MODELLED AWARD 2026

Awarded to a standout representation produced through 3D modelling methods as the primary mode of representation. This Award recognises outstanding skill in the development and communication of form, space, and construction in any style. The Award celebrates modelling as a tool for testing, resolving, and communicating spatial ideas with precision, depth, and clarity.

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WINNER OF MODELLED AWARD 2026

Dopamine Picturesque by Leo Huang & Xiaomian Wang

University of Pennsylvania, United States

This project intervenes in the agricultural landscape of Ojai, California, exploring the tense binary relationship between nature and technology. What is our role in the natural world? Does technology heal the environment, or does it inherently conflict with it?

I designed a new farming model where machines and nature coexist on entirely different vertical layers. As humans navigate through these heights, they alternate between being distant observers and active participants. You’ll find a striking paradox: micro-moments of poetic harmony clashing with ecosystems driven into hyper-industrialized assembly lines. More than just an visual, it is sparking a vital exploration of new agricultural models.

HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR MODELLED AWARD 2026

Sewoon Sangga _ Constructing Knowledge Vessel by Yake Wang

Columbia University, United States

The drawing reinterprets Sewoon Sangga through three temporal conditions—Past, Present, and Future—revealing the evolution of productive urban networks within its surrounding fabric. The past illustrates the dense Sokgolmok alley systems of small-scale production and tacit knowledge exchange. The present captures the fragmentation caused by redevelopment and the gradual loss of informal social and spatial relationships. The future proposes an open-ended architectural framework that transforms horizontal alley networks into a vertical system of circulation, interaction, and adaptable production spaces, enabling existing communities and knowledge systems to persist and evolve over time.

HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR MODELLED AWARD 2026

Himalayas Frontline: A Waterscape against Climate Change by Yichen Li

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

This project proposes a self-sustaining living and producing commune system in Bhutan, which faces intensifying seasonal droughts and floods caused by melting glaciers. It strengthens disaster resilience while securing water, food, energy, and cultural continuity.

Presented as a triptych from mountain peak to river valley, it draws on vernacular Buddhist architecture to shape resilient habitats: floating villages for climate migrants, a wind and hydropower promenade for weaving and dyeing, and upper stream water communes for flood and drought management.

Through micro-dams, reservoirs, co-living units, irrigation, monitoring, and flood diversion, the scheme forms a ritual productive landscape where spirituality and productivity coexist.

COMMENDED FOR MODELLED AWARD 2026

Cubic Onion - Render by Florian Oberascher, Emil Dube, Lukas Flohr & Katy Grossmann

Technische Universität München, Germany

Located in the creative quarter in the north of Munich, the building is deliberately designed to open up towards Dachauer Street, in such a way that the large, open areas in the middle zone of the ground floor allow views from the street to the inner courtyard. The bland surroundings are thus integrated into the lively quarter, which is enriched by the Cubic Onion as a creative think tank. The large-format, openable gates on the ground floor serve as a link between the outdoor area and the interior, where you first enter the corridor, which is enveloping the whole building and is not only intended for the pure function of circulation, but also as a social meeting place and additional space for pin-ups or exhibitions.

SPECIAL MENTION FOR MODELLED AWARD 2026

Barbershop and Mr Mok by Ker-Shing Ong, Joshua Comaroff & Kun Yi James Lim

Singapore

Set amidst Shanghai's urbanisation in the 2000s, the drawing documents a now demolished Shikumen tenement alleyway which houses a barbershop and an abutting residence of an elderly Mr Mok. Produced as part of a study, initiated by Ong Ker-Shing, examining Shanghai's unique system of growth as influenced by a series of "invisible handshakes" — compromises between market forces and the local Shanghai's Party fiefdoms — the drawing documents one such unique response to its urban form. An informal yet elaborate interior logic of miniaturisation is unfolded through a dollhouse perspective constructed from multiple projections.

SPECIAL MENTION FOR MODELLED AWARD 2026

Crosswise Along The Warp by Henry Evans

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Crosswise Along the Warp draws from the language of weaving, where tension, deviation, and interlacing begin to produce form. The project explores architecture as something woven into the conditions of site rather than imposed upon it, allowing the urban grid and geographical alignment of the harbour to operate as competing strands within the same fabric. To move “crosswise along the warp” is to resist the dominant grain, to shift, pull, and distort against established order. The drawing becomes an exploration of these tensions, tracing the way spatial, environmental, and directional forces are threaded together through architecture.

SPECIAL MENTION FOR MODELLED AWARD 2026

Consumed Layers by Halie Kim & Mishal Alradadi

Pratt Institute, United States

The Market strips back the skin of the city to expose what commerce has always hidden in plain sight — the pipes, the platforms, the machinery of exchange buried within the bones of history. Beneath ornate facades and Gothic arches, the infrastructure of consumption runs raw and unashamed. This is not decay, nor nostalgia. It is an honest section through a building that was always a market, and a market that was always a building — one revealing the other, neither winning.

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