1st prize winner: Kyle Bigart, Brooklyn, United States 

24H has unveiled the winners of 'Utopia' competition, which embraces two inextricable issues in any place and any time. Love and a Hut were two major points that the competitors need to focus on. Titled 'Utopia', the competition selected the best proposals from different countries, which examine a specific program created by the competitor, showing that what might be ''love and a hut''. All winners were responsible for the personification of an utopian image and transformation it into an architectural design. 

The construction of a Hut might be anywhere where the competitor wants to contemplate his love. The Hut should have been designed for a couple and sizes of areas were not defined in this context. 24H selected 3 winners from Unites States and Italy with 7 Honorable Mentions from Poland, UK, Austria, Portugal, Russian Federation and Italy. 

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See the full winner's projects below with jury comments:

1st prize winner, jury comments:

''Between reason and utopia is the root that sustains the dream. Among the complicated and complex is the "structure" that allows the difference . The proposal allows the combination beetween root / structure the dream / utopia in an interesting way and relevant and complex approach..'', Pedro Novo, arq.

''Rooted Love fulfilled all the criteria of a winning design: simple yet strong concept, beautiful design, aesthetically pleasing presentation, and in-depth descriptions of features and details. The entry lets nature grow the hut over time as a metaphor of love and (lasting) human relationships developing and maturing at a steady and sustainable pace. The element of time in this spatial construct has been introduced very poetically.'' Alexander Walter, arq.

''Rooted Love is conceived as a perfect metaphor of established utopia through a very simple hut. What is the interesting in design that the structure is able to develop itself with different shapes, colors, utopias, structures and discourses that can be articulated in a much more innovative way, either architecturally or fertilely. The design approach relies on its innovative and original attributes through personalities or structural analysis. The presentation is very understandable, easily readable and colors represented here, emphasizes different spatial arrangements and this gives a technical clue about how it will be developed, or can be transformed for the future arrangements. Materiality, texture and construction values are well defined here.'' Berrin Chatzi Chousein, arq.

''The author of 'Rooted Love' offered a beautiful metaphor for growing love. According to the author's idea the enduring love should be expressed in a live blooming designs in a form of the geodesic Fuller's dome. Two tree trunk, symbolizing two lovers, growing together and coalescing, eventually forming a unified whole. Great idea and excellent presentation.'' Maria Malitskaya, arq.

2nd prize winner: Giulia Guglielmi Maes, Sidhant Choudhary, Civitavecchia, Italy

2nd prize winner, jury comments: 

''A conceptually very strong proposal. The “exemple” choise is effective and demonstrates intentions assertiveness. Graphically explores an imaginary idyllic , happy and enforceable . The plane as “ruin” is a solid bet , contemporary and adjusted to the current reality.'' Pedro Novo, arq.

''Probably the first time a derelict airplane wreck serves as the petri dish for utopian love as the result of the ongoing circle of dreams, freedom, silence, and reuse. See for yourselves.'' Alexander Walter, arq.

''The success of concept is derived from how we transform the spaces with minimum effort and budget-sometimes we don’t need budget as well –and this concept ‘a Hut at the Horizon’ doesn’t use any extra material to create and innovative space and new life for love. It is already there- and it completely introduces new architectural, contextual, structural imagery for couples, reviving and transforming the context it existed. Even if it is a plane crashing to the ground, the space can be moved, divided, painted or treated by different materials and give a fresh visual look to the design, distilling it from its bad history. The materiality in design is well presented and it is so real that no needs to display anything onto it. We can understand how it will be used without adding something –it is a good transformation of garbage to the new space-still aesthetic.'' Berrin Chatzi Chousein, arq.

''An abandoned object may get a new life with a birth of a new love. The author refers to popular and relevant today theme of reuse and recycle and offers for lovers the fuselage of an airplane as the place for a romantic getaway. Something old, forgotten, withered, blooms again and fills with the new meaning thanks to the love.'' Maria Malitskaya, arq.

3rd prize winner: Jacopo Nori, Andrea Manfredini, Milano, Italy

3rd prize winner, jury comments: 

''The permeability as a wire proposal allows an interesting story creation around the dichotomy indoor/outdoor or like the exemple: the consciousness beetwen home and ''Jungle''. The ''insulation'' is a form of identity and assertion within the nowadays urban jungle.'' Pedro Novo, arq.

''Besides winning my personal ‘Best Title’ award, Jungle’s Boobs embraces the spatial utopia of the transparent cave. While not offering much explanation on its conceptional details, the premise allows the user’s mind to wander off and dwell on the proposal’s provocative practical applications.'' Alexander Walter, arq.

''The design is an exact definition and representation of how it can be reproducible because the material is very light, pure, basic and very simple to construct and adaptable in everywhere. Jungle’s Boobs put the risk in Love harmonized it with nature-because it can be seen, transparent and be inviting for everyone-very extraverted. It is more than a classical hut. The construction is very clear and understandable and transportable for every place and each bubble can be made up of different material and cover. It is very open to transform, spatial design approaches. '' Berrin Chatzi Chousein, arq.

''The author of the Jungle's Boobs sends lovers into the Jungle, rethinking primitive space with a modern twist. Here are a couple dissolved into nature and in each other.'' Maria Malitskaya, arq.

Honorable Mentions

Honorable mention: Alicja Szczesniak, Klaudia Iwanowska, Hanna Olszowa, Agata Hinca, Gdansk, Poland

Honorable mention: Joe Roberts, London, United Kingdom

Honorable mention: LindaLackner, RebeccaMerlic, Vienna, Austria

Honorable mention: Rolando Volzone, Lisboa, Portugal

Honorable mention: Olga Khuraskina, Elena Mishchikhina, Moscow, Russian Federation

Honorable mention: Paolo Venturella, Rome, Italy

Honorable mention: Jana Alaraj, Vienna, Austria

Some considerations about the competition 

''In Russia we have the proverb: ''You are in Paradise even in a hut, if you are with lover". How is modern architects imagined a hut for lovers, showed the 12-th competition 24H "Utopia". We have seen a lot of crazy-beautiful ideas and romantic places for lovers! Long live the love and the architecture!” Maria Malitskaya, arq. 

''a brilliant theme ! ” Pedro Novo, arq.

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