Results of: Tiny Library 2025 Architecture Competition

International design competition platform Volume Zero has announced the results of the Tiny Library 2025 Architecture Competition.

The Tiny Library Competition was envisioned to foster awareness, encourage creative exposure, and enhance productivity—ultimately contributing to community development through learning. The initiative underscores the importance of accessible spaces that promote education and self-learning, enabling local communities to benefit from knowledge within their immediate environment.

The competition challenged its participants to rethink and re-imagine the idea of the Library as a 21st-century self-learning and educational incubation space that not only sheds light on conventional means of knowledge but also encourages its users to interact, share ideas, and grow together. Participants were required to design a Tiny Library optimized for 50 users with engaging multifunctional spaces for all ages and spatial experience, where they need to choose a site in a rural or remote context for the proposal, wherever they feel accessibility to knowledge may change the existing circumstance and the structure should not exceed 300 sq.mt of built-up area.

Participants from more than 45 countries contributed valuable concept ideas to the contest, which was evaluated by a panel of international experts.

Volume Zero Competition thanks all the competitors for participating in this competition and for contributing to this competition’s research.

The esteemed jury for judging this competition consisted of Avinash Ankalge (A Threshold), Petchimuthu Kennedy (Earthscape Studio), Swapnil Valvatkar (Collage Architecture Studio), Chen Xi (Atelier Xi), Peter Rich (Peter Rich Architects), Chenchen Hu (HCCH Studio), Soumitro Ghosh (Mathew and Ghosh Architects), Song Yehao (THAD SUP Atelier), Bernardo Quinzaños (CCA Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica), David Barragán (Al Borde).

The top three winners and Best Student were awarded total prize money of $4,500 while ten entries received Honorable Mentions. Here are the winning entries. The full result for the competition the Tiny Library 2025 Architecture Competition can be found at –
https://volumezerocompetitions.com/competitions/result/tinylibrary-2025