Mujassam Watan Urban Sculpture Challenge Competition – Tharwa Sea Front Site 3rd Prize Winners – Magdalena Anna Marasik and Bartosz Paweł Haduch

We’d like to take this opportunity to introduce the 3rd prize winners of our Mujassam Watan Urban Sculpture Challenge Competition, Tharwa Sea Front Site – Magdalena Anna Marasik and Bartosz Paweł Haduch from Poland!

Magdalena Anna Marasik and Bartosz Paweł Haduch

Please tell us about your company (when it was founded, where it is based, how many employees, etc) Alternatively, if you do not have a company, please give us some insights on your own professional/academia background.

The name of our practice - NArchitecTURE derived from combining two words: nature and architecture. This correlation and symbiotic connection is crucial to the work of the practice, which incorporates natural materials and processes into architecture. Sustainable development, ecology, recycling, climate or seasonal changes and cycles, light, shade, time - and the impact of the above-mentioned aspects on human life - these are the main issues explored by the group. The practice's interests are also centred on different ways of notation of information: music, image, text etc. Inspirations for particular concepts can be found in various, sometimes contrary sources: from scientific research to intuition, from history to futurology, from botany to behaviorism, from technology to art, from beauty to the ordinary.

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?

NArchitecTURE (Nature + Architecture) is a design and research group which takes on various activities: from urban, landscape, architectural, interior, graphic or industrial design to journalism. The studio's ambition is to create spaces on the border of architecture, art and nature.

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

Architecture is the framework for life. An intriguing moment of every creative act there is this mysterious, difficult to describe and explain the flow process and materialization of thoughts into a concrete record of concept. Sometimes the genesis lies in long, arduous and precise life studies, sometimes a split second, a coincidence and pure intuition. On the one hand, everything that we do in architecture is a struggle with the eternal scheme of the walls, floor and ceiling. On the other hand, it's consistently fascinating to find in it gaps, new paths, solutions and (re)definitions.

Why do you participate in architecture competitions?

We take part in architectural competitions to test our design visions in various geographical and cultural contexts and each time learn something new about the world we live in.

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

It's always worth trying. Both successes and failures in competitions are invaluable learning on which you can build something new.