The Home of Shadows Jury Panel!

Buildner is pleased to announce its jury panel for the Home of Shadows Competition!

Guillaume Aubry, Cyril Gauthier and Yves Pasquet, FREAKS
Yu-Hsiang Fu, fws_work
Robert Hutchison, Robert Hutchison Architecture
Patcharada Inplang and Thongchai Chansamak, Sher Maker
Flora Lee, MAD Architects
Geoff Nees, artist
Peter Newman, artist
Aleksander Saša Ostan, Atelier Ostan Pavlin
Wu Ziye, Mix Architecture


Guillaume Aubry, Cyril Gauthier and Yves Pasquet run FREAKS, a Paris-based architecture practice. They have been awarded the 2009-10 AJAP Prize from French Ministry of Culture and the 40under40 Prize in 2016 byt the European Center for Architecture and Design. The office mostly works on cultural facility buildings, both renewals and new constructions such as the MECA in Bordeaux (in association with BIG Bjarke Ingels Group), the Komunuma Art Center + FRAC IDF in Romainville and the Glass Art Center in Meisenthal (in association with SO-IL). The practice is actually working on the complete renewal of the Natural History Museum of Strasbourg (completion 2024), the new learning center of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (completion 2023), the refurbishment of an ancient warehouse into a cuisine school for migrants in Montreuil (completion 2022).


Yu-Hsiang Fu is the Founder and Design Director of New York and Taipei based fws_work, an interior, branding and furniture design company. The recent project “Residence W” got Architizer A+ Awards and Dezeen Awards, and featured in several international publications. He is an award-winning interior and industrial designer who’s 10+ experiences working with several progressive design firms in New York, including AvroKO and Rockwell Group, specializing in hospitality, retail, and high-end residential interiors. Yu-Hsiang focuses on creating narrative and engaging interior environments. 


Robert Hutchison is a practitioner, researcher, and educator whose interests and practice overlap the fields of architecture, art and photography. Hutchison received a MArch degree from the University of Washington in 1996, and BS degrees in Structural Engineering and Architectural Engineering from Drexel University in 1990. After working for the Miller|Hull Partnership and serving as a principal of Hutchison & Maul Architecture, in 2013 Hutchison established the architecture studio Robert Hutchison Architecture. Hutchison is an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where he teaches architectural design studios at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is the recipient of numerous honors and fellowships, including a 2017 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a 2022 MacDowell Fellowship, a 2024 Loghaven Fellowship, a 2010 and 2021 Japan/US Friendship Creative Artists Fellowship, and the 2009 Emerging Voices awarded by The Architectural League of NY.




Patcharada Inplang and Thongchai Chansamak are the founders of Chiangmai, Thailand-based Sher Maker.


Flora Lee is an Associate Partner of MAD Architects. She has helped develop and realize a number of MAD’s major international projects, including: 8600 Wilshire in Beverly Hills; Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles; Campinas Art Gallery of Brazil; East 34th in NYC; UNIC Residential in Paris; and the Conrad Hotel in Beijing.


Geoff Nees is a Melbourne based artist and curator with over 20 years of professional practice. Geoff has established a cross-disciplinary approach to his work, with an emphasis on collaboration, exploring the intersection between art, design, music and architecture. Geoff has worked with many leading Australian and international architects and designers. He has delivered large-scale facade designs, sculptures, screens and temporary architectural projects for major property developments, arts festivals, hotels and private clients, including the façade for the Australia Pavilion at the Japan World Expo 2005. Geoff has collaborated with the internationally renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma on a Botanical Pavillon; an all-wooden structure clad with reclaimed timber from Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens. The work will be exhibited at the 2020 NGV Triennial in Melbourne. As a curator, Geoff has worked with the National Trust’s Costume Collection and is currently curating the art collection for the new Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Melbourne opening in 2021.


Peter Newman is a London-based British artist working in a variety of media to make artworks exploring a human relationship to space and modernity. He attended Goldsmiths College, University of London. Since graduating, he has had solo exhibitions in London, Brussels, Hamburg, New York, Chicago and Tokyo. He has exhibited in Trafalgar Square, the Royal Festival Hall and the Hayward Gallery in London and the Guggenheim Museum in Venice, Italy.  His work was projected onto the exterior of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, in Kanazawa, Japan for the inaugural exhibition. There are permanent installations of his Skystation sculpture / bench at Canary Wharf and Nine Elms in London.


Aleksander Saša Ostan is a practicing architect and urban planner. Together with his partner Nataša Pavlin he runs the office Atelier Ostan Pavlin in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Aleksander is active in a broad array of activities that include planning, design, building, architectural workshops and summer schools, teaching, researching and lecturing. Thematically the core of his professional interest lies within the concepts of sustainable living, planning and building, both in urban and in rural areas. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Maribor, Faculty of engineering, department for architecture and is now full time teacher at the Faculty for architecture in Ljubljana. Ostan is an active member of the Architectural and spatial chamber of Slovenia, the Ljubljana Architectural society, Urban planning society of Slovenia, and member of the independant Urbosvet urban council for Ljubljana.


Wu Ziye is co-founder of Nanjing, China-based Mix Architecture and Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Wu Ziye founded Mix Architecture with Zhou Suning and Tang Tao in 2016. The studio is committed to exploring the possibility of architecture in various contexts to respond to the most primitive emotional and spiritual needs of human beings. The design of Mix connects imagination and reality. Through the exploration of the spirit of the site and the sensitive creation of material construction, it enters into the deep consciousness of the space situation, allowing people, architecture and nature to have an internal integration. Wu Ziye and the works of Mix Architecture have won several important architectural awards including Finalist LEAF Awards 2018, The AMP Award landscape design of the year 2018, A’DESIGN AWARD Platinum Award 2019, the Hong Kong A&D Awards 2020,and Architizer A+Awards 2022.

The Home of Shadows is a conceptual competition seeking designs for a home that uses no artificial lighting and only daylight.