The Structure Drawing Prize 2023 has introduced its total winner – Eldry John Infante, additionally the winner of the hybrid class of the competitors, who impressed the jury along with his transformation of an out-of-use oil platform, which inspires dialog that ‘goes past the construction’s physicality’. Utilizing ink on paper and Adobe Photoshop, the Filipino architect, designer and artist remodeled the North Sea oil-rig right into a constructing that evokes regeneration and sustainability.
The Structure Drawing Prize 2023: the general winner
Infante’s (Re)membering the See Monster wowed the judges with its dynamic composition. ‘We had been impressed by this skilful and detailed drawing, which has been digitally manipulated to create a really dynamic and assorted composition,’ mentioned head of exhibitions at Sir John Soane’s Museum and prize choose, Louise Stewart. ‘One of many drawing’s specific strengths is the best way through which it makes use of quite a lot of visible languages, all of which convey details about how buildings work.’
General Winner and Hybrid Class Winner, Remembering the See Monster by Eldry John Infante
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Eldry John Infante)
The Structure Drawing Prize 2023: the class winners
Sponsored by Iris Ceramica Group and at present in its seventh yr, the competitors celebrates three classes – hand-drawn, digital, and hybrid – with one prize for every class, in addition to one total winner.
This yr acquired over 250 entries, most being hand-drawn. Grundtvig by Ben Johnson is introduced as that class’s 2023 winner. His work is impressed by Copenhagen’s Nineteen Twenties Grundtvig Church made utilizing six million bricks. The execution of the Grundtvig Church drawing was so managed and exact that it ‘turns into a significant expression of how Ben experiences structure’, the jury wrote.
Hand-drawn Class Winner Grundtvig III by Ben Johnson
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Ben Johnson)
Eugene Tan is awarded the digital class prize. Exploring the vulnerability of our planet, Tan’s drawing The Archatographic Map of the Incomplete Panorama on Pedra Branca focuses particularly on Singapore.
‘This lovely, skilful and complicated drawing expands the same old vary of representational potentialities provided by maps,’ mentioned The Structure Drawing Prize judges Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell (aka Langlands & Bell), describing Tan’s entry. ‘By way of this drawing, Pedra Branca, a tiny outlying island of the archipelago turns into a signifier for the restricted land provide of Singapore, and its fragile ecology throughout the complicated geo-political atmosphere of the South China Sea.’
Digital Class Winner The Archatographic Map of the Incomplete Panorama on Pedra Branca by Eugene Tan
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Eugene Tan)
This yr’s winners observe within the footsteps of final yr’s recipients Samuel Wen and Michael Ren, who received the general and hybrid classes of The Structure Drawing Prize 2022 for his or her art work Fitzroy Meals Institute.
Sir John Soane’s Museum in London will showcase The Structure Drawing Prize 2023 profitable and shortlisted drawings in an exhibition operating from 31 January to three March 2024.
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