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INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION

THE UNKNOWN RENDER CHALLENGE

RESULT ANNOUNCEMENT!

FOREWORD

The Unknown is an architectural rendering competition organized by artuminate in association with archiol, this competition received 137 entries from around the world.


Scroll down to check the winning entries.

Top Three

FIRST PLACE WINNER

Purva Jain

United States

SECOND PLACE WINNER

Huang Jiayu & Zhang Yumeng

China

THIRD PLACE WINNER

Yue Wu

China

FIRST PRIZE WINNER

Pixels Exploded

Purva Jain

United States

"You don't mention it, but in a world where architects are now designing for the metaverse... whatever that is... our concepts for our digital / physical worlds need to transcend the real and enter into the unknown. The way you have articulated your idea in text and image sits well together and begins to form the idea for me of what our future digital spaces may become? See where this research may take you, its produced a nice aesthetic and way of thinking + writing."

-Lawrence Daykin

SECOND PRIZE WINNER

Jellyfishing village

Huang Jiayu & Zhang Yumeng

China

"Your idea is morally and ecologically loaded, and an interesting concept - I am confused as to whether your solution would be ecologically beneficial to the ocean as a whole - but perhaps that is the unknown, this is the question your project asks, are we finding the right balance between human and nature?
Great visual with a good balance between 2D and 3D - I like that your visual encompasses a concept and not a completed project."

-Lawrence Daykin

THIRD PRIZE WINNER

The Unknown

Yue Wu

China

"Unfortunately when we look at the world of plants they ARE made up of complex + ordered assemblages - there is a lot of documentation to this point. Research your concept in greater depth. However your area of study is unique and i like where you are going, the visual does communicate this well and draws me in - i would like to know more, how can this project grow?"

-Lawrence Daykin

SPECIAL MENTION

HONOURABLE MENTION

New Organic Urbanism & Architectural Thins in the Unknown Area.

Geunho Min

"I love your 1950's space exploration collage aesthetic, and you make a good point that new architectures are built from exploration, but i wonder if you could communicate this message more effectively without entering into the fantastical world of floating cities seen in movies?"

-Lawrence Daykin

HONOURABLE MENTION

A City

Abhishek Gandhi

"Nice renderings - is this a city or a science park though?
This could easily support research / text about the idea of utopia or distopia - youre right, why are cities so grey? is this an unknown, or something we can dig deeper into and propose methods of making our current cities less grey?"

-Lawrence Daykin

HONOURABLE MENTION

The air purification unit at the intersection

Fan Shengwu, Wang Zelun & Lin Manqian

"You identify a huge problem, and propose a well considered and radical solution - however your render doesn't quite capture the message for me. Well documented and well executed though."

-Lawrence Daykin

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