to include a sustainable framework of profit, people, and the planet. At its roots, architecture exists to create the physical environment in which people live and work, but architecture is also a part of our culture and historical development. It stands as a representation of how we see ourselves, as well as how we see the world. We have a strong passion for space and environments, in the same way we passion people, animals and nature. These add up to our surroundings and we are all highly affected by them. To us architecture means a responsibility for the society. Both functionally, visually, and environmentally. Together with all the other architects out there our task and role is to add value within each projects boundaries. We have to help people make sustainable choices and become more aware of their surroundings for increased life quality.

Why do you participate in architecture competitions?

We participate in competitions in order to work without too strict boundaries, but still within a given task and a set of goals. Competitions allow us to test and stretch rules to achieve a better solution in the context. It is also a dense amount of work to develop an idea and bring it to life. With competent juries evaluating proposals (preferably anonymous), an independent third party can approve of your professional skills. There is also obviously the possibility of winning a project and building it. Should a proposal not win, it can still be used as a reference. Most of all, it is fun.

What advice would you give to individuals who struggle to decide whether it would be beneficial for them to participate in architecture competitions?

Our advice to individuals considering architecture competitions is to read the brief and consider if you have the right tools and bodies. Also consider a work method and presentation style that will not be to risky in terms of available hours and economic consequences. Find an idea and develop it. And believe in it. Most importantly, stop before it is too late. Do not deliver a proposal at all costs. You will learn from all processes, even the one`s you abandoned. Leave one behind, move on to the next one.

 

Open architecture competitions

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project COMPETITION
Sansusī Forest Food Court

Design a sustainable food court structure for the heart of a classical music festival

Prize: MONETARY AWARD + CONSTRUCTION
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

registration deadlines

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Feb 08
Apr 06
ideas COMPETITION
The Home of Shadows

Design a home with no artificial lighting

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

registration deadlines

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Dec 05
Jan 24
Apr 18
project COMPETITION
Portugal Elderly Home

Design a comfortable and accessible home for the elderly in Portugal

Prize: MONETARY AWARD + CONSTRUCTION
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

registration deadlines

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Dec 06
Jan 25
Apr 19
project COMPETITION
Portugal Olive Guest House

Design a guest house and olive oil tasting room located in Portugal

Prize: MONETARY AWARD + CONSTRUCTION
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

registration deadlines

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Dec 08
Jan 27
Apr 21
project COMPETITION
Yoga House in the Bog

Design a yoga guest house located within rich bog wildlife

Prize: MONETARY AWARD + CONSTRUCTION
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

registration deadlines

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Jan 11
Feb 08
Apr 26

Reccuring architecture competitions

ideas COMPETITION
MICROHOME
Small living, huge impact! Edition #6

Design a new concept of small-scale home

Prize: MONETARY AWARD + PUBLICATION IN MAGAZINE
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

registration deadlines

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Feb 16
Apr 18
Jun 16
ideas COMPETITION
Silent contest
For this competition, NO DESCRIPTION TEXT is allowed. The architecture ideas must be communicated strictly with visuals.
Museum of Emotions
Edition #3

Use architecture to create different emotional states

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

registration deadlines

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Mar 17
May 19
Jul 21
ideas COMPETITION
Silent contest
For this competition, NO DESCRIPTION TEXT is allowed. The architecture ideas must be communicated strictly with visuals.
Architectural Visualization Award
Edition #2

Present your best work and submit your favorite architectural visualization

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

registration deadlines

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Mar 23
May 25
Jul 27
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Children's Hospice
Home for the Terminally ill / Edition #2

Design a safe and supportive space for children struggling with a terminal illness

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

registration deadlines

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Dec 06
Feb 08
Apr 06
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Milan Affordable Housing Challenge
Affordable Housing Series #15

Design a concept for affordable housing in Milan

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

registration deadlines

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Dec 07
Jan 26
Apr 20
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Virtual Home
Edition #2

Shape the future of digital living environments

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

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May 02
Jul 04
Sep 06
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Office
Office Design Challenge / Edition #2

Reimagine the workplace of the future, and design the new way of working

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

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Jan 03
Mar 01
May 04
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Portable Reading Rooms
Edition #2

Design a portable reading room that encourages reading in any location

Prize: MONETARY AWARD + SCOLARSHIP
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

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Feb 13
Mar 23
May 15
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Pavilion Of Humanity: First Contact
Edition #2

How would you represent the best that humanity has to offer through architecture?

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

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Mar 27
May 25
Jul 24
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Creativity gym Short term competitions for you to exercise your creativity

T-SHIRT DRAWING COMPETITION
The Architect's T-shirt
Edition #18

Design THE architect's t-shirt!

Prize: 3,000 €
Eligibility: open to all

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Feb 28
Mar 31
Apr 30
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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO COMPETITION
THE BUILDNER'S ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO COMPETITION
Edition #3

Submit your online portfolio!

Prize: 5,000 €
Eligibility: open to all

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Apr 30
May 31
Jun 30
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Competition results

Hong Kong 
Pixel Homes

Hong Kong Pixel Homes

Affordable Housing Series #2
MICROHOME

MICROHOME

Small living, huge impact! Edition #4

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