Introduction
Buildner is happy to announce the results of its Portugal Olive Guest House International Competition!
The competition was run in partnership with the Verde family, landowners in Portugal that produce homemade olive oil using traditional methods. The brief tasked participants with presenting designs for a guest house to be realized on the Verde family property. The guest house is to be centered around a multipurpose space that would mainly function as an olive oil tasting room. Buldner collaborated with a stellar regional and international jury comprised of: Ondřej Chybík is co-founder of the studio CHYBIK + KRISTOF, based in Prague, Brno and Bratislava; Marta Frazão and Inês Vicente are partners at Atelier Data, a Lisbon-based office; Francisco Garcia de Freitas is a founder of Lisbon-based Atelier RUA - Arquitectos; Ricardo Gomes, partner of KWY.studio, was born in Portugal and studied architecture in Lisbon; Vitório Leite is a co-founder of merooficina, a Porto-based office; Tiago Mota Saraiva is the managing partner of ateliermob, based in Lisbon; Maria Papafigou is an architect and a founding partner of the Stockholm- and Athens-based office OOAK - One of a Kind Architects.
Buildner and its jury panel thank each of the participating teams for submitting outstanding work.
We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise
Marta Frazão
Partners at Atelier Data
Portugal
Ondřej Chybík
CHYBIK + KRISTOF
Czech Republic
Francisco Garcia de Freitas
Atelier RUA - Arquitectos
Portugal
Ricardo Gomes
Partner, KWY.studio
Portugal
Vitório Leite
Founder of Merooficina
Portugal
Paulo Martins Barata
Promontorio
Portugal
Tiago Mota Saraiva
ateliermob
Portugal
Inês Vicente
Partners at Atelier Data
Portugal
Maria Papafigou
OOAK - One of a Kind Architects
Greece
1st Prize Winner
A-CASA
For us, participating in architecture competitions means having the opportunity to explore new alternative and sustainable solutions for each project we undertake. Multidisciplinarity and innovation are constant approaches in our research, aiming to define new solutions that minimize the environmental impact of architecture.
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Italy
Jury feedback summary
A-Casa is based on dual concepts of the house. The first is to be a landmark with an identity related to its site, the second as a place to feel comfortable, constructed using local materials and techniques. This proposition focuses on the archetypal house form of four walls and a pitched roof. Here, the roof is reinterpreted as a sort of geometrical landmark - the only component of the building visible from the street. The roof is opaque, enclosing comfortable and private spaces.
With a strong, unique and clear gesture due to the exploration of the house-form archetype, this proposal solves in a beautiful and sensitive way a program, an atmosphere, and a place.
Marta Frazão / Buildner guest jury
Partners at Atelier Data, Portugal
Basic architectural forms are kept in the abstract, each clearly defined and articulated.
Ondřej Chybík / Buildner guest jury
CHYBIK + KRISTOF , Czech Republic
Great integration and an outstanding design, the project seems to respond clearly to its intended purpose.
Francisco Garcia de Freitas / Buildner guest jury
Atelier RUA - Arquitectos, Portugal
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The project makes use of a clean, two-sided layout and a crisp, identifying set of visuals to yield an altogether excellent presentation format. The introductory image strongly conveys the symbolic geometric forms that are central to the project concept. Renderings make use of simple, effective textures to express materiality and the bending of light across surfaces. Finally, subtle hatches and shadows give depth to smartly produced line drawings.
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2nd Prize Winner +
Buildner Student Award
Buildner Student Award
Olive Hearth
In our opinion, architecture competitions provide a wonderful opportunity to challenge ourselves by engaging in unconventional projects around the world. We thoroughly enjoy exploring different cultures, and architecture competitions serve as a means to do just that.
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Jury feedback summary
Olive Hearth is a building with a fragmented spiraling form described as a windmill that engages either the site’s sloping landscape. The floor levels within the house descend with the topography to link the experience of being within the home to that of walking down the hill. The house is constructed of adobo - a typical bio-based Portuguese mudbrick which the author claims could be produced on site, and finished in a local lime plaster.
The proposal successfully combines spaces for the community and also for time spent in solitude. The layout's core is a luscious communal space stretching diagonally and opening up to the outside while framed by guest spaces that offer individual experiences and views into the landscape. The proposal finds the right scale, level of proximity and relation between the interior and exterior.
Ricardo Gomes / Buildner guest jury
Partner, KWY.studio, Portugal
The project demonstrates excellent organization and adopts a geometric approach that facilitates flexible usage and circulation. However, it remains unclear whether the building's morphology takes into account the characteristics of the plot and its surroundings.
Vitório Leite / Buildner guest jury
Founder of Merooficina, Portugal
The proposal achieves great ambience and diversity of spaces, provided by the morphology of the built element and its relation with the natural elements surrounding it. However, it is not perfectly clear how the existing topography should be solved properly and the decision of bringing common and gathering areas to a buried basement, with no relation with the outside nor presence of natural light, is questionable.
Inês Vicente / Buildner guest jury
Partners at Atelier Data, Portugal
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This is an excellent project with an effective layout. An introductory page with a nearly full span primary rendering sets the tone with its particular focus on the landscape. This is followed by three consistent sheets with a band of renderings at the base supported by line drawings and text above. This format is successful visually, giving weight to the visually heavier colored imagery while the text and line work float towards the top, within the white space.
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3rd Prize Winner
A Guest House with a Tent
China
Jury feedback summary
A Guest House with a Tent draws from the form of a tent as representative of a space with ‘unencumbered freedom.’ In the case of this project the tent is the communal space where people come together to share activities, the focal point of the plan which houses the olive oil tasting room. In section a pitched roof gives the space ample head height and opens it up to daylight and views through a fully glazed wall which can be moderated with exterior shutters.
The proposal presents a very complex solution, taking in consideration all the constraints and opportunities of the site. The strong architectural form is directly connected to the beautiful view of the site.
Ondřej Chybík / Buildner guest jury
CHYBIK + KRISTOF , Czech Republic
The proposal presents a very complex solution, taking in consideration all the constraints and opportunities of the site. The strong architectural form is directly connected to the beautiful view of the site.
Vitório Leite / Buildner guest jury
Founder of Merooficina, Portugal
This submission with its slated roof gesture has a strong aesthetic quality that could make this guest house recognizable and memorable. The light character of the roof as well as the use of primarily sustainable materials add to the relaxed overall experience of the guest house. I would like to see how this particular house could be even more specific to its context, not something that one could encounter anywhere else in the world.
Maria Papafigou / Buildner guest jury
OOAK - One of a Kind Architects, Greece
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The project makes use of remarkably photorealistic rendered images which communicate the project’s intent for raw, natural materials as well as balanced light and shadow. As a competition entry, the use of some color or additional scale figures could help imbibe the sheets with a bit more dynamism and interest. The overall austere nature of the presentation could be received by jurors as too empty and dry for such a proposal to design a landmark communal space.
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Buildner Sustainability Award
O Quintal
Architecture competitions serve as a powerful tool to enhance the creative process. I also believe that they provide a virtual journey to different places, allowing us to immerse ourselves in their customs, aromas, landscapes, and diverse architectures. This experience serves as a prelude to the project and enriches the design exploration.
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Mexico
Jury feedback summary
“The design is articulated by a strict and forceful geometry,” writes the author of the project titled O Quintal. Three pitched naves attached to a central courtyard, the house is both domestic and utilitarian. The building features austere white walls and red clay tiling, and the project’s simple forms play with the daylight and change with the shadows cast throughout the day.
A great conceptual design, this project has big potential for development with a simple and clear strategy.
Francisco Garcia de Freitas / Buildner guest jury
Atelier RUA - Arquitectos, Portugal
This is a project that creates one interesting and peaceful ambience on its interior, using natural light and materiality, and a very wise relationship with the nature around. it. It creates a space of continuity among the plots, with no boundaries, and generates one unifying landscape.
Tiago Mota Saraiva / Buildner guest jury
ateliermob, Portugal
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The project makes use of a collaged, naturally scattered layout that resonates with the architectural proposition. Such a loose and scrapbook organization affords the author to use visuals at various scales and balance the sheets with a mix of colored and grayscale renderings and line drawings.
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Client Favorite
Verde Vista Guest House
Competitions offer me opportunities to refine my skills and can also serve as potential career-enhancing prospects. Occasionally, competitions present unique and captivating programs that I have yet to encounter, like the Olive Guest House competition. Prior to participating in this competition, I had no knowledge of the existence of olive tasting rooms. This discovery fueled my motivation to explore fresh ideas and broaden my horizons.
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Jury feedback summary
Verde Vista Guest House is planned to connect visitors with nature along a circulation path comprising four nodes: a drop off area, entrance, green courtyard and tasting room. The form of the building takes that of the site with its curvilinear border. The spaces are clean and open, some daylit by a clerestory shed roof above, and all are focused inward on the central garden to infuse the spaces with visual links to nature.
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This presentation mixes stunning renders with clear and purposeful diagrams. The project has a simple concept, focused on four nodes of experience, and the text links with the imagery and line drawings to describe this path. The layout is excellent, both providing an organized grid which allows a reader to easily locate the information, while at the same time some variation allows for a mix of drawing dimensions and lends visual interest as a juror reviews the sheets.
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Honorable mentions
Shortlisted projects
Olive House
Warsaw University of Technology , Politechnika Warszawska
+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland Verde Vista Guest House
Villa Verde
A Quiet Place
Terra
Five senses
Olive Escapes: A serene gateaway for olive lovers
Casa Verde
O Quintal
Olive garden
Olive House
House surrounded by olive trees
A Guest House with a Tent
Vila Oliva
Gentle Mediterranean Touch
Verde Guest House
Traverse
THE GRAIN
Grafting of Quinta
Circling Unity
HOMAGE HOUSE
Maison de l'Oliveraie
VERDE HOUSE
GALHETA - Verde Olive Guest House
3 WALLS, A GARDEN
Verde panorama
The House in the Olive Grove
A-CASA
A House for an Olive Tree
Among the Olives
Beyond the Wall
Quinta das Oliveiras
Casa Terroir
Paisagem Verde
Olive Hearth
THE OLIVE GUEST HOUSE
roofs in the slope
Olive oil guest house
Nocturne
ezeli and ebedi
