The 5 winners of the MATCOAM Awards have been announced

The MATCOAM awards, presented by El Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, will be held during the first MATCOAM Construction Week, from 2 to 5 November. It will coincide with the Madrid Architecture Week, which takes place from 29 September to 9 October.

The winning proposals will be exhibited during the 1st MATCOAM Construction Week and the winners will present their projects on one of the 4 days of this event, focused on innovation and sustainability in architecture.

Rambla Climate House. Photography courtesy Office for Political Innovation.

The MATCOAM Awards, organized by the Building Department of the Official College of Architects of Madrid, seek and recognize quality in architectural work, distinguishing the most innovative and sustainable construction solutions, carried out in harmony between architecture and industry.

The projects incorporate elements belonging to the manufacturers listed in the Materials Gallery of the COAM, the largest reference and consultation center for construction materials and systems in Spain.

Winning projects of the MATCOAM Awards:

MATCOAM Sustainability Award

Rambla Climate House. Photography courtesy Office for Political Innovation.

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation and Miguel Mesa del Castillo for the Rambla Climate House, which incorporates solutions from Cemex, Knauf, and Sika.

"This house explores sustainability beyond regulatory requirements, converting a new construction into a device that allows understanding the context in which it is implanted and regenerate a landscape degraded by overbuilding, implementing innovative energy efficiency systems for its users".

MATCOAM Sustainability Mention: TAAS totem arquitectos asociados / Javier and Alia García Germán for the Social Housing building in Carabanchel with products by Assa Abloy, Cemex, Cifré cerámica, Knauf, Lafarge Holcim, Mapei, SG Isover, SG Weber, Sika and Soprema.

MATCOAM Technology and Innovation Award

Biblioteca Pública de Córdoba. Photography by Fernando Alda.

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos for the Public Library of Cordoba, whose construction used products from Assa Abloy, Knauf, Isover, Weber.

"Public building of undeniable spatial quality, whose façade features the application of an unusual technology in construction, resulting in iconic interior lighting control elements, which offer a vibrant image on the outside throughout the day".

MATCOAM Technology and Innovation Mentions: Javier García-Germán and Borja Peña / TAAS + BETA Ø for the Office Building at Paseo de la Castellana 94 using materials from Cemex and Sika; and Beatriz Matos, Alberto Martínez Castillo, Néstor Montenegro and Toni Gelabert for the Refurbishment of the Casa de la Cultura as a Municipal Library and Theatre, in Boadilla del Monte, which includes products from Mapei.

MATCOAM Industrialisation and Prefabrication Award

Pabellón de España en la Exposición Universal Expo Dubai 2020. Photography courtesy Amann Cánovas Maruri / Temperaturas Extremas Arquitectos.

Amann Cánovas Maruri / Temperaturas Extremas Arquitectos for the Spanish Pavilion at the Universal Exhibition Expo Dubai 2020, which includes Rockfon solutions.

"Pavilion with a strong representative character conceived as a shelter, and built using industrialization systems that allow it to be assembled and disassembled, delving into a concept of reuse that is very necessary in the present and future of this type of ephemeral actions".

MATCOAM Industrialisation and Prefabrication Mentions:
Rafael Guridi and Cristina Tartás / GuridiTartás Arquitectos for the Wooden Pavilions and the arrangement of the surroundings of the Casa de Campo lake in Madrid with products by Cemex, Saint Gobain, Weber; and borrell jover OA + aybar mateos arquitectos / María Borrell, Jorge Jover, Camila Aybar, and Juan José Mateos for the CODY housing tower with materials by Cemex, Lafarge, Isover, Placo, Soprema.

MATCOAM Rehabilitation Award

Oficinas KNEM. Photography by Adrià Goula, courtesy b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos.

b720/ Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos for the KNEM Offices, incorporating products from Mapei, Keim, Rockwool and Placo.

"Rehabilitation that preserves protected historical elements, characteristic of the urban core where it is located and is inspired by the old use of the buildings to reinterpret in a contemporary key a marked industrial past, unifying its image at street level with materials from the environment, and differentiating the new volumes with others that provide greater lightness".

MATCOAM GROHE Prize awarded ex-aequo to:

El Garaje. Photography courtesy NOMOS.

NOMOS Arquitectos for El Garaje, a project to convert a garage into a home, integrating solutions from Cemex, Grohe, Knauf, Rockwool, and Siero.

"This conversion of a garage into a home stands out for its innovative conception of domestic space, managing to provide the rooms with natural light, modulated according to the proposed construction materials, which are used and combined intelligently to achieve a contemporary living space, with maximum economy of means".

Woodcasehouse. Photography courtesy Javier Alejo Hernández Ayllón, Verónica Paradela Pernas and Javier de Andrés de Vicente.

Ayllón. Paradela.Deandrés Arquitectos / Javier Alejo Hernández Ayllón, Verónica Paradela Pernas and Javier de Andrés de Vicente for Woodcase House with materials from Grohe, Knauf, Saint Gobain Isover and Saint Gobain Weber.

"A new single-family dwelling, with an emphatic layout around a warm wooden volume, which allows the surrounding spaces to be interpreted as flexible scenarios, organized in mezzanines with a suggestive spatial quality, and focused on the use of energy through passive systems".

Viviendas Sociales en Carabanchel by TAAS totem arquitectos asociados / Javier y Alia García Germán. Photography by Miguel de Guzmán.

Córdoba Public Library by Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos. Photograph by Fernando Alda

Offices building Castellana 94 by Javier García-Germán y Borja Peña / TAAS + BETA Ø. Photography by Miguel de Guzmán.

Refurbishment of the Casa de la Cultura como Bilbioteca Municipal y Teatro, en Boadilla del Monte by Beatriz Matos, Alberto Martínez Castillo, Néstor Montenegro and Toni Gelabert.

Pabellón de España en la Exposición Universal Expo Dubai 2020. Photography courtesy Amann Cánovas Maruri / Temperaturas Extremas Arquitectos.

Wooden pavilions and the development of the surroundings of the lake of the Casa de Campo in Madrid by Rafael Guridi and Cristina Tartás / GuridiTartás Arquitectos.

Housing tower CODY by Borrell jover OA + aybar mateos arquitectos / María Borrell, Jorge Jover, Camila Aybar and Juan José Mateos. Photography by Lotoarchiab.

Oficinas KNEM. Photography courtesy b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos.

Woodcasehouse. Photography courtesy Javier Alejo Hernández Ayllón, Verónica Paradela Pernas and Javier de Andrés de Vicente.

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The 2022 Award Master Jury

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Mr. Ángel Hernández Espada.- 3rd Member of the COAM Governing Board.
Ms. María Eugenia del Río Villar.- Treasurer of the COAM Governing Board.
Mr. Alberto Nuño.- project KAM GROHE.
Mr. Luis Renedo Hernández.- architect awarded in the previous edition of the MATCOAM Awards.
Ms. Lys Villalba Rubio.- architect awarded in the previous edition of the MATCOAM Awards.
Mr. Jose Alfonso Álamo Moreno.- COAM Competitions.

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MATCOAM, El Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid.

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2 to 5 November 2022.

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Madrid, Spain.

Andrés Jaque Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN)

Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN) es un estudio de arquitectura internacional, con sede en Nueva York y Madrid, que trabaja en la intersección del diseño, la investigación y las prácticas ambientales críticas. La oficina desarrolla proyectos que transcurren a través de escalas y medios, con el objetivo de integrar la inclusividad en el entorno construido.

Actualmente, la oficina trabaja en proyectos para Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, CA2M, Real Madrid, Colegio Reggio y Grupo La Musa; y entre sus clientes se incluyen Lafayette Anticipations, Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Fundación Cisneros, Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y Suelo de Madrid, Matadero-Madrid, Obispado de Plasencia, Feria ARCO, London Design Museum, Power Station of Art (Shanghai), Fundació Mies van der Rohe y MAK Vienna.

En 2016, OFFPOLINN recibió el Premio Frederick Kiesler de Arquitectura y Artes de la Ciudad de Viena. El estudio también ha sido galardonado con el LEÓN DE PLATA al Mejor Proyecto de Investigación en la 14.ª Bienal de Venecia y con el Premio Dionisio Hernández Gil.

La obra de OFFPOLINN forma parte de las colecciones del MoMA y del Instituto de Arte de Chicago, entre muchas otras, y ha sido objeto de exposiciones individuales en el MoMA, el MoMA PS1, el MAK de Viena, la Universidad de Princeton, el Centro de Arte Contemporáneo RED CAT Cal Arts de Los Ángeles, la Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine de París y Tabacalera de Madrid. También se ha exhibido en el Instituto de Arte de Chicago, el Zentrum für Kunst und Medien ZKM (Karlsruhe), el Museo de Diseño de Londres, la Whitechapel Gallery (Londres), el Z33 (Hasselt), el Museo Suizo de Arquitectura (Basilea), las trienales de arquitectura de Lisboa y Oslo, y las bienales de arquitectura de Venecia, Chicago, Gwanju, São Paulo, Santiago de Chile y Seúl.

Andrés Jaque, holds a Ph.D. in architecture. He is the founder of the Office for Political Innovation, an international architectural practice, based in New York and Madrid, working at the intersection of design, research, and critical environmental practices.. He is also the Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York.

In 2014 he received the Silver Lion at the 14th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia.

He is the author of award-winning projects such as Plasencia Clergy House (Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize), House in Never Never Land (Mies Van der Rohe European Union Award's finalist), TUPPER HOME (X Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo), or ESCARAVOX (COAM Award 2013). He has also developed architectural performances as well as installations that question political frameworks through architectural practice; including IKEA Disobedients (MoMA Collection, 2011); PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society (Mies Barcelona Pavilion, 2012) or Superpowers of Ten (Lisbon Triennale, 2014).

Andrés Jaque is a Professor of Advanced Design at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) and Visiting Professor at Princeton University's School of Architecture.

Miguel Mesa del Castillo

Miguel Mesa del Castillo is an architect from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, he holds a PhD from the University of Alicante with the doctoral thesis Víctimas de un mapa. Architecture and resistance in the time of flexible culture. He has collaborated with Francisco Alonso de Santos, Clavel Arquitectos, Víctor López Cotelo, José María Torres Nadal and Massimiliano Fuksas in Rome. Between 2002 and 2007 he was an associate architect at the AdHoc studio in Murcia.

From 1996 to 2005 he lived in Rome (Italy) where he was a research assistant for a year at the Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" in Rome. He has published articles on city, architecture and society in specialised magazines such as C3 Korea, A 10 New European Architecture or Pasajes de Arquitectura y Crítica. He has lectured at the University of Seville, the Istituto Nazionale di Architettura (Rome), the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen), Tabakalera (Donostia), and the Centro Universitario de Diseño de Barcelona, among other institutions.

In 1998, after travelling to Tel-Aviv and Tulkarem (Palestine), he began to work on the political implications of architectural practices in the Palestinian-Israeli territorial conflict, which occupies part of his academic dedication, both in teaching and research. He has published articles on the Palestinian question and participated in conferences, seminars and teaching workshops on the subject. In the academic year 2008-2009 he developed a teaching programme that resulted in the work "Mapping Gaza", which explores the implications of the architectural discipline in the conflict, and more specifically in the territory of the Gaza Strip.

Since 2010 he has been conducting research on the relevance of the ordinary in architecture from a socio-technical perspective. He has given lectures on the subject at MediaLab (Madrid), SOS 4.8 (Murcia), and La Casa Encendida (Madrid).

He has been a guest lecturer at the Institut D'Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya, at the European University of Valencia, at the Istituto Nazionale di Architettura (InArch, Rome), at LaBoral in Gijón and at Tabakalera, Donostia. He has been a full-time lecturer in the Architectural Projects Area of the Architecture degree at the University of Alicante since 2007 (he is currently an Associate Professor).

ARQUITECTOS PAREDES PEDROSA

Ángela García de Paredes (1958) and Ignacio García Pedrosa (1957) are architects from the Architecture School of Madrid, where they teach. Invited professors in other Spanish and foreign universities for teaching, critics and speakers. They founded Paredes Pedrosa Studio in 1990, after collaborating with José María García de Paredes for several years.

They are authors of, among other works, the Valdemaqueda Town Hall, Valle Inclán Theatre in Madrid, the Archaeological Museum of Almería, Peñíscola Auditorium, La Olmeda Roman Ville, Ceuta Library or the Lugo Auditorium. Their work has been recognized with the 2007 Spanish Architecture National Award, ar+d Award, Europan II and IV, Europa Nostra, Madrid Architecture Award, Mansilla Award, Gold Medal International Prize for Sustainable Architecture, Mediterranean Sustainable Architecture Award and 'Golden Medal for the Merit in Fine Arts' 2014, given by the Culture and Sports Spanish Ministery. Their work has been exhibited in many national and international architecture biennials.

Ignacio García Pedrosa

Ignacio García Pedrosa (Madrid, 1957) is architect from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, where he obtained his doctorate in 2015, receiving an extraordinary award for his thesis Auditorium, a typology of the 20th century.

Since 1995 he has been an associate professor of Architectural Projects at the ETSAM and has been a guest professor at various institutions such as the IUAV in Venice, the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, etc.

In 1990 he joined forces with his wife, Ángela García de Paredes, to open the Paredes Pedrosa studio. In his professional career they have won first prizes in competitions and built more than twenty buildings, highlighting public works of a cultural nature and public housing.

Ángela García de Paredes Falla

Ángela García de Paredes Falla (Madrid, 1958) is architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 1982 and a doctor, Extraordinary Prize for doctoral thesis - dedicated to the work of her father, José María García de Paredes - from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2015, where she is a professor in the Department of Architectural Projects.

She began working as an architect collaborating, together with her husband Ignacio Pedrosa, in her father's studio which, after his death in 1990, became Paredes Pedrosa arquitectos Estudio de Arquitectura.

She is vice president of the Manuel de Falla Foundation, founded by her mother, and Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando for the Architecture Section.

In 1990 he joined forces with Ignacio Pedrosa with whom he shares his professional and research activities, having obtained numerous first prizes in competitions and having built more than twenty buildings, and having been awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2014. In addition, his work has been exhibited at the Venice International Architecture Biennale in various editions.

Temperaturas Extremas. AMANN, CÁNOVAS, MARURI

Amann, Cánovas, Maruri, architecture firm established by: Atxu Amann Alcocer, Andrés Cánovas Alcaraz and Nicolás Maruri Mendoza.

Atxu Amann Alcocer. Madrid 1961. Architect by the ETSA of Madrid. Doctorate from ETSAM with outstanding Cum Llaude, 2007. Urban Planning Technician from the Urban Studies Center of I.E.A.L. (M.A.P.) Scholar of the Technische Hoschule of Darmstadt (Germany) in CAAD. Director of the magazine Arquitectos. Director of the Postgraduate courses in Editorial Design for the European Social Fund. Professor in the postgraduate courses of Editorial Graphic Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Madrid. Professor of the Department of Architectural Graphic Ideation of ETSAM

Andrés Cánovas Alcaraz. Cartagena 1958. Architect by the School of Architecture of Madrid. Prometheus Scholarship at Tecniche Hoschule. Darmstatd. Germany. Director of the "Monographs of Architects" Collection. Director of the "Monographs of Buildings" Collection, Director of the "Crítica de Arquitectura" Collection, Director and editor of the magazine Arquitectos, 1987-2006, Professor of the CSDM of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University, European Design Institute, Coordinator of several postgraduate courses in Graphic Design Editorial in the Faculty of Fine Arts, the European Institute of Design and the European Social Fund. Faculty of Fine Arts, UCM, Professor of the Master of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts of the Autonomous University, Professor of Design Master of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Salamanca, Professor of the Master of Intervention in the Heritage of the ETSAM Professor of the Tourism Master of the UPC of Barcelona.

He has been secretary of the Final Project Project Tribunal at ESTAM. UPM. Deputy Director of the Spanish Architecture Biennial. Director of the Summer Course at the University of Almería. Visiting Professor at the Universities of Salamanca, San Sebastián, La Coruña, Seville, Navarra, Valencia, Polytechnic of Cartagena, SEK of Segovia, Alfonso X, Advanced Architecture Institute of Barcelona, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, London AA, Montpellier, Rome Tre , Calgliari, Toulouse, Javeriana from Bogotá, Chicago IIT and Arizona CAPLA. He is a professor of Projects of the ETSAM Academic Coordinator of the MCH of the ETSAM. UPM and Director of the Projects area. Professor of the subject "Sociology of Housing".

Nicolás Maruri Mendoza. Madrid 1961. Architect by the School of Architecture of Madrid. Doctorate from ETSAM with outstanding Cum Llaude, 2007. Prometheus Scholarship at Tecniche Hoschule Darmstatd. Germany. Master's Degree in Building from Columbia University. NY. He is a professor in the Projects Department of ETSAM. He has been: Secretary of the Court of the ETSAM End-of-Degree Project and Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona. He has given conferences in London AA, San Sebastian, SEK of Segovia.

FERMÍN VÁZQUEZ. b720

Fermín Vázquez Huarte-Mendicoa (Madrid, 1961) architect since 1988. He studied at ETSAM (Madrid) and ETSAB (Barcelona). He leads b720 Fermín Vázquez Architects, which he set up with Ana Bassat in 1997, with offices in Barcelona, Madrid, Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre.

b720 is an international studio. It works globally within its offices in Brasil and Spain, in projects located in a dozen of differents countries.

The work of the studio, which has been showed in several events and museums as the Biennal of Venice, the Cité of París and MoMA of NY, has been awarded nationally and internationally with several prizes, among there are two RIBA Awards, a World Architecture Festival award, four awards ASPRIMA-SIMA, the Emporis Skyscraper Award and the European Public Urban Space award.

Among his best-known projects there are the Agbar Tower -with Jean Nouvel Architectures-, Lérida's airport, the Plaza del Torico in Teruel, La Mola Conference Centre in Barcelona, the City of Justice of Barcelona and the building for de America Cup in Valencia -both with David Chipperfield Architects- and the Gran Casino Costa Brava in Lloret de Mar. Currently working, among other projects, on the new Mercat dels Encants in Barcelona, the new international airport of Cuzco in Perú, the regeneration of the Waterfront of Cais Mauá of Porto Alegre, a new neighbourhood for 70.000 residents in Brasilia and in several high buildings in Sao Paulo.

He usually combines the proffesional practise with teaching. He has been teacher at ETSAB, at l'École d'Architecture et Paysage de Burdeos, at Universidad Europea de Madrid and he has given courses and conferences large universities and institutions all over the world.

Ophélie Herranz Lespagnol, Paul Galindo Pastre. NOMOS arquitectos

NOMOS arquitectos. (Formerly PYO, now NOMOS). NOMOS is the name under which Ophélie Herranz and Paul Galindo practice in Madrid. NOMOS is an association of architects based in Geneva, Lisbon and Madrid. Together they work on projects of all scales, from furniture to masterplanning, with great interest in cultural context and the environment.

Using drawing primarily to shape their ideas, they explore new ways of creating community through buildings that seek opportunities within constraints.

They approach each project with enthusiasm, care and curiosity; always striving for sustainable beauty.

Geneva is headed by Katrien Vertenten & Lucas Camponovo, Massimo Bianco, Daniel Schwarz and Ugo Togni.
Lisbon is headed by Jorge Paquete & Veronica Pires.
Madrid is headed by Ophélie Herranz & Paul Galindo.

Javier A. Hdz. Ayllón, Verónica Paradela, Javier de Andrés. AYLLÓN . PARADELA . DE ANDRÉS

AYLLÓN . PARADELA . DE ANDRÉS arquitectos, is an architecture studio with current headquarters in Madrid, directed by three associate architects: Javier Alejo Hernández Ayllón, Verónica Paradela Pernas and Javier de Andrés de Vicente. Its work is based on the premise that any project can be materialized through abstraction, essentiality, constructive rigor and attention to the context, always permeating all its interventions in the place where they are framed, combining tradition and vanguard. Its work has deserved the recognition of several awards - both for work built and in public and private competitions -, ranging from the domestic scale to the urban sphere, through the conservation and rehabilitation of the built heritage.

AWARDS

- 2021_First Prize Public Competition (Department of Sustainability and Environment of the Consell de Mallorca). Reform of different areas of the Raixa public estate such as Mountain Refuge and Training Center-Escola de Margers in the Sierra de Tramontana, Bunyola, Palma de Mallorca. Three Strategies.

- 2019_First Prize Public Contest (Ministry of Development). Setting up the Archaeological Site of the Arrabal Andalusí de La Arrixaca and the Garden of San Esteban (Murcia). In collaboration with BURGOS and GARRIDO architects. Haha
- 2019_First Prize Public Contest (Ministry of Development). Interpretation Center of the Royal Walls of Ceuta. Resilient
- 2019_First Prize Public Competition (Official College of Architects of C. Valenciana and Ayunt. De Gandía) 41 homes for young people in cooperative regime. Gandia Farmhouse
- 2018_ First Prize Ideas Competition (COAM / AEDAS Homes). In collaboration with Xesta Rasilla architects. Design of the show office for real estate developments of AEDAS Homes. Origin. Prototype of prefabricated wooden pavilion for Sales Offices.
- 2017_ COAM 2017 Award (Official College of Architects of Madrid), Spain. In collaboration with Ángela Juarranz. Mirasierra House.

Published on: September 29, 2022

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