The word Botanical has an extended meaning of “plant” and “botany”. Speaking of Botanical Architecture, in a broad meaning it may be interpreted as a “plant like building” or a “building made of plants” then in a narrow sense it may be interpreted as a “construction of a botanical garden”.
Putting that as a base, it is very interesting to finding out how the architects will widen the word in their own imagination.
If, a botanical source is to cut a plant out of its original environment as a collection classification, moving in an airship and gathering plant specimens around the world by sky, that may be a definition act to symbolize botanical.
1st prize
Eduardo Enrique Tapia Duarte
/ Colombia /
Eduardo’s drawing (first place winner) gives the feeling of excitement like the great exploration era, but then surprisingly has a low impact in anyway of political and environmental.
2nd prize
Sayo Iwamoto
/ Japan /
Iwamoto’s drawing (second place) is a suggestion to secure existing vacant land as a connection to become homes for small creatures and plants.
Merit Prize
Kou Kasai & Takahiro Sugiyama & Ken Tamura
/ Japan /
The (fine work) drawing of Kasai, Sugiyama and Tamura shows, even the earth is an open environment system, by cutting out the environment here and there with a huge impermeant transparent cube is a way to watch the environment originally evolve by its own eco-systemic national seclusion.
Merit Prize
Gongyang Tan & Dan Chen
/ China /
In an underground space, displaying specimens of plants as a grave marker that has been vanished away by civilization, the drawing of Tang and Chen (fine work) is like a pictorial book of extinct plants like architecture showing the history of plants and civilization.
These 3 drawings seem to define the narrow sense of botanical. Plant groups including biodiversity makes networks by connecting from place to place.
Merit Prize
LE ANH VU
/ Vietnam /
Drawing of LE (fine work) includes building-like construction trying to capture the connection. Plant groups have effects in making border vague.
Merit Prize
Sugiura Gaku & Mari Takahashi
/ Japan /
Sugiura and Takahashi drawing (fine work) pays attention to the borderline.
Merit Prize
Gaku Inoue & Ken Aakatuka
/ Japan /
Inoue, Akatsuka drawing (fine work) focuses on the border of the residential areas. Then also there is a suggestion by coordination making relations with nature by insertion of artifact buildings.
Merit Prize
Neoki Saito
/ Japan /
Drawing of Saito (fine work) is to amplify the power of the place by adding something constructively in a small space in the forest.
Merit Prize
Dongming He
/China /
Making a vague border in a forest to promote various acts is the drawing of He (fine work).
Merit Prize
Hiroto Takesawa
/ Japan /
Takizawa’s drawing (fine work) is very interesting in how the word plant is described as a botanical plant and also as a factory plant describing and connecting the two as a source of energy.