Introduction

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
SKYHIVE

Buildner is excited to announce the results of its 5th annual SKYHIVE Skyscraper Challenge!

The annual SKYHIVE Challenge is a platform to examine the relationship between skyscrapers and the natural world, the community, and the rest of the city as a whole. It is important that designs show consideration for the impact on the surrounding environment, as well as how the increase in inhabitants will affect the current infrastructure, pollution levels, economic division, and urban sprawl.

As it is an open ideas competition, participants in the SKYHIVE / Edition No 5 – The Annual Buildner Skyscraper Challenge – were permitted to interpret the competition brief however they chose, in the most creative way possible. The SKYHIVE Challenge is a chance for architecture enthusiasts to rewrite the definition of the modern-day skyscraper.

For this particular competition, there is no defined site. Participants are free to select any hypothetical site measuring 130m x 80m which can be accessed by roads on two sides. The design can be set in the city of one’s choice, anywhere in the world. Projects typically considered successful are those designed with some relation and response to the chosen region’s skyline and context.

Buildner worked with an international jury with a range of experiences in designing real and theoretical high-rise projects: Hayri Atak leads Istanbul-based Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio (HAADS); Jim Bissell is an Oscar-nominated production designer and creator of action movie Skyscraper; Thomas Corbasson is an associate architect of the Paris-based agency Chartier+Corbasson Architectes; Benedikt Hartl leads the activistic architecture studio Opposite Office; Samista Jugwanth is an Associate and shareholder at South Africa-based Zutari; and Ilias Papageorgiou is a Greek architect and principal of PILA.

Buildner and its jurors would like to thank all participants for their thoughtful and innovative design submissions!

We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise

Samista Jugwanth

Associate and shareholder

Zutari

Hayri Atak

Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio (HAADS)

Turkey

Kourosh Salehi

MENA Design Director, LWK + PARTNERS

UAE

Anastasia Elrouss

ANA-Anastasia Elrouss Architects

Lebanon

Thomas Corbasson

Associate Architect, Chartier+Corbasson Architectes

France

Jim Bissell

Production Designer, Skyscraper

USA

Benedikt Hartl

Opposite Office

Germany

Ilias Papageorgiou

Greek architect and principal of PILA

Greece

1st Prize Winner +
BB STUDENT AWARD

Project name

CITY 2040 : MICROCLIMATE CONTROL TOWER

Many international students participate for the BUILDNER’s architecture competition, and the panels and plans for the projects became so much inspiration to us. It has been very helpful for us to do the project and we have been interested in your competition for several years.

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Authors
Dong Young Kim
Young Hyun Choi
Country
South Korea
+174 points Buildner University Rankings

2nd Prize Winner

Project name

Tall Pile of CLT

Architecture competitions are a great way to explore risky and unconventional ideas and communicate them to a larger audience. I see a lot of value in having the chance to share my work with people from around the world and hopefully start new conversations about it. Also, I believe that competitions help synthesize a concept into its core values and elements. I consider the design requirements of a brief as an opportunity to apply and test out the implications of an architectural idea.

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Author
Edgar Rodriguez
Country
Mexico

3rd Prize Winner +
BB GREEN AWARD

Project name

Dahavi's redemption and rebirth —Skyscraper design based on biological simulation

Authors
Yufei Liu
Fuyuan Xu
Huizhong Wang
Country
China
+122 points Buildner University Rankings

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

Vertical Data Center Delirium

Project name

Collective Tower

Author
Misak Terzibasiyan
Country
Netherlands
Project name

The Sprawl of a Vertical City

Author
Souha Boumatar
Country
Lebanon
Project name

Post Pandemic Tower

Authors
Christian Rudolph
Justus Würtenberger
Country
Germany
Project name

Nomad Unite

Authors
Piotr Rajewski
Kinga Gawlik
Country
Poland

Shortlisted projects

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every1's row

Alvaro Garcia quiroga

City College of New York

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

THE BOSOHORUS LIGHTHOUSE

Paula Zabalo reyes
Lucía Machado

Universidad ORT Uruguay (Campus Center)

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Uruguay

Form Follows Fungus

Megan Sousa
Avina Gonen
Grace Liang
Soeun Park
Canada

MIND THE FOOD

Sofia ines Taveggia
Nicolò Carlini
Eren Sezer
Eszter lili Dávid

Politecnico di Milano / Polytechnic University of Milan

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

LEGACY Tower

Antonio Ríos
Spain

Liberty Tower

Maya Ben ammar
Nicola Cabiati
Tunisia

Adaptive TRIO / Correspond to Chaotic Systematic Dynamic Change

Maher Aakel
Mahmoud nagy Elsayed

Polytechnic of Turin, Politecnico di Torino

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

Malmo Lighthouse Tower

Maria Maslova
Nihal Adil
Polina Luneva
Elena Meliakova

Politecnico di Milano / Polytechnic University of Milan

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

Amazon Healing

Milena Sharkova
Isilay Yuce
Alessia Sassone
Maria Alexia Styliou

Politecnico di Milano / Polytechnic University of Milan

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

Up-Cycling Tree

Deokho Kim
Yihui Li
Eunbin Kwon
Yoonseok Heo
South Korea

Quarant - IN

Lingqing Xu
Junxin Song
Wei Zhou
United States

Agricultural Rehabilitation Tower

Nuoyan Xu
Qingfeng Liang
Yongruo Xue

Central South University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

Afterlife Hostel

Xiao Zhang

Beijing Jiaotong University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

NOMADIC REVIVAL-An Attempt at the Hunshandakeh Sands

Luowei Mei
Ning Wu
China

Vertical Data Center Delirium

Chuchu Chen

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Nomad Unite

Piotr Rajewski
Kinga Gawlik
Poland

(IM)Passive Housing

Phil Stien
United States

MIND THE GAP

Caius Cowgill

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, California Polytechnic State University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Album Of The City

Jia Shen
Qingqing Li
China

Tall Pile of CLT

Edgar Rodriguez
Mexico

Re-ACT the Lighthouse

Tamás Horváth-szabó
Barbara Baranyai
András Bottka
József Szilágyi

Lima Design Kft.

Hungary

CITY 2040 : MICROCLIMATE CONTROL TOWER

Dong Young Kim
Young Hyun Choi
South Korea

Dahavi's redemption and rebirth —Skyscraper design based on biological simulation

Yufei Liu
Fuyuan Xu
Huizhong Wang
China

Skyforest

Merlin Augele
Valerian Althammer

Berlin University of the Arts , Universität der Künste Berlin

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Collective Tower

Misak Terzibasiyan
Netherlands

Rise of city- Geological subsidence improvement tower

Yixiu Wang
Yike Zhao
Xiaoyu Guo

Zhejiang University of Technology

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

Park Up

Xiaowei Bai
United States

MASLOW СITY TOWER

Diana Samarina

Moscow Institute of architecture - MARHI , Московский архитектурный институт - МАРХИ

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Russian Federation

FLOAT REVOLUTION

Cheuk kin Kong
Pak Ka Wong
Hong Kong

Elevated ( High-rise building based in Essen, Germany)

Omar El remissy
Ahmed Gado

German University in Cairo

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Egypt

Ascendant

Nadine Moussa
Ritan Mushaly

German University in Cairo

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Egypt

PHILLY ALVEOLI

Oussama Khalfi

GONDWANA DIGITAL ENGINEERING

Tunisia

Oasis Village

Bahar özge Ediz
Erce Kılıçal
Sevtap Özyıldırım
Turkey

CHICAGO SKYSCRAPER

Fareeda Alaidi
Demah Zidan
United States

The Sprawl of a Vertical City

Souha Boumatar
Lebanon

Post Pandemic Tower

Christian Rudolph
Justus Würtenberger
Germany

Rest in Peak

Scholastika Virginia
Angela grace wibowo Phoa
Ilham brillian king Prakosa
Sandy Sutanto

Soegijapranata Catholics University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Indonesia

RISE 218

Talal El hassan
Lebanon

SkyHaven : Adaptive Re-use of abandoned twin towers.

Marah Altarawneh
Nawras Almasri

German Jordanian University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United Arab Emirates

MMA

Csaba Babud
Hungary