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Buildner is proud to announce the results of the sixth edition of the Museum of Emotions international architecture competition. This unique design challenge invites architects and designers to explore how space can communicate emotional states—without the use of any text. Participants were asked to design a two-gallery museum: one space to evoke positive emotions, and another to convey negative ones. As part of Buildner’s ongoing “silent competition” series, the architecture itself needed to be the sole medium of expression, pushing creatives to communicate through spatial form, materiality, light, and sequence.
The jury, composed of globally recognized architects, academics, and artists—including Bartosz Haduch, Robert Hutchison, Jiafeng Li, Jürgen Mayer H., and others—carefully reviewed a diverse and evocative range of submissions. They awarded first prize to Natalie Battah (Sweden) for a museum that emerges from ruin into a reconstructed space of memory and renewal, using salvaged fragments and layered architectural gestures. Second prize was awarded to Rongxin Tang and Yuwei Wu (USA), whose lakeside cave museum contrasted enclosure and openness through light and natural reflection. Third prize went to Weihao Yin (Spain), who proposed a meditative, linear journey through concrete and vegetation. The Student Award was presented to Alexandra Ilinca Domnescu, Daria-Alexandra Pirvu, Alexandra-Mihaela Udrişte, and Stefania-Sorana Gurau from Romania’s Ion Mincu University, for a sensory experience shaped by light, color, and atmospheric transitions.
Buildner extends heartfelt thanks to all participants for their thoughtful contributions and congratulates the winners for their exceptional work. With the 7th edition of the Museum of Emotions competition now open for registration, designers are once again invited to push the limits of silent storytelling through architecture. To explore past submissions, readers can also discover Architectural Emotions Vol. 1, a print collection celebrating the series’ evolution: https://architecturecompetitions.com/architecture-books/architectural-emotions-1/.
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1st prize
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