Ryterna modul Architectural Challenge 2021: Tiny House

Ryterna modul Architectural Challenge 2021: Tiny House

2021 12 08

While we struggled through 2020 and it seemed to be never ending year, we waited for 2021 to bring hope and ordinary life back to its tracks. Oh boy we were wrong!
We would like to say thank you to everybody who registered and submitted their works to us. It was a real pleasure to go through your works and see all of those sometimes really crazy ideas, which hopefully will see their implementation if not with us, maybe with somebody else, as some proposed projects we got we saw as non-modular construction.
Discussion with jury was also not so straight forward. Jury selected bunch of works for consideration and while main part of the works was mutually agreed to be selected to TOP 10, over discussion period and consideration, TOP works has changed positions several times. So without any further redo here are our conclusions:

Let us introduce you to this year WINNERS of Ryterna modul Architectural challenge 2021 TINY HOUSE!


First place – PEGHOUSE.3

Architects: Constantina Golemi, Evangelia Siskaki, Evgenia Chatziioannou – Undergraduate Architecture students from Greece

What attracted you to join this competition?

The small scale challenge along with the cohabitation of different space uses and last but not least, the interesting idea of the natural surroundings of the forest as canvas for the project.

Was it very difficult to design you project?

The most difficult part is to create the perfect spatial conditions in such a small scale without forgetting to keep an intresting form for the current func- tions. But of course the fact that it was a fun creativity game with a dose of challenge made it even more interesting and less difficult to follow.

Would you recommend to someone to look for our competition and join it next year?

Absolutely yes. There is no reason for someone not to attend this competition. Extra space for creativity, teamwork and an interesting challenge is always a YES for us!

Their LinkedIn pages:

Constantina Golemi, Evangelia Siskaki, Evgenia Chatziioannou

 

Second place – 2020713713

Architects: Yi Qi, Pei Li, Guang Li, Yanqiao Zhang, Yongbo Qu – China

What attracted you to join this competition?

Design topic: Prefabrication and module design methodology - Tiny house is our research topic.

Was it very difficult to design you project?

“The form innovation in 3*3*9 volume, component define and combination and finally MEP integration” - gave them the drive to work on this project.

Would you recommend to someone to look for our competition and join it next year?

Yes, we would!

 

Third place – LJW520

Architect: Jiawei Liang – China

What attracted you to join this competition?

I have always been in love with modular architecture, which is the new direction of contemporary architecture. 

Was it very difficult to design you project?

The search for the feasibility of the modules, as well as the advancement of the form, is intriguing and overall a controllable design.

Would you recommend to someone to look for our competition and join it next year?

Of course, it's a fun, professional competition.

 

Honorable mention – 9176173538 

Architect: Roman Padurar  – Russia

What attracted you to join this competition?

I participated in your competition last year. I really liked it, although I did not take any prize. I was looking forward to what the task would be this year. I really enjoy working with small spaces and houses especially, so such contests are very interesting to me.

Was it very difficult to design you project?

The task is really interesting and not an easy one.I can't say that it was very difficult, but not very easy either. The difficulty was that initially I didn't quite understand the task correctly. So, the first week I did not work quite in the right direction. But some ideas came in handy anyway.

Would you recommend to someone to look for our competition and join it next year?

Yes, I will recommend your competition to my fellow architects who are interested in the topic.

Link to his Porfolio

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Here you can look at the projects that won:

On behalf of all Ryterna modul team we say a truly big THANK YOU for all of you who took time and effort on think, designing and presenting your ideas to us.

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For our this year competition, we ask you to design a tiny house module that might function as a getaway for a few days, a workcation place, a small sauna with amenities, or even some extra proposed function by the competitor. The tiny house should be based on modular construction and have unified elements.

All relevant information can be found Project BriefRules and Regulations file.

REGISTRATION FORM

The three winning projects will be awarded the main prize:

Ist place – 1 000 EUR
IInd place – 500 EUR
IIIrd place – 250 EUR

Competition dates:

End of registration - 2021 October 15th

Submission of the final work - 2021 November 15th (23:59 EET/UTC+2h)

Competition results announcement – 2021 December 6th (CHANGED TO 2021 December 8th)

 

Commission/Jury:

-       Andrius Orlovas (JSC “Ryterna modul“ board member)

-       Arūnas Visockas (JSC “Ryterna modul“ CEO)

-       Donatas Cesiulis (architect at “Sprik”, Ryterna modul competition 3rd place winner 2014 and 2015 (Vilnius, LT))

-       Ernest Shtepani (PhD in Achitecture; Currently lecturing at Metropolitan University of Tirana (Tirana, AL))

-       Ignas Uogintas (architect and partner at “Do Architects” (Vilnius, LT))

-       Kęstutis Vaikšnoras (architect/lecturer at “Dvieju grupe“ (Kaunas, LT))

 

See our passed competions:

Ryterna modul Architectural Challenge: VACATION HOUSE 2020

Ryterna modul Architectural Challenge: SUBURBAN HOUSE 2019

Ryterna modul Architectural Challenge: TINY HOUSE 2018

Ryterna modul Architectural Challange: RESTAURANT 2016/2017

Ryterna modul Architectural Challange: SOCIAL HOUSING 2015