A MONUMENT TO A MEMORABLE EVENT
JURY REPORT

JURY
Ashley de Vos – Academic and practitioner, Sri Lanka
D. B. Nawarathna – Practitioner and Convener of ARCASIA Awards, Sri Lanka
Kerry Clare – Practitioner, Architectus and teacher, Australia
Catherine Slessor – Editor, The Architectural Review, UK

The jury met on 15 February at the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects in Colombo and appraised a total of 91 submissions. These were reduced to 19 schemes for further consideration. Six projects reached the final shortlist and from these, four awards were made. A further 14 were selected for the exhibition of winners and selected entries held at the 19th CAA General Assembly and Conference in Sri Lanka from the 16th-20th February 2010. These entries were selected individually by jury members indicating their preference with a star (for example 2 stars indicates that 2 jury members selected the entry for exhibition).

SUMMARY
The jury was deeply impressed by the high quality of the five winning submissions. All are extremely worthy winners. More generally, it was also impressed by the imagination of the students in the great and unusual range of events they chose to commemorate. However, many schemes failed to respond to the potential of their chosen programmes and many designs were unresolved or derivative, which is perhaps understandable at this level. There was also an evident gap in design and presentation quality between students with access to CAD and those who still have to rely on hand drawing. Nonetheless, the CAA Student Competition can still encourage feats of excellence, as the winning submissions resoundingly demonstrate.

1st Place
Entry No. 91
Simon William Crockford
6th Year. University of Nottingham School of Built Environment Nottingham, United Kingdom

This highly sophisticated and sensitive scheme commemorates the long history of quarrying in the village of Twyn yr Odyn in rural Wales. Its unorthodox choice of subject matter is the cauterisation of an industrial past and how this can be reclaimed and reconnected to the present through physical and experiential means. The jury admired the scheme’s powerful yet poetic response to its site, an infilled former quarry that would gradually be re-excavated over time. Jurors were also impressed by the forensic level of detail, indicating the great thought that had clearly gone into the project. An especially elegant and lucid presentation brought complex ideas vividly to life. A unanimous and outstanding overall winner.

Digested Landscapes
 

2nd Place
Entry No. 89
Thomas Ibbotson
4th Year. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

A cliff top structure commemorates New Zealand’s worst maritime disaster, the sinking of the Wahine ferry in 1968 with the loss of 53 lives. Jurors thought the relationship between a dramatic site and emotive subject matter extremely well handled. The building both looks outwards to the site of the sinking and inwards to focus on the poignant historic and human impact of the disaster. A tranquil internal realm provides a fitting space for contemplation. The quality of the presentation was also admirable.

The Wahine Disaster

Joint 3rd Place
Entry No. 74
Harry Croucher
2th Year. Unitec New Zealand

A memorial to a particularly bloody internecine Maori conflict in the late 17th century, which introduced muskets to tribal warfare with devastating consequences. Armed with these new weapons, one tribe succeeded in virtually wiping out members of another. Mauaharanui means ‘place of great wrongdoing’ and the project tactfully steers visitors around the cliff and beach where the massacre took place. The jury was impressed by the thoughtful reciprocity between architecture and place, and the robust yet dignified quality of the individual buildings.

Mauaharanui
    

Joint 3rd Place
Entry No. 65

8TH INTERNATIONAL STUDENT COMPETITION     A MONUMENT TO A MEMORABLE EVENT JURY REPORT JURY Ashley de Vos – Academic and practitioner, Sri Lanka D. B. Nawarathna – Practitioner and Convener of ARCASIA Awards, Sri Lanka Kerry Clare – Practitioner, Architectus and teacher, Australia Catherine Slessor – Editor, The Architectural Review, UK The jury met on 15 February at the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects in Colombo and appraised a total of 91 submissions. These were reduced to 19 schemes for further consideration. Six projects reached the final shortlist and from these, four awards were made. A further 14 were selected for the exhibition of winners and selected entries held at the 19th CAA General Assembly and Conference in Sri Lanka from the 16th-20th February 2010. These entries were selected individually by jury members indicating their preference with a star (for example 2 stars indicates that 2 jury members selected the entry for exhibition). SUMMARY The jury was deeply impressed by the high quality of the five winning submissions. All are extremely worthy winners. More generally, it was also impressed by the imagination of the students in the great and unusual range of events they chose to commemorate. However, many schemes failed to respond to the potential of their chosen programmes and many designs were unresolved or derivative, which is perhaps understandable at this level. There was also an evident gap in design and presentation quality between students with access to CAD and those who still have to rely on hand drawing. Nonetheless, the CAA Student Competition can still encourage feats of excellence, as the winning submissions resoundingly demonstrate. 1st Place Entry No. 91 Simon William Crockford 6th Year. University of Nottingham School of Built Environment Nottingham, United Kingdom This highly sophisticated and sensitive scheme commemorates the long history of quarrying in the village of Twyn yr Odyn in rural Wales. Its unorthodox choice of subject matter is the cauterisation of an industrial past and how this can be reclaimed and reconnected to the present through physical and experiential means. The jury admired the scheme’s powerful yet poetic response to its site, an infilled former quarry that would gradually be re-excavated over time. Jurors were also impressed by the forensic level of detail, indicating the great thought that had clearly gone into the project. An especially elegant and lucid presentation brought complex ideas vividly to life. A unanimous and outstanding overall winner. Digested Landscapes   2nd Place Entry No. 89 Thomas Ibbotson 4th Year. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand A cliff top structure commemorates New Zealand’s worst maritime disaster, the sinking of the Wahine ferry in 1968 with the loss of 53 lives. Jurors thought the relationship between a dramatic site and emotive subject matter extremely well handled. The building both looks outwards to the site of the sinking and inwards to focus on the poignant historic and human impact of the disaster. A tranquil internal realm provides a fitting space for contemplation. The quality of the presentation was also admirable. The Wahine Disaster Joint 3rd Place Entry No. 74 Harry Croucher 2th Year. Unitec New Zealand A memorial to a particularly bloody internecine Maori conflict in the late 17th century, which introduced muskets to tribal warfare with devastating consequences. Armed with these new weapons, one tribe succeeded in virtually wiping out members of another. Mauaharanui means ‘place of great wrongdoing’ and the project tactfully steers visitors around the cliff and beach where the massacre took place. The jury was impressed by the thoughtful reciprocity between architecture and place, and the robust yet dignified quality of the individual buildings. Mauaharanui      Joint 3rd Place Entry No. 65 Aisan Kianmehr 3rd year, University of Putra, Malaysia Set in Tehran’s Azadi Square, this imaginative and provocative project draws public attention to the scandal of last year’s Iranian presidential election and the wave of protest and political activism that was sparked off in its wake. Jurors admired the scheme’s strong urban design quality and the way in which the building captured, articulated and memorialised public discontent. Once these four main awards had been agreed upon, the jury made a final award for the best submission by a student in either their first or second year of study. This was as follows: The Green Movement Best Submission by a First or Second Year Student Entry No. 72 Matthew Roberts 2nd year, Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand The 1840 Treaty of Waitangi marked the founding of New Zealand. Today, only a flagpole starkly commemorates the historic site where the treaty was signed. Enhancing and emphasising the connection between colonialism and indigenous people, this project places a series of Maori stele around the site. Made of timber, the stele will weather over time. The jury thought this a simple yet highly effective response to the challenges and complexities of commemorating nationhood. Back to the Future - The Treaty of Waitangi 01 Star Entry No. 11 Robert Meyerson 1st year, Faculty of Architecture Design & Planning The University of Sydney, Australia. Warra- Warra Memorial 01 Star Entry No. 53 Banceanu Maria- Cristina 1st year, The University Of Liverpool School of Architecture Foundation Building 765 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69 7ZX 77' Memorial- Bucharest, Romania 01 Star Entry No. 43 MD. Fuad Abdul Quaium, Amitava Debnath, MD. Moshfiqul Isalm, MD. Mizanuar Rahman 5th, 5th,4th,3rd Years; Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Bangladesh. Memorial and Visitor Centre for Sundarbans Forest 01 Star Entry No. 71 Harold Pham 2nd year; Unitec New Zealand National Crash Memorial 01 Star Entry No. 18 Daniel Tjong 2nd year, Taylor’s University College, Malaysia The Visitor Interpretive Centre for Brothers Read 02 Star Entry No.12 Deligianni Eleni-Olga, Mavrigiannaki Aggeliki, Nana Marianna, Theochari Dimitra, Vrouva Antigoni 5th year; National Technical University of Athens, Greece A Crack in History 02 Star Entry No.66 Joydeep Mondal 3rd Year; School Planning and Architecture New Delhi, India Nandigram Humanity Corridor No graphic 02 Star Entry No.73 Nicholas Parkes 2nd Year; Unitec New Zealand Memorial to the Tangiwai Disaster 02 Star Entry No.34 Joanne Taylor & Maya Ferriere 5th, 5th,4th,3rd Years; University of Technology Sydney Australia Black Saturday Bushfires   02 Star Entry No.76 Hermann Matamu 2nd Year; Unitec New Zealand Kate Sheppard 02 Star Entry No.15 Ronald yoh Keng Kui 2nd Year; Taylor's College Malaysia Operation Lalang- 1987 02 Star Entry No.36 Mishuk Datta, Mohammad Abdul Awal, Mohammad Mazharul Haque 4th Years; Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Bangladesh (BUET) Sand Wip ' 1991 03 Star Entry No.30 Manus Leung, Feifei Feng, Jianlong Lee 3rd Year; University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia Black Saturday Bushfires/ Austalia (Kinglake Memorial Park + Visitor Centre) 03 Star Entry No.46 Florence Teo Lee Wei Diploma Year3 Semester 05; Limkokwing Institute of Creative Tecvhnology Ghosted Memories of Gambier Street     Copyright © 2003 Commonwealth Association of Architects UK Charity No 288022 PO Box 508 Edgware HA8 9XZ United Kingdom Tel / Fax: 44 20 8951 0550 Email: Supported by a grant from