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The first edition of the Chair of Hispalyt contest rewards the project "Fusoria" by Luis Miguel Ramos

06/07/2007

July 6, 2007

The jury of the design competition of the "Ceramics to build" Chair of Hispalyt decided to give the first prize of 12,000 euros to Luis Miguel Ramos, for his project "fusoria". The jury met on May 4 in the restored building of the Piarist schools of Madrid, assessed the implementation of the project and its relationship with the current state of the existing building. The contest consisted in the realization of a project of Center of interpretation of the brick in Seville, from an occupied space by an abandoned tejar.

The second prize, 6,000 euros, was delivered to the project "Zero incidents" Mercedes Sánchez, José Luis Ubera and Olga Valderas, for his clarity and cleaning of the emerging volumes, as well as the generated spaces. The third prize was awarded to Jairo Rodriguez Andres for the project "rascasuelos", which stands out for the material expression and the relationship between the pre-existing volumes and the linear compactness of the new.

In addition to the three award-winning projects, the jury considered it appropriate to grant three honorable mentions to Sergio Artola, Clara sang, Alejandro Gomez, Juan Ignacio and Ángel López by the project "Vice versa". Carlos García and Bérénice del Valle for the project "Draw the Earth". Manuel María Granados, Jaime Perez and Francisco Javier Romero for the project "sigueelcaminodebaldosasamarillas". The awards ceremony was held on May 5 in the course of a dinner at the Hotel AC Santo Mauro and counted with the presence of a large part of the members of the jury.

The creation of the Chair solves one of the highest aspirations of Hispalyt as it is the academic treatment of the projection with ceramic construction systems. Despite the interest detected among students of architecture, ceramics has received until now a rather historic, conventional treatment. Thanks to this initiative and the participation of the Etsam, students will know first hand the reality of the sector of structural ceramics, an industry in continuous transformation, with numerous technical innovations in the market and the confidence of the architectural profession in its natural properties and its benefits.