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Buildner is proud to announce the winners of the Museum of Emotions Competition – Edition #7. This international ideas competition explores how architecture can evoke emotions through space, sequence, and material. Participants designed museums with two contrasting exhibition halls, one inducing negative emotions and the other positive, communicating their concepts solely through visuals.
1st Prize and Student Award went to Minseok Choi and Jang Sieon from Sangmyung University, South Korea. Their project stages an emotional journey from devastation to reflection around the fractured remains of a sacred figure. 2nd Prize was awarded to Kaiwen Wei from the United States who created a tilted slab dividing a luminous plaza above from a shadowed undercroft below, choreographing serenity and tension.
3rd Prize went to Ceyda Ilhan and Beyza Ilhan from Turkey who transformed a green mound into a monumental interior of compacted consumer debris, blending ecological recovery with a confronting archive of everyday life.
The jury highlighted the strong engagement with architecture’s emotional potential. Submissions explored dualities such as light and darkness, openness and compression, and serenity and confrontation. The strongest entries combined spatial clarity with conceptual intent to create powerful and contemplative experiences.
Full results including honorable mentions and shortlisted projects are available on the Buildner website.
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1st Prize and Student Award
2nd Prize
3rd Prize
