2021 international Student tall building Design Competition Winners

The 2021 International Student Tall Building Design Competition ran on the theme of "Future of Humanity", which relies on the collective benefits of urban density; reducing both land consumption and the energy needed to construct and operate the horizontally dispersed city. Tall buildings must now be the vehicles for creating increased density not just through sheer height, but by connecting multiple layers of the city. Physical urban infrastructure, circulation, greenery, and urban functions traditionally restricted to the ground level would all, ideally, continue up and into the building, such that the buildings themselves become an extension of the city: a part of the two-dimensional horizontal urban plane flipped vertical. See more information on the four winners and projects below.

 

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Winner: 1st Place

Smart Cube +/Fast-Assembling COVID-19 Prevention Olympic Village, Tokyo 

Chien-Hsun Chen, Han-Yu Lai, Chun-Yi Yeh, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

 

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.


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2nd Place

INFLUX, Belgrade

Marijana Gajic, University of Belgrade

 

The INFLUX high-rise, a co-living tower in Belgrade for young professionals, is a part of a strategy to curb “brain drain” by encouraging skilled technicians and scientists to remain in Serbia, or motivate young, educated people trained abroad to return or become transnational. Symbolically, the design is located in New Belgrade, a part of the city developed in the 1950s and initially populated by students, living in the pavilion dormitories of Student City. The budling, positioned at an attractive location in Block 17, aims to offer new opportunities and better living and working conditions that will attract talent and retain citizens.


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3rd Place

Waste Rig - Pudu Eternal Market, Kuala Lumpur

Nik Muhammad Idzham Shah Abdul Hadi, Universiti Teknologi Mara

 

Kuala Lumpur generates 3,500 metric tons of bio-waste daily. Pudu Market, once the city’s economic gem, has degenerated over time and earned a reputation for being unclean. The Waste Rig was conceived to manage the daily waste of the city and turn it into treasure. As a waste-to-energy plant with spaces for markets and other activity, the project contributes to a circular, thriving and more sustainable economy.


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4th Place

The Seed, Kuala Lumpur

Lee Ze Bin, Chor Zhao Gen, Lim Chen Hee, Tan Yu Qin, and Lau Chi Ying, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman

 

Rapid urbanization and excessive population growth have caused the fragmentation of the greenery in most of the cities around the world. People are living in a “concrete jungle” environment, under high pressure. The design concept of The Seed is intended to build a home for all humankind, flora and fauna, to celebrates the nature to which humans originally belong. The proposed tower is located in one of the city’s most prime zones, serving as a “green catalyst” to attract local urban dwellers and tourists, leading to a substantial improvement in the living quality of the place. The Seed consists of modular containers intersecting between different themed farming platforms, the concept of which is inspired by the transverse plane of the plant that secures the harmonious coexistence between humankind and nature. 


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