Sometime you just woke up thinking to your business and work, but sometime it happens that you can just think at some things like "yesterday i've been in Eindhoven for Europan 11 award ceremony". that's crazy but it happened like this.
We didn't have a clue of what was going on last days because we received an e-mail some weeks ago saying to go to Eindhoven for the 14th for the award ceremony of Europan 11 . no more, no less .So we went: we actually were guys from Italy, Spain and France meeting the 13th in Brussels to visit it since it's a very interesting city (i just want to remember la "Galerie de la Reine"-1847).
Lucky me I have my friend Zeynep living there if not i should walk around looking for an hotel! Thanks Zeynep!
The 14th we left the city at 9am ready to go to Eindhoven and we arrived there at 1pm.
I have to be honest; as first impression Eindhoven is presented like a very contemporary city trying to dialog with the past and there's a very interesting thing to say as well: there's a good dialog between Architecture and Art within the centre.
It's amazing how they manage the streets, how they can manage the walk ways and the respect they have for cyclists.
As I said the first impression was so good. I would love to go back there one day :) hope soon.
The award ceremony begins anyway.
Little coffee break where we met some very interesting guys from Holland and then ready for the conference.
The conference was well organized and the speakers were so funny but so good because they were just reading a text and a lot of time they lost themselves reading their own paper. Anyway they began the announcement of the finalists.
All the groups called as finalist had a very nice project that and really appreciated another thing; the jury's Assessment was very critic and honest and true :)
In our section the first price was won by some spanish guys leaded by: Francisco Javer Castellano Pulido, Tomas Garcia Piriz, Luis Miguel Ruiz Aviles, Paloma Baquero Basatz and Juan Antonio Cerrano Garcia.
These guys were from Cuac Arquitectura in Granada and they did a very interesting work. I personally really appreciate they way they managed the housing and its composition. I hope i will get a section or a plan of their work in the next days so i will publish it here (if i can).
But obviously the best group wasn't the first price! :-)
The personally best one was our group who got the 2nd price (runner-up)!
Alina and Leonardo, our group leads, went to receive the honor and the price (Alina was almost dying when the speaker called her :-) ).
Our project was very interesting from the master plan and composition point of view but it wasn't very well composed in the housing-typology and representation.
But as Ivo said: you guys got a "bella lezione" today. And we can promise that we will be stronger for the next Europan and we'll try to hit that thing that the spanish guys got this year :)
After that conference the Europan 11 group moved to TU/e Showroom where the university organized first an exhibition of the winners (we were so proud to see our work exposed) and then a dinner between the groups leads (and me and our friend went to try the KFC in Eindhoven).
It was a great experience guys. This is just a way to start to be an architect maybe because from these little things you begin to understand what's going on out of your university and around europe. it's so useful to meet other architects from other countries and then talk with some developers and understand their point of view as well.
We are just so happy of this
So many thanks again to our group!! Thanks to LAP office, Alina Lippiello, Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi, Filippo Zordan, Fabio de Ciechi, Manuele Mossoni, Annalisa Romani, Pierre Bertrand Guyot de Hardruyere, Fausto Cuzzocrea and Vesna Markovic!! A special thanks to Ivo which was so patience with us and brang us to this awesome trip through holland!
It was Bella Lezione and a great Experience
See you in Europan 12 maybe :)
Filippo Zordan
No comments:
Post a Comment