CHART Architecture 2022 Now Open

This Year's Finalists

Working tirelessly over the past week, our finalist teams have now erected five ambitious and innovative temporary pavilions in the Charlottenborg courtyards, each responding to this year's competition theme: Bio Architecture.

This year's finalist teams include:

- BIOSACK (Anders Lynderup, Michael Skov and Marie Louise Thorning)

- DUNE (Anders Fønss, Javi Barriuso Domingo, Victor Lacima Medina and Gonzalo Rivas Zinno)

- Elisa and the 11 Swans (Studio AX - Jack O’Hagan and Bex Browne)

- a music box (team softspace.digital - Tessira Crawford and Dilara Özlü)

- Inhabiting Ecologies (Nikolaj Emil Svenningsen, Sean Lyon, Søs Christine Hejselbæk)

Elisa and the 11 Swans

Elisa and the 11 swans sparks curiosity about the origins and stories of bio-materials, by exploring their entanglements within natural, cultural and economic landscapes.

As these stories are shared, we are able to value the presence and possibilities of natural materials.

This pavilion translates H.C Anderson's tale, The Wild Swans, into architecture that celebrates the regenerative and renewable bio-materials that originate in Denmark.

Elisa— the protagonist of the tale, who has to knit eleven jumpers to save her brothers—is represented by a spruce timber A-frame: a simple system designed for disassembly and reassembly.

This timber is cut from a forest near Aarhus, where responsible forestry methods are essential for the longevity of the land and the future of the building industry.

BIOSACK

The BIOSACK pavilion is a reinterpretation of the traditional seaweed houses of Læsø Island. It playfully contrasts the voluminous aesthetic of seaweed to the structure of traditional wooden construction.

The pavilion responds to the need for sustainable architecture, using material that stores atmospheric carbon dioxide bonds, rather than emitting them.

The aim is to encourage visitors to sense the pavilion, urging them to reflect on and reconsider the use of biogenic architectural materials. Fast-growing seaweed is used for roofing, while oyster shells make up the floor on which a bar—made of seaweed plates—stands.

These materials provide a vibrant and tactile experience to the pavilion’s guests, who are given the opportunity to touch, smell and eventually eat the oysters that are served in the bar.

Carefully detailing and constructing the wooden connections, the pavilion is built to be dismantled, rebuilt, and reconfigured in a new context.

BIOSACK was made possible with the generous sponsorship from STARK Gentræ, STARK Group, Søuld, Vilsund Shells, Antidark and Melbjerggaard potatoes.

Befitting the use of marine materials, the pavilion partners with Rouge Oysters, who will be serving champagne and oysters to create a holistic experience.

a music box

"a music box" began with a forest clearing – its soft shadows, the wind and birds – weaving several stories together – from East and Southeast Asia, Northern Europe, and North America – to form an architecture that is familiar yet unfamiliar.

“a music box” developed after re-visiting the door and its role in dividing the interior from the exterior — the private from the public — re-imagining the door into a series of twelve revolving doors that never close.

This developed into a continuously changing, flickering facade — reminiscent of interactions between people, the wind and its doors. “a music box” is made from biophilic- and bio-materials.

These various materials are applied during the fabrication of the pavilion’s structure, roofing and finishes as a result of traditional and digital techniques and tools.

“a music box” has been made possible with the support of the Danish Art Foundation, Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfonden, the Royal Danish Academy, CITA, Maker, Quirky Moose, Lille Bakery, Il Buco & La Banchina.

Inhabiting Ecologies

“How might natural and man-made structures cohabitate and be in dialogue with one another?“

Inhabiting Ecologies investigates the properties of mycelium. In the building sphere, this root-like fungal structure—consisting of branching filaments—is being considered more and more as an alternative composite material.

Inhabiting Ecologies, conversely, delves deeper into the generative behavior of the organism. By making use of the productive attributes of this fungal network, we are inviting nature into the pavilion, surrendering the architectural agency to mycelium’s creative process.

The mycelium culture feeds off a substrate—in this case the sawdust created during production as well as waste coffee grounds sponsored by Apollo Bar & Canteen—and spreads its spores across a piece of woven organic textile, creating a collaborative environment and microcosm.

Inhabiting Ecologies investigates the boundaries between man-made and natural forms by working within the set parameters of a box—inspired by the neo-classicist architecture of Charlottenborg—which the fungal network can populate. The pavilion is brought to life through the organism, which it in turn continues to host in a live form.

Competition Jury

A huge thank you goes out to this year's competition jury: of architect and founder of Bjarke Ingels Group, Bjarke Ingels; founder of The Circular Way and author of Danish Design Heritage & Global Sustainability, Ditte Lysgaard Vind; speculative artist and designer, Pleun van Dijk; architect and co-founder of architecture and design studio Snøhetta; Kjetil Trædaal Thorsen; sculptor Johanne Hestvold and, gallerist and founder of Copenhagen-based gallery Etage Projects, Maria Foerlev.

This Sunday, the jury will make their official rounds of the pavilions before deciding on which team will be the recipient of the prestigious first prize award. Stay tuned for more information!