eVolo Announces 2015 Skyscraper Competition Winners

First Place: “Essence Skyscraper” / BOMP (Ewa Odyjas, Agnieszka Morga, Konrad Basan, Jakub Pudo). Image Courtesy of eVolo

Written by Holly Giermann
Published on March 31, 2015

From 480 submitted projects from around the world, three winners and 15 honorable mentions have emerged at the top of eVolo’s 2015 Skyscraper Competition. Recognizing innovative highrise designs of the future, the competition emphasizes the role of technology, material, spatial organization, and their combined contribution to the natural and built environments. This year’s winners showed exceptional promise in adaptive vertical communities, and explored their ideas through imaginative and resourceful means.

Check out the winners and honorable mentions, after the break.

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First Place: "Essence Skyscraper" / BOMP (Ewa Odyjas, Agnieszka Morga, Konrad Basan, Jakub Pudo)

The proposal is an urban mega-structure that contains diverse natural habitats. The skyscraper would serve as a place to briefly escape urban life and stimulate diverse and complex experiences.

Second Place: "Invisible Perception: Shanty-Scraper" / Suraksha Bhatla and Sharan Sundar

Second Place: “Shanty-Scraper” / Suraksha Bhatla and Sharan Sundar. Image Courtesy of eVolo

The project seeks to provide housing, work and recreational spaces to the inhabitants of Chennai city’s slum in India. The skyscraper is designed to reutilize the city’s post-construction debris including pipes, corrugated metal sheets, timber, etc.

Third Place: "Cybertopia: Future of an Architecture Space, Death of Analogous Cities" / Egor Orlov

Third Place: “Cybertopia” / Egor Orlov. Image Courtesy of eVolo

[This proposal] reimagines the city of the future as the combination of digital and physical worlds – a city that grows and morphs instantly according to our needs.

Honorable Mention: "Exploring Arctic: Multifunctional Complex in Dikson Harbor" / Nikolay Zaytsev, Elizaveta Lopatina

Honorable Mention: "Bio-Pyramid: Reversing Desertification" / David Sepulveda, Wagdy Moussa, Ishaan Kumar, Wesley Townsend, Colin Joyce, Arianna Armelli, Salvador Juarez