Foreword

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.

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Timber 
Skyscraper

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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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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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