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Rammed Earth 
Pavilion

Results updated April 4, 2023 (read more)

Buildner is excited to announce the results of its Rammed Earth Pavilion Competition!

The Rammed Earth Pavilion competition is part of a series exploring the unique benefits of different building materials. Participants were tasked with designing a pavilion to be constructed of rammed earth in a location of their choosing. The pavilion should be designed as either a temporary or permanent structure of no more than 50m², which can also potentially be used to host an exhibition on the material within.

Buildner sought creative designs exploring the potential for this ancient and sustainable building material. It worked with an international jury with a range of experiences related to designing and constructing using rammed earth: Alia Bengana is founder of Paris-based Alia Bengama Architecte and develops projects in France and abroad with a bioclimatic approach and a particular interest for raw earth, natural materials and reuse; Dutra Brown is a designer based in Los Angeles; Anna-Laura Bourguignon is a Franco-Mexican architect currently practicing in Paris and focuses on participatory processes in architecture as well as on the use of natural materials; Tim Krahn is a partner of Canada-based Building Alternatives, which promotes the use of alternative methods and materials for structures, and author of Essential Rammed Earth Construction; Ben Gitai is founder of Paris and Haifa-based Gitai Architects; Alex Reed is a Los Angeles-based Artist working primarily in clay; Jesus Edmundo Robles, Jr. is the Founding Principal of Tucson, Arizona-based D U S T;  Kathryn Robson and Chris Rak are principals of Robson Rak, an established, award winning firm in Victoria, Australia; Mattia Pretolani is Studio Director and Architect at ALICE and co-founder of the office ellipse architecture based in Lausanne; Marc Thorpe is an architect and industrial designer and founder of Marc Thorpe Design; and Laurent de Wurstemberger is founder of LDW Architects and TERRABLOC, a company that manufactures raw earth construction products.

Buildner and its jury panel thank each of the teams that participated in this event!

We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise

Dutra Brown

designer

USA

Alia Bengana

Alia Bengama Architecte

France

Anna-Laura Bourguignon

Franco-Mexican Architect

France

José Antonio Aguilar

Cherem Arquitectos

Mexico

Abraham Cherem

Cherem Arquitectos

Mexico

Ben Gitai

Gitai Architects

France

Tim Krahn

Canada-based Building Alternatives

Canada

Alex Reed

Los Angeles-based Artist

USA

Chris Rak

Robson Rak

Australia

Kathryn Robson

Robson Rak

Australia

Jesus Edmundo Robles

Founding Principal of Tucson, Arizona-based D U S T

USA

Mattia Pretolani

ALICE

Switzerland

Marc Thorpe

Marc Thorpe Design

USA

Laurent de Wurstemberger

LDW Architects and TERRABLOC

Switzerland

1st Prize Winner +
Buildner Sustainability Award

Project name

Hooke Garden

Projects for competitions are a manifesto of pure creativity. They appreciate the courage of thought, the unexpectedness of the ideas. The main point is to offer a bright, clear concept, and adaptation to the features of the real physical world is the following step. Which may not follow at all.

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Authors
Farid Younesi
Amina Yusupova
Thanatcha Cholpradit
Country
United Arab Emirates
  • 7/10 Linework
  • 8/10 Quality of drawings
  • 8/10 Balance of color
  • 7/10 Layout
  • 6/10 Hierarchy
  • 7/10 Annotation
  • 7/10 Text
  • 10/10 Clarity of story
  • 8/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 8/10 Quality of overall presentation

2nd Prize Winner

Project name

Hands On!

For us the participation in an architecture competition is a unique opportunity where you can follow your passions, work creatively and explore on your own responsibility.

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Authors
Oliver Giebels
Alessandra Esposito
Country
Germany
  • 8/10 Linework
  • 9/10 Quality of drawings
  • 10/10 Balance of color
  • 10/10 Layout
  • 9/10 Hierarchy
  • 8/10 Annotation
  • 8/10 Text
  • 8/10 Clarity of story
  • 10/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 9/10 Quality of overall presentation

3rd Prize Winner

Project name

LA TERRE DU MILIEU

Designing a spontaneous architecture, strong of meaning, uses and materiality. To explore new geographical territories, to research about construction systems and materials that we do not encounter in our projects. Discover and connect with cultures, different peoples, maintain way of thinking and know-how.

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Authors
Thomas Fournials
Antoine Aubert
Country
France
  • 7/10 Linework
  • 8/10 Quality of drawings
  • 8/10 Balance of color
  • 8/10 Layout
  • 6/10 Hierarchy
  • N/A Annotation
  • 6/10 Text
  • 8/10 Clarity of story
  • 6/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 6/10 Quality of overall presentation

Buildner Student Award

Project name

Corridor Gallery

This Rammed earth pavilion competition is the first one in which I participate. Friends from my graduating class had already participated in competitions and some had also received awards. I decided to enter this competition on my own because I really like the theme. I wanted to explore my design abilities with this very particular and sensitive material but also to find my own architectural sensibility. For some times I wanted to approach the technical aspect of the implementation of the Rammed earth and its potentials of prefabrication whose craze does not cease growing in this field.

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  • 9/10 Linework
  • 8/10 Quality of drawings
  • 8/10 Balance of color
  • 8/10 Layout
  • 8/10 Hierarchy
  • 5/10 Annotation
  • 5/10 Text
  • 5/10 Clarity of story
  • 7/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 7/10 Quality of overall presentation

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

At the end of Grjótagjá

Project name

Dialogue Between Walls

Project name

FUTURE PAVILION

Authors
Yinjie Tian
Wenjing Xue
Xiyu Li
Country
United States
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

Cut and Fill

Authors
Devin Dobrowolski
Ben Small
Country
United States
Project name

The Fading Pavilion

Author
Yi Zhou
Country
Canada
Project name

Rural Catalyst Pavilion

Authors
Rui Zhang
Yi Zhou
Country
Canada
+72 points Buildner University Rankings

Shortlisted projects

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Hearth

Aris Kafantaris
Japan

Terra Pavilion

Ana alexandra Tiriba
Sweden

Earth Sanctuary

Arthur Stefenbergs
Australia

RErammed

Ádám Bihari
Boldizsár Medvey
Dorottya Füleky
Mónika Valim-Ulbert

Naturarch Studio

Hungary

The Sky and the Earth

Mariano Managò

Berlin University of the Arts , Universität der Künste Berlin

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

A SHELTER WITH THREE COLUMNS

Vincent Dumay
Sweden

Earth Pantheon

Gábor Márkus
Dénes Dobos
Hungary

Cut and Fill

Devin Dobrowolski
Ben Small
United States

The Fading Pavilion

Yi Zhou
Canada

Tellure

Alessandro Pennesi
Salvatore Ponzo
Fabio Romenici
Giuseppe Ponzo

FORO Studio

Italy

Dialogue Between Walls

Zuchen Yu
Guanda Yu

Politecnico di Milano / Polytechnic University of Milan

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

At the end of Grjótagjá

Mateusz Dziuba

Politecnico di Milano / Polytechnic University of Milan

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

Pavilion of Layered Reflections

Lucy Jenkins
Fraser Carroll
Australia

TSAKUALLI

Oscar manuel Luna nieto
Aljaž Gradišar
Hungary

Kiln Tower for the Brickworks Museum

Roger Boltshauser
Switzerland

Cave of Earth

Yuanyuan Yang
Jiaqi Yang

Politecnico di Milano / Polytechnic University of Milan

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

Bringing earth to the Earth

Rebecca Ajolfi
Chiara Barbaglio
Haya Alhussaini

Politecnico di Milano / Polytechnic University of Milan

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

Hands On!

Oliver Giebels
Alessandra Esposito
Germany

Neolithic's Reflection

Salvatore Rescio
Mariagiulia Bano
Alessandra Agosti

Politecnico di Milano / Polytechnic University of Milan

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

A Sequence of Explorations

Jolan Cantzen

Berlin University of the Arts , Universität der Künste Berlin

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Corridor Gallery

Florestan Lacroix

Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Grenoble

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
France

RAMMED EARTH PAVILION

Lam Nguyen
Vietnam

LA TERRE DU MILIEU

Thomas Fournials
Antoine Aubert

APE-X studio

France

Antinomia

Tiziano Meniconi
Roberto Bologna
Giulio Hasanaj
Andrea Sichi
Italy

MYCO PAVILION

Samuel Higgwe
Aastha Singh
Jerome Tavé
Kyle Lawson
United States

FUTURE PAVILION

Yinjie Tian
Wenjing Xue
Xiyu Li

GSAPP, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Earth and Sky Temple

Craig Nener
Shaun Reddish
Australia

the penumbra pavilion

Maria fernanda Del giovannino de oliveira
Larah Agostinho barbosa
Augusto Palhares zschaber da costa
Natália hiromi Guimaraes yoshikawa

USP – Universidade de São Paulo

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Brazil

SILOS : manifesto of a broken city

Christelle Ayoub
Mira Achkouty
Majd Hanna

Politecnico di Milano / Polytechnic University of Milan

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Lebanon

Earth to Earth

Sahra Khan
Seraina Bernegger
Switzerland

Womb

Tommaso Venturini
Italy

FROM TERRA TO TERRA

Maurício Addor neto
Bruno Futema
Gabriel Da silva martinez ribeiro
Breno Quaioti
Brazil

Spoils Terrarium

Paige Michutka
Zoe Evans
Alyssa Pack
United States

ALIVE - The Story of A Living Building

Rafael Fischer
Arlinda Zenelaj
Jordan Perry
Linda jennifer Martinez ubilluz

University of East London

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United Kingdom

Hooke Garden

Farid Younesi
Amina Yusupova
Thanatcha Cholpradit
United Arab Emirates

Rammed Cap

Eszter Gulyás
Bence Bene
László Cseresznyés
Hungary

Selective Earth Forming Pavilion

Krit Chatikavanij
Sadek Ahmed
Adam Meyrick

The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, University College London

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United Kingdom

Earth + Light Pavilion

Pablo Valladares
Mexico

Rural Catalyst Pavilion

Rui Zhang
Yi Zhou
Canada

Transformed Earth Pavilion

Margherita Cesca

Lanpro

United Kingdom