Introduction

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Timber
Pavilion

Buildner is excited to announce the results of its first annual Timber Pavilion competition!

This competition was organized to draw innovative ideas from around the world focused on the promise and potential of wood construction. Competition participants were tasked with choosing a site for a temporary pavilion built of timber which showcases an exhibition about timber as a construction material. The purpose of the pavilion is to explore the history and merits of timber as a construction material, push the limits of its use, and highlight its versatility and durability. The pavilion should not exceed 50 m2.

Buildner worked with an international jury panel with a range of experiences in wood construction and timber design. The jury included: Sam Brown, co-founder of Glasgow-based O’DonnellBrown; Jan Clostermann, Founding Director of CLOU architects in Beijing, China; Katsuya Fukushima, founder of Tokyo-based architectural office FT Architects; Aaron Forrest, co-founding Principal of Ultramoderne; Jürgen Mayer H., founding partner of J.MAYER.H und Partner; and Hans Jakob Wagner, research associate and doctoral candidate at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction, University of Stuttgart.

Buildner and its jury panel congratulate the winners and thank each participant for submitting ideas to this event.

We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise

Jürgen Mayer H

founding partner of J.MAYER.H und Partner

Germany

Sam Brown

O’DonnellBrown

Scotland

Jan Clostermann

Founding Director of CLOU architects

China

Aaron Forrest

Registered architect and co-founding Principal of Ultramoderne

USA

Katsuya Fukushima

Founder of the Tokyo-based architectural office FT Architects

Japan

Hans Jakob Wagner

Research associate and doctoral candidate at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction, University of Stuttgart

Germany

1st Prize Winner +
AAPPAREL SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

Project name

Rough Cut: A pavilion for the re-use and future of timber

Architecture competitions are an excellent provocation for creative exploration. They are a fun opportunity to explore new ideas and develop or challenge existing ones playfully.

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Author
Emma Jurczynski
Country
United Kingdom

2nd Prize Winner

Project name

Timber Pavilion - A multi-sensory experience of wood

We participate in architecture competitions as they provide a positive environment to further develop architectural research while stimulating creativity to produce experimental, yet adequate design solutions.

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Matteo Fraticelli
Motomi Morii
Martin Lee
Country
United States

3rd Prize Winner

Project name

Timber Ribbon

We enter competitions to explore spatial ideas more freely. To speak up and ask questions. We have found the process eye-opening and encourage all those curious about space, shelter, enclosure to do the same.

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Authors
Will Gant
Michael Brudi
Carly Le
Country
United States

ARCHHIVE STUDENT AWARD

Project name

Hanging Ceilings

We enter competitions to explore spatial ideas more freely. To speak up and ask questions. We have found the process eye-opening and encourage all those curious about space, shelter, enclosure to do the same.

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University
Author
Diego Sierra Mora
Country
Mexico
+72 points Buildner University Rankings

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

The Monolith

Author
Predrag Vujanovic
Country
Sweden
Project name

The red cloud

Authors
Gabriel Rodríguez Apolito
Franco Allia
Country
Uruguay
Project name

The Seasoning Theatre

Authors
Casper Hijlkema
Daria Kristal
Country
Netherlands
Project name

BRÄDGÅRD

Authors
Vilhelm Tham
Felix Olofsson
Svante Hallgren
Adam Rydén
Country
Sweden
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

EMERGERE

Project name

Wooden Accordion

Shortlisted projects

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Clearcut

Nils Dremo
Axel Leksell
Nicholas Jackson

Faculty of Engineering, LTH , Lund University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Sweden

History Tunnel Pavillion

Yim fong Yee (ally)

University Putra Malaysia

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Malaysia

THE WAGASA PAVILION

Yifan Shen
Jacob Chong
United States

new paths

Gianmarco Rocco
Italy

Rough Cut: A pavilion for the re-use and future of timber

Emma Jurczynski
United Kingdom

Timber Ribbon

Will Gant
Michael Brudi
Carly Le
United States

Rattan Pavilion

Muhammad Faruqi

American University of Sharjah

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Indonesia

Linear Rooms, a Public Experience

Elisa Cavagnero
Davide Brunetti
Deniz Gemici
Alessandra Pederneschi
Italy

The Loop

Anahi Wood
Kevin Llamas
United States

A Timber Bowl

Hoang Pham
Germany

TREEFACTORY

Simon Göbel
Tammo Frey
Marie Weidinger
Nicholas Rentsch
Germany

The Quaver

Adela Moss

Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk , Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

TIMBER PAVILION IN THE WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Emil Micewicz
Wienczesław Georgiev
Maciej Smoleński

Warsaw University of Technology , Politechnika Warszawska

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

Wooden Accordion

Maximilian Lesch

RWTH Aachen University, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

Clustered Freedom

Yanyan Zhang

University of California, UC Berkeley

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Lotus Pavilion

Elena Kanevsky
Weronika Zaborek
Vladimir Ondejcik
Maria Orvesten
Sweden

The Helix

Marie Herbst
South Africa

LEAF

Katariina Sewón
Finland

MEMORY OF A FOREST

Basilio Tager
Oscar emilio Pontón
Mexico

An Ode To Timber

David Vermeulen
South Africa

The Symphony of Timberland

Yungang Chen
Fang Han
Wangrui Zhang
Siling Zhu
China

BRÄDGÅRD

Vilhelm Tham
Felix Olofsson
Svante Hallgren
Adam Rydén

Faculty of Engineering, LTH , Lund University

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Sweden

The Peacock Tail’s Pavilion

Davide Costa
Italy

Tymber Tympanum

Gabriel Foulquier-gazagnes
France

Pare Pavilion

Ashley Lepre
United States

The red cloud

Gabriel Rodríguez Apolito
Franco Allia
Uruguay

Under the Leaf

Francesco Stefanini
United Kingdom

The Seasoning Theatre

Casper Hijlkema
Daria Kristal
Netherlands

Timber Pavilion - A multi-sensory experience of wood

Matteo Fraticelli
Motomi Morii
Martin Lee
United States

The Forest Pavilion

Dareen Abuaboud
Sara Shuaib
Canada

Hanging Ceilings

Diego Sierra Mora
Mexico

Timber Pavilion

Alan Morrissey
United Kingdom

TP : Trunk Pavilion

Jacques Veyre de soras
Manon Renault
France

The Forest Pavilion

Shiny Son
Australia

The Northern Warming Huts

Ashwin subramaniyan Meenakshi sundaram
Rick Martell
Canada

The Monolith

Predrag Vujanovic
Sweden

The Whispering Shell-ter

Weronika Plata
Wiktor Stankiewicz
Poland

WOOD IS DANCING

Milica Karamarkovic
Austria

EMERGERE

Michele Blaser
Lucia Thea Zanti

Accademia di Architettura, Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Switzerland

Timber pavilion

Dmytro Melnyk
Ukraine