Design of the Future. Best SunRoof Project 2021: results of the international competition for architects

It is amazing how exceptional and unique the designs for the houses and carports turned out to be. I congratulate the winners and thank all the participants for their inspiring ideas and creativity in developing the Design of the Future. I am glad that the bold and uncompromising approach to sustainable design contributes to a faster transition of the world to clean energy,

says Lech Kaniuk, co-founder and CEO of SunRoof.

This year's winners have demonstrated an extremely interesting approach to the theme of Design of the Future. Both the house and carport designs contained unconventional solutions, and the winning designs impressed with their intelligent combination of ecology and modernity. What caught my attention the most was the refined design and the clear and neatly executed visualisations. It's nice to see such a variety of designs reflecting a single theme. Congratulations to all the winners!,

says Michał Derc, Team Manager, BIMobject.

It was an interesting challenge to design a house, the initial idea of which is to match the selected solutions in terms of technology, construction materials and interior climate. Filling such a ‘system’ with the functions that every house must provide from the beginning gets you thinking about the relationship with the environment, sun, shade and different intensities for each room. In the future I would like to develop the ideas from the House of the Future and actually apply them in practice,

- says Dominik Gomółka, the author of the winning design for the House of the Future.

Dominik Gomółka's design was one of my favourites from the beginning. Preparing a concept of an elegant and modern house is just one step; filling it with content and preparing a coherent and carefully elaborated design is much more difficult. In this case, the architect was very successful,

- says Wojciech Rynkowski, Senior Communication Specialist, Extradom.pl.

In my work, I tried to answer the question of whether there is still room for photovoltaics in spaces where there is no room for modern design, let alone for chaotic installations. I have in mind traditional and historic buildings. The result of these considerations is a carport design that fits in with the natural context and is versatile in terms of its adaptation to traditional and historic buildings. Carefully selected parameters of the SunRoof roof (southern exposure, appropriate angle, large surface area) mean that the carport generates surplus energy, securing half of the electricity demand of a medium-sized traditional house,

says Miłosz Mleczko, author of the winning design of the carport of the future.