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COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Timber 
Skyscraper

Buildner is pleased to announce the results of its SKYHIVE Timber Skyscraper Challenge!

This was the sixth annual architecture competition searching for iconic and unique designs for a high rise structure. The SKYHIVE Challenge series focuses on discovering new technologies, new concepts and new materials to reimagine what a state-of-the-art skyscraper might look like and how it might function.

Buildner worked with an excellent international jury panel: Sam Brown is co-founder of Glasgow-based O’DonnellBrown; Thomas Corbasson is an associate architect of the Paris-based agency Chartier+Corbasson Architectes; Jürgen Mayer H. is the founding partner of J.MAYER.H und Partner; Claudia Munk-von Flotow is COO of Oregon, US-based Key Development; Elke Sterling-Presser and Nicolas Sterling are co-founders and directors of Sterling Presser Architects and Engineers in Berlin; Hans Jakob Wagner is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction, University of Stuttgart with a special focus on advanced computational wood building systems; and Luo Yujie is Chief Architect and founder of LUO Studio and Lecturer at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in China.

Buildner and its jury panel thank each of the participating individuals and teams that submitted ideas and proposals to this event.

We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise

Hayri Atak

Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio (HAADS)

Turkey

Charley Brentnall

Director of Xylotek

United Kingdom

Sam Brown

O’DonnellBrown

Scotland

Thomas Corbasson

Associate Architect, Chartier+Corbasson Architectes

France

Jürgen Mayer H

founding partner of J.MAYER.H und Partner

Germany

Elke Sterling-Presser

Co Founder and Director, Sterling Presser Architects and Engineers

Germany

Nicolas Sterling

Co Founder and Director, Sterling Presser Architects and Engineers

Germany

Hans Jakob Wagner

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

Germany

Luo Yujie

Chief Architect and founder of LUO studio, Lecturer at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA)

China

Claudia Munk-von Flotow

Key Development

United States

1st Prize Winner

Project name

Space Gradients

Architecture competitions offer me opportunities to think about future buildings and cities, to explore the boundaries of architecture, to study how new technologies can impact architecture.

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Author
Yanyan Zhang
Country
United States
  • 10/10 Linework
  • 10/10 Quality of drawings
  • 9/10 Balance of color
  • 8/10 Layout
  • 9/10 Hierarchy
  • 3/10 Annotation
  • 7/10 Text
  • 8/10 Clarity of story
  • 9/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 9/10 Quality of overall presentation

2nd Prize Winner

Project name

The Pro-sumer

Architecture Competitions give me the opportunity to have a break from my everyday projects and express my architectural intentions more freely. Furthermore it gives me a more clear idea of that kind of architect I want to become and develop my creativity and my tools one step further.

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Author
Sophia Michopoulou
Country
Greece
  • 8/10 Linework
  • 8/10 Quality of drawings
  • 9/10 Balance of color
  • 8/10 Layout
  • 7/10 Hierarchy
  • 8/10 Annotation
  • 7/10 Text
  • 8/10 Clarity of story
  • 8/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 9/10 Quality of overall presentation

3rd Prize Winner +
Buildner Student Award

Project name

Rebuilding Green

In the architecture contest, you encounter and challenge new things other than learning architecture at school. Team members review what they each learned in the design studio, apply and negotiate in a new way, and complete projects that could not be created alone. The whole process is not smooth and difficult, but there are definitely gains.

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University
Authors
Beom Seok Ko
Shiwon Kim
Joo Hye Lim
Eun A Jeong
Country
South Korea
+122 points Buildner University Rankings
  • 10/10 Linework
  • 10/10 Quality of drawings
  • 10/10 Balance of color
  • 10/10 Layout
  • 9/10 Hierarchy
  • 8/10 Annotation
  • 6/10 Text
  • 8/10 Clarity of story
  • 8/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 8/10 Quality of overall presentation

Buildner Sustainability Award

Project name

A New Weave in the Pattern - Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary

On one hand we can address some of the contemporary problems, on the other we can test our ideas relating to geometry, presentation, function or typology.

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Authors
Michał Spólnik
Marcin Kitala
Country
Poland
  • 10/10 Linework
  • 10/10 Quality of drawings
  • 10/10 Balance of color
  • 10/10 Layout
  • 10/10 Hierarchy
  • 8/10 Annotation
  • 7/10 Text
  • 6/10 Clarity of story
  • 9/10 Clarity of diagrams
  • 8/10 Quality of overall presentation

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

TimberTech Tower

Author
Maxwell John Smith
Country
United States
Project name

Timber Sentinel

Authors
Petar Stanojevic
Aiger Rica
Country
Austria
Project name

CUT OUT TOWER

Authors
Nelson Byun
Yufan Gao
Country
United States
Project name

Treecycle

Authors
Christian Keuschnig
Daniel Lučić
Timo Berkmann
Ingo Candussi
Country
Austria

Shortlisted projects

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Treecycle

Christian Keuschnig
Daniel Lučić
Timo Berkmann
Ingo Candussi
Austria

A New Weave in the Pattern - Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary

Michał Spólnik
Marcin Kitala
Poland

Social Condenser for Australian Indigenous in Urban Society

Jiayi Li
Australia

CUT OUT TOWER

Nelson Byun
Yufan Gao

Studio Gao-Byun

United States

Regrown Tower

Gayeon Park

Seoul National University of Science and Technology, SEOULTECH

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
South Korea

Urban village renewal skyscrapers

Yuqing Cai
Jia Cui
Xudong Wang
Jiayi Liang

Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, BUCEA

+2 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

WFH Office Tower

Wing laam Sze
Taiwan

Vertical wetlands - Filtration tower

Ronald Businge
Joseph Kasimbi
Joseph Kigozi Nsubuga
Uganda

Weaved Mangroove

Juan jose Lopez
Juan felipe Castiblanco cespedes
Maria Wiesner

Universidad de los Andes – Colombia

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Colombia

URBAN OASE

Junhyung Jo
South Korea

Space Gradients

Yanyan Zhang
United States

ARCH & VAULT SPACE

Dace Aumele
Mariam Djalili
Diana Fukse
Latvia

Algaescape

Maryam Hafid

E.N.A.T., école nationale d’architecture de Tétouan (National School of Architecture of Tetouan)

+2 points Buildner University Rankings!
Morocco

Spira Silva

Yuchen Qiu
Hao Zhong
United States

H`YN`YMA Tower

Rafael Mourão
Carolina Leschot
Caio Caccaos
Brazil

Vekst-Hus

Theodor valentin gerard Fritz
Thorbjørn hørlück Stølen
Johannes Dickmeiss

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Denmark

8x8

Olav Van der doorn
Netherlands

Fight Fire with Fire

Jihoon Kim
Brenna Fransen
United States

Timber Sentinel

Petar Stanojevic
Aiger Rica
Austria

VERTICAL NEIGHBOURHOODS

Mateusz Pura
Melike Kavalalı

Faculty of Engineering, LTH , Lund University

+2 points Buildner University Rankings!
Sweden

HUSK: embedding community

Pedro Suzan moi
Joseph Syrett

Faculty of Engineering, LTH , Lund University

+2 points Buildner University Rankings!
Sweden

THE RAMP

Antoni Bielicki
Lachlan Mitchell

Faculty of Engineering, LTH , Lund University

+2 points Buildner University Rankings!
Sweden

Symbiont: mutualistic intervention

Sofiia Rakhmanova
Vincent Tuma Fischer

Faculty of Engineering, LTH , Lund University

+2 points Buildner University Rankings!
Sweden

Timber Emergent

Marta Pawłowska
Maxime Petersen

Faculty of Engineering, LTH , Lund University

+2 points Buildner University Rankings!
Sweden

Journey in paintings

Hongyuan Lu
Xiaoqi Zou

Central South University

+2 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

The Split

Judah Braman
Henk Veld
Keegan Reardon
Hans Nelson Romine

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, California Polytechnic State University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Birtween Tower:Birds live between us

Ruitao Wang
Zhi Liu
Mingxiu Wang
Ruiyang Chen

Southwest Jiaotong University

+2 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

Bayside Fiddlehead

Henry Glennon
United States

Woody

Dario Ruotolo
Italy

Timber Crown

Graham Oakley
United States

Offices in the Logs

Yong Huang
Trevor Hibbs
Chenglang Xia
United States

Well-Stocked Baskets

Ivans Matvejevs
Anton Litovskii
Kyrgyzstan

Reforestry-breathe into concreat area

Taeho Kim
Sanghyeon Lee
Yujin Gwak
Sunhyun Kim
South Korea

Depolluting Dhaka

Sophie Imo
Urbi Mazhar
United Kingdom

Trinity on the Thames

Matt Walker
United Kingdom

Project ID 99696

Gareth Volka

The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, University College London

+2 points Buildner University Rankings!
United Kingdom

GENESIS

Reymund Lucas

Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam - AHK, Academy of Architecture - Amsterdam University of the Arts

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Netherlands

TimberTech Tower

Maxwell John Smith
United States

The Pro-sumer

Sophia Michopoulou
Greece

Rebuilding Green

Beom Seok Ko
Shiwon Kim
Joo Hye Lim
Eun A Jeong
South Korea