XI Ceramic Prizes Ascer in architecture and interiorismo

The jury decided to award the first prize to the project ‘School of Hospitality industry in Slaughterhouse' (Medina Sidonia, Cádiz) of Sol 89 - María González García and Juanjo López de la Cruz. The jury has valued unanimously a very conscious project of the context, resolved with few means and however with big delicacy and tarpaulin.

Concedes the first prize to the project ‘University School of Teaching' of Ramón Fernández-Alonso Borrajo, of the that the jury has stood out “the originality to carry the ceramics of the outside to the interior of the building”.

The jury has conceded a special quotation to the project ‘Resorting of the Greater Square and voladizo on the Duero' of Churtichaga+Quadra-Salcedo Architects. It stands out “the only gesture and radical to leave an empty square and the employment of the matter and his colour terroso to create a sober environingingment”.

Finally, the Ceramic Prizes have a destined category to distinguish the best Project End of Career realised by students of architecture of Schools in which the use of ceramics in the project play an important paper. Like novelty, fits to stand out that two of the four projects stood out with quotations of honour belong to students of schools of architecture of out of Spain.

The jury has agreed to concede a first prize to the project ‘Knitted found – l'unité flottante, inhabit Alexander' of Mª Dolores Parrilla Ayuso, of the Upper Technical School of architecture of Madrid (ETSAM). Of this project, the jury has stood out “the transformation and recovery of an ancient shipping like hostel of pilgrims with an intervention that employs a new patent of textile ceramics. The contrast between the solidez and the ligereza of the proposal is very sugerente. And this suggestion does patent in the drawings in which it presents this idea”.

The jury, given the high quality of the projects presented to the contest, has suited to concede four quotations of honour to the projects:

- ‘The Lost Tanka Archipelago', of Michelle Lam, of the Master of architecture of the University College London, of the that the jury has valued “the contribution in the investigation of the possibilities of the ceramic material”.

- ‘Island-cemetery in Fleves, Greece', of Ángela Juarranz Serrano, of the Upper Technical School of architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), by his “understanding of the importance of the place to reach a symbolic value in the continuity of the landscape”.

- ‘New value', of Benjamin Reynolds, of the Architectural Association School of architecture of London. The jury stands out “the sophistication and ironingingy of the project when using the process of design to interrogate on the social reality and the disequilibrium to be able to”.

- ‘Reflation of the ancient cinemas-theatre in Lisbon', of Ana González Pérez, of the Upper Technical School of architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), of the that has valued “the regeneration of a zone of Lisbon creating empty and gaps, reutilizando the abandoned theatres and employing of creative way the ceramics that characterises the centre of the Baixa Pombalina”.

The ceramic Awards, which have taken place this year its eleventh edition, enjoy recognition in the field of architecture because of a brilliant career. Both the prestige of their successive juries, and the quality of the award-winning works, have made these awards organized by Ascera reference in the national and international architectural scene.

The jury on this occasion is also highlighted by the high level of professionals that formed it. The President of the jury was the renowned architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg. The rest of the jury has been formed by the architects Luis Martinez Santa; the Portuguese Francisco Aires Mateus; Joseph Grima, director of Domus magazine; the international designer Matali Crasset; the critique of architecture of El País, Anatxu Zabalbeascoa; and Ramón Monfort, of the College of architects of Castellón.

The two main categories of the ceramic awards are architecture and interior design, with a prize of 18,000 each. A competition of projects Fin de Carrera directed to students of architecture, endowed with 6,000 is also organises. The awards have the support of Vodafone Spain, Endesa and PortValencia.

The awards have lived an important evolution thanks to the increased quality of the projects submitted and jurors. Some of the works distinguished in the last editions in the category of architecture have been the maritime promenade of the Playa de Poniente de Benidorm (Carlos Ferrater and Xavier Martí Galí, OAB Office of Architecture in Barcelona), the rehabilitation of the Santa Caterina market in Barcelona (by Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue, EMBT Arquitectes), the Peñíscola Congress Palace (of Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos), MUCA, Auditorium and Casa de la Musica in Algueña, archive of Castilla - La Mancha of Guillermo Vazquez Consuegra, the remodeling de la calle San Vicente de Burriana in Castellón, the Spain Pavilion of the Expo Zaragoza 2008.