Buildner is pleased to announce the jury for the upcoming Sleeping Pods on a Cliff Competition!

Marta Frazão, Atelier Data
Ricardo Gomes, KWY.studio
Samuel Gonçalves, SUMMARY
Jake Heffington, [Diversify Architecture]
Mikhail Krymov, Sleepbox.
Filipe Rodrigues, Atelier Data
Raulino Silva, Raulino Silva Arquitecto
Inês Vicente, Atelier Data

Marta Frazão, Filipe Rodrigues, and Inês Vicente are Partners at Atelier Data, a Lisbon-based office. Its team believes that each project is the “engine” of its own investigation, allowing a critical, creative and innovative approach. Diagrammatic and elementary representations are both the outcome of a process and a means of diagnosis, research and communication of new solutions.


Ricardo Gomes, partner of KWY.studio, was born in Portugal and studied architecture in Lisbon. Worked at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas and with the artist Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. He taught architecture at the UDK in Berlin and art at DIS Copenhagen. He lives and works in Lisbon and Copenhagen.


Samuel Gonçalves is the founder of SUMMARY, an architectural practice based in Porto, Portugal. His work has been published and exhibited globally in several venues, such as the Venice Biennale, The Boston Society of Architects and the BAUHAUS Centenary. SUMMARY was selected as the 2020 “The Emerging Architect of the Year” by Dezeen readers.


Jake Heffington is an award-winning architect in Raleigh, North Carolina, lecturer at North Carolina State University's College of Design, and activist promoting equity and justice in design and development. He is the founder of and other works, co-founder of readings on race, and founder and Executive Director of [Diversify Architecture].


Mikhail Krymov is co-founder and CEO of Sleepbox. He previously co-founded the Moscow-based architecture company arch group, which focused on architectural innovation and public interiors projects. From 2015-2016 Mikhail completed a research fellowship with MIT’s Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS).


Raulino Silva is an architect at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto, and runs his office in Vila do Conde, Raulino Silva Arquitecto Unipessoal Lda. In 2019 he received the medal of merit for the city of Vila do Conde and won the Europe 40 Under 40 Awards from The European Center for Architecture. His constructed works have received the International Architecture Awards 2020 and 2018, by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, the IF Design Awards 2019, organized by the IF International Forum Design GMBH, the Iconic Awards 2017, organized by the German Design Council and the Baku International Architecture Award 2015, promoted by the Order of Architects with the support of the International Union of Architects.

The Sleeping Pods on a Cliff Competition is part of Buildner’ Small Scale Architecture Appreciation Movement showcasing small projects that contain big ideas. Winning projects will be featured in ARCHHIVE BOOKS’ publication series, What is Small-Scale Architecture

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