Registration Deadline: Nov 18, 2025; Submission Deadline: Nov 20, 2025
Schrödinger’s Room is an international competition inviting you to design a room – real or imagined – that embodies uncertainty, shifts in perception, and explores the emotional potential of space.
Schrödinger’s Room is an international conceptual architecture competition open to anyone who believes that designing means creating emotions, exploring ideas, and imagining new spatial possibilities.
Inspired by the famous quantum principle of superposition — where a space can exist simultaneously in multiple states until it is observed — the competition invites participants to explore subjective perception and the plurality of interpretations an architectural space can generate.
Participants are asked to design an architectural room, either real or imaginary, conceived as a perceptual installation: a defined and bounded space where light, sound, matter, and human presence interact to create changing, intimate, and personal experiences.
The size of the room is not fixed or limited — it may be large or small, essential or complex. What matters is the space’s ability to express the theme of superposition and uncertainty, crafting an environment that shifts in meaning and atmosphere depending on who inhabits it.
We are not looking for conventional projects or predictable solutions: we seek ideas capable of evoking unique emotions, raising open-ended questions, and uncovering unexplored possibilities.
Design a room that is more than a room.
Design an experience that challenges perception and frees the imagination.