Student competition
On the occasion of our 100th anniversary, IB launched a student ideas competition worth a total prize money of CHF 10’000 as a gift to the next generation of architects. The task was to develop a utopia for the future learning.
The international ideas competition for architecture students on the topic of UTOPIA will be continued regularly by IB in the future.
Since its founding exactly 100 years ago, IB has been addressing architectural questions about shaping the future. Our founding fathers, Otto Rudolf Salvisberg and his protégé Otto Brechbühl, had developed a utopia of learning that led to first place in the competition for the Muesmatt Institute Building of the University of Bern in 1928. This is the inspiration for the launch of the competition: What is the strongest impression of the attitude to life, what is the organism, in Salvisberg's and Brechbühl's sense, for the future of learning? As an ideas competition for students, this question is explicitly addressed to the coming generation of architects - because their visions will shape our future.
At the beginning of September the jury gathered to evaluate the submitted ideas, which were presented at the award ceremony on 31.10.2022 in the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, followed by a panel discussion.
The jury consisted of renowned experts:
- Dr. Sabine von Fischer, TEC21 editor, owner of the Agentur für Architexte.
- Dr. Etna R. Krakenberger, Head of Teaching/Digital Officer Teaching University of Bern
- Pascal Posset, Landscape Architect BSLA, Hager Partner AG
- Shadi Rahbaran, Architect BSA, Rahbaran Hürzeler Architekten
- Andreas Ruby, Director S AM, Basel (edue to illness)
Internal jury, non-voting:
- Jürg Toffol, Partner, Member of the Executive Board, IB Basel
- Daniel Blum, Member of Site Management IB Basel, Head of Design IB Basel
- Karina Hüssner, Architect, Head of Business Development + Atelier IB
Result of the competition
The jury had a total of CHF 10’000 at its disposal to award the projects. In order to praise the diversity of approaches, the jury decided to distribute the prize money among the four winning proposals in the ranking list as follows:
1st PLACE
The project FUSILLI by Laura Die Nardo + Laura Imperiali + Charlotte Neyenhuys from the ETH Zurich (CH) is awarded CHF 4'000.
2nd PLACE
The project ISOLE by Senia Mischler + Franziska Beer from the ETH Zurich (CH) is awarded CHF 3’000.
3rd PLACE
The project Fk24091994IEX by Florent Kuqi from the TU Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig (DE) is awarded CHF 2'000.
4th PLACE
The project Le Circle Permanente by Anna Zurbrügg + Rebecca Slehofer + Eva Schneider from the FHNW Muttenz (CH) is awarded CHF 1'000.
UTOPIA Jury Report 2022 (13.5 MB)
