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Memorial for 
Witches

Buildner is pleased to announce the results of its first annual Memorial for Witches International Competition!

The persecution of women perceived to be witches took place throughout Europe and America over several hundred years. Women who were classed as witches because of their non-Christian practices were tortured and killed from as early as the mid-1400s in Europe. Roughly 80,000 were put to death between 1500 and 1660.

The Memorial for Witches competition is the first in an annual series seeking to remind the public of the ways in which society once dealt with irrational fears. Participants were asked to choose any injustice that is either currently ongoing or an issue from the past and select any site, real or imaginary, that would be an appropriate location for a theoretical memorial structure. Submitted designs could function as a source of education about past events, or a method of raising awareness of ongoing injustices.

Buildner worked with an excellent international jury panel whose members are experienced either as designers with completed memorial work, or as academics with backgrounds related directly to the topic at hand: Rachel Christ-Doane is the Director of Education at the Salem Witch Museum: Bartosz Haduch is an architect, academic teacher, and publicist who runs run the interdisciplinary collective NArchitekTURA, based in Poland; Sebastian Letz is a Partner and Creative Director at Milla & Partner, in Germany; Katie MacDonald is Cofounder of After Architecture and Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia; Paul Monaghan is Director at AHMM in London; Hans Olof Furberg is Head of Culture and Education in the county council of Västernorrland and development manager of the Witch Museum in Torsåker Sweden; Elke Sterling-Presser and Nicolas Sterling are Co-founders and Directors of Sterling Presser Architects and Engineers in Berlin; and David Telerman is founder of Paris-based studio Atelier David Telerman.

Buildner and its jury panel thank each of the participating individuals and teams that submitted ideas and proposals to this event.

We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise

Richard B. Trask

Danvers Archival Center

USA

Rachel Christ-Doane

Salem Witch Museum

USA

Carola Enrich

Townshend Landscape Architects

United Kingdom

Katie MacDonald

Co-founder of After Architecture

USA

Bartosz Haduch

NArchitekTURA

Poland

David Telerman

Founder of studio Atelier David Telerman

France

Paul Monaghan

Executive director and Head of Design Studio AHMM

United Kingdom

Nicolas Sterling

Co Founder and Director, Sterling Presser Architects and Engineers

Germany

Elke Sterling-Presser

Co Founder and Director, Sterling Presser Architects and Engineers

Germany

Sebastian Letz

Partner at Milla & Partner

Germany

Hans Olof Furberg

Head of Culture and Education in the county council of Västernorrland and development manager of the Witch Museum

Sweden

1st Prize Winner

Project name

The Weightless Being

Joining architecture competitions let us jump out of daily practice once a while and the process of brainstorming really provided us more inspiration and insights. Also, it made us pay more attention to the society around us and expanded the scope of architecture itself.

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Authors
Xiaodan Zhou
Chuhong Yin
Country
United States
  • 10/10 Linework
  • 10/10 Quality of drawings
  • 10/10 Balance of color
  • 10/10 Layout
  • 10/10 Hierarchy
  • 8/10 Annotation
  • 9/10 Text
  • 10/10 Clarity of story
  • 10/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 10/10 Quality of overall presentation

2nd Prize Winner

Project name

Barefoot under the Weight of Injustice

You are given the chance to challenge yourself to the maximum, to refine and sharpen your skills, from the birth of the idea to the most expressive and honest way of transmitting it.

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Author
Maria Tîlvescu-Nicula
Country
Romania
  • 9/10 Linework
  • 10/10 Quality of drawings
  • 10/10 Balance of color
  • 9/10 Layout
  • 9/10 Hierarchy
  • 8/10 Annotation
  • 7/10 Text
  • 9/10 Clarity of story
  • 9/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 9/10 Quality of overall presentation

3rd Prize Winner +
Buildner Student Award

Project name

dialogue

We love to explore the world of architecture through unique themes. Especially in this competition, for us, the brief of Memorial for Witches is very interesting. This competition encourages us to build a strong idea about injustice uniquely. We did several discussions to find a connection between injustice in the past-present- and how our final product will be able to give a meaningful impact in the future.

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Authors
Annasya Koesty Fadhillah
Muhammad Rafli
Gina Khairunnisa
Country
Indonesia
+122 points Buildner University Rankings
  • 8/10 Linework
  • 8/10 Quality of drawings
  • 9/10 Balance of color
  • 8/10 Layout
  • 9/10 Hierarchy
  • 9/10 Annotation
  • 9/10 Text
  • 10/10 Clarity of story
  • 10/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 9/10 Quality of overall presentation

Buildner Sustainability Award

Project name

THE REITERATION OF JUSTICE

Architect is a thinker; we should use our knowledge from what we learned to share the ideas to the society. And Buildner gives us an opportunity to do so.

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Authors
Roman Tay
Weixuan Wang
Country
United Kingdom
  • 10/10 Linework
  • 10/10 Quality of drawings
  • 10/10 Balance of color
  • 8/10 Layout
  • 9/10 Hierarchy
  • 8/10 Annotation
  • 7/10 Text
  • 8/10 Clarity of story
  • 8/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 9/10 Quality of overall presentation

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

A LAMENT / A MONUMENT

Authors
Kenan Pence
Deniz Calisir Pence
Country
Turkey
Project name

The Spell of Polesie

Authors
Agata Mrozowski
Nadia Chan
Madison Appleby
Country
Canada
Project name

MEMORIAL FOR UYGHURS

Project name

The House of 19 Gables

Author
Nima Shariat Zamanpour
Country
United States
Project name

The Reclamation - A Cultural Infrastructure

Authors
Paolo Kirsten
Gemma Annear
Country
Belgium
Project name

House for the dead

Author
Olga Skrbenska
Country
Poland

Shortlisted projects

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Katyn Memorial

Victor Martiniuc
Romania

HAIN

Martin Seguel
Benjamín Lira

The Adolfo Ibáñez University - Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Chile

Beyond Dogma

Laila Salama

The Knowledge Hub Universities, Coventry University Branch in Egypt

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Egypt

Unattainable Garden

William Kirsch
Keenan Bellisari
United States

Wiccan Estates

Ariane Harrison
Yuxiang Chen
Wei Lin
Carlos Gerardino
United States

House for the dead

Olga Skrbenska
Poland

The Reclamation - A Cultural Infrastructure

Paolo Kirsten
Gemma Annear
Belgium

Ascension

Nada Hussein
Sara Bokr
United Arab Emirates

Barefoot under the Weight of Injustice

Maria Tîlvescu-Nicula
Romania

The Spell of Polesie

Agata Mrozowski
Nadia Chan
Madison Appleby
Canada

Memorial for the Exiled City : Euljiro Atlantis

Kyung min Choi
South Korea

KANTO MASSACRE MEMORIAL

Jaeseok Jeong
Sang-yeop Lee
Yonggyu Kim
South Korea

The mirror

Jair neftalí Guzmán ibarra
Zurisadai Mercado barrera
Valeria Palacios trabamala
Emilio eduardo Padilla villanueva

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Mexico

Return of Soul

Lu Ming
Fulin Liu
China

A LAMENT / A MONUMENT

Kenan Pence
Deniz Calisir Pence
Turkey

THE REITERATION OF JUSTICE

Roman Tay
Weixuan Wang
United Kingdom

TRIBUTE TO THE THIRD DIVISION

Burtea Alexandra-elena

Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism - UAUIM

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Romania

dialogue

Annasya Koesty Fadhillah
Muhammad Rafli
Gina Khairunnisa
Indonesia

MEMORIAL FOR UYGHURS

Young Yoon Choi

Kaywon University of Art & Design

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
South Korea

Home, Away

Georgia Temush
Tim Schmidt
Bennet Harvey
Canada

Yupei Boxes

Emma Heuertz

University of New Mexico

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

MEMORIAL OF COMFORT WOMEN

Yoon hae Choi
Jin gyung Choi
South Korea

RED THREAD

Andrea Battistoni
Anissa Le scornet
United States

Calamity in Complicity

Kene Okigbo
Sara Poetting
United States

Sowing Misfits

Mohamed Emara

Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Egypt

PATH OF PAIN AND HOPE

Mustafa Gaber
Zohear Abughalyuon
Egypt

THE WITCHES' WELL

Younghyun Ahn
Youngseo Kim
South Korea

Sand Pail

Florent Goy
Tarik Elmansouri
Anna Marin
Yann Mazimann
France

The forgotten women sanctuary

Josselin Bourin
Belgium

THE PINK TETRAHEDRON: A MEMORIAL FOR THE LGBTQIA+

Teo Nicolas
Tom Coutant
France

FOLD

Haoyang Li
Qiyao Chen

Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

The House of 19 Gables

Nima Shariat Zamanpour
United States

Memorial de la Civilisation

Arthur Vincent
Elliott Bellanger

ENSA , École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
France

The Weightless Being

Xiaodan Zhou
Chuhong Yin
United States

Burnt Out Matches

Michal lukasz Dabek
Jan Kuka
Poland

REMEMBER

Naren Anandh
Christian Marks
United States

Tied in Embrace

Tayla Clarke
New Zealand

Whispering Copper Memorial

Matias Román basualto
Chile

Project ID 88557

Zhi hau alson Lum
Yi heng Lim

Taylor's Lakeside Campus , Taylor's University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Malaysia

Casting the Circle

Christian Schreinert

PSP Architekten

Germany