Introduction
Buildner is excited to announce the results for the second edition of its Museum of Emotions / Edition #2 Competition!
The event once again 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's 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.
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; Kerim Miskavi is an architect and founder of Istanbul-based MAS - Miskavi Architecture Studio; Françoise N’Thépé runs Paris-based practice FRANÇOISE N’THÉPÉ ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN; 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
Martin Beverfjord
Co-founder of Oslo-based Rever & Drage
Norway
Tommaso Calistri
UNStudio
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Nina Freedman
DREAMLAND CREATIVE PROJECTS (DCP)
United Kingdom
James Krueger
Design Principal in HMC Architects
USA
Françoise N’Thépé
Françoise N'THEPE - Architecture & Design
France
Kerim Miskavi
Miskavi Architecture Studio - MAS
Turkey
Nuno Pimenta
NUNO PIMENTA
Portugal
Angelo Renna
Architect
Italy
Sean Shen
architect at ZJJZ Atelier
China
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Use architecture to create different emotional states
1st Prize Winner +
Buildner Student Award
Buildner Student Award
Plan B
We are 4 students from Cairo, Egypt. We are very passionate about architecture. It is a job and a hobby for most of us. We love participating in such competitions that stimulate creativity and discover new things through architectural elements. We enjoyed this competition very much.
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Jury feedback summary
The proposal slices through a mountain to offer a tunnel-like sequence of spaces, one that is geometrically complex yet rendered simple through the project’s clear sections. The white mass of the museum emerges from a mountainside as if a foreign object, in stark contrast to the surrounding rocky brown environment. The dialectical dialogue with nature is continued in the two exhibition areas, with one set in a dark space of extreme tension where visitors stand beneath a heavy boulder seemingly lodged in the mountainside, about to break loose; the other is set in a daylight-filled space opening up to a green paradise complete with lush trees, grass and water. This is a project that successfully plays with spatial compression, light and darkness to elicit emotional response.
The design creates a strong physical experience for the visitor, effectively using the visitor's engagement with the building as a metaphor for the themes it explores. It highlights the relationship between the built environment and human experience, the decisions and consequences of the movement through space.
Nuno Pimenta / Buildner guest jury
NUNO PIMENTA, Portugal
The simple and poetic nature of the proposal evokes a powerful response. The sectional strategy in differentiating the approach to the two culmination points are well considered, adding another layer of complexity to the duality of the positive and negative emotion spaces.
Kerim Miskavi / Buildner guest jury
Miskavi Architecture Studio - MAS, Turkey
The project depicts extremely well the contrast between the two different spaces and the emotions they evoke. The concept is very simple yet the spaces are quite articulated. The tension created by the placement of the giant boulder is remarkable. A simple yet well documented drawing package summarizes the project clearly and without redundancy.
Tommaso Calistri / Buildner guest jury
UNStudio, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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The submission makes excellent use of a clear grid of drawings, separated by thin white borders that give the sheet breathing room despite its overall density. The project successfully contrasts light and dark, and achieves a natural color balance with the use of browns and greens. It also mixes larger and smaller imagery without one overpowering another.
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10/10 Linework
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10/10 Quality of drawings
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10/10 Balance of color
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10/10 Layout
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9/10 Hierarchy
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N/A Annotation
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N/A Text
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10/10 Clarity of story
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9/10 Clarity of diagrams
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10/10 Quality of overall presentation
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2nd Prize Winner
The Buddhas of Bamiyan
Participating in architecture competitions is a fantastic way to broaden one’s understanding of built form and challenge their skills in representation.
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Australia
Jury feedback summary
The author proposes a monolithic black form, dark within, and punctured, split or broken at various moments to let in the sun, yielding zones of brightness. The block-form is sited in the shadow of historical ruins, the site of human construction and destruction. The project is a museum shaped by and organized around considerations of these opposing human forces. The stones used to build the original memorial are put on display within the museum, and emotion is drawn out of a visitor by considering their A) absence from the original monument and B) exhibited in their raw and deconstructed form.
An interesting narrative depicts the destruction of a historical artifact set into the mountain, its rubble laid to rest in a darkened space. A second pointed space frames, through a curated light slit, the view toward the site of the historical artifact, now empty, which marks the memory. Architectural forms of light in both spaces honor both the event and material of the destroyed artifact and the memory of the site. There is a sense of hope in both, one more interior looking at the exterior. The use of stone is varied in both the interior environments and the exterior mountain.
Nina Freedman / Buildner guest jury
DREAMLAND CREATIVE PROJECTS (DCP), United Kingdom
This proposal, set relative to a memorial along with its materiality and contrasting light/darkness creates strong narrative sequences. The graphic design and presentation are very convincing.
Françoise N’Thépé / Buildner guest jury
Françoise N'THEPE - Architecture & Design, France
The dialogue between space and historical sites is impressive. The stone of the destroyed Buddha seems to have been reborn as a new place of pilgrimage.
Sean Shen / Buildner guest jury
architect at ZJJZ Atelier, China
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The project is defined by its use of white versus black. The black clearly ‘wins’ visually, thereby successfully putting into focus the important white portions of the presentation. It mixes historical photography with rendered imagery and plans to fully explain a complex idea on one sheet. The one drawing which is not crystal clear is the axonometric plan-section. This uses a mix of black and white to describe, it is assumed, above and below grade portions of the project.
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9/10 Linework
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10/10 Quality of drawings
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10/10 Balance of color
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9/10 Layout
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9/10 Hierarchy
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10/10 Clarity of story
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9/10 Clarity of diagrams
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9/10 Quality of overall presentation
3rd Prize Winner +
Buildner Sustainability Award
Buildner Sustainability Award
Roots and Crowns
I believe participating in architecture competitions is a way for me to do more innovative thinking and get out from my comfort zone. It is challenging and fun at the same time.
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Jury feedback summary
Within a clearing of an existing organic forest, a monument is proposed. This is organized as a circular grassy mound around a formal grid of trees, the trees puncturing this hill from a foundational space below, without touching it. The project considers heaviness versus lightness, the natural versus the constructed, and dark versus light. The author has designed a calm space focused on natural materials. It is an outdoor place for meandering and observing.
The ideas are clear in this submission, and the use of color is strong. This has a great graphic quality, and the use of light in the underground spaces is nicely executed.
James Krueger / Buildner guest jury
Design Principal in HMC Architects, USA
Two spaces are created on the basis of retaining the trees. The tree trunks and pillars form a magical space. The crown and trunk of the tree become the protagonists of the two spaces, respectively. Space and nature are in harmony and unity.
Sean Shen / Buildner guest jury
architect at ZJJZ Atelier, China
The idea of sitting under the forest canopy is interesting, though extra studies will require understanding how these trees implanted within the structure will grow and get irrigated.
Angelo Renna / Buildner guest jury
Architect, Italy
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The layout of this presentation is clear and clean. The use of colored imagery which includes one darker colored rendering seems imbalanced floating above the fine light line drawings. While the project consists of outstanding imagery, the author’s use of a clouded effect dilutes the overall impact, with drawings that are visually muted.
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9/10 Linework
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9/10 Quality of drawings
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8/10 Balance of color
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9/10 Layout
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9/10 Hierarchy
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9/10 Clarity of story
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9/10 Clarity of diagrams
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9/10 Quality of overall presentation
Honorable Mentions
Shortlisted projects
YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE
Variable Cases
Cycle of the Mosaic
Procession
Touch the Feelings
Grayangle
Journey
MUSEUM OF EMOTIONS - SPACE EXPLORATION
Room 101
MERCURIAL
The tip of the iceberg
Let's Play (Emotional Collection)
museum of emotions
Floating Cube
WW2 : 80/20
Waters Edge
Above and Below
THE WAY TO BE FREE
The Buddhas of Bamiyan
Ventricles
UPSIDE DOWN
Museum of emotions: calm and anxiety
SHIFT
Pilgrimage
The journey of life
Let The Light In
The Pixels
Tranquility
Paramuseum
Plan B
Roots and Crowns
Vision
Swan Song
Intens(C)ity: Museum of Emotions
Through the dome
UPSIDEDOWN
THE FOREST
Nadeem Mohiuddin - Museum of Emotions
Pavilion Playground
