Foreword

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!

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Museum of 
Emotions
Enter the next competition edition
new
Museum of 
Emotions

Use architecture to create different emotional states

Edition #5 ideas COMPETITION SILENT CONTEST For this competition, NO DESCRIPTION TEXT is allowed. The architecture ideas must be communicated strictly with visuals.

1st Prize Winner

Project name

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.

Read full interview
Authors Demet Dincer, Mehmet metin Polat, Bilge Altug
Country Australia

2nd Prize Winner +
ARCHHIVE STUDENT AWARD

Project name

Hemispheres_Museum_of_Emotions

The participation in this architecture competition was a part of a university project.

Read full interview

3rd Prize Winner

Project name

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.

Read full interview
Author Predrag Vujanovic
Country Sweden

AAPPAREL SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

Project name

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.

Read full interview

Honorable Mentions

Show Honorables Mentions (6 of 6) Hide Honorables Mentions projects
Project name

EMOVERE

Author Eszter bernadett Barna
Country Hungary
Project name

Inner Child

Author Shizuka Watanabe
Country Belgium
Project name

The Island

Authors Daniel Muñoz ramírez, Rocío Rocco Espinoza
Country Chile
Project name

The Journey of Psyche

Author Margaux Loubser
Country South Africa
Project name

Cyclical metropolis chaos

Authors Reno Wang, Kevin Jiang, Genny Bilibashi
Country China
+72 points Buildner University Rankings

Shortlisted projects

Show Shortlisted projects Hide Shortlisted projects

homochromatism

Wenting Gao

Yiyun Miao

China

Cyclical metropolis chaos

Reno Wang

Kevin Jiang

Genny Bilibashi

China

Mueseum of Emotions - The Sounds of Torii

Cameron Desplat

Western Sydney University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Australia

Mutations in Space

Anna Schuler

Sofie Louise Vieth

Hochschule Mainz: University of Applied Sciences, Fachhochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences

+74 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Follow The Light

Felix Zaglauer

Mira Silke Gerhart

Hochschule Mainz: University of Applied Sciences, Fachhochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Emotions of Water

Büsra nida nur Colak

Leonie Ziegner

Hochschule Mainz: University of Applied Sciences, Fachhochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Despair and Hope - The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it-John 1-5

Peter Vatkov

United States

On one, Optimistic and Pessimistic

Zishen Pan

China

Alexithymia

Laura Cañas

Alejandra Zuluaga

Mateo Osorio

Joel Kenny

Emberr

Colombia

Ring of A-Tension

Daniel Leira

United States

Prisms of Emotions

Mia Karim

Elissa Attieh

Imad Haydar

Stephany Abdel massih

Holy Spirit University of Kaslik - Lebanese Maronite Order

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Lebanon

gesture

Annika Broscheit

Carmen Vollert

Hochschule Mainz: University of Applied Sciences, Fachhochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

RISE

Johanna Karl

Sofia Albersromero

Hochschule Mainz: University of Applied Sciences, Fachhochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Synaisthímata

Marlen Lotze

Julia Seppae

Hochschule Mainz: University of Applied Sciences, Fachhochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Open Up

Clara Brosge

Sarah Wolny

Hochschule Mainz: University of Applied Sciences, Fachhochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Hemispheres_Museum_of_Emotions

Christian Dummermuth

Hochschule Mainz: University of Applied Sciences, Fachhochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences

+142 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Amid submerged Messina chaos

Martinho Kutaya

Inês Semedo

José Chitongua

Daniel Pacheco

University of Beira Interior (Universidade Beira Interior)

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Portugal

The Journey of Psyche

Margaux Loubser

South Africa

EMOVERE

Eszter bernadett Barna

Hungary

color and material and emotion

Hong jib Kim

South Korea

The Way

Tatiana Molchanova

Ukraine

Light and Dark

Sophia Liu

David He

Adrian Yu

Canada

MOD/ULAR

Jeong eun An

Eun young Seo

Yu bin Jeon

South Korea

Babylonian Escalator : Betrayed Nostalgia

Eugene Ahn

Hoseung Choi

Moonsung Kim

South Korea

Body Tale

Ivan chi fung Tam

Hong Kong

Journey of Life

Alexandra Knezovičová

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU)

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Slovakia

The Influence of Society

Almuntaha Alsheikhy

Hiba Algumati

Salma Hamdi

Aziza Shohoub

Berenice University Of Architecture And Urbanism

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Libya

Museum of Resonance

Mawada Elzway

Berenice University Of Architecture And Urbanism

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Libya

Emotional Valley

Kuang Haoyuan

Lin Kangyan

Li Yufei

Ning Zifeng

China

NOMAD

Duarte Franco da rosa

Henrique Moreira

Teresinha Almeida Ribeiro

Portugal

suscito

Po-yu Chung

Yu-jun Yeh

United States

hope & disappointment

Ilya Kaygorodov

Elizaveta Manina

Egor Udalov

Uliana Gotovskaya

Moscow Institute of architecture - MARHI , Московский архитектурный институт - МАРХИ

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Russian Federation

REFRACTION

Demet Dincer

Mehmet metin Polat

Bilge Altug

Australia

planet vinus

Aimilia Karapostoli

Evgenios Balasis

Evanthia Dova

Dimitris Giouzepas

Greece

The Island

Daniel Muñoz ramírez

Rocío Rocco Espinoza

Chile

Lithium

Nicolò Capece

Letteria Pittari

Italy

Museum of emotions. The choice.

Valentina Fesenko

Anna Nakhshkaryan

Marina Politova

Anna Neroslova

Hungary

no place for emotions

Mojtaba Hooshangian shiarzi

sina safari

amjad sadri

lida sobhani

United States

Inner Child

Shizuka Watanabe

Belgium

The Circle

Predrag Vujanovic

Sweden