First Prize: "The Spanish Pavilion at Expo Zaragoza 2008", Patxi Mangado Architects
Honourable Mention: "Villa Nurbs - Family house in Empuriabrava", Enric Ruíz-Geli (Cloud9)
Interior Design Category
First Prize: "The White City", Saeta Estudi
Degree Project Category
First Prize: "KBNL - Urban reorganisation and new forum for the Cabanyal", Francisco Requena Crespo (Technical College of Valencia)
Yarışma Bilgileri
The Spanish Ceramic Wall and Floor Tile Manufacturers’ Association, ASCER, is launching the seventh Ceramic Tile
in Architecture and Interior Design Awards competition. The Awards are designed to recognise work in the fi eld
of architecture and interior design that has reflected the versatility, characteristics and applications of ceramic
tiles made in Spain to their best advantage or shown the best reinterpretation of the material in new and recent
architectural or decorative projects.
Eligibility
Any person, entity or institution interested in entering the competition may submit work they consider to be appropriate
providing the work complies with the conditions indicated below. Submissions may be made either on the candidate’s own initiative or at the behest of the promoters of the Awards.
The competition is open to professional architects, interior designers, architectural engineers, landscapers and decorators of all nationalities.
Conditions of Entry
Submissions must indicate which of the following categories the work is being entered for:
Architecture: New buildings, renovation or refurbishment of existing buildings and work that is part of urban redevelopment or outdoor landscaping.
Interior Design: Decoration of interior spaces in new buildings, as part of improvement or refurbishment projects, or
installations created for short term events.
The jury reserves the right to classify the entries. Work entered for the competition must make substantial use of ceramic fl oor and / or wall tiles in the formal part of the building.
The work submitted may have been undertaken anywhere in the world.
The projects must have been completed between January 2007 and October 2008.
Entrants are deemed to have accepted the competition’s conditions of entry.
Submission Requirements
All documentation must be delivered to ASCER’s offices at the following address:
ASCER (Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association)
Calle Ginjols, n 3; 12003 Castellón (Spain)
Phone: 964 72 72 00, Fax: 964 72 72 12
e-mail: [email protected]
The following documentation must be submitted:
Description of the Project: A brief text describing the project (maximum 600 words) and clearly indicating the kind of product used and the manufacturer’s brand name. The description should be presented as a bound A4 document and submitted along with the architect or interior designer’s Curriculum Vitae or the studio’s credentials and full contact details: postal address, telephone number, e-mail address etc.
Photographic Documentation: between 5 and 8 A3 boards with good quality photographs showing the finished project from different angles (1 photograph per panel). The images should be no smaller than A4. Descriptive text and details of the plans may also be included on the boards. It is imperative that an image be included that shows specifi cally how the ceramic tiles used in the project. All photographs must be free of rights of reproduction. The title of the project and the designer’s name should be clearly marked on the boards.
A set of drawings that describe the work (floors, elevations, sections etc.) should be provided on paper.
A CD containing all the images on the boards in 300 dpi digital format (jpg or tiff ), the drawings in digital format (eps, pdf, jpg or tiff), photograph(s) of the designer(s) and the description of the project (doc or pdf).
All documentation sent in should be clearly identifi ed with the title of the project and the name(s) of the designer(s).
Prizes
One first prize will be awarded to the designer/s of the winning entry in each of the following categories.
Architecture: 20.000 Euros
Interior design: 20.000 Euros
As well as the sum allocated for the fi st prize in each category, the organizers are setting aside an additional 10.000 Euros that may be allocated to entries that the members of the jury may deem worthy of a special mention in either of the two categories.
The winning entries and other selected pieces of work will be placed on display as part of the TransHitos exhibit at CEVISAMA, the international tile trade fair. Images of the selected work will also be posted on the official competition website and will be included in each new edition of the Architectural Ceramics book as well as in other ASCER publications. The jury may select as many entries as it wishes as fi nalists in each category. A list of this work will be included on the official competition website and in other publications.
Jury
The jury will carry out its duties in accordance with the regulations and will be formed as follows:
Chairman: Terence Riley
Members
- Beth Galí
- Alfredo Payá
- Luis Fernández-Galiano
- Ángela García de Paredes
- Tomás Alía
- Ramón Monfort
Submission Deadline: 31 October 2008, 18:00