Introduction

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Iceland Volcano 
Coffee Shop
Official partner
Iceland Volcano 
Coffee Shop

Buildner is excited to announce the results of the Iceland Volcano Coffee Shop Competition! This event is part of Buildner’s Iceland Competition Series - past events have included the Iceland Greenhouse Restaurant competition, Iceland Cave Tower competition, Iceland Volcano Museum competition, among others.

For this event, Buildner, partnered with Landeigendur Voga, was calling for architects and designers to submit designs for a coffee shop that would be located at the base of the Hverfjall volcano in northern Iceland. The proposed facilities would include a new visitor centre and exhibition room to provide visitors with information about the volcano’s history. The competition brief called for submissions balancing practical ideas with creative design that is sustainable, unique, and in keeping with the region’s extraordinary landscape.

Buildner worked with an excellent international jury: Marshall Blecher, co-founder of MAST, a maritime architecture studio based in Copenhagen; Borghildur Indriðadóttir, an artist that lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland; Marta Frazão, Filipe Rodrigues, and Inês Vicente, partners at Atelier Data, a Lisbon-based architecture office; Sigrún Sumarliðadóttir, co-founder and Principal of Studio Bua, an architectural practice with offices in London and Oslo, whose portfolio includes the renovation of an Icelandic farmhouse and cultural centre; Yu-Ying Tsai, a lead architect at Shanghai-based ZJJZ Atelier; and Magic Kwan and Kenrick Wong who run OOA - Orient Occident Atelier, a Cambodian architectural studio.

Buildner and its jury team thank all the participants for their submissions!

We sincerely thank our jury panel
for their time and expertise

Marta Frazão

Partners at Atelier Data

Portugal

Filipe Rodrigues

Partners at Atelier Data

Portugal

Inês Vicente

Partners at Atelier Data

Portugal

Sigrún Sumarliðadóttir

Studio BUA

UK

Yu-Ying Tsai

architect at ZJJZ Atelier

China

Kenrick Wong

Orient Occident Atelier

Hong Kong

Borghildur Indriðadóttir

Teiknistofan Óðinstorgi

Iceland

Marshall Blecher

Founder at Studio Marshall Blecher & Co-founder at MAST

Denmark

1st Prize Winner +
Client Favorite

Project name

The Underhill experience

We decided to participate in architecture competitions because we wanted to expand our horizons, think outside of the box and fight creative burnout. We perceive competitions as a way of expressing and presenting our own ideas.

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Authors
Weronika Plata
Wiktor Stankiewicz
Country
Poland

2nd Prize Winner +
ARCHHIVE STUDENT AWARD

Project name

Volcano Visitors Centre

Competition is a fantastic way to challenge ourselves, it spark our imagination and also gives a unique chance to test our ideas.

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3rd Prize Winner

Project name

Vestige

It is a way to challenge ourselves by competing with people from all over the world, whether they are students or professionals. Apart from learning new working methods that allow us to develop better as students and future architects. The competitions help us to explore architecture from a much freer perspective. Outside the academic guidelines, we find in these competitions an escape from how pigeonholed architecture can become in the classroom and we can dare to fly the imagination, to work on new ideas and to put it simply: to dare.

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AAPPAREL SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

Project name

Catalyst

Architectural competitions are opportunities for us to test new ways of representation and design. As young architects, it also allows us to forge a work methodology and to sharpen our architectural discourse. Moreover, the competition subjects allow us to push concepts quite far, and to re-use the best of them in our work.

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Authors
Clément Molinier
Philippe Paumelle
Country
France

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

Milestone towards the Apex

Authors
Jaime Argudín Fraile
Miguel Bermejo Morán
Teresa Cabezas Carreño
Country
Spain
Project name

Hverfjall Kaffihús

Author
Jesse Ewart
Country
Australia
Project name

Genista

Authors
Simone Marzorati
Silvio Lussana
Country
Italy
Project name

Volcano Coffee Dome

Author
Pietro Dardano
Country
Italy
Project name

The Hut

Author
Giuseppe D'Albenzio
Country
Italy
Project name

We are Magma

Authors
Francesco Patetta
Simone Pasini
Alvise Morandi
Elisa Montani
Country
Italy
+72 points Buildner University Rankings

Shortlisted projects

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Hverfjall Squared Coffee

Matheus Alves rocha siqueira
Thiago Macedo bento
Murilo Rayel de araujo
Bruno Wolff monaco

School City Association (Escola da Cidade)

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Brazil

Milestone towards the Apex

Jaime Argudín Fraile
Miguel Bermejo Morán
Teresa Cabezas Carreño
Spain

ICELAND VOLCANO COFFEE SHOP

Lizet Ledesma
Víctor Fonseca
Sebastián Negrete
Giuseppe Castillo

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Spain

Hverfjall Center

Graysen Babbitt
Elizabeth Daddazio
United States

Hverfjall golden ratio

Justyna Mejsner
Michelle Piasek
Bartosz Mrozowski

Poznan University of Technology , Politechnika Poznańska

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

Hverfjall Kaffihús

Jesse Ewart
Australia

Hæðirnar ("The Hills")

Milan Kapetanovic
Germany

The line of silence

Yehiel Tsubery
Israel

Volcano Visitors Centre

Kamil Bryłka

Silesian University of Technology , Politechnika Śląska

+142 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

MEGALITH

Anton Varfolomeev
Israel

COFFEE ON PATH

Agnieszka Gawron
Aleksandra Gałęza
Kamil Babiuch
Michał Pietrzak
Poland

Resting Place

Jordan Wood
JD Duffie
United States

ORBIS COFFEE SHOP

Victoria García
Matilde Alcina
Uruguay

Wayfinder

Dora Lokietek
Christina Papazoglou
Helieh Mohammadian
Christine Van hoff

architecture.redefined.

United Kingdom

FLOW

David Kirkland
Troy Hodgson
United Kingdom

We are Magma

Francesco Patetta
Simone Pasini
Alvise Morandi
Elisa Montani

Politecnico di Milano / Polytechnic University of Milan

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

Vision Roastery

Edoardo Daidone

Università Iuav di Venezia IUAV

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Italy

Iceland Volcano Coffee Shop

Zofia Konarowska
Monika Jabłońska
Igor Łysiuk
Iryna Bilous
Poland

THE HVERFJALL COFFEE SHOP

Cesar fernando Flores cuellar
Victor imre Ebergenyi kelly
Shary Ramirez montero
Valentina Bellego barrera
Mexico

Catalyst

Clément Molinier
Philippe Paumelle
France

Lava-Java

Ida Wengholt

Faculty of Engineering, LTH , Lund University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Sweden

Volcano Coffee Shop

Adam Kubica

adba

Slovakia

The Path

Adam Koniewicz
Wojciech Stróż

Praktyka Architektury Adam Koniewicz

Poland

The Floor is Lava

Matthew Lam
Pearl Cao
Canada

The Hverfjall Cafe

Maurice Demeyer
Arno Goedefroo
Géraldine Vlaeminck
Belgium

Coffee Shop under the Hverfjall Volcano

Xianglei Ding
Shuwen Chen
Manjia Ren
Yue Yin
China

Genista

Simone Marzorati
Silvio Lussana
Italy

eldfjallakaffi

José daniel Cardona
Juan Cornielles
Chile

The warmth of Hverfjall

Shayna Cini
United States

Ashes

Guillermo Rage
Mexico

Hverfjall Coffeeshop: Landscape as picture frames

Felipe Palacio trujillo
Nicolas Barrera castaneda
Colombia

HVERFJALL’S COFFEE SHOP

Diego Sierra
Flor Rodríguez
Mexico

The Wander's Break

Gabriel Andrade
Charles Janson

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Vestige

Ángel Bolaños
Fernanda Díaz

ITESM, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

+74 points Buildner University Rankings!
Mexico

Volcano Coffee Dome

Pietro Dardano
Italy

BREW

Theethaj Pholampaisathit
Thailand

The Hut

Giuseppe D'Albenzio
Italy

The Underhill experience

Weronika Plata
Wiktor Stankiewicz
Poland

THREE CANOPIES

Atsushi Ikudome
Japan

Leiðarljós (Beacon) Coffee Shop & Visitors Centre

Alex Kolar
United Kingdom