Modular Home / Edition No 2 Jury Panel

Buildner is pleased to announce the jury for its Modular Home / Edition No 2!

Bárbara Bardin, Canobardin
Sarah Broadstock, Studio Bark
Pilar Cano-Lasso, delavegacanolasso and tini project
Mark Gabbertas, Gabbertas Studio
Enrico De Lotto, Mandalaki
George Kolliopoulos, Mandalaki
Inés Olavarrieta, selgascano
Julien De Smedt, JDS Architects
Ewelina Woźniak-Szpakiewicz, DMDmodular Ltd

Bárbara Bardin is co-Founder of Madrid-based studio Canobardin along with Julio Cano in 2017. She has collaborated with several studios such as Selgascano, Irisarri Piñera, Ezquiaga, and Iñaki Carnicero. With Selgascano she was involved in projects such as the TN Building in Stockholm, the Serpentine Pavilion, Secondhome offices, and the Martell pavilion. Canobardin has specialized on singular designs based on strong concepts that achieve both functionality and design in which the site and the environment are always a breaking point of the project.

Sarah Broadstock is an architect at London-based Studio Bark. Her passion for hand-drawing is central to her design process, complimenting the team’s creativity methodology. Prior to working at Studio Bark, Sarah worked with local authorities and community groups across Yorkshire. This provided a valuable framework for understanding planning processes, policy and the complexities of delivering high quality spaces. Sarah completed a postgraduate degree in Professional Practice in Architecture in 2019, and is now a studio tutor at the University of East London.

Pilar Cano-Lasso leads, with Ignacio de la Vega, Madrid-based delavegacanolasso. The studio focused on tailor-made projects, with sustainable and welcoming designs, highlighting the integration of light and the nature of the environment. Specialized in prefabricated architecture, delavegacanolasso has developed the tini project, modular homes made 100% in Spain transported directly by truck. They believe that the conjunction of the in-situ work and its noble aging combined with parts totally prefabricated in the workshop, results in a rich and agile architecture, which adapts perfectly to its surroundings and improves over time. They’ve won several international architecture awards including the “Young European Architects” in 2021.  Their work has been exhibited in la biennale di Venezia and the “Bienal española de Arquitectura” among others.

Mark Gabbertas was born in Yorkshire in 1962 and came to the world of furniture design in a circuitous way having started his working life in advertising before changing career path to train as a cabinet maker. Apprenticed to Codrington Furniture and then with Stemmer and Sharp in the acclaimed Oblique Workshops in Hackney, it was Hackney he chose to found his own design/making studio in 1994. In 2001, he established the Gabbertas Studio in West London to focus on furniture design, before moving the main studio to the Oxfordshire countryside in 2016 and opening a further office in Milan. The Studio’s guiding proposition centres on the creation of character through simplicity. The Studio is known for its rigorous pursuit of solutions that have both a functional integrity and an enduring aesthetic in the belief that it is all too easy to shock, but much more difficult to please.

Enrico De Lotto and George Kolliopoulos are co-founders of Mandalaki, a product and consulting design firm founded in 2012 in Milan, Italy. Mandalaki explores the intersection between design and technology to create unique pieces of high quality and conceptual values as a result of their consistent innovative approach between industrial and artisanal processes. In 2018 Mandalaki designed Monocabin Prefab, a tiny house, to explore the intimate space of the individual.

Inés Olavarrieta is an architect and designer at Madrid-based selgascano. She graduated with a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid in 2014, with honors. Her final thesis project, a finalist of Archiprix 2015, was widely published. In 2013, she worked at the exhibition Spain Mon Amour in the Biennale di Architectura in Venice. Inés has worked in London, Paris, Lisbon and Madrid. She was a collaborator at FRPO’s studio between 2011 and 2014. Since 2014, she has been a team member at selgascano in Madrid where she works on projects ranging in scale from large developments to interiors, including the Serpentine Pavilion (2015), Second Home Offices in Hollywood (2019) and the Design District Market (2020). Her work has focused mainly on reactivating spaces that are considered to be residual or forgotten. She understands architecture and design as a halfway between beauty and functionality, minimalism and chaos.

Julien De Smedt is the founder and director of JDS Architects based in Copenhagen and Brussels. An architect and designer whose work  is internationally spread, Julien’s commitment to the exploration of  new architectural models and programs has helped re-energize the  contemporary architecture discussion. Seminal projects include the VM Housing Complex, the Mountain  Dwellings, Lille’s Maison Stéphane Hessel, the Iceberg, Kalvebod Waves  and the Holmenkollen Ski Jump. Born in Brussels to French art enthusiast Jacques Léobold and Belgian  artist Claude De Smedt, Julien attended schools in Brussels, Paris, and  Los Angeles before receiving his diploma from the Bartlett School of  Architecture in London. Prior to founding JDS Architects, Julien worked with Rem Koolhaas in  Rotterdam, and co-founded the architecture firm PLOT with Bjarke Ingels  in Copenhagen.

In 2013 he co-founded with William Ravn the agenda driven design label Makers With Agendas, addressing matters of society to  create meaningful products. Julien has been a guest lecturer in numerous venues worldwide and  a visiting professor at Copenhagen’s Art Academy, Rice University in  Houston, Texas, the University of Kentucky, MIT in Cambridge, USA, and  at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. His work is published  and exhibited internationally. He published the monograph PIXL to XL and released 2 influential books:  Agenda, Can We Sustain our Ability to Crisis? and Built Unbuilt. Among other awards and recognition, Julien received the Henning  Larsen Prize in 2003 and the Eckersberg medal in 2005, the Maaskant  Award in 2009 and the Prix Dejean in 2014 from the French Academy of  Architecture. In 2004 the Stavanger Concert Hall received the Golden Lion as the  World’s Best Concert Hall at the Venice Biennale, the Maritime youth  House won the AR+D award in London and was nominated for the Mies  van der Rohe award. The Mountain received the World Architecture  Festival Award and MIPIM Award in 2009, while the Iceberg received the latter in 2013 along with the Architizer A+ Award and the Best Building Award in 2015 from Archdaily. More recently Maison Stéphane Hessel was among  the best Hotels at the 2016 MIPIM Awards and the Hangzhou Gateway  was a 2017 Architizer A+ finalist. In 2019 The Holmenkollen Ski Jump  received the Houen Foundation Award, Norway’s most important award for architecture.

Ewelina Woźniak-Szpakiewicz is the Chief Executive Officer at DMDmodular Ltd based in Poland, a company which offers unique volumetric modular solutions with focus on the housing and hospitality industries to international markets including European countries and the United States. Notable recent accomplishments are a dormitory building in Sion (Switzerland), AC Hotel by Marriott in New York as well as a set of the houses to recreational parks in the Netherlands. Ewelina is honored to be Vice-Chairman of the European Council of Modular Building Institute (MBI). With a PhD in Technical Sciences, she is part of the Faculty of Architecture at Cracow University of Technology (Poland) while also collaborating at numerous universities in England, Italy, Germany and China. Her main focus is attaining sustainability and efficiency both in the ecological and financial aspects of the built-environment with the key focus on modular construction. In 2019, Dr. Ewelina Woźniak-Szpakiewicz received an award - the “Person of the year 2019” in the category “Technology Company” by 4 Buildings Awards.

The second annual Modular Home architecture competition is part of Buildner’ Small Scale Architecture Appreciation Movement showcasing small projects that contain big ideas, as well as its Affordable Housing series with ARCHHIVE BOOKS, for rethinking the way we build our homes and cities.