Introduction

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Spirala 
Community Home

For this design competition, Bee Breeders partnered with the Spirala Ecological Village, a pioneering project focused on self-development and connection with nature. This community and farm, based in Northern Portugal, is planned to consist of 20 buildings in which residents live and work together and practice ways of connecting with nature while reducing their ecological footprint on Earth.

The Spirala Community Home Competition called for submissions for a shared building that will form the heart of the Spirala Ecological Village – a space where community members could gather together and meet for events, workshops, or socializing. It should have both indoor and outdoor spaces for congregating for various purposes throughout the year. As winning designs will be considered for construction, the founders of the ecological village and the jurors sought solutions that would best serve the various needs of the community, while also being examples of green building practices and sustainable design.

Bee Breeders worked with an excellent regional and international jury panel for this competition. The full jury panel included: Greg Corso of Syracuse NY-based SPORTS Collaborative and Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, School of Architecture; Enlai Hooi, Head of Innovation at Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects in Copenhagen, Denmark; Filipa Frois Almeida and Hugo Reis, founders of Porto-based FAHR 021.3®; Gonçalo Marrote, architect and CEO at Madeiguincho, based in Cascais, Portugal; David Montalba, Founding Principal of Montalba Architects, a diverse architecture and design studio of over 60 designers based in Santa Monica, California with a satellite office in Lausanne, Switzerland; and James Whitaker, founder of London-based Whitaker Studio.

Bee Breeders and its jury panel would like to congratulate the participants for their outstanding work.

We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise

Hugo Reis

founded FAHR 021.3®

Portugal

Filipa Frois Almeida

founded FAHR 021.3®

Portugal

James Whitaker

Founder of Whitaker Studio

United Kingdom

David Montalba

Founding Principal of Montalba Architects

USA

Gonçalo Marrote

architect and CEO at Madeiguincho

Portugal

Enlai Hooi

Head of Innovation at Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

Denmark

Greg Corso

Designer, SPORTS Collaborative

USA

1st Prize Winner

Project name

swirl pavilion

Architectural competitions are great opportunities for architects to experience being able to go beyond the limits of their routine life. Competitions are ideal for testing their design abilities on universal, international design platforms and providing an environment for independent design claims.

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Ekin Turgay
Serkan Sonar
Country
Turkey

2nd Prize Winner

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SHADOW CYCLES

Architecture competitions are a public space to discuss ideas and communicate creative architectural processes to society. For my office, it’s the way our work becomes part of a global community.

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Manuel Collado Arpia
Dustin Hernandez Jover
Berta Calle Martos
Country
Spain

3rd Prize Winner

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IN BETWEEN

We see time spent on competitions as freedom where our creativity can express itself with no limitations. At the same time, it is an opportunity to break the daily routine and think about new architectural concepts and strategies.

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Authors
Leonardo Raviola
Joao Carriço
Ruben Guerreiro
Country
Portugal

BB STUDENT AWARD

Project name

Spirala Community House

Client Favorite +
BB GREEN AWARD

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Molecular Spiral

Considering various historical and geographical factors and their relationships with architecture and cities; we are practicing design and research with the objective of clarifying the fundamental mechanisms of an excellent building environment.

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Authors
Ryo Murata
Mizuho Ueyama
Tomohiro Koizumi
Renata Baksai
Country
Japan

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

Common Sense

Author
Nacho Gimeno
Country
Spain
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SPIRALA COMMUNITY CENTER

Authors
Sabrina Neise
Jedrzej Nowak
Country
Germany
Project name

Spiral Hut: A Way of Being Together

Authors
Ji Zhang
Wenjun Deng
Country
Belgium
Project name

Spirala Community House

Authors
Ani Zakaryan
Aigerim Syzdykova
Country
Denmark
Project name

brickO'live

Authors
Berkay Öztürk
Merve Taşdelen
Ayça Metin
Country
Turkey
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
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Árvore Mãe

Authors
Alberto Pabón Medina
Marina Sánchez Guzmán
Country
Spain

Shortlisted projects

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Sat Chit Ananda

Jordanna Ebanks
Jaya Kader
Angela Johnson
United States

Casa de Boas-Vindas

Alanna signe Green
Edgar Rivera

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Living Spirals

Nuru Karim
Aditya Jain
Atharva Ghawalkar
Swagat Kale
India

brickO'live

Berkay Öztürk
Merve Taşdelen
Ayça Metin

İstanbul Technical University

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Turkey

Spirala Community Home

Ádám Pálvölgyi
Dániel Klenóczky

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Hungary

swirl pavilion

Ekin Turgay
Serkan Sonar
Turkey

Spirala Community House

Mykhailo Vishchun
Zhenya Zhenev

Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Ukraine

BETWEEN NESTS OF EARTH

Christian david Madrigal garcía
Gabriel alejandro Ruíz suárez

Universidad de Guadalajara

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Mexico

Molecular Spiral

Ryo Murata
Mizuho Ueyama
Tomohiro Koizumi
Renata Baksai
Japan

casa para todos

Dominik Hesse
Sina Skibbe
Anna-lena Kriz
Paul Althaus

Bauhaus Universität Weimar

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Spirala Community House

Ani Zakaryan
Aigerim Syzdykova
Denmark

Spirala Community Home

Julian Beqiri
Nerina Baçi
Isra Hyka
Gridi Himçi
Albania

Labyrinth Community Center

Andrew Glicksberg
United States

Rembrandt

Antti Ahlava
Finland

Spirala Community Home

Allison Hoagland
Hans Steffes
United States

ESPIRAL

Donald Paine
Matthew Noe
Tony Wang
United States

BLOSSOM

Matteo Cavuoti
Alessandro michele Altamura
Italy

SPIRALA COMMUNITY CENTRE

Jack Everett
United Kingdom

disc dance

Nuo Chen
Kunsong Li
Shun Shi
China

ENCHANTHILL

Kumar Mangwani
NISHA PARYANI
TINA MANGWANI
India

SHADOW CYCLES

Manuel Collado Arpia
Dustin Hernandez Jover
Berta Calle Martos
Spain

THE OMPHALOS

Xile Zhang
Kendall Mann

Southern California Institute of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Spirala Community Home

Debora Cheng
Jennifer Huang
Krish Girdhari
Australia

IN BETWEEN

Leonardo Raviola
Joao Carriço
Ruben Guerreiro
Portugal

SPIRALA COMMUNITY CENTER

Sabrina Neise
Jedrzej Nowak
Germany

THE FILM

Yi heng Lim
Kuan yun Leng

Taylor's University Lakeside Campus

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Malaysia

In the Spiral's heart

Giuseppe Vultaggio
Weiwei Mao
Italy

CLAY HOUSE

Merlin Augele
Valerian Althammer
Tim Cox

University of Arts Berlin

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Common Sense

Nacho Gimeno
Spain

Spirala Community Home

Juanita Cuellar
Carlos Perez
Jean Rodríguez

Universidad de los Andes

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Colombia

Árvore Mãe

Alberto Pabón Medina
Marina Sánchez Guzmán
Spain

Christopher Jones
United Kingdom

The Stone

Gelar Kautsar
Indonesia

Spirala Community Home

Daniel Burston
Emily Young
Toby Oxborrow
United Kingdom

The Spiral Landscape

Caio césar Nascimento costa
Júlia luciano Da costa

Universidade de Brasília - UnB

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Brazil

ENCIRCLE

Isabelle Gin
Tini Tang
Jessica Liu
Hong Kong

123456

Barbara Sandri
Andrea Smaniotto
Italy

Home sweet Zome

Adrien Thivolle
France

HAYAH

Cristiano Dias
Joel Marinho
André Brandão
João Santos
Portugal

Spiral Hut: A Way of Being Together

Ji Zhang
Wenjun Deng
Belgium