Site Lake Baths _ Serra da Estrela, Portugal

an international architecture competition (June 24, 2015 - October 30, 2015)

On behalf of ArkxSite, we would like to congratulate the following winners and honorable mentions for their compelling competition submissions!
These results are composed of (7) teams of young professional architects and (3) teams of architecture students!

A special thank you to the Jury members for their expertise, valuable time and dedication throughout the evaluation period!
Fran Silvestre (Spain) _ Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Marc Jay (Denmark) _ WE architecture
Mauro Turin (Argentina / Switzerland) _ Mauro Turin Architectes

Thank you to all of the participants for submitting your ideas, enjoy browsing through the diverse design proposals!

Download Jury Evaluation Report

WINNERS:

1ST PRIZE

LB15082: Álvaro Olivares Peralta, Sevak Asatrían, Esther Sanchis Llopis, Eduardo Sancho Calzada (SPAIN)

Jury remarks:
The project resolves in a convincing and a precise way the dialectical relation between the artificial and the natural, at the same time that proposes a great functional and constructive clarity. With minimal resources it manages to create a diversity of atmospheres of great spatial richness, susceptible of producing the emotion.
Its simplicity gives it the sobriety and elegance that fits perfectly in an environment of such strong character. The proposal also has a valuable timeless component.

2ND PRIZE

LB15114 Adrian Yau, Kenneth Wong, Cyrus Wong, Jin Chen (JAPAN)

Jury remarks:
The project makes disappear the limits between the interior and the exterior in order that the constructed and the natural intermingle finely and poetically, looking for a primitive and demanding relation of the human being with the natural elements (particularly with the low temperatures) that takes the experience of the space to its first function of refuge.
This project highlights the relationship generated in which the proposal is interlaced with the environment through a reduced geometry to the minimum expression through a line, so that nature and program are interlaced and coexist under the same cover.

3RD PRIZE

LB15106 Louise Husman (SWEDEN)

Jury remarks:
The project assumes a distance of the nature and a search of formal affirmation over the landscape at the territorial scale. On the contrary, at the scale of uses it seeks to approach nature by withdrawing into itself leaving place to the preeminence of the natural. This ambiguity added to a strict and clear functional definition, produces an object of great conceptual force.
Project with clear references of Portuguese architecture. Stands out for their pure lines and marked geometry that evokes to rocks that emerge by fusing with the place.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

LB15069 Maja Nikolic, Dejan Pavlovic, Darko Pavicevic, Dusan Ogrizovic (SERBIA)
LB15077 Andrzej Gwizdala, Marcin Szpil (SPAIN)
LB15011 Baptiste Coltier (FRANCE)
LB15118 Timothée Bossard, Achille Gauquelin (FRANCE)
LB15031 Kunkook Bae, Sungjoon Chae, Seung Won Song (USA)
LB15091 Daniele Bonetti, Pietro Dardano (ITALY)
LB15096 Christopher Bonauli, Ihvan Pahrevy, Kania Thea Pradipta (INDONESIA)

Congratulations!

ALL REMAINING COMPETITION ENTRIES:

OVERVIEW:

This international one-stage architecture competition invites all architecture students, young architects and young professionals with a degree in architecture studies (≤ 40 years old) to develop and submit compelling ideas for the design of Lake Baths located in Serra da Estrela, Portugal.

Lagoa Comprida is a remarkable lake in a prominent landscape. A place with one of the most impressive traces from the Ice Age period, a glacier lake with impressive fields of erratic boulders.

When generating a vision for an intervention located within such a spectacular place, it is essential that each proposal emphasizes, respects and celebrates the site, while providing visitors with a unique experience.

JURY:

Fran Silvestre (Spain) _ Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Marc Jay (Denmark) _ WE architecture
Mauro Turin (Argentina / Switzerland) _ Mauro Turin Architectes

MEDIA PARTNERS + SUPPORT:

Architime _ Russia

Arqoo _ Italy

.bak _ Spain

Blog de Concursos _ Spain

Wettbewerbe Aktuell _ Germany

World Architecture Community _ United Kingdom

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NOTE:

This is strictly an ideas competition, an academic exercise and will not be built. ArkxSite or any other organisations do not have the authority nor intention to award contracts for design services as a result of this competition. Awarded proposals should consider their award as recognition of excellent work in this competition.

Site Lake Baths _ Winners!