Foreword

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.

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Timber
Pavilion

1st Prize Winner +
AAPPAREL SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

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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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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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Honorable Mentions

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The Monolith

Author Predrag Vujanovic
Country Sweden
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The red cloud

Authors Gabriel Rodríguez Apolito, Franco Allia
Country Uruguay
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The Seasoning Theatre

Authors Casper Hijlkema, Daria Kristal
Country Netherlands
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BRÄDGÅRD

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

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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