MIXED MEDIA AWARD 2024

MIXED MEDIA, HYBRID AND ALTERNATIVE REPRESENTATIONS

Recognising works produced through the bridging of two or more media methods, which can also include physical and digital media methods; of any typology, view and in any style.

A Speculative Bathhouse by Tsz Hei (Adrian) Lee

Winner of Mixed Media Award 2024

University of Hong Kong

‘"A Speculative Bathhouse" is a hybrid drawing, an evolution and combination of collage, line drawing, and hand drawing with graphite pencil. It explores the potentials of methods of drawing as an intuitive exploration, such as hand-drawn extrusions of the plan from sections constructed through collage. The simple act of extrusion is a speculative act; there was no preconceived design dictating the pencil's path. If done digitally, the speculative aspect of it is weakened. Speculating with the hand liberates the imagination from the limits of digital tools. Hand drawing in graphite pencil further introduces materiality and shading, adding depth to the sectional construct.’

Judges’ Comments

“The architectural drawing must be celebrated. The process of working in plan, section, detail and holistic vision simultaneously. An equisite composition of thinking and controlled draftsmanship has resulted in a winning drawing.”

Rituals of Woven Silk by Anna Pang

Highly Commended for Mixed Media Award 2024

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

‘Through abstracting the “Venetian act” of silk velvet weaving into a method of architectural construction, the rituals within this project aim to address the loss of craft in the endangered city. This craft revival enables protest against the detrimental impact of tourism, which has eroded the city’s rich national heritage and condensed its identity into the commodified image of “Veniceland.” Leveraging the concept of identity in the “third space”, the project engages in a nuanced exploration of heritage ownership through a design language that delicately navigates the emerging East-West dichotomy.

The drawing shows a view into the Great Hall intervention within the shell of the Old School of Mercy in the Canneregio District of Venice.’

Architecture as a Relic by Daryln Sia

Commended for Mixed Media Award 2024

Taylor's University College, Malaysia

‘The building develops a patina of growth and age overtime as reminiscent of what came before. It embraces the force of nature’s time as the building forms as a medium of rooting the place, literally and figuratively.’

Nakagin Lived by Endrit Marku

Special Mention for Mixed Media Award 2024

Albania

‘Nakagin Tower seen as a the Metabolist monument that was and the lived building that it was meant to be. References from the old communist housing blocks of Tirana were inspirational to the work. These modest, supposedly rigid, structures where adapted to their inhabitants' needs, while Nakagin stopped transforming after its construction negating its own nature. In the background, dominated by the monument there is an old, organically shaped neighborhood.’

Discourse in Deconstructing by Aleksandar Pilyov

Special Mention for Hand Drawn Award 2024

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

‘This piece is the first drawing potentially discovering the spatial vacuums hiding underneath things. In deconstructing matter from space, I draw a footprint of its past occupancy. The vertical lines constructed relate to the construction lines in the photograph. Pictoriality is in the dotting technique and brings more to the shadows and the space underneath. Photograph and drawing collage, ink on tracing paper A2 size (420x594mm).’

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