Archcontest - Architecture and Design Competitions

1st Prize

Authors: Gisela Athaya Aglin, Viory Hizkia Hutauruk, Yahya Ayyash
Country: Indonesia
A perceptual installation that explores the human eye’s blind spot as a metaphor for our difficulty in recognizing nature’s invisible processes of transformation and regeneration. Through portals designed to intentionally limit vision, visitors observe landscapes marked by change while the brain attempts to reconstruct the missing visual information. The image becomes partial, blurred, and unstable, questioning the boundary between reality, absence, and perception. The project invites us to look beyond what is immediately visible and to recognize nature’s silent ability to heal.

2nd Prize

Author: Zhengzheng Wang
Country: China
The project explores plants as interconnected living systems capable of communicating through chemical, root-based, and electrical signals. Architecture becomes an active space where species from different climates interact with one another and with human presence. Light, wind, soil, and movement shape these relationships, creating a shared biological environment in constant transformation.

3rd Prize

Authors: Beste Aykut
Country: USA
The project explores architecture as a perceptual phenomenon rather than a fixed physical object. Through layers of translucent surfaces, moiré patterns, light, and controlled visual effects, the room continuously shifts according to the observer's position, movement, and time spent within it. Inspired by the principles of Schrödinger's paradox, the space exists in multiple potential states until perception defines a temporary reality. Instead of presenting a single architectural form, the installation transforms observation into the true act of construction, questioning where architecture begins and how space emerges through human experience.