2017 AAA Visionary Architecture Awards: winners
Judges and category winners. From left: Tamin Song (Undergraduate and Supreme), Sunee Yoo (Conceptual), Raphaela Rose, Elisapeta Heta, Kim Paton, Lucy Treep, Julia Gatley, Alena Milne (Postgraduate).
Tamin Song, winner of the overall Supreme Prize, receives his trophy from judge Elisapeta Heta, who also gave a keynote lecture.
Discussing Tamin Song’s Undergraduate Category and Supreme Prize work, Korero.
Aaron Paterson of Paterson Architecture Collective with the winning project in the Work in Progress category, Penumbral.
Attendees at the 2017 AAA Visionary Architecture Awards event.
Attendees at the 2017 AAA Visionary Architecture Awards event.
Supreme Prize and Undergraduate category winner: Korero by Tamin Song.
Conceptual category winner: Step into our Private Lives by Sunee Yoo.
Postgraduate category winner: Not in my Backyard: Redefining Suburbia by Alena Milne.
Work In Progress category winner: Penumbral by Paterson Architecture Collective.
Winners of the Auckland Architecture Association (AAA) Visionary Architecture Awards 2017 were announced at a ceremony on the evening of 14 December. This year, 12 projects were awarded for their exceptional visions for the future. Elisapeta Heta also presented a guest lecture reflecting on her so far short but stellar career.
The annual AAA Visionary Architecture Awards celebrate unbuilt and conceptual projects by architects, architecture students and graduates. Some are theoretical while others are already in the process of being built.
This year, there were over a hundred entries in four categories: Open Conceptual, Student Undergraduate, Student Postgraduate and Work in Progress from practitioners.
These were narrowed down to 10 finalists in each category, exhibited at the Auckland School of Architecture and Planning and judged (for the first time) by an all-female panel comprising Julia Gatley, Elisapeta Heta, Kim Paton, Raphaela Rose and Lucy Treep.
For the first time in the history of the awards, a Supreme Prize was also awarded to the best work overall. This prize went to the youngest winner, Auckland undergraduate student Tamin Song for Korero.
The judges said of the work: “A radical approach to the issue of homelessness, this scheme interrogates concepts of home utilising the frameworks of community associated with marae.”
The winners received half-size replicas of the original Marté Szirmay bronzes created for the awards in 1976.
Full list of winners below:
SUPREME PRIZE
Winner:
Korero by Tamin Song
CONCEPTUAL CATEGORY
Winner:
Step into our Private Lives by Sunee Yoo
Runner-up:
The Overlooked Palace by Campbell Taylor
Highly commended:
KIWA: Reimagining the Auckland Waterfront as a Welcome Ground by Hee Jin Elizabeth Cho
STUDENT – UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
Winner:
Korero by Tamin Song
Runner-up:
SCHUT ZEN by Abdallah Alayan
Highly commended:
Tactemble: A Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired by Henry Fraser
STUDENT – POSTGRADUATE CATEGORY
Winner:
Not in my Backyard: Redefining Suburbia by Alena Milne
Runner-up:
To Dement: Architecture of Empathy by Natasha Trumic
Highly commended:
Airy Tales by Hee Jin Elizabeth Cho
and
Gradations of Light: Te Kore, Te Po, Te Ao Marama by Amanda Wijaya
and
The Five Thousand Year Line by Mustafa Mora
WORK IN PROGRESS CATEGORY
Winner:
Penumbral by Paterson Architecture Collective
For more information on this year’s winners, see the AAA website.
The AAA Visionary Architecture Awards is sponsored by Polyflor, Katalog and Digital Darkroom.
