“We asked ourselves, 'What if architecture celebrated the stories of our heritage - the imaginative realm reflected by our core cultural values?'” “Humanity’s most primitive method of communicating cultural values from generation to generation has been via folk tales," says Turner. The Centre for Folktale Communication is derived from the central concept of the value and importance of storytelling, which is universally shared by everyone and carries deep roots in mankind's heritage. Winning design creates a space for stories and sense of wonder The pair received a $3,000 USD scholarship for their repackaged final project as well as training and copies of Vectorworks’ award-winning design software for the faculty’s computer labs. Mak and Turner originally created their project, The Centre for Folktale Communication, for professor Brian Sinclair’s Comprehensive Design Studio class in their second year. The international award is funded by Vectorworks Inc., a globally-sold building information modelling and computer-aided drafting software suite, designed for the architecture, landscape and entertainment industries. Now in their third year in the Master of Architecture program in the Faculty of Environmental Design, Ryan Turner and Ronli Mak are the winners of the Vectorworks Design Scholarship Program. Two masters of architecture students have won a prestigious international design competition with a building design that draws on folk tales and storytelling, beating out more than 2,000 entries from 56 countries.
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