Velux Award 2014

A team of four students from Beijing won the award for Students of Architecture with a beautiful and profound exploration of the role of daylight in modern urban life.

At the Award event of the International VELUX Award 2014, a team of four students from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, takes first prize with their project “Light, Revitalization”, a beautiful and profound exploration of the role of daylight in modern urban life.

Taking their starting point in the city of Beijing, a testing ground of new architecture, the winning team from the Tsinghua University decided to search for the valuable things that should be preserved from the past and reconnected to modern life.

The jury praises the project for its maturity and for presenting something entirely plausible and feasible, tying together old Chinese traditions and new ways of looking at these traditions. The scheme demonstrates a deep understanding of the role of daylight in a city scale, in a social scale and in a cultural scale.

The jury characterizes the second prize as fantastic, tying aspects of science fiction with the real world in a very mature approach, animating a demilitarized zone as an artificial cloud. The project “Morning Glory Cloud” is created by two students from Hanyang University and Hongik University in Seoul, Korea, as an inspiration to think about the possibility of the invisible Korean boundary’s disappearance.

The third prize winning project “Light of Hope” aims to bring glows of hope and lighting to the millions of people living in refugee camps around the world. The jury found the project both cost effective, practically feasible and with a human quality expressing the sincere social engagement of the team of four students from the University of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy, Sofia, Bulgaria.

In addition to the prize winners, the jury awards two special mentions, both from China, and seven honourable mentions representing Canada, Italy, Denmark, Bulgaria and China. All prize winners and honourable mentions have been decided unanimously by the jury.

Second Prize, “Morning Glory Cloud” by Jaebong Jeon, Keunyoung Lim. Teacher: Heejune Whang. School: Hanyang University & Hongik University. Country: Republic of Korea

Third Prize, “Light of Hope” by Snezhina Aleksieva, Zhenya Atanasova, Tsvetomira Ivanova, Pavel Tsochev. Teacher: Plamen Bratkov. School: University of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy, Sofia. Country: Bulgaria

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“The Dancing of Light” by Zhengyu Cheng, Jackie Leong Shong Yong, Zhaoqi Ge, He Huang. Teacher: Gong Dong. School: Tsinghua University. Country: China. The project works with a meditative space with a spatial ambience created by light reflected in semi-transparent cocoon-shaped structures. Each cocoon has its own direction – reflecting the light underneath

Special Mention, “Dyeing the Sunshine” by Sun Erqi, Yu Xiao, Han Shilin. Teachers: Zheng Ying, Zhang Xin-nan, Hu Yike. School: Tianjin University. Country: China. The project, conceived for the Fez in Morocco, is honoured for its re-use of existing structures as well as for the conceptual and colourful idea

Honourable mention, “Light-Memory of the Wounds” by Huang Haiyang, Bai Jiachen, Min Jiajian. Teacher: Hui Wang. School: Tsinghua University. Country: China. The project represents a very simple idea and a very strong political statement against violence and war. The gesture of putting flowers into the wall makes references to putting flowers on a grave – or to offering flowers to the fighting soldiers – trying to make the truly awful very beautiful

Honourable mention, “Northern Lights” by Jeremy Upward, Katherine Morawietz, Jessica Lam, Samantha Clark, Suvik Patel. Teacher: Tammy Gaber. School: Laurentian University. Country: Canada. In Northern Ontario, ice fishing is a very popular pass-time: the project is a translucent ice hut that blends into the landscape during daytime

Honourable mention, “Socialight” by Cristiana Brindisi. Teacher: Francesco Leccese. School: Università di Pisa. Country: Italy. The project suggests a social network, where daylight conditions are recorded and shared over time using smartphone pictures that are recognised by time, day, exact position and weather conditions

Honourable mention, “The Body Architectonic” by Lea Olsson. Teachers: Frans Drewniak, Kenneth Warnke, Ingela Larsson. School: Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole. Country: Denmark. The project offers a proposal for a future health cluster in East London where a range of health professionals, i.e. general practitioners, dieticians, physiotherapists and social workers, will work together

Honourable mention, “Diving Lights” by Vladimir Krastev, Stoytcho Stoev. Teacher: Tsvetomir Dzhermanov. School: University of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy, Sofia. Country: Bulgaria. The project looks at the opportunity to expose the remains of the ancient Thracian capital Sevtopolis, which is hidden under the waters of a lake. Hollow cones, like funnels, with sets of magnifying lenses are submerged into the water and serve as spotlights

Velux Award 2014

A team of four students from Beijing won the award for Students of Architecture with a beautiful and profound exploration of the role of daylight in modern urban life.

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