Introduction

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
MICROHOME

Bee Breeders presents its inaugural MICROHOME architectural design competition. This competition is the first chapter of our Small Scale Architecture Appreciation Movement, which will highlight small projects from around the world that offer big ideas.

What is a MICROHOME?

As the affordable housing crisis expands to a larger number of cities around the globe, and as natural resources dwindle, we are looking for easy-to-replicate ideas for living small. Participants were asked to submit designs for an off-grid, modular structure that could accommodate a hypothetical young professional couple.

The only requirement of the brief was to design a living structure with a total floor area of maximum 25sqm. Unique aesthetics, new technologies and innovative materials were encouraged. With this competition and others, Bee Breeders looks to build a library of small-scale design ideas that have the potential to change the world.

Can the MICROHOME become entirely new form of architecture?

Jury members found the range of submissions for the 2019 MICROHOME competition promising. Modular homes, floating homes, homes within existing structures, prefabricated homes, shared homes, flying homes, homes that produced their own energy...all of these ideas and more were presented. Entries focused on solutions targeted to cities in Vietnam, Indonesia, Canada, the UK, the USA, Mexico, Japan, and many more. The winning submissions were all innately hopeful in nature, offering sustainable, small housing solutions with many possibilities for use and implementation.

Bee Breeders thanks all of the designers who submitted ideas to this competition, which was truly global. In partnership with ARCHHIVE BOOKS, we look forward to presenting some of these ideas and more in the upcoming print book, What is Small Scale Architecture? planned for publication in the spring of 2020.

Enter the next competition edition
MICROHOME

Design a new concept small-scale home and compete for €100,000 prize in the second Kingspan-Buildner competition

Kingspan Edition 2024/2025 ideas COMPETITION

1st Prize Winner

Project name

Shifting Nests

Participating in architecture competitions is a way for us to take a step back from our day-to-day work and experiment with different ideas on design challenges that we may not otherwise come across. The process of working on a competition is rigorous and demanding, and helps us to keep an open mind, aiding our design and critical-thinking skills as they apply to real world projects.

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Authors
Jerry Liu
Jesse Basran
Country
Canada

2nd Prize Winner +
BB STUDENT AWARD

Project name

MIKADO/ MICRO HOME19

We believe that participation in architecture vision competitions can create many great opportunities, especially for students. The basic and fair answer stands behind our personalities and is linked with our passion about architecture and the chance to challenge yourself. Architectural competitions are a great chance to improve many of your skills, to widen your knowledge and express your creativity. You can also learn how to work as part of a team and how to use your unique qualities to complete one project.

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Authors
Bilyana Apostolova
Slavena Todorova
Country
Bulgaria
+144 points Buildner University Rankings

3rd Prize Winner

Project name

COMPACT HOUSE

I participate in architecture vision competitions mainly to challenge myself. I see it as a tool for learning and an opportunity to be creative and experiment with new ideas. Architecture vision competitions offer a freedom of expression that is otherwise restricted when you work for an office or a client.

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Author
Raina Kanari
Country
Sweden

BB GREEN AWARD

Project name

Tiny Home - Big Impact

I participate in competitions because they offer the possibility to design with new and innovative forms of architecture. They also push you to think outside of the box and do research into how you can make your vision possible. Competitions also give you the opportunity to design spaces that can be different from what you usually design.

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University
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Author
Eric Weber
Country
United States
+72 points Buildner University Rankings

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

Mekong Delta "Thuyen Nha" Microhousing

Authors
John Perez
Bradley Kreuger
Country
United States
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

Pioneer Living

University
Authors
Brendan Cooney
Parto Jahangiri
Minh Quang Do
Arvin Nadimi
Country
Sweden
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

Suber House

Authors
Jolanda Devalle
Alison Zuccaro
Country
United States
Project name

Niu Haus

Authors
Michael Salka
Julianna Carmona
Elisabet Fabrega
Kevin Matar
Country
Spain
Project name

MOVING BOXES

Author
Davor Robitschko
Country
Hungary
Project name

Omah Guyub

Authors
Garry Novianto
Rudy Hermanto
Country
Indonesia

Shortlisted projects

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Suber House

Jolanda Devalle
Alison Zuccaro
United States

Niu Haus

Michael Salka
Julianna Carmona
Elisabet Fabrega
Kevin Matar
Spain

COMPACT HOUSE

Raina Kanari
Sweden

Lifted Living

Jeffrey Lam
Douglas Leung
Hong Kong

PROMETHEUS - PRO MEET HOUSE

Braunundbraun Braun
Pattanun Thongsuk
Giorgi Chinchaladze
Germany

From Road to Community

Nick Husband
Matt Jones
United Kingdom

B32

Jose manuel Castillo garcía
Maria de fatima Mérida loy
Carlos estuardo Velasquez zacarias

Universidad Rafael Landívar

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Guatemala

STACKABLE HOME

Juan Garcia
Valentina Herrera
Colombia

Habitat 2

Natasa Andrei
Carmen Ivan
Raluca Popp
Alexandru Ivanciu

MOKA STUDIO DESIGN

Romania

HAVEN

Linnéa Olsson
Martin Blivik
Jihyun Lee
Zhihao Han
Sweden

Pioneer Living

Brendan Cooney
Parto Jahangiri
Minh Quang Do
Arvin Nadimi
Sweden

SpaceShare

Nicholas Hartman
Felix Dokonal
Victoria Restrepo Giraldo
Nina Allberg
Sweden

Legal Squatting - temporary living

Anna Ridder
Valentina Rapuano
Óli geir Kristjánsson
Tyra Blichfeldt
Sweden

Waste Invaders

Therese Skevik
Katarzyna Starczewska
Hana Shibu
Erik Odqvist
Sweden

Mekong Delta "Thuyen Nha" Microhousing

John Perez
Bradley Kreuger

University of Southern California

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

CASA HASI

Paulina Gonzalez

HUMAA STUDIO

Mexico

Round and Round

Amyra Marlia
Safira Salsabila
Dinullah Ibrahim
Indonesia

BACKSTAGE

Simone Zanini
Roberto Faccin
Luca Soldati
Carlo andrea Vescovi
Italy

The Metabolist

Jing xi Foo
Bryan jia en Lee
Abbrielle Loh
Ernest Tock
Singapore

R.O.C. VILLE

Seunghyeon Lee
Tan Wang
South Korea

CHCR Microhome

Lj Porter
Brandon Sanchez
Sakia Harrison
Alex Sanchez

PorterFanna Architecture

United States

MICABIN - HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS

Shefali Balwani
Stuti Murarka
Anton Henrard
Robert Verrijt

Architecture BRIO

India

RUMAH BARU

Kaiwen Zhao
Malcolm Galang
Yangwei Gao
Xuefeng Du

Yale School of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

The Vertex

Connor Pilling
Valerio Stuart
Jack Hutton
Daniel Warren
United Kingdom

MicroDuplex

Iván martín Flores urista

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Mexico

Tiny Home - Big Impact

Eric Weber

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Gamer Life

Jennifer Emmert

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Kinetic Bud

Somesh Tripathi

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Inflatable House

Evan z.d. Liu
Canada

Wilson Gonzalez
Sebastián Figueroa
Nicolás Jara

Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Chile

MICROHOME CITY

Leoni Uskuri
Ryan Theobald
Oguz Uskuri
United Kingdom

Small Scale Connection

Jacques Steyn
South Africa

MIKADO/ MICRO HOME19

Bilyana Apostolova
Slavena Todorova

University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy

+144 points Buildner University Rankings!
Bulgaria

Petalink Microhome

Kai yi Wong
Li mei Tan
Vicky wei kee Lee
Yi Shu

The University of Sheffield

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Malaysia

Portahome

Bassel Omara
Egypt

Firehouse

Claire Vervaart
David Male
Stephen Geason

Makano Pty Ltd

Australia

Coastal Micro

Michael Holmquist
Kurt Stavdal
Zach Martins
Natalie Clark
United States

NOT IN MY BACKYARD

Kim Aleksandrowicz
Dion Srkulj
Holly Zhang
Sophie Sisko

WMK Architecture

Australia

Floating Micropolis

Maria Konstantopoulou
Mabel Parsons

The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United Kingdom

Plane B

Ezio Damonte
Giovanni Gradi
Gemma Santoro
Marco Di Mauro
Italy

fulufjället hut

Ed Green
United Kingdom

LUME

Nacho Mauricio
Diana Yambao
Charles Dela cruz

ArkiAsia

Philippines

Shifting Nests

Jerry Liu
Jesse Basran
Canada

S/ash Living

Kwan yiu Tam

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Hong Kong

Contextual Appropriation

Alex Tahinos
United States

AFRICAN SAHARA MICRO HOME

Samer El sayary
Ahmad Halabi
Maha Ftouni
Egypt

OUMUAMUA MICROHOME

Hector Bellorin
Ivano Aspesi
Venezuela

DROBEE

Christopher Lenehan
United Kingdom

PROGRESSIVE MODULATION MICROHOUSING SYSTEM

Javier ariel Barba romero
Helmut oliverio Martes carrillo
Chile

Sunseeker

Ridvan Kahraman
James Hayward
Sacha Cutajar
Germany

Billboard house

Davit Botchorishvili

Tbilisi state academy of arts

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Georgia

The O-Home

Alexey Umarov
Russian Federation

Omah Guyub

Garry Novianto
Rudy Hermanto
Indonesia

A-HAUS: Post disaster self-sufficient living system

Cassandra sari Damayanti
Rendy aditya Wachid
Dani Hermawan

Rawhaus

Indonesia

MicroCapsule

Vivian Wong
Hong Kong

MOVING BOXES

Davor Robitschko
Hungary

Amphibious Home

Melissa Banda
Zerik Kendrick
United States

LOCO

Agathe Licciardi
Louise Valladier
Emilie Mouchel
France

Noah grunberg Grunberg

Noble Home, LLC

United States

The Kit

Graham Oakley
United States

Flexible Duo

Ahmed maher Rashid
Mohammed abbood Gatea
Iraq

Hideaway

Nicola Luppino
Matteo Brero
Narcis constantin Oprea
Daniel stiven Pepe galindo
Italy

Microhome : A Peaceful Sustainable Shelter to Get Away

Sepideh Bazrafshan
Masoud Mirzahoseini
Iran

brevis

Thomas Gössler
Austria

Alt-Shift

Gary Lee
Helen Ko
Adam Schiffmacher
United States

'time to go home' // the diaspora to nature

Francisca Mejia
Sofia Gomez
Hsuan-jen Hou
Philippines