Introduction
Buildner is excited to announce the results of its Museum of Emotions Competition!
The event tasked participants with exploring the extent to which architecture can be used as a tool to evoke emotion. The brief called for the design of a museum comprising two exhibition halls: one designed to induce negative emotions; the other designed to induce positive emotions. Participants were free to choose any site, real or imaginary, as well as choose the scale of the project. The definition of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ emotions was also up for interpretation: whether fear, anger, anxiety, love, happiness, how might a designer define or conceive a corresponding space?
The Museum of Emotions is among Buildner' silent competitions, in which participants must communicate ideas using imagery void of text in any form: titles, captions, words rendered within visuals, even annotations related to scale or cardinal directions, were all off-limits’
Buildner worked with a strong international jury panel: Martin Beverfjord is co-founder of Oslo-based Rever & Drage; Tommaso Calistri is a Senior Architect at Dubai-based Killa Design where he has worked on projects including the recently-opened Museum of the Future; Nina Freedman is the Principal of Dreamland Creative Projects and host of WHEREING, a Podcast about Belonging, Space and Design; James Krueger is a Design Principal with HMC Architects in San Diego; Sebastian Letz is a Partner at Milla & Partner, in Germany, whose work combines architecture, design, communication and media to create integrative scenographies and spatial experiences; Nuno Pimenta runs a transdisciplinary practice in Porto, with a portfolio that spans temporary architecture, installation, public art, exhibition design and performance; Angelo Renna is an architect with a focus on in multi-species narratives; and Sean Shen is a lead architect at Shanghai-based ZJJZ Atelier.
Buildner and its jury panel thank each participant for submitting to this event, which received outstanding entries from around the globe!
We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise
Nina Freedman
DREAMLAND CREATIVE PROJECTS (DCP)
United Kingdom
Tommaso Calistri
UNStudio
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
James Krueger
Design Principal in HMC Architects
USA
Martin Beverfjord
Co-founder of Oslo-based Rever & Drage
Norway
Angelo Renna
Architect
Italy
Sebastian Letz
Partner at Milla & Partner
Germany
Nuno Pimenta
NUNO PIMENTA
Portugal
Sean Shen
architect at ZJJZ Atelier
China
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1st Prize Winner
REFRACTION
For years, competitions have been such helpful platforms for us to develop our design approach. We have been awarded various prizes in national and international competitions, and our winning proposal for a Cemevi competition (Beylikduzu Cemevi) was constructed in 2020 and won the 18th National Architecture Prize of Turkey. In fact, democratic settings provided by competitions enable any designer to receive award regardless his/her background. We believe that an architect always has something more to learn, and we consider each competition as if it is a new studio environment to learn from the process of designing, no matter how experienced we are.
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Australia
Jury feedback summary
A sanctuary seemingly ‘floating’ in the sea, one apparently arrives at this destination by boat. A dock forms the entry to a perimeter ring of exterior walkways that float among a series of vertical rectangular gray-clad blocks - some of them solid, the others inhabitable - and connect two larger, enclosed-square exhibition halls. The similar geometries of these larger halls are transformed into varying environments, one fully lit, the other punctured by curated holes of light. The jury writes: “There's a great balance between reality and fiction in this proposal. It seems somehow realizable but at the same time a fictional scenario that combines different emotions due to its interior spaces and location. The deep thought put into this submission is commendable. Not only are the two emotional areas depicted, but a strong significance is given to the experience of transition between the two - a sense of contemplation and desolation. One figure chooses to navigate and explore, the other sits still. One wonders how this island arrived here and how one can access it. If one is on this island, does one ever leave?”
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2nd Prize Winner +
ARCHHIVE STUDENT AWARD
ARCHHIVE STUDENT AWARD
Hemispheres_Museum_of_Emotions
The participation in this architecture competition was a part of a university project.
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Jury feedback summary
In what looks to be an abandoned industrial warehouse, two circular exhibition hall enclosures are ‘hung’ within the skeleton of a cavernous and lofty space. The author plays with light, as well as its absence. The two contrasting halls function like yin and yang, and within these two nearly identical halls a visitor is either a) compressed by the space or b) mounted on a hill and completely open to the surroundings. The author plays with the architectonics of solid spheres to induce sensation via compression and openness. The jury writes: “Care was taken in the creation of the overall model and how the creator crafted images to tell the story in a clear and compelling way. The project makes great use of the location’s volume by inserting additional volumes within it that do not compete with the main space. Less space on the panel could have been used to describe the location while showing a plan of the project could have been more beneficial. The final spaces - light and dark - could be visualized more strongly, or provided additional detail to induce a stronger emotion.”
3rd Prize Winner
The Circle
It became a fun and educational extracurricular activity ever since my student days when I, with a group of colleagues, entered our first big competition and won the third prize.
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Sweden
Jury feedback summary
This proposal is for a ring-shaped path that fluctuates in height to encapsulate a voyager through different dream-like scenographies. These moments vary from a chilling scene of black and white which appears to magnify figures on the opposite side of a translucent wall, as if phantoms, to another, more fantastical space filled with light purple spheres and smooth, lava-like orbs. The jury writes: “The waving floor which defines the circulation path creates an experience that varies from the other projects: visitors walk between reality and the virtual. The drawings are attractive and realizable. Even though within a futuristic, and somewhat abstract, tradition, this proposal has clearly strong qualities and convincing spatial experiences.”
AAPPAREL SUSTAINABILITY AWARD
Mutations in Space
Competitions offer a great opportunity to develop new ideas and utopias independently of clients and budgets. You can fully develop yourself and your ideas and have a great platform to share and spread them.
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Shortlisted projects
Cyclical metropolis chaos
Mueseum of Emotions - The Sounds of Torii
Mutations in Space
Follow The Light
Emotions of Water
Despair and Hope - The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it-John 1-5
On one, Optimistic and Pessimistic
Alexithymia
Ring of A-Tension
Prisms of Emotions
gesture
RISE
Synaisthímata
Open Up
Hemispheres_Museum_of_Emotions
Amid submerged Messina chaos
The Journey of Psyche
EMOVERE
color and material and emotion
The Way
Light and Dark
MOD/ULAR
Babylonian Escalator : Betrayed Nostalgia
Body Tale
Journey of Life
The Influence of Society
Museum of Resonance
Emotional Valley
NOMAD
suscito
hope & disappointment
REFRACTION
planet vinus
The Island
Lithium
Museum of emotions. The choice.
no place for emotions
Inner Child
The Circle
