Winners unveiled for the CTBUH’s 2021 Student Tall Building Design Competition
The winning entries have been announced for the 10th iteration of the CTBUH International Student Tall Building Design Competition. Four winners have been selected from over 150 entries, including two teams hailing from Malaysia. The four winners focus on a variety of pressing topics in urbanism, with tall buildings that combat COVID-19, encourage innovation, repurpose waste, and strengthen biodiversity.We have republished the winning entries below, complete with a project description. You can compare the 2021 winners with the previous year by checking out the 2020 winners here. 1st Place: Smart Cube +/Fast-Assembling COVID-19 Prevention Olympic Village, TokyoChien-Hsun Chen, Han-Yu Lai, and Chun-Yi YehNational Taiwan University of Science and Technology, TaiwanProject description: "The Tokyo 2020 Olympics were postponed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, an athlete’s village is designed to prevent viral spread and minimize impact on the athletes’ health. The whole building is made up of rapidly assembled structures. It is designed to be divided between living layers, an anti-epidemic stratum, and athletic training layers, so as to reduce crowd risk and maintain the necessary training facilities for the athletes themselves."Read the full post on Bustler
The winning entries have been announced for the 10th iteration of the CTBUH International Student Tall Building Design Competition. Four winners have been selected from over 150 entries, including two teams hailing from Malaysia. The four winners focus on a variety of pressing topics in urbanism, with tall buildings that combat COVID-19, encourage innovation, repurpose waste, and strengthen biodiversity.
We have republished the winning entries below, complete with a project description. You can compare the 2021 winners with the previous year by checking out the 2020 winners here.
1st Place: Smart Cube +/Fast-Assembling COVID-19 Prevention Olympic Village, Tokyo
Chien-Hsun Chen, Han-Yu Lai, and Chun-Yi Yeh
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Project description: "The Tokyo 2020 Olympics were postponed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, an athlete’s village is designed to prevent viral spread and minimize impact on the athletes’ health. The whole building is made up of rapidly assembled structures. It is designed to be divided between living layers, an anti-epidemic stratum, and athletic training layers, so as to reduce crowd risk and maintain the necessary training facilities for the athletes themselves."
Read the full post on Bustler
