Winners of the XXII ASCER Ceramic Awards
17/11/2023.
[Castellón] Spain
metalocus, JORGE MARTINEZ
metalocus, JORGE MARTINEZ
The Ascer Ceramic Awards are awards sponsored by Endesa and the Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia that celebrate their XXII edition this year, organized in the city of Castellón, Valencia, Spain, and also have the support of the Ministry of Finance, Economy and Administration Public of the Generalitat Valenciana within the framework of the agreement signed with ASCER.
The purpose of the Ceramic Awards is to disseminate the use of Spanish ceramics in works of architecture and interior design (both within Spanish territory and outside our borders). The Cerámica Awards have a solid track record and are highly recognized among professionals in the field of architecture.
The purpose of the Ceramic Awards is to disseminate the use of Spanish ceramics in works of architecture and interior design (both within Spanish territory and outside our borders). The Cerámica Awards have a solid track record and are highly recognized among professionals in the field of architecture.
House in Puntiró by Ripoll Tizón. Photograph by José Hevia.
House in Puntiró by Ripoll Tizón. Photograph by José Hevia.
House in Puntiró by Ripoll Tizón. Photograph by José Hevia.
House Isabel la Católica by GRX Arquitectos. Photograph by Imagen subliminal.
House Isabel la Católica by GRX Arquitectos. Photograph by Imagen subliminal.
House Isabel la Católica by GRX Arquitectos. Photograph by Imagen subliminal.
Cloud House by Studio Animal. Photograph by José Hevia.
Plaza + bus stop in Vinarós by La Erreria. Photography by Milena Villalba.
Renovation and expansion of the Buenavista Cultural Center by Padilla Nicás Architects + Mariluz Sánchez. Photography by Jose Hevia.
María Zambrano Early Childhood Education Center by Magén Arquitectos. Photography by Rubén P Bescós.
Transformation of an abandoned building into 27 apartments by NUA architectures. Photography by José Hevia.
Cabanya House by Viruta Lab. Photograph by David Zarzoso.
Urban Cabinet Series (2): The expanded columns by Beatriz Arroyo y Lys Villalba. Photography by José Hevia.
Jury. Winners of the XXII ASCER Ceramic Awards.
Jury. Winners of the XXII ASCER Ceramic Awards.
The first prize, unanimously by the jury in the XXII edition of the Ascer Cerámica Awards, is the project “Casa en Puntiró (Mallorca)” by the architecture studio Ripoll Tizón.
The jury has valued the characteristics of how the materials and the architectural resolution are assembled coherently in the project. The materiality, structure, and architectural solution are very balanced and it is notable that it has been worked on at the same time and from the origin. They highlight the skill of the authors in the selection of materials and construction details.
The interior design award was received by the “Casa Isabel la Católica” project. Drawing José Mª García de Paredes» by Agustín Gor Gómez (GRX Arquitectos).
From the project, the jury highlights that with the use of a timeless and standard 10x10cm piece, an entire housing program is articulated, adapting to the plasticity of the house. The same material generates movement and has the versatility to adapt to all types of surfaces, even curves. In addition, the careful work in choosing the color range of the entire project is highlighted.
The “Casa Nube” project by Studio Animal, has received the mention of interior design, where the jury has assessed that faced with the usual problem of renovating a small or medium-sized, highly compartmentalized home, the proposed solution is to organize, the one hand, the space that houses all public uses, on the other the private area and between both, a tablet, with a formal and material condition that, like a cloud, contains all the wet spaces and acts as a filter between the private spaces and the common areas of the house.
The finalist projects selected by the jury in the architecture branch have been, "Plaza + bus stop in Vinarós" por La Errería (Luis Navarro Jover + Carlos Sánchez García), "Renovation and expansion of the Buenavista Cultural Center » by Padilla Nicás Arquitectos + Mariluz Sánchez, «María Zambrano Early Childhood Education Center» by Magén Arquitectos and «Transformation of an abandoned building into 27 apartments» by NUA architectures (Arnau Tiñena Ramos, Ferrán Tiñena Guiamet, María Rius Ruiz).
The finalist projects selected by the jury in the interior design branch were “Casa Cabanyal” by Viruta Lab and “Urban Cabinet Series (2): The expanded columns” by Beatriz Arroyo and Lys Villalba.
Last week the ASCER headquarters hosted the jury meeting for the XXII Ceramic Awards for Architecture and Interior Design. The jury has been chaired by the renowned architect Carme Pinós, and has served as members: the architect Jesús Olivares (COR Asociados Arquitectos), the designer Inma Bermúdez, the director of Diariodesign, Gracia Cardona and the architect and president of the College of Architects of Castellón , Susana Babiloni.
The jury has valued the characteristics of how the materials and the architectural resolution are assembled coherently in the project. The materiality, structure, and architectural solution are very balanced and it is notable that it has been worked on at the same time and from the origin. They highlight the skill of the authors in the selection of materials and construction details.
The interior design award was received by the “Casa Isabel la Católica” project. Drawing José Mª García de Paredes» by Agustín Gor Gómez (GRX Arquitectos).
From the project, the jury highlights that with the use of a timeless and standard 10x10cm piece, an entire housing program is articulated, adapting to the plasticity of the house. The same material generates movement and has the versatility to adapt to all types of surfaces, even curves. In addition, the careful work in choosing the color range of the entire project is highlighted.
The “Casa Nube” project by Studio Animal, has received the mention of interior design, where the jury has assessed that faced with the usual problem of renovating a small or medium-sized, highly compartmentalized home, the proposed solution is to organize, the one hand, the space that houses all public uses, on the other the private area and between both, a tablet, with a formal and material condition that, like a cloud, contains all the wet spaces and acts as a filter between the private spaces and the common areas of the house.
The finalist projects selected by the jury in the architecture branch have been, "Plaza + bus stop in Vinarós" por La Errería (Luis Navarro Jover + Carlos Sánchez García), "Renovation and expansion of the Buenavista Cultural Center » by Padilla Nicás Arquitectos + Mariluz Sánchez, «María Zambrano Early Childhood Education Center» by Magén Arquitectos and «Transformation of an abandoned building into 27 apartments» by NUA architectures (Arnau Tiñena Ramos, Ferrán Tiñena Guiamet, María Rius Ruiz).
The finalist projects selected by the jury in the interior design branch were “Casa Cabanyal” by Viruta Lab and “Urban Cabinet Series (2): The expanded columns” by Beatriz Arroyo and Lys Villalba.
Last week the ASCER headquarters hosted the jury meeting for the XXII Ceramic Awards for Architecture and Interior Design. The jury has been chaired by the renowned architect Carme Pinós, and has served as members: the architect Jesús Olivares (COR Asociados Arquitectos), the designer Inma Bermúdez, the director of Diariodesign, Gracia Cardona and the architect and president of the College of Architects of Castellón , Susana Babiloni.
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Pep Ripoll, Juan Miguel Tizón. Ripoll Tizón
Ripoll Tizón is an architecture studio founded in 2002 by Pep Ripoll and Juan Miguel Tizón.
Pep Ripoll and Juan Miguel Tizón are architects from the Barcelona School of Architecture. Since 2002 they have shared a professional studio, combining the development of public and private promotion projects with participation in national and international architecture competitions.
They have won numerous awards in architecture competitions, among others, the first prizes for the rehabilitation of the Sa Vinyeta building in Menorca, the rehabilitation of the building of the Ministry of Health and Consumption and the Arquia-banking office, both in Palma, and several residential buildings of public promotion in Mallorca and Ibiza.
Their built work has received numerous awards, including the 2015 Gubbio Award for the best intervention in historic centers in Europe, the Ciutat de Palma Award in 2013 and 2019, the 2013 NAN Award for the best residential construction project, the APLUS 2013 Award for the best architecture project for housing, the 2011-13 Mallorca Architecture Award for the best residential work and the 2005-08 Menorca Architecture Award for the best work. They have been finalists in the 2013 FAD Awards, in the XII Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial 2013, in the 2013 and 2016 Ugo Rivolta European Architecture Prize, in the 2013 Barbara Cappochin International Architecture Biennial and in the 2014 Mallorca Architecture Awards -2016.
Their work has been selected and exhibited at the International Architecture Biennial of Argentina 2016, at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, and widely disseminated in the main national and international architecture publications.
Pep Ripoll and Juan Miguel Tizón are architects from the Barcelona School of Architecture. Since 2002 they have shared a professional studio, combining the development of public and private promotion projects with participation in national and international architecture competitions.
They have won numerous awards in architecture competitions, among others, the first prizes for the rehabilitation of the Sa Vinyeta building in Menorca, the rehabilitation of the building of the Ministry of Health and Consumption and the Arquia-banking office, both in Palma, and several residential buildings of public promotion in Mallorca and Ibiza.
Their built work has received numerous awards, including the 2015 Gubbio Award for the best intervention in historic centers in Europe, the Ciutat de Palma Award in 2013 and 2019, the 2013 NAN Award for the best residential construction project, the APLUS 2013 Award for the best architecture project for housing, the 2011-13 Mallorca Architecture Award for the best residential work and the 2005-08 Menorca Architecture Award for the best work. They have been finalists in the 2013 FAD Awards, in the XII Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial 2013, in the 2013 and 2016 Ugo Rivolta European Architecture Prize, in the 2013 Barbara Cappochin International Architecture Biennial and in the 2014 Mallorca Architecture Awards -2016.
Their work has been selected and exhibited at the International Architecture Biennial of Argentina 2016, at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, and widely disseminated in the main national and international architecture publications.
Álvaro Gor Gómez, Carlos Gor Gómez and Agustín Gor Gómez. GRX ARQUITECTOS
GRX Arquitectos understands architecture as the link between the landscape and its inhabitants. This alliance is multiple, complex and defines the society that builds it by crystallizing political, economic and social structures. Architecture explains to us throughout history how the societies have been that have built them. In GRX Arquitectos we think that architecture can transform the society in which it is inserted by being an active agent in the construction of new realities.
GRX is a young architecture studio and is therefore experiencing its own method of addressing the ideation and development of projects. They understand that architecture is a process where a multitude of agents in different phases are mobilized for the realization of a common objective in which the architect becomes a catalytic agent of all the parties involved for the development of each project. In that context, the idea of authorship and individuality are relegated to a secondary level and collaborative work and multidisciplinarity become a priority element in the process.
This quality of the way in which they understand architecture leads them to create GRX Architects Project Manager, with which in GRX we decided to increase the involvement in the construction of our projects by favoring the collective dynamics involved in the construction of architecture, promoting collaboration with artisans, artists and crafts with which we consider fundamental to work horizontally. Therefore GRX in an elastic community of professionals that adapts in team, form and process to each project.
Álvaro Gor Gómez is an architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Granada and has completed his postgraduate academic studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts (University of Granada), at the ETSA of Madrid (Polytechnic University of Madrid) and at the ETSAG.
As a student, he has worked in various architecture studios and has participated in several competitions, highlighting those made as a collaborator with Carlos Ferrater Lambarri, winning the first prize in the contest of the Science Park of Granada.
His Final Degree Project (TFM) of Architecture «Industry + Housing», supervised by Juan Domingo Santos, has participated in the exhibition of the best TFM of the ETSAG of the Official College of Architects of Granada (2004-2006 period) and in the exhibitions of the finalists of the national contest of Final Degree Projects Pasajes-Iguzzini of 2007. His project Corral and Patio, has participated in the exhibition of the VI COAGranada Awards 2018.
Founder and architect of GRX ARQUITECTOS. Doctoral Teaching Period in the "Housing Projects and Institutional Buildings" program of the Department of Architectural Projects of the ETSA of Madrid (UPM). Master in «Production and Research in Art» at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Granada.
He is currently Professor of Projects, Drawing and Three-Dimensional Construction at the Higher School of Art and Design of Andalusia (ESADA) and PhD at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the University of Granada.
Carlos Gor Gómez is an architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Granada since 2010 and studying the Technische Universität in Berlin during 2006 and 2007. He was part of the CatarQsis student group collaborating in different groups and projects in the field of social and political dimension of the Architecture and the landscape.
He has developed the research "Architecture and Territory in Contemporary Audiovisual Media" for the Department of Architectural Constructions of the UGR, in the research group Architecture and Contemporary Culture, an investigation into the architectural qualities in structure and aesthetics of cinema and media and its relationship with thought and philosophy. He also developed the project “Towards an Inverse Technology Architecture: Metropolitan Devices System” through the grant I+D+I of Rafael Escolá Foundation R&D grant, on landscape recycling system for the revival of metropolitan dynamics.
As an architect, he has collaborated with different studios in Berlin, Madrid and Andalusia, highlighting the Arquia Scholarship for academic records with the Ábalos & Herreros study, and with the study of Juan Domingo Santos between 2011 and 2014 in the “Atrio de la Alhambra” project that It is carried out together with the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, combining these collaborations with the development of independent professional work.
He has given lectures and has taught at different universities, schools, seminars and congresses of architecture, research and contemporary culture, being awarded and published several times for his work as an architect and creator. He is editor of “subterritorios.net” and has been research coordinator of LAB-TT (Laboratory of Territories in Transformation), a teaching innovation project at the UGR. He has been in charge of various exhibitions on landscape and territory and in 2014 he co-edits with Antonio Collados and David Arredondo the book published by Ciengrams "Places to the Limit”.
In 2013 he founded the professional infrastructure GRX Arquitectos, since 2017 he is a Master in Production and Artistic Research and is currently a professor of Analysis, History of Architecture and Projects at the Superior School of Art and Design of Andalusia (ESADA).
Agustín Gor Gómez is an architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Granada since 2015 and completed a master's degree in Architecture and Historical Heritage at the University of Seville in 2017.
As a student he has worked in Alberto Campo Baeza's studio in Madrid. His final degree project has led him to win several prizes such as the II National Contest of PCF Architecture and Enterprise and II National Contest of PFC ASEMAS, obtaining mention in the XIV ASCER Awards, in PFC category and being selected for the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (XIII BEAU).
He is a doctorate and researcher at the University of Granada, and is also teaching as an Architectural Composition professor at the same University.
GRX is a young architecture studio and is therefore experiencing its own method of addressing the ideation and development of projects. They understand that architecture is a process where a multitude of agents in different phases are mobilized for the realization of a common objective in which the architect becomes a catalytic agent of all the parties involved for the development of each project. In that context, the idea of authorship and individuality are relegated to a secondary level and collaborative work and multidisciplinarity become a priority element in the process.
This quality of the way in which they understand architecture leads them to create GRX Architects Project Manager, with which in GRX we decided to increase the involvement in the construction of our projects by favoring the collective dynamics involved in the construction of architecture, promoting collaboration with artisans, artists and crafts with which we consider fundamental to work horizontally. Therefore GRX in an elastic community of professionals that adapts in team, form and process to each project.
Álvaro Gor Gómez is an architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Granada and has completed his postgraduate academic studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts (University of Granada), at the ETSA of Madrid (Polytechnic University of Madrid) and at the ETSAG.
As a student, he has worked in various architecture studios and has participated in several competitions, highlighting those made as a collaborator with Carlos Ferrater Lambarri, winning the first prize in the contest of the Science Park of Granada.
His Final Degree Project (TFM) of Architecture «Industry + Housing», supervised by Juan Domingo Santos, has participated in the exhibition of the best TFM of the ETSAG of the Official College of Architects of Granada (2004-2006 period) and in the exhibitions of the finalists of the national contest of Final Degree Projects Pasajes-Iguzzini of 2007. His project Corral and Patio, has participated in the exhibition of the VI COAGranada Awards 2018.
Founder and architect of GRX ARQUITECTOS. Doctoral Teaching Period in the "Housing Projects and Institutional Buildings" program of the Department of Architectural Projects of the ETSA of Madrid (UPM). Master in «Production and Research in Art» at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Granada.
He is currently Professor of Projects, Drawing and Three-Dimensional Construction at the Higher School of Art and Design of Andalusia (ESADA) and PhD at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the University of Granada.
Carlos Gor Gómez is an architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Granada since 2010 and studying the Technische Universität in Berlin during 2006 and 2007. He was part of the CatarQsis student group collaborating in different groups and projects in the field of social and political dimension of the Architecture and the landscape.
He has developed the research "Architecture and Territory in Contemporary Audiovisual Media" for the Department of Architectural Constructions of the UGR, in the research group Architecture and Contemporary Culture, an investigation into the architectural qualities in structure and aesthetics of cinema and media and its relationship with thought and philosophy. He also developed the project “Towards an Inverse Technology Architecture: Metropolitan Devices System” through the grant I+D+I of Rafael Escolá Foundation R&D grant, on landscape recycling system for the revival of metropolitan dynamics.
As an architect, he has collaborated with different studios in Berlin, Madrid and Andalusia, highlighting the Arquia Scholarship for academic records with the Ábalos & Herreros study, and with the study of Juan Domingo Santos between 2011 and 2014 in the “Atrio de la Alhambra” project that It is carried out together with the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, combining these collaborations with the development of independent professional work.
He has given lectures and has taught at different universities, schools, seminars and congresses of architecture, research and contemporary culture, being awarded and published several times for his work as an architect and creator. He is editor of “subterritorios.net” and has been research coordinator of LAB-TT (Laboratory of Territories in Transformation), a teaching innovation project at the UGR. He has been in charge of various exhibitions on landscape and territory and in 2014 he co-edits with Antonio Collados and David Arredondo the book published by Ciengrams "Places to the Limit”.
In 2013 he founded the professional infrastructure GRX Arquitectos, since 2017 he is a Master in Production and Artistic Research and is currently a professor of Analysis, History of Architecture and Projects at the Superior School of Art and Design of Andalusia (ESADA).
Agustín Gor Gómez is an architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Granada since 2015 and completed a master's degree in Architecture and Historical Heritage at the University of Seville in 2017.
As a student he has worked in Alberto Campo Baeza's studio in Madrid. His final degree project has led him to win several prizes such as the II National Contest of PCF Architecture and Enterprise and II National Contest of PFC ASEMAS, obtaining mention in the XIV ASCER Awards, in PFC category and being selected for the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (XIII BEAU).
He is a doctorate and researcher at the University of Granada, and is also teaching as an Architectural Composition professor at the same University.
Javier Jiménez Iniesta. Studio Animal
Studio Animal is a design studio based in Barcelona and Madrid specializing in interior design projects and ephemeral architecture. It is directed by Javier Jiménez Iniesta, who received his architecture degree from the School of Architecture of Alicante, graduating with Honors in 2007. He combines his professional activity with teaching and academic research. Currently he is professor at the Master´s program of Interior Design at the European Institute of Design and the School of Design Elisava.
Studio Animal deals with the development of proposals related to ultra-contemporary thinking and its relationship to the environment in which we live in. The redefinition of spaces and atmospheres inhabited by the contemporary subject, is the backbone of their work; in pursuit of a super-optimistic future for the potential inhabitants of their architectural designs. Studio Animal moves from the small scale of industrial design to the planning and development of a brand´s image and the integral design of spatial proposals; progressively specializing in the design of all types of interior spaces and offering custom designed projects to each client, always under an architectural approach.
The work of Studio Animal has been cataloged in the last two editions of biannual Arquia Próxima Awards. They have also been awarded several national and international awards, such as the Pasajes-Iguzzini Prize, the FAD Awards of Architecture and Interiorism (finalist and shortlisted), the ADG Laus Awards (bronze in Spatial Design) and the International Media Award in China (Winner). Their work has appeared in various specialized publications such as OnDiseño, Detail, Proyecto Contract, Diseño Interior or Pasaje de Arquitectura y Crítica.
Studio Animal deals with the development of proposals related to ultra-contemporary thinking and its relationship to the environment in which we live in. The redefinition of spaces and atmospheres inhabited by the contemporary subject, is the backbone of their work; in pursuit of a super-optimistic future for the potential inhabitants of their architectural designs. Studio Animal moves from the small scale of industrial design to the planning and development of a brand´s image and the integral design of spatial proposals; progressively specializing in the design of all types of interior spaces and offering custom designed projects to each client, always under an architectural approach.
The work of Studio Animal has been cataloged in the last two editions of biannual Arquia Próxima Awards. They have also been awarded several national and international awards, such as the Pasajes-Iguzzini Prize, the FAD Awards of Architecture and Interiorism (finalist and shortlisted), the ADG Laus Awards (bronze in Spatial Design) and the International Media Award in China (Winner). Their work has appeared in various specialized publications such as OnDiseño, Detail, Proyecto Contract, Diseño Interior or Pasaje de Arquitectura y Crítica.
