Foreword

Bee Breeders Competition Organisers is excited to present the winning and shortlisted entries submitted to the Office 2021 Design Challenge, hosted in partnership with ARCHHIVE BOOKS.

This was the first edition of an annual competition series in which participants are tasked with exploring workplace design. The ‘new normals’ of working life have been transformed in the wake of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and equally so by ever-changing modes of communication and connectivity, included but by no means limited to cloud-based software, video conferencing, email, and social media. The fixed office space and the need for physical proximity to colleagues or clients have been put in question and, in certain industries, altogether eradicated. How does architecture respond to such tests to the physical environment? How can design be used as a tool to improve a worker’s wellbeing and productivity?

The Office 2021 Design Challenge was run in tandem with the Office 2021 Essay Challenge, in which participants were tasked with exploring similar ideas in text-based arguments, thoughts, or studies.

To evaluate the design challenge, Bee Breeders worked with a jury panel including: David Kubik, a partner at NYC-based BKSK Architecture; Dr Juriaan van Meel, co-founder of BriefBuilder, an expert in the field of architectural briefing and workplace design, and co-author of multiple books, including Activity-Based Working Practice Guide (2020), and Workplaces Today (2015); and Simeon Siegel, partner at Turett Collaborative Architects, where he has managed workplace projects.

Bee Breeders and its jury members thank each of the participants for contributing to this library of design ideas, and for instigating new questions related to the future of workplace design.

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1st Prize Winner

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It is not every day, an Architect get a chance to face an exciting design challenge. It is a learning experience. An opportunity to tackle and solve different societal issues by way of architecture. Get excited. Be stimulated. Discover things that could improve status quo. Get recognized. And possibly, share a meaningful contribution to society through your winning solution.

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Authors Gül Koc-janssen, Kerem Bostan, Surabhi Nigam, Leticia Brown
Country Germany

2nd Prize Winner +
BB GREEN AWARD

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Moss Trees

Architectural competitions can take you out of your comfort zone and present challenges, locations and opportunities you may never have encountered normally. In response you can develop new skills and ideas previously unconceivable. These are be invaluable for broadening your understanding of architecture and be further developed over time.

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Authors Gareth Cotter, Maria Mera Vera
Country United Kingdom

3rd Prize Winner

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Trampo: hybrid offices in the favelas

Architecture competitions provide an experience outside your comfort zone, which makes you understand and improve your creative and technical ability to develop projects. In addition, it exercises creation processes and ways of communicating architecture that are beyond the professional routine.

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BB STUDENT AWARD

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Home Office

Architecture competitions offer a productive setting for exploring design ideas by eliminating some of the limitations of the real world.

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Honorable Mentions

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Rework: Office as Public Space

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The Future Is Soft

Company UnitedMake
Authors Mond Qu, Sonny Do, Adrian Bonaventura, John Khory
Country Australia
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wehousework

Authors Yeonghwa Choe, Hakyeong Jeon
Country South Korea
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Co- working Tetris

Authors Wenjun Wei, Qi Chen
Country China
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X-boxes constainers office space

Authors Yan Zichao, Hu Xinchen, Liu Naige
Country China
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
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OmniPOD

Authors Martin Chavanne, Shawn Michael, Libby Pelzel, Dan Rider
Country United States

Shortlisted projects

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Points of tomorrow

Maya Schuldenfrei

Rotem Kenan

Israel

CO-LAB : A healthy and sustainable co-working space in an university campus

Kelly chun wai Choi

Jia Wei Ng

Chu Liang

The University of Melbourne

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Australia

UNDER ONE ROOF

Gaetan Brunet

France

Sliced Office

Amenah Alani

Ameer Ahili

University Of technology , Iraq

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Iraq

THE OCEAN WITH US

Steven jose Mendoza guznay

María augusta Bernal

Fernanda Inga

Campus Sede Azogues - Universidad Catolica de Cuenca sede Azogues

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Ecuador

Loop Arraying

Mingjia Hu

Qian Chen

Tingjun Pan

Yuchan Wang

Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

X-boxes constainers office space

Yan Zichao

Hu Xinchen

Liu Naige

JiLin JianZhu University - CUECC

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

Post-post Pandemic

Kristen Sidell

United States

The Future Is Soft

Mond Qu

Sonny Do

Adrian Bonaventura

John Khory

UnitedMake

Australia

MIX

Paul Cooksey

Nelize Van wyk

Ben Wesley

Anna Braunack myer

Australia

Divergent Units

Heba Farwati

United Arab Emirates

TURK 2.0

Qianhe Tian

Australia

“S, M, L, XL - UNITS” A New Normal of the Office - 2021

Solongo Batsaikhan

Gyetvai Géza

Gyenei Attila

Buda-Office KFT

Hungary

Weaving Apateu

Yeong joon Ko

Min jeong Kim

Ji hun Kim

Hee chan Lim

South Korea

PORTAL_TYPE

Yuen yan Tsang

Robert Tang

Yiu Lam Lai

Hong Kong

Home Office

Ayse Eda Tarakci

SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Co- working Tetris

Wenjun Wei

Qi Chen

China

Totem Office

Zane Mechem

Cate Evans

Cate Evans

SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

In Between

Catalina Lee

SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Your Office in the Park

Stella Buckmann de lima netto

SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Ziyin Gu

SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Project: Architectural Intervention

Wilbert Regalado jr.

Abigail Solitario

Ross Lambojo

Irish Gordolan

Philippines

PUZZLE WORKS

Tsz-fung Wong

United Kingdom

Office Escaper

Hardy Wong

JIAOHUA LU

RUI LIU

MENGQING WU

United Kingdom

Moss Trees

Gareth Cotter

Maria Mera Vera

United Kingdom

OmniPOD

Martin Chavanne

Shawn Michael

Libby Pelzel

Dan Rider

Cline Design Associates

United States

Must-Room

Muhammad Rifan budiawan syarif

Satria Jetmelin

Ahmad Izzah fadhilah

Indonesia

Office of Commoning

Quyngina Zhang

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

beyond ten-foot

Wen hui Foo

Mei teng Stephanie choo

Li cheng Chua

Hui lin Vanness foo

Malaysia

Rework: Office as Public Space

Yiling Shen

Yuchen Gao

RMIT University, The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

+74 points Buildner University Rankings!
Australia

Kawung

Natalie Ng

Diane Lee

Singapore University of Technology and Design

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Singapore

LINE WORK

Tugce Kakirman

Jeslyn Low

Gabrielle Moran

United Arab Emirates

"fluid"

Nikolay Bodurov

Bulgaria

wehousework

Yeonghwa Choe

Hakyeong Jeon

South Korea

WORK AIR

Hugo Letoublon

ENSAV - Paris La Villette - Architecture, École nationale supérieure d

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
France

Gül Koc-janssen

Kerem Bostan

Surabhi Nigam

Leticia Brown

gül koc gmbH, interior design + construction services

Germany

Logistics Office in Manila Philippines

John Tantiansu

Philippines

The Vortex

Kahtzun Koh

Cheehuey Tan

Malaysia

Trampo: hybrid offices in the favelas

Julia Stopasolla Copat

Rafael Magno de Moraes

João Carlos Bernardino Júnior

Débora Mendes Nunes Jank

Brazil

Office in Namsan ; Void & Vegetation as a Work - Sustainability

Geunho Min

South Korea