DRAWING OF THE YEAR 2020: THE WINNERS

The theme this year was Hand Me A Drawing, a celebration of the analogue ways of drawing.

“Drawing is such a powerful tool. It has been forever the ultimate form of expression of ideas in our profession before and after, but even beyond, architecture is built.

Nowadays there is an urgent search for ways of representing desires, dreams but more than ever using a tool to open different channels of communication to allow our practice to expand its limits and be able to include the other that is currently not represented.”

– Tatiana Bilbao, member of the jury.

2nd PRIZE

Angela Lehner (AU)
Edinburgh school of architecture (UK)

THE STRIPPERS CLUB

The Strippers’ Club is the attempt to create a contemporary appropriation of the Working Men’s Clubs. Based in Edinburgh’s Exchange Financial District it is a club for strippers to socialise, participate, play, build, wax, organise as other workers do and have done for a long time. A space to celebrate their work, perhaps to help out with daily struggles by providing certain services, but mainly just giving a lot of choice. The building is composed around specific views, texture and movements.

3rd PRIZE

Rosa Prichard (UK)
Aarhus School of Architecture (DK)

ANALOGUE SUSTAINABILITY, THE CLIMATE REFUGEES OF SAN FRANCISCO

This pencil-drawn plan is a fragment of an inhabited flood-defence wall in which climate refugees can mourn the loss of their homes. The spectacles of water purification and energy production are celebrated, encouraging respect for our most precious resources. The project explores togetherness and climate action, both particularly relevant in the wake of Covid-19. The wonder of the analogue is celebrated through architecture and drawing, to capture atmospheres which the digital simply cannot.

Special mention

Anna Guseva (RU)
Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering (RU)

THROUGH THE MONUMENT VALLEY

We are stunned by natural wonders and remnants of the past. Colossal rocks, like natural Monument Valley or man-made Stonehenge, provoke thoughts on how humans and nature co-exist. In the city, people need iconic memorials of natural awe and co-existence, the new Monument Valley! Let’s set ‘mountainous’ mixed-use levels in urban housing, with terrace-hiking tracks outside and endless-height caves inside. It is an urban quest to regain awe for nature and creativity. Find it. Solve it. Feel it.

Special Mention

Laurits Honoré Rønne (DK)
The Royal Academy, Institute of of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape (DK)

ORBIT ILLUSTRATION STUDY

The drawing examines human flow at night around a circular illuminated kiosk at Nørreport Station in Copenhagen. In the drawing, I have been working with the experience of getting enveloped in light when you walk towards the illuminated kiosk at night. I began the work by walking towards the kiosk at different tempi and tried to put myself in orbit.

Special Mention

Vladimir Balasanyan (RU)
École Nationale Supérieure Paris-Malaquais (FR)

ARCHISCULPTURE

It is the interaction of forms, textures and silhouettes that makes architecture. In a certain sense, architecture becomes sculpture. But where is the line between sculpture and architecture? How do we move from one scale to another? These are the questions I was wondering about when I created this work.

Special Mention

Karim Shammazov (RU)
Kazan state university of architecture and civil engineering (RU)

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In the modern world, most cities are overloaded. The best solution is to create a single center, so we will unload the city and combine useful areas in one place. It perfectly combines all the entertainment and business centers. It will be a great place for recreation, work, housing and sports for everyone.

Special Mention

Yennifer Johana Machado Londoño (CO)
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín (CO)

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES OF THE COVID-19 QUARANTINE IN LATIN AMERICA

In times like these, when those places hosting public and collective activities are permanently asleep, residential spaces gain importance largely in terms of their flexibility. If the public realm, and its expression in the city, is the great equalizer between all peoples, in our fragmented cities this need for spaces that adequately serve as vessels for humanity has put in evidence, once more, the inequalities present in our history that are forever imprinted in the built environment.