Hybrid

Winner - Lockdown prize

Victor Hugo Azevedo, Cheryl Lu Xu
Robert A. M. Stern Architects, New York, USA

Aeroplane Tower, 2020

Autodesk Sketchbook for the Ipad Pro

‘Covid-19 halted air travel and exacerbated affordable housing shortages. If aeroplanes are buildings that fly, why not upcycle them as building materials? Our proposal of vertically stacking decommissioned aeroplanes into a residential tower also creates the poetic irony of sending flightless aeroplanes back to the sky.’

Find out more about the entrants in an interview with the Soane Youth Panel

Winner - Overall winner & hybrid category

Clement Laurencio
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK

Apartment #5, a Labyrinth and Repository of Spatial Memories, 2020

Pencil on paper, Rhino

‘Locked in my home, I am left with memories of times and places past… The dwelling, set in London, re- creates atmospheres of places remembered from a recent voyage to India. Separate pencil hand-drawings (over a Rhino base), are digitally composed, corrupting and curating places into a labyrinth of spatial memories.’

Jeff Stikeman
Robert A. M. Stern Architects, New York, USA

Choate Colony Hall, 2019

Free-Hand/Photoshop/Wacom Monitor/Cinema4D

‘Executed during an extended planned hiatus from professional work, during a difficult time, this became a contemplative exercise, almost meditative. Commissioned by RAMSA as a gift for their client, a collector of Piranesi’s works, it renders RAMSA’s own design for Choate Colony Hall as a ruin, with homage paid to Piranesi, and references to Hubert Robert.’

Find out more about the entrant in an interview with the Soane Youth Panel.

Jono Yoo
University of Aukland, New Zealand

Mechanical Theater of Smash Palace, 2019

Digital painting/rhino 3d/Vray Renderer/hand- drawing

‘This project depicts a world, ‘Autopia’, where a car-oriented urbanism has transformed the city and exacerbated the crisis of our civic sphere.’