Student competition proposes rethinking the motel typology: check out the results

The challenge proposed by the competition, aimed at students, was to redefine the highway motel typology, creating a building that would engage with the Rio de Janeiro skyline and focus on design and entertainment for its guests.

According to the jury, “Many proposals focused on autonomous volumetric design, as if shifting volumes to meet a functional solution could account for the complexity required for urban integration. Therefore, the most critical evaluation criteria were program innovation, proper circulation planning, and the interaction between architecture and open spaces. In this regard, the proposals that managed to leverage the site's potential achieved the competition's objectives: the creation of an URBAN Motel.”

See the winners below.

FIRST PLACE

Authors: Darlan Florentino Fonseca, Selton Drasler, Lucas Alves de Castro, Ronildo da Costa Silva, and Caio Henrique Mehl
Institution: Universidade Positivo - UP - Curitiba/PR. 

SECOND PLACE

Authors: Walter Gagliardi Neto, Thais Bernasconi Jardim, Jessica Lie Sakamoto, Beatriz Lins de Oliveira, and Rafael Della Coletta Breda
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP - Campinas/SP.

THIRD PLACE

Authors: Ronaldo da Silva, Matheus Guilherme Steffen Santos, Nicole Brognoli Goularte, and Mateus Nunes Quirino
Institution: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC - Florianópolis/SC

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Authors: Guilherme Conte Rodrigues, Guilherme Jaskulski de Oliveira, Caroline Garaffa, and Bruno Guilherme Fabro
Institution: Universidade de Caxias do Sul - UCS - Caxias do Sul/RS.

Authors: Angelo Vinícius Nascimento Signori, Eduardo Hungaro Lemes Gonçalves, Nícolas Marques de Oliveira, Lucas Lopes Bochnie, and Karin Matzkeit De Lepeleire
Institutions: Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (Karin)- PUCPR - Curitiba/PR.

The competition received 95 submissions from teams of students from several Brazilian states, as well as other countries.

The Projetar.org portal regularly hosts ideas competitions for architecture students. These are hypothetical academic exercises aimed at stimulating creativity and fostering the development of future architects. Competition 026 has already been launched, and the challenge is to design the interior of one of the suites from the winning project of Competition 025, Urban Motel, exploring the "Rio 40º" theme. Registration is now open.