Foreword

Bee Breeders is wrapping up its first country-based architecture competition series, with its third prospective site located in northern Iceland. 

This international call for ideas tasked participants with proposing a design solution for a Volcano Museum near Hverfjall volcano in Iceland's Dimmuborgir region. 

The famed Hverfjall Volcano has a large, circular crater measuring roughly 140 meters deep and 1,000 meters wide, estimated to have been created 2500 years ago by a volcanic explosion. 

The craters dimensions make it one of the largest on land in the world. Today, two walking paths permit visitor and trekker access to the rim of the crater - one from the northwest, and one from the south. 

For the Iceland Volcano Museum competition, Bee Breeders sought submissions for a multi-purpose exhibition hall with café and informational space, as a landing point for visitors to the Hverfjall. 

The intent for this building is to be flexible, the capacity to host 3 to 4 temporary installations simultaneously. The program brief also called for an office complex, with 15 to 20 workspaces, meeting rooms, private offices, and open-plan office spaces for employees. 

The proposed site, located between Myvatn Lake and the Hverfjall, is stark, yet stunning. A goal for this potential new landmark is to create a place for visitors which enhances the experience of this beautiful natural site. 

The submissions took full advantage of this environment not only to locate an exhibition space, but also to design a building integrated with its surroundings. Many sought to re-create the volcano in form, with large circular or conical volumes and crater-like inner courts. Others used volcanic rock or local stone to clad or serve as the structure for the building. The jury, above all, sought clear and sensitive design ideas for buildings that materially and visually connected with the landscape, without artificially attempting to mimic it. 

Bee Breeders applauds the winning and shortlisted entries below, and to all of the participants that offered design ideas for this Volcano Museum. 

We look forward to hosting other future country-based competition series, which focus Bee Breeders' global audience of architects on a specific and unique region, through a selection of local sites that might benefit from new buildings, installations, or design ideas.

COMPETITION ORGANISERS
Iceland 
Volcano Museum

1st Prize Winner

Project name

The Windows of Hverfjall

Competition is a great way to challenge ourselves, test ideas and get a better understanding of our design approach.

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Authors Balint Iszak, Csenge Gyorgyi
Country New Zealand

2nd Prize Winner +
BB STUDENT AWARD

Project name

Crater II

We seek to compose architectural quality, with a philantrophic intention, which we believe makes a difference for the people engaging with it. The architecture competition can make this possible.

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Authors Christian Kamp, Adrian Hildrum
Country Denmark
+144 points Buildner University Rankings

3rd Prize Winner

Project name

Hverfjall Volcano Museum

Participating in architectural competitions gives you a unique chance to express your ideas and challenge yourself against an exciting brief. In addition, it also provides an opportunity to learn how to create and present a coherent narrative around your idea.

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Authors Artur Chyra, Malwina Wojcik
Country Poland

BB GREEN AWARD

Project name

PROMENADE

Competitions for us are a great way to develop our creativity and express our vision of architecture. We participate in vision competitions when we find extra time in our office work, as it gives us the opportunity to think in design issues more than in our daily work.

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Authors Sergi Pérez Muñoz , Belén Rodríguez Vázquez
Country Spain

Honorable Mentions

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Project name

IVM (ICELAND VOLCANO MUSEUM)

Author Craig Nener
Country Australia
Project name

Iceland Volcano Museum

Project name

Hverfjall Volcano Museum

Project name

Tektonik

Authors Agnieszka Baszak, Paweł Danielak, Bartłomiej Bruzda
Country Poland
+72 points Buildner University Rankings
Project name

A house for the mind

Authors Ignacio Perez, Pablo Menéndez, Héctor Termenón
Country Spain
Project name

The Core

Authors Natalia Kędziorek, Bartosz Karasiński, Dawid Krzeszowiec
Country Poland
+72 points Buildner University Rankings

Shortlisted projects

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Myvatn Volcano Museum

Richard Beckett

Yang Gao

United Kingdom

IVM (ICELAND VOLCANO MUSEUM)

Craig Nener

Australia

Hverfjall Museum

Forrest andrew Meyer

United States

JÖRÐ | ELDUR

Nate Kirk

Washington State University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

Krater

Laurianne Saffache

Barbara Pekmezian

France

The Völuspá Natural History Museum

Mckean Shave

Rory Peckham

Cameron Gordon

Canada

ICELAND VOLCANO MUSEUM

Nodar Dekanosidze

Ana Tevzadze

Georgia

Tektonik

Agnieszka Baszak

Paweł Danielak

Bartłomiej Bruzda

Poznań University of Technology

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

Douglas Hanson

Arsenios Zachariadis

Diana Cerri

Priscila Villalpando

United States

Nota de paisaje escrita en danza

Carlos Balaguer garcía

Universidad Antonio de Nebrija

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Spain

Crater II

Christian Kamp

Adrian Hildrum

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

+144 points Buildner University Rankings!
Denmark

SKYR

Linas Janavičius

Vytautas Bagdanavičius

Tomas Kudzmanas

Augustas Pronckus

Lithuania

The Fictile Gallery

Anthony Monica

United States

Split of time

Alexandra Gorovaya

Andrew Shablinski

Belarusian National Technical University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Belarus

THE CRACK

Elias Brulin

Daniel Nolkrantz

Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Sweden

The Windows of Hverfjall

Balint Iszak

Csenge Gyorgyi

New Zealand

Ana laura Teper

Ezequiel D'elia

Erik adriel Gómez rojas

Argentina

Iceland Volcano Museum

Michał Gawron

Łukasz Gąska

Marta Sowińska-Gąska

Poland

Hverfjall Volcano Museum

Artur Chyra

Malwina Wojcik

Poland

PHENOCRYST

Kan Nagasawa

Riku Miyahara

Haruka Uraji

Japan

AVAA

Florent Sauvineau

France

The Floating Black Volcano

Xinyi Wang

Australia

Hverfjall Volcano Museum

Tony Jemmott

Ruairi Roberts

James Cameron

Chris Wardle

Australia

ICELAND VOLCANO MUSEUM

Nicole Venegas

Camila Rosas

universidad andres bello

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Chile

Deconstruction and Remodeling of Crystals

Fu Yi

Su Xing tong

Huang Hua yan

ZHENG MIAO JIE

Central China Normal University

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

ICELAND VOLCANO MUSEUM

Ekaterina Voronova

Alexander Simonov

Russian Federation

VOLHALLS | Myvatn Volcano Museum

Alexander Ryabskiy

Ksenia Kharitonova

Aleksandra Pshenitsyna

Grigoriy Suzdalev

FAS(t)

Russian Federation

Permanent Exhibit: Haverfjall Volcano

Robert Cha

United States

Lost in Landscape

Fraser Carroll

Anna Fogh

Denmark

PROMENADE

Sergi Pérez Muñoz

Belén Rodríguez Vázquez

Spain

Crystalline Epicenter

Michael Lin

Zheng Gu

Apoorva Rao

United States

The Ice Pyre

Luca Scardulla

Riccardo Gelmini

Linda Consiglieri

Federico Robbiano

Italy

Huldufólk's home

Arthur Schmitt

France

The Cathedral

Ismael Soto

Carlo Sturken

United States

The Core

Natalia Kędziorek

Bartosz Karasiński

Dawid Krzeszowiec

Silesian University of Technology

+72 points Buildner University Rankings!
Poland

ICELAND VOLCANO MUSEUM

Yuting Zhang

Ranu Singh

United States

Close to nature

Cai Jianan

Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
China

SPRUNGA

Nina Kuka

Technische Hochschule Köln

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Germany

BURNED MUSEUM

Lionel Delforge

Grégory Amand

Belgium

Ash Museum

Sebastian Maher

Australia

A house for the mind

Ignacio Perez

Pablo Menéndez

Héctor Termenón

Spain

The Fold

Bo Zhang

Yuanyuan (rachel) Li

Canada

FIELD

Bradley Edwards

Laurence Mcmahon

Matthew Wilson

United States

Conical Intersect

Emrah Kuşener

Hande Erdoğan

Faruk Yıldırım

Turkey

Myvatn Centre

Tobia Zambotti

Iceland

post/ eruption

Idan Ben hamo

Alon Lifshitz

Israel

Simon Vangrootheest

Rae Koshida

Daniel Nguyen

Jason Sedar

Canada

Hell Frying Pan

Bogdan Bondarenko

Kristina Belikova

Oleksandr Lazurenko

Kostiantyn Bondarenko

Ukraine

volcano Hverfjall museum

Alyona Savelyeva

Sergey Kiselyov

Russian Federation

Volcanic Roses

Aohan Li

Wenpeng Bi

Yi Zhong

China