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The winners of the 2017 Fairy Tales Architecture Competition

By Justine Testado|

Tuesday, Feb 7, 2017

1ST PRIZE: “Last Day” by Mykhailo Ponomarenko | Ukraine

The Fairy Tales Architecture Competition concluded another successful edition Monday evening with the anticipated reveal of its 2017 winners. The competition had its biggest winners announcement yet in front of a live audience at Washington D.C.'s National Building Museum.

The line between fictional and non-fictional is blurred in the yearly Fairy Tales Competition, which brings up evergreen topics and timely issues that constantly press on the minds of architects. No doubt, current events and ongoing global issues left an impression on many submissions this year, but many participants also wrote about the good ol' creative process, mundane everyday activities, and relatable human emotions.

“[These stories] make visible how we shape space, and in turn, how space shapes us. The images and narratives are so wildly outlandish, and yet, so grounded that it seems like we could mistakenly stumble into any of them,” commented Chase W. Rynd, Executive Director of the National Building Museum and jury member, in a statement.

The jury — which comprised of leading architects and designers (including Bustler and Archinect's very own Alexander Walter!) — selected three prize winners, an American Institute of Architecture Students winner, and 10 honorable mentions.

Without further ado, here's a glimpse of the winning entries.

1ST PRIZE: “Last Day” by Mykhailo Ponomarenko | Ukraine

1ST PRIZE: “Last Day” by Mykhailo Ponomarenko | Ukraine
1ST PRIZE: “Last Day” by Mykhailo Ponomarenko | Ukraine
1ST PRIZE: “Last Day” by Mykhailo Ponomarenko | Ukraine

Synopsis: “The entry utilizes classical painting techniques to create monumental landscapes with strange scifi megastructures inserted into them. The relatively mundane occurrences in the story make it feel like these wild scenes could in fact be real.”

From the winner: “Landscapes have always inspired me to put something weird, unreal and out of human scale into them. Something not feasible and not practical that contrasts with the natural surroundings, but also exists at the same scale. These satirical interventions lead to new ideas and feelings about nature - they make the viewer more aware about the environment and our harmful impact on it. We are flat surface creatures. Sometimes I feel that we crave it so much that the planet is going to be turned into pavement so cars can go anywhere, and our industries could continue expanding. The "Saturn Rings" in my proposal represent these flat surface desires but in a more poetic, optimistic, and friendly manner.” — Mykhailo Ponomarenko

2ND PRIZE: “City Walkers” by Terrence Hector | Chicago, IL

2ND PRIZE: “City Walkers” by Terrence Hector | Chicago, IL
2ND PRIZE: “City Walkers” by Terrence Hector | Chicago, IL
2ND PRIZE: “City Walkers” by Terrence Hector | Chicago, IL

Synopsis: “‘City Walkers’ or ‘The Possibility of a Forgotten Domestication and Biological Industry’ tells a beautiful story of a sentient species of architecture that moves slower than humans can perceive. That doesn’t stop human beings from harnessing every possible bit of energy from “The Walkers” in addition to spawning settlements in their wake.”

From the winner: “The city in this story was an exploration of civilization and urbanism as humanity’s relationship with natural and biological systems that exist on a vastly longer timescale than the human lifespan. Creating a closer relationship time-wise between human and natural timeframes let me derive a new urban typology, which also acts as a parable of overexploitation. I was trying to work through an inferred genealogy from the USS Monitor to Hayao Miyazaki, working through a tradition of humanizing massive, aggressive machines.” - Terrence Hector

3RD PLACE: “Up Above” by Ariane Merle d’Aubigné & Jean Maleyrat | France

3RD PLACE: “Up Above” by Ariane Merle d’Aubigné & Jean Maleyrat | France
3RD PLACE: “Up Above” by Ariane Merle d’Aubigné & Jean Maleyrat | France
3RD PLACE: “Up Above” by Ariane Merle d’Aubigné & Jean Maleyrat | France

Synopsis: “‘Up Above’ is an imaginative story of refugees in the sky that build shanties on thin stilts, high in the clouds, to escape oppression, regulations, and inequality on the surface of the earth below.”

From the winners: “Revisiting the world of fairy tales by participating in the Blank Space competition was very stimulating. The short narrative takes a look at reality through the marvelous and the fantastic. We have tried to highlight contemporary issues and concerns by letting the supernatural burst into reality. Migration, the accumulation of wealth, overpopulation, the terrorist threat and pollution are some of the issues with which we live every day. We highlighted these concerns and our love of art through this poetic tale. Our generation often aspires to an "elsewhere", in our "elsewhere" the rules of the game have changed.” — Ariane Merle d’Aubigné & Jean Maleyrat

AIAS Winner: “Playing House by Maria Syed & Adriana Davis - New Jersey Institute of Technology
(AIAS Prize is awarded to the highest scoring entry from an AIAS member)

AIAS Winner: “Playing House by Maria Syed & Adriana Davis - New Jersey Institute of Technology
AIAS Winner: “Playing House by Maria Syed & Adriana Davis - New Jersey Institute of Technology
AIAS Winner: “Playing House by Maria Syed & Adriana Davis - New Jersey Institute of Technology

Synopsis: “Playing House is an exercise in illustrating the destructive power of split-personality. Starting with traditional drawings of a modest dwelling, the drawings, and in turn, the narrative, devolve into a series of accusations, misunderstandings, and multiplicity. 

From the winners: “Playing House embodies the idea that architecture can eclipse the personality of its occupants, where the character and style of the architecture dictate the mood of the inhabitants. The loud textures and discordant angles of the home sparked the idea for the story: transitioning from room to room manifests itself in drastic physical and psychological change. The drawings, the genesis of our submission, address architectural conventions of projection drawings, merged with the unconventional appearance of the home to create friction. This act is mirrored in the story, where a typical visit from a neighbor turns peculiar. The two creators of this project worked closely throughout their undergraduate career, creating an inseparable partnership for their first collaboration.” — Maria Syed & Adriana Davis

Don't forget about the Honorable Mention entries below!

To read all the winning entries in full, click here.

RELATED NEWS Recounting stories from the Fairy Tales Architecture Competition — 2017 winners to be revealed February 6!
RELATED COMPETITION Fairy Tales 2017

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The winners of the 2017 Fairy Tales Architecture Competition

By Justine Testado|

Tuesday, Feb 7, 2017

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1ST PRIZE: “Last Day” by Mykhailo Ponomarenko | Ukraine

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The Fairy Tales Architecture Competition concluded another successful edition Monday evening with the anticipated reveal of its 2017 winners. The competition had its biggest winners announcement yet in front of a live audience at Washington D.C.'s National Building Museum.

The line between fictional and non-fictional is blurred in the yearly Fairy Tales Competition, which brings up evergreen topics and timely issues that constantly press on the minds of architects. No doubt, current events and ongoing global issues left an impression on many submissions this year, but many participants also wrote about the good ol' creative process, mundane everyday activities, and relatable human emotions.

“[These stories] make visible how we shape space, and in turn, how space shapes us. The images and narratives are so wildly outlandish, and yet, so grounded that it seems like we could mistakenly stumble into any of them,” commented Chase W. Rynd, Executive Director of the National Building Museum and jury member, in a statement.

The jury — which comprised of leading architects and designers (including Bustler and Archinect's very own Alexander Walter!) — selected three prize winners, an American Institute of Architecture Students winner, and 10 honorable mentions.

Without further ado, here's a glimpse of the winning entries.

1ST PRIZE: “Last Day” by Mykhailo Ponomarenko | Ukraine

1ST PRIZE: “Last Day” by Mykhailo Ponomarenko | Ukraine
1ST PRIZE: “Last Day” by Mykhailo Ponomarenko | Ukraine
1ST PRIZE: “Last Day” by Mykhailo Ponomarenko | Ukraine

Synopsis: “The entry utilizes classical painting techniques to create monumental landscapes with strange scifi megastructures inserted into them. The relatively mundane occurrences in the story make it feel like these wild scenes could in fact be real.”

From the winner: “Landscapes have always inspired me to put something weird, unreal and out of human scale into them. Something not feasible and not practical that contrasts with the natural surroundings, but also exists at the same scale. These satirical interventions lead to new ideas and feelings about nature - they make the viewer more aware about the environment and our harmful impact on it. We are flat surface creatures. Sometimes I feel that we crave it so much that the planet is going to be turned into pavement so cars can go anywhere, and our industries could continue expanding. The "Saturn Rings" in my proposal represent these flat surface desires but in a more poetic, optimistic, and friendly manner.” — Mykhailo Ponomarenko

2ND PRIZE: “City Walkers” by Terrence Hector | Chicago, IL

2ND PRIZE: “City Walkers” by Terrence Hector | Chicago, IL
2ND PRIZE: “City Walkers” by Terrence Hector | Chicago, IL
2ND PRIZE: “City Walkers” by Terrence Hector | Chicago, IL

Synopsis: “‘City Walkers’ or ‘The Possibility of a Forgotten Domestication and Biological Industry’ tells a beautiful story of a sentient species of architecture that moves slower than humans can perceive. That doesn’t stop human beings from harnessing every possible bit of energy from “The Walkers” in addition to spawning settlements in their wake.”

From the winner: “The city in this story was an exploration of civilization and urbanism as humanity’s relationship with natural and biological systems that exist on a vastly longer timescale than the human lifespan. Creating a closer relationship time-wise between human and natural timeframes let me derive a new urban typology, which also acts as a parable of overexploitation. I was trying to work through an inferred genealogy from the USS Monitor to Hayao Miyazaki, working through a tradition of humanizing massive, aggressive machines.” - Terrence Hector

3RD PLACE: “Up Above” by Ariane Merle d’Aubigné & Jean Maleyrat | France

3RD PLACE: “Up Above” by Ariane Merle d’Aubigné & Jean Maleyrat | France
3RD PLACE: “Up Above” by Ariane Merle d’Aubigné & Jean Maleyrat | France
3RD PLACE: “Up Above” by Ariane Merle d’Aubigné & Jean Maleyrat | France

Synopsis: “‘Up Above’ is an imaginative story of refugees in the sky that build shanties on thin stilts, high in the clouds, to escape oppression, regulations, and inequality on the surface of the earth below.”

From the winners: “Revisiting the world of fairy tales by participating in the Blank Space competition was very stimulating. The short narrative takes a look at reality through the marvelous and the fantastic. We have tried to highlight contemporary issues and concerns by letting the supernatural burst into reality. Migration, the accumulation of wealth, overpopulation, the terrorist threat and pollution are some of the issues with which we live every day. We highlighted these concerns and our love of art through this poetic tale. Our generation often aspires to an "elsewhere", in our "elsewhere" the rules of the game have changed.” — Ariane Merle d’Aubigné & Jean Maleyrat

AIAS Winner: “Playing House by Maria Syed & Adriana Davis - New Jersey Institute of Technology
(AIAS Prize is awarded to the highest scoring entry from an AIAS member)

AIAS Winner: “Playing House by Maria Syed & Adriana Davis - New Jersey Institute of Technology
AIAS Winner: “Playing House by Maria Syed & Adriana Davis - New Jersey Institute of Technology
AIAS Winner: “Playing House by Maria Syed & Adriana Davis - New Jersey Institute of Technology

Synopsis: “Playing House is an exercise in illustrating the destructive power of split-personality. Starting with traditional drawings of a modest dwelling, the drawings, and in turn, the narrative, devolve into a series of accusations, misunderstandings, and multiplicity. 

From the winners: “Playing House embodies the idea that architecture can eclipse the personality of its occupants, where the character and style of the architecture dictate the mood of the inhabitants. The loud textures and discordant angles of the home sparked the idea for the story: transitioning from room to room manifests itself in drastic physical and psychological change. The drawings, the genesis of our submission, address architectural conventions of projection drawings, merged with the unconventional appearance of the home to create friction. This act is mirrored in the story, where a typical visit from a neighbor turns peculiar. The two creators of this project worked closely throughout their undergraduate career, creating an inseparable partnership for their first collaboration.” — Maria Syed & Adriana Davis

Don't forget about the Honorable Mention entries below!

To read all the winning entries in full, click here.

RELATED NEWS Recounting stories from the Fairy Tales Architecture Competition — 2017 winners to be revealed February 6!
RELATED COMPETITION Fairy Tales 2017

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