AWARDS. International Gastronomic Center Brussels
16/07/2013.
Arquideas. IGC Competition 2013
metalocus, CANDELA OLIVA, ROBERTO ALIA, ALEX DURO
metalocus, CANDELA OLIVA, ROBERTO ALIA, ALEX DURO
Today we have learnt the names of the awarded proposals of the International Gastronomic Center (IGC), the student contest developed by Arquideas with the objective of designing a gastronomic building in Brussels. The winners have managed to solve the dialogue between the public and private space, the solutions required for the proposed uses and sustainability and energy efficiency. Congratulations!
First prize. IGC1068, Viktor Nilsson and Pierre Maccario. Image © courtesy of Arquideas.
Second prize. IGC1193, Enrique Alonso Blanco, Patricia Ocaña Alcober and Paula Peña Toril. Image © courtesy of Arquideas.
Third prize. IGC1386, Margaux Leycuras and Adrien Girard. Image © courtesy of Arquideas.
Special mention. IGC1009, Alan Germán Revale. Image © courtesy of Arquideas.
Special mention. IGC1145, Gloria Castañón. Image © courtesy of Arquideas.
Special mention. IGC1195, Teresa Casbas González and Carlos Dias-Monis Baronte. Image © courtesy of Arquideas.
Special mention. IGC1232, José Javier González Menéndez and Marco A Cardenas. Image © courtesy of Arquideas.
Special mention. IGC1382, Claudio Cesar Carranza, Pablo Suarez and Walter Casola. Image © courtesy of Arquideas.
"The objectives of the contest were "to create a layout that was an experience through gastronomy for chefs and visitors, to increase the value of a common space used to exchange ideas that respects the urban tradition, to create a changing façade displaying the raw ingredients to the city, to provide flexible space in the building-object, mobility for the building, understood as a value for visitors, to create a system of spatial organization that generates interstitial paths, the conception of architecture as an inseparable addition to the gastronomic world and to create a building that feeds off its immediate surroundings."
Jury proceeding
Below, the 3 winners proposals:
First Prize.- Viktor Nilsson y Pierre Maccario - KHT Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
"The project, understood as an urban icon, satisfies the intended use, in which the layout as a gastronomic experience generates the proposal and makes it possible to carry out the different usages of the program of uses. Another key of the project is the relationship with the public space of the plaza, giving it new value and offering new possibilities for people to interact with one another."
Second Prize.- Enrique Alonso Blanco, Patricia Ocaña Alcober y Paula Peña Toril - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
"The project is very well integrated within the urban surroundings, respecting tradition while not giving up a contemporary image that transforms the public space. The conception of the proposal as the sum of units which generates a whole was valued, as it proposes interesting intermediate spaces for interaction and adequately resolves the connection with the party wall."
Third Prize.- Margaux Leycurasy Adrien Girard - École Nationale Supérieure d’ Architecture de Nantes, France.
"The project genrates from the exterior, proposing a changing façade thatn displays the base of the cuisine, the raw ingredients, to the public space. Most notable was how production is revealed to the exterior, inverting the traditional conception of the culinary world."
