Foreword

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.

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Virtual 
Home

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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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
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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

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