eVolo 2019 Skyscraper Competition Winners
eVolo is an architecture and design journal focused on technological advances, sustainability, and innovative design for the 21st Century.
eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of its 2019 Skyscraper Competition. Now in its 14th year, the annual award was established to recognize “visionary ideas for building [high-rise] projects that through [the] novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments.”
This year, 3 winners and 27 honorable mentions were selected from a pool of 478 entries.
First Place
Methanescraper
By: Marko Dragicevic
Serbia
Serbian designer Marko Dragicevic placed first in the competition with “Methanescraper,” a proposal for a city district in Belgrade that serves as a “vertical landfill” for waste and recycling. The district’s towers would be built mainly of waste capsules, modular units that contain sorted trash. Methane gas produced by the decomposition of waste would be extracted by pipes, pumped into storage tanks for filtering and then sent into the generator, where the gas is burned and transformed into electricity used to power the tower and the city.
“Methanescraper” by Marko Dragicevic
Second Place
Airscraper
By: Klaudia Gołaszewska and Marek Grodzicki
Poland
In second place is the “Airscraper” by Polish designers Klaudia Gołaszewska and Marek Grodzicki. Taking inspiration from Le Corbusier’s philosophy of houses as “machines for living,” the Airscraper was proposed to help fight air pollution in Beijing. The mixed-use building is envisioned as the Chinese capital’s tallest tower and would contain three types of modules — an Air-Intake module, a Solar-Gain module, and a Green-Garden module — arranged around an inner chimney that uses the stack effect to suck in outdoor polluted air for treatment. The resulting air circulation also helps to reduce the urban heat island effect. The envisioned tower is 800 m tall and is 60 m in diameter.
“Airscaper” by Klaudia Golaszewska and Marek Grodzicki
Third Place
Creature Ark: Biosphere Skyscraper
By: Zijian Wan, Xiaozhi Qi, and Yueya Liu
United Kingdom
U.K.-based designers Zijian Wan, Xiaozhi Qi, and Yueya Liu designed the third-place winner, the “Creature Ark: Biosphere Skyscraper.” The designers created a vertical conservation skyscraper for fauna and flora. Referring to the relationship between latitude and climate zones, the skyscraper divides and simulates each climate group at a different height. It consists of five simulated ecological environments, from the bottom up: arid, tropical, temperate, continental and polar. The proposed skyscraper is willing to recall the close relationship between human beings and their mother nature by the form of architecture.
“Creature Ark: Biosphere Skyscraper” by Zijian Wan, Xiaozhi Qi and Yueya Liu
Honorable Mentions
4. Vertical Sustainable City, by BKV Group
5. Horizontal City of No Nation, by Zhichen Gong, Yong Chen, Tianrong Wu, Yingzhi He, Congying He
6. Trekking Landmark Skyscraper, by Fábio Ferreira Neves
7. Ice Dam Skyscraper, by Jae Min Jo, Geonuk Yun, Kyungjun Park, Hobin Bae, Jiyeon Kim, Weonkyung Cho, Ganghui Lee
8. Jack and the Woodstock Skyscraper, by Amanda Gunawan, Joel Wong
9. Badgir Skyscraper, by Adam Fernandez
10. Arbor Tower, by Bilal Torğul, Mücahit Bilal Goker
11. Level 5 Autonomous Green Dock Skyscraper, by Tony Leung
12. Borderland Skyscraper, by Muhammed Aydem, Burak Arifoglu, Omer Faruk Demir
13. Plastic Babel, by Jaemin Seo, Sanghoon Park
14. 2100 Singapore Gene Storage Skyscraper, by Tsung-Ying, Hsieh, Hsuan-Ting, Huang
15. Vertical City in Kaesong, by You Gundon, Lee Minwi, Kang Ryunhong, Moon Junho
16. The Floating Tower, by Piotr Yurchanka, Alexey Kunko, Vladislav Sidorenko, Dmitry Tkachuk
17. Filtration Skyscraper, by Honglin Li
18. The Clean Up Ocean Cleaning Skyscraper, by Karol Łącki, Dominik Pierzchlewicz, Szymon Ciupiński
19. Carbon Copy Skyscraper, by Dattner Architects
20. Library of Castle Skyscraper, by Zheng Tianshu, Sun Xingcan, Li Zhipeng, Ma Xinya
21. Connection One Skyscraper Network, by Thomas Gössler
22. The Sky Hub A Utopian Vision of the Future – A Colony For Humanity, by Paula Domka, Oliver Siekierka
23. Recombinant Skyscraper, by PIN Architects + Kalebodur Team
24. Bi-National Community Skyscraper, by Charles Tzu Wei Chiang, Alejandro Moreno Guerrero
25. Armature A Topophilic Tower, by Weber Thompson Architects
26. Ka’ poy yepü Skyscraper, by Zöe Russián Moreno
27. Floating Egyptian City, by Tao Qiyang, Wang Kun, Chen Ruihua, Sun Yunjuan
28. Tower of Life, by Turan Akman
29. Frozen Activity Spaces Shaped, by the Climate by Romain Josue, Corentin Fraisse
30. Memory Cube Skyscraper, by Keyi Shen, Zichao Zhong, Dingyu Li, Jian Yan, Yuan Zhang
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