Interview with the International VELUX Award 2024 jury
To support the students working hard on their daylight projects, we have talked to our esteemed jury members about their process of working with daylight. Enjoy the brief, inspiring video-interviews with Jenni Reuter, Ewa Kurylowicz, Alberto Veiga, Song Yehao & Kent Holm.
JENNI REUTER, HOLLMÉN REUTER SANDMAN ARCHITECTS
Project images: ‘KWIECO Shelter House’ by Hollmén Reuter Sandman Architects. Photos © Juha Ilonen.
“I hope that the students will tell about the local situations wherever they come from, and that they tell about the beautiful athmospheres that daylight can bring to spaces and also the indirect light and the reflections, and the feelings that spaces give, and then how spaces change throughout the day and year. That would be wonderful to see.” – Jenni Reuter.
EWA KURYLOWICZ, KURYLOWICZ & ASSOCIATES
Project images: ‘The modern languages and applied linguistics building’ by Kurylowicz & Associates. Photos © Nate Cook.
“I will be looking for their private individual attitude to what light might be. Well, to say that I will look for creativity would be like saying nothing, because its a competition, but this architectural creativity needs to have two other factors: empathy and clarity”. – Ewa Kurylowicz.
ALBERTO VEIGA, BAROZZI VEIGA
Project images: ‘Tanzhaus Zürich’, ‘Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne’ & ‘Szczecin Pilharmonic Hall’ by Barozzi Veiga. Photos © Simon Menges.
“I would suggest them to think about spaces and or buildings that are rooted in their memories. How the daylight was defining in those spaces, why they liked this way of shape in the building they liked and how they can use it in their designs. All of them have experience with daylight – it is not something abstract, so I really would encourage them to think about their experiences and not from an abstract point of view”. – Alberto Veiga.
SONG YEHAO, SUP ATELIER OF THAD
Project images:
‘Yunzhai Community Center’, ‘Tea Leaf Market of Zhuguanlong’, ‘Concept WRRF Yixing’, ‘RSC Building’ & ‘Village Lounge of Shangcun’. All by SUP Atelier of THAD.
“We all suffered from the pandemic. And so after the pandemic, could Daylight mean something more important for daily lives. Could the students think of some new way out making use of daylight? And could this daylight be not only physical, manually or mentally, it could be all for the wellbeing of all mankind. That is my concern”. – Song Yehao.
KENT HOLM, VELUX
“I think they should use it as a source of inspiration and as a source of transformation. To me it really really has a superstrong power, to really transform a building or transform a space, or transform whatever, and I think they should be curious about it. They should play with it. They should see what the effect of it is. And i think that can take these projects to a different level. So I would really encourage some experimentation, some playfulness”. – Kent Holm.
Remember to register before 14 April to participate in this years’ award. The project submission for the International VELUX Award 2024 opens on 15 April, and the final deadline for submitting the projects is 30 May 2024.
