Foreword

Buildner is pleased to announce the results of the Modular Home / Edition #2! 

This competition tasked participants with submitting innovative design proposals for a modular home that can be constructed in any form in any location. Following the success of the first annual Modular Home Design Challenge, this edition expands on Buildner’s Small Scale Architecture Appreciation Movement as well as its Affordable Housing series.

Modular architecture offers versatile solutions for efficient, sustainable spaces and building practices. Repeatable or flexible modules can yield customisable and well-designed solutions to projects without incurring excessive costs. Factory prefabrication, efficient use of materials, reduced transport requirements and ease of site installation all have the potential to reduce the embodied energy of a project.

Buildner worked with an international jury of innovative architects and modular-design specialists that included: Bárbara Bardin, co-Founder of Madrid-based studio Canobardin; Pilar Cano-Lasso, leader of Madrid-based delavegacanolasso; Sarah Broadstock, architect at London-based Studio Bark; Mark Gabbertas of UK-based Gabbertas Studio; Inés Olavarrieta, architect and designer at Madrid-based selgascano.

Buildner and its jury panel would like to thank all the designers that participated in this competition.

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Modular 
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1st Prize Winner

Project name

Everything All on Track

Every architecture competition is an uncharted journey and challenge. Competition help us think in a wider variety of perspectives that we never did before.

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Author Han Kuo
Country Taiwan

2nd Prize Winner +
ARCHHIVE STUDENT AWARD

Project name

Sea Nomads

As juniors in architecture, we hope to use this competition as an opportunity to test and improve our skills, as we will be confronted with a wide variety of participants, and we will be able to see how different participants think about the same theme and design direction, as well as how well the building is finished and expressed in images. Secondly, by participating in the competition we learn to control the progress independently and how to move the project forward in a long timeline to the final submission. Finally, the process of learning how to work with each other and the team members is also extremely important.

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Authors Yutian Liu, Yuwanqing Liu, Shucen Liu, Chao Tang
Country China

3rd Prize Winner +
AAPPAREL SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

Project name

Guayarmina House. In tribute to La Palma

We believe we are still on time to change things by making conscious decisions. So we take architectural competitions as a chance to make a statement, to show and tell our story and share our philosophy. We want to promote our vision of sustainable housing as a manifest for joy, nature, crafts, aesthetics, community and future resilience.

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Country Spain

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

PASTORAL MODULAR

Country United States
Project name

H O III III III E

Project name

Modular Natural - BUILD

Authors Chukang Liang, Zeke Zhang, Wanyue Peng
Country China
Project name

all 4 one

Authors Beom Seok Ko, Joo Hye Lim, Shiwon Kim, Eun A Jeong
Country South Korea
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

Wooden Heart

Authors Nasim Mollazadeh Sorkhabi, Seyedmohammadali Banihashemiveijouyeh, Nasim Hossein Nedjad, Negin Shokry
Country Turkey
Project name

Bambology

Shortlisted projects

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WOODEN IMPLUVIUM

Angela Cuman

Emma Battistin

Laura Palazzi

Maja Peirano

University of Trento / Università degli Studi di Trento

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

Puzzle home

Mahsa Abdkarimi

Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism - Tabriz Islamic Art University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United Kingdom

AQUA CAPSULE

Huanyu Kuang

United States

Aristophánēs

Tiziano Dallaporta

Sofia Barina

Tommaso Depedri

Domenico Silvestri

University of Trento / Università degli Studi di Trento

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

Marble Quarry Housing

Ovidiu-alexandru Dobre

Ioana bianca Voican

Sebastian alexandru Boldea

Roberta maria Teodorescu

Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism - UAUIM

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Romania

MODULE LIFE STYLE

Maciej Szczepanski

TAMILA KRAMAR

DAMIAN ZABŁOCKI

WERONIKA PIOTROWSKA

Urgeos Sp. z o.o.

Poland

Made same, but different.

Natalia Maslennikova

Alecsandra Trofin

Portugal

Buy-Build-Adapt

Eben Wagner

André Eksteen

Magdalena Cilliers

Earthworld Architects

South Africa

Bambology

Xuanyin Lin

Kewei Xu

Jiayu Su

Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Manual for the Modular Home

Adam mark Fiegler

Spain

Mikado "The Wooden Gate"

Aniko Hegedus

Timea Banki-Farkas

Germany

Postwood

Nipit Rojratsirikul

Krittapon Yadjun

Chayanon Rojsuporn

Nontachai Boonmacharoen

Thailand

Everything All on Track

Han Kuo

Taiwan

Collective Viable

Gerald Low

The University of Melbourne

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Australia

Guayarmina House. In tribute to La Palma

Dana Liepinsh

Lorena del Moral Navero

Spain

Modular Vernacular

Jackson Gaylord

United States

Modular Natural - BUILD

Chukang Liang

Zeke Zhang

Wanyue Peng

China

A Modular Community for Seasonal Migrant Farm Workers

Ian Caine

Gabriel Díaz montemayor

Trent Tunks

Joe Valadez

United States

Sustainable Living

Lupascu Catalina

Stroia Andreea

Marinescu Ionut alexandru

Domnica Razvan-constantin

Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism - UAUIM

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Romania

Modular Home - Transitional Refugee Housing

Monika Mitic

Yara Ragab

Canada

Honey, I'm home!

Silvia-nicoleta Musat

Andrei Fofirca

Paula Manole

Andrei Manolache

Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism - UAUIM

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Romania

HOLIDAY HOME

Luiza Nitu

Lucia Abdulea

Silvia Vasiliu

Iulia Oprișan

Universitatea de Arhitectură și Urbanism "Ion Mincu"

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Romania

Fushi House

Răzvan Rusu

Răzvan Mureșan

Emanuela-iuliana Dîrleci

Reem Mozrani

Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism - UAUIM

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Romania

RETREAT HOME

Dumitru Ana

Raluca Negoescu

Ruxandra Chirca

Oana Gavrila

Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism - UAUIM

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Romania

Life House

Nicolae Busca

Raluca Risnoveanu

Sabina Sabotnicu

Andreea Pribeanu

Universitatea de Arhitectura si Urbanism "Ion Mincu", Bucuresti

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Romania

Modular Collective Housing: The Neighborhood & Housociety

Meixi Xu

United States

1x1

Ying Gao

Sandee Deogaygay

Apinya Sangrugee

Cal Poly Pomona, California State Polytechnic University Pomona

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Micro Climate Home

Eduard Ene

David Gruber

Caleb Young

Ronald Kamwa

Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University (RGU)

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United Kingdom

Wooden Modular Houses

Boguslaw Barnas

Poland

CONNECTOR HOUSES

Kerem Yazgan

Begum Yazgan

Aylin Kose

Recep Selim Yarbasi

Yazgan Design Architecture

Turkey

Modular Living: D.I.Y

Rutuja Atre

Fahmida Ahmed

Canada

Collapsible House

Ka hei Wu

Lok yin Yim

Ka yee Li

Hong Kong

Wooden Heart

Nasim Mollazadeh Sorkhabi

Seyedmohammadali Banihashemiveijouyeh

Nasim Hossein Nedjad

Negin Shokry

Turkey

all 4 one

Beom Seok Ko

Joo Hye Lim

Shiwon Kim

Eun A Jeong

South Korea

Ranger Cabins - Protect Our National Parks

Hiroki Mishima

Quentin Puiseux

United States

Adjustable Cardboard Home

Jerzy Łątka

Dominika Jezierska

Agata Jasiołek

Jagoda Gromek

Poland

H O III III III E

Juan Cruz Catania

Agustina Verdura

Tomas Kranevitter

Manuel Pastoriza

Argentina

DANDELION

Andy Au

Luoyi Chen

Australia

Sea Nomads

Yutian Liu

Yuwanqing Liu

Shucen Liu

Chao Tang

China