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Buildner is pleased to announce the results of its first annual Virtual Home competition! 

The Virtual Home competition launched Buildner’s Virtual Architecture competition series, which will focus on designing in virtual space. Architects and designers were asked to conceive a virtual home. Without physical limits, what important considerations would need to be made for a virtual home? In what context do designers choose to place their virtual homes? What are the relationships linking a virtual home with a physical home, or virtual architecture with physical architecture?

Buildner received submissions from around the globe, each positing what virtual design means, and defining what might be needed to make a virtual home a ‘home’.

We collaborated with an all-star jury, which included individuals that work within the industry of ‘physical’ architecture, as well as designers that are currently pioneering the multi-faceted, borderless and developing field of ‘virtual’ design. The jury included: Xuanru Chen, a lead architect at Shanghai-based ZJJZ Atelier; James Delaney, the Chairman of the Block by Block Foundation, a non-profit partnership between UNHabitat, Mojang and Microsoft which uses Minecraft as a community participation tool in urban design; Víctor Enrich Tarrés, a Barcelona-based photographer and artist that explores the connections between the digital and the non-digital worlds; Samista Jugwanth, an engineer and Associate at South Africa-based Zutari; Krista Kim, a contemporary artist and founder of the Techism movement, whose “Metaverse home” was the first NFT homesale in history; Lydia Kallipoliti, an architect, engineer, scholar and an Assistant Professor at the Cooper Union in New York; Balkan Karisman, a generative artist with a CG background; Stephen Pimbley, a British architect based in Singapore and is the founding director of SPARK Architects; and Monika Woźniak, an architect and 3d designer from Poland and founder of Antireality.

Buildner and its jury thank all designers that participated in this event, and congratulate the winners for their outstanding ideas.

We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise

Víctor Enrich Tarrés

Barcelona-based photographer and artist

Spain

Monika Woźniak

Architect and 3D designer, Antireality

Poland

Stephen Pimbley

British architect based in Singapore and is the founding director of SPARK Architects

Singapore

Xuanru Chen

architect at ZJJZ Atelier

China

Krista Kim

Contemporary artist and founder of the Techism movement

 

Samista Jugwanth

Associate and shareholder

Zutari

Balkan Karisman

Generative artist

Turkey

Lydia Kallipoliti

Tallin Architecture Biennale, ANAcycle thinktank

USA

James Delaney

Chairman of the Block by Block Foundation

USA

1st Prize Winner

Project name

VH#10210

We find competitions compelling and challenging. They are a great opportunity to sharpen our workflow and organizational skills, while tackling new and interesting topics. Our line of work is still developing and is very dependent on current trends, which is why it is easy to lose focus. Competitions require us to think and work fast, while retaining a sense of art direction. They also bring a great amount of exposure to our work.

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Authors
Roman Krajcarz
Marko Blazevic
Luka Jecic
Country
Croatia

2nd Prize Winner

Project name

Virtual Memory

We believe participating in architecture competitions is a great way to challenge yourself to find innovative and creative solutions to design problems. For this specific competition, the chance to explore and play with a virtual environment was very exciting for us. We felt very "free" throughout the process since the scope of the competition allowed us to experiment with different elements and go beyond limits.

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Authors
Ipek Duzova
Ertug Erpek
Kaya Emre Gonencen
Country
Turkey

3rd Prize Winner

Project name

The Neo-Dimension

We participate in architectural competitions to strengthen our skill set and see how we stack up against other architects across the globe. moreover, observe various architectural trends. Along with adding more exciting projects to our portfolios.

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Authors
Shahd Serhan
Mariam Farrah
Rawan Da'na
Country
Jordan

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

Pixel Tree House

Author
Lisa Giolitto Cereser
Country
Italy
Project name

The Digital Hearth

Author
Jack Dalgleish-Morel
Country
Canada
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

Unfinished Home - Place for a quadriplegic army officer

Authors
Stiven Rojas Sierra
Ana María Gaitán Ávila
Country
Colombia
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

Metacave

Company
Authors
Alessandro Rigamonti
Marco Fabris
Stefano Capuzzo
Elia Citron
Country
Italy
Project name

Meta- surfing house

Authors
Bochuan Zheng
Jiayi Cai
Xuhan Zhao
Country
United States
+72 points Buildner University Rankings

Shortlisted projects

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The Memory Box

Collette Raine
Wendy Perring
Mina Egbhal

PAD studio

United Kingdom

Cyclical in Nature

Randi Bradley
Nora Cao
Nicole Erickson
Constanza Ferreiro

LNG Studios

Canada

Retirement ‘Forest’ Home

Martin Borquez
Alexis Alvarado
Felipe Quispe

Federico Santa María Technical University, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Chile

Showcase Home

Carlos Tapia

Federico Santa María Technical University, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Chile

Home_net

Chun kit Cheng
United Kingdom

Customizing Domesticity (and Radicalizing the Situation)

Zhuofan Ma
Yicong Shan
United States

Meta- surfing house

Bochuan Zheng
Jiayi Cai
Xuhan Zhao

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Unfinished Home - Place for a quadriplegic army officer

Stiven Rojas Sierra
Ana María Gaitán Ávila

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Colombia

Desert House

Roberto Gallegos noreña
Mexico

Nest

Sara Sá
Portugal

Virtual mundane

Shahaf Blumer
Israel

PANDAWA EXPRESSIONS

Yelina Khosasih
Jennifer Aurelia fanjaya

Universitas Pelita Harapan , Pelita Harapan University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Indonesia

VH#10210

Roman Krajcarz
Marko Blazevic
Luka Jecic
Croatia

BlockChain.

Gerardeus firstov Yesaya widjaya
Edmund serrano Budiarta
Derryl justine Setiawan
Kenenza Woosnam

Universitas Pelita Harapan , Pelita Harapan University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Indonesia

Winter Virtual Land

Minyoung Choi
Grace Davidson
United Kingdom

Contiguous Spaces

Gaetano Drago
Elisa Paneni

Architectural Association School of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United Kingdom

The Cube

Zhu Cao
China

The Neo-Dimension

Shahd Serhan
Mariam Farrah
Rawan Da'na
Jordan

Metacave

Alessandro Rigamonti
Marco Fabris
Stefano Capuzzo
Elia Citron

QDS

Italy

Vireal Home

Romann Jouet
Paul Cazaux-debat
Jules Dacheux

France

welcome to my world

Hanna Hajda
Urszula Sędziak
Poland

PHYGITAL HAUS

Tianze Wu
Shuang Feng

SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Hyperhome

Natalia Suchy
Monika Marszoł
Joanna Wiekiera

Silesian University of Technology , Politechnika Śląska

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

Villa Triunity

Matt Walker
United Kingdom

Metaverse House

Shen Tun
Zhang Yu‘nan
Tang Yu
Mao Jia‘yi

Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

The Virtual Village

Del Terrelonge
Canada

Met-a-partment

Junseok Kim
South Korea

I-RIS

Natalie Lewis
Nk3 Ltd

NK3 LIMITED

Hong Kong

CUBE YOUR HOME

Hong kiu Wong
Tsz chiu Lau
Hong Kong

The Virtual Home Base - https://world-005.herokuapp.com/?realm=v1%7Eworld-005.herokuapp.com&position=0%2C1

Luke Escobar
United States

Virtual Memory

Ipek Duzova
Ertug Erpek
Kaya Emre Gonencen
Turkey

Lunar

Linnea Lujak

Faculty of Engineering, LTH , Lund University

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Sweden

Pixel Tree House

Lisa Giolitto Cereser

Italy

ULU TEPUI

Miguel angel Andrade
Bensu KILCI
Spain

The Digital Hearth

Jack Dalgleish-Morel
Canada

MIND GALLERY - Virtual home

Zlata Rybchenko

Desirum

United Kingdom

Voronoi

Samuel Higgwe
Marc Northstar
Eve Tobey
United States

ARCADE HOME

Ana maría Garzón soto
Laura alejandra Rodríguez ruiz
Carlos eduardo Parra pajoy
Camila Morales
Colombia

Ophanim

Marcel Dawid
Anita Wiśniewska
Brian Dam
Poland

111 - Nourish Your Soul

Laura Kupka
Bjarki snaer Smarason
Birta run Armannsdottir
Suzan Amato

IED Istituto Europeo di Design

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy