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Zumtobel Group Award 2010for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment
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Press KitBregenz, 09 September 2010
Inhalt
An overview: 2010 Zumtobel Group Awards go to Brazil and the USAThe winner in the Built Environment category
Project report: HARMONIA 57Portrait: Triptyque architectural practice, So Paulo / Paris
The winner in the Research & Initiative categoryProject report: New York City Resource & MobilityPortrait: Terreform ONE + Terrefuge
An overview of the commended projectsInformation on the Zumtobel Group Award
The enclosed DVD contains photos and images of all the award-winning and commended projects, portraitshots of the winners, jury members and curators, and a photo of the trophy.
For further details on the award, visit www.zumtobel-group-award.com
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AEDES Architekturforum BerlinKristin Feireiss / Hans-Jrgen CommerellT +49 (30) 282-70 [email protected]
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2010 Zumtobel Group Awards go to Brazil and the USA
Bregenz, 09 September 2010: At a ceremony staged in Bregenz, Austria today, the French-Brazilianarchitectural practice Triptyque and the US design studio Terreform ONE + Terrefuge werepresented with the 2010 Zumtobel Group Award. At a meeting at Roden Crater, Arizona (USA) in February,an international jury had selected this year's winners of the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability andHumanity in the Built Environment. The Austrian lighting group's award, which carries a purse of EUR 140,000,honours sustainable solutions in architecture and engineering that make pioneering contributions to the futurequality of life. In the Built Environment category, the jury chose to commend the Brazilian architecture practiceTriptyque for its ecologically and architecturally pioneering office building and gallery HARMONIA 57. Theaward in the Research & Initiative category went to the design studio Terreform ONE + Terrefuge, founded byMitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova, for the research project New York City Resource & Mobility, a visionarymaster plan that maps out a sustainable future for New York City.
It gives us great pleasure to present this year's Zumtobel Group Award to the architects from Triptyque and TerreformONE. Through their projects they have pointed up pioneering ways of promoting sustainable development. Ensuring theefficient use of resources and arriving at pioneering solutions in the fields of architecture and urban planning arechallenges that will accompany us for many years to come. I am delighted that, in their selection this year, the jury havesent out a clear signal that smaller projects which adopt innovative approaches can also prove an important source ofinspiration. We need to look beyond our current needs and see the challenges of the future in their full context and intheir decisions, the jury have taken full account of this requirement too, commented Zumtobel Group CEOHarald Sommerer.
Kristin Feireiss and Hans-Jrgen Commerell from Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin, who werecommissioned by the Zumtobel Group to act as the award's curators, have also transformed the outcome ofthe Zumtobel Group Award into an exhibition with its own catalogue: The very diversity of the award-winningand commended projects shows just how many pioneering avenues of approach the fields of architecture, landscapeplanning and research can generate when it comes to contributing to a liveable, sustainable future. We need to addressall aspects of energy supplies and resources; social structures; user habits; and urban planning contexts, with the mainchallenge being to come up with convincing architectural answers. And in this respect, the 2010 Zumtobel Group Awardsignposts some outstanding and thought-provoking ideas.
Zumtobel Group Award trophy, designed by Sawaya & Moroni
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2010 winner in the Built Environment category:
HARMONIA 57 by Triptyque
An intelligent, green faade based on organic concrete and irrigated by a spray mist system installed on theoutside of the building the system both collects rainwater and enhances the indoor climate is the key designfeature of HARMONIA 57. Designed in line with a pioneering, sustainable approach, this multifaceted officebuilding was created by the French-Brazilian architecture practice Triptyque and is located in a densely built-upbohemian suburb in the west of So Paulo.
The architects of this building have implemented a whole raft of innovative approaches. It represents a very intelligentidea that gets by on simple means and a low budget. It also illustrates how ecological design can be fun, while at thesame time taking contemporary architectural design standards on board. The innovative, greened-over walls shade andcool the faade and as the vegetation grows denser, the building will gradually disappear behind a green wall, said thejury in its statement.
The architects brief for Harmonia 57 was to create an innovative hybrid space to house artists studios. Ithad to be versatile and allow spontaneous changes in layout and use and balance high water levels at the site.The resulting building is located in a creative neighbourhood on the west side of So Paulo where the localclimate is essentially tropical with high temperatures and heavy seasonal rainfall.
Harmonia 57 is a building divided into two main blocks joined by a metal footbridge above an internal plaza.The front block is raised and floats off the ground on pilotis, whereas the rear block is solid and has a birdhouse-like volume positioned on the roof. Large windows, shutters and terraces give a feeling of lightness. Thewhole building has a planted faade irrigated by a misting system. The dense walls are made of an organicconcrete that absorbs water and has pore-like niches to hold a variety of plant species. This external vegetallayer acts like an additional skin buffering the interior against external noise and heat. The choice of plantspecies for the walls was dictated by practical as well as aesthetic considerations: Some species create shadewhile others crawl over the surface of the building, providing a buffer of humidity for other plants.
Harmonia 57 also has a fully integrated, yet technically simple, hydro system of pipes, collectors and tanksthat are part of the architecture itself in the form of handrails for example allowing the buildings rainwater
and grey water to be re-used for the irrigation system andtoilets, and preventing uncontrolled runoff into theground. A green roof helps generate fresh air and providegood thermal conditions inside the building, reducing theneed for air conditioning.
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Architecture practiceTRIPTYQUE, So Paulo / Paris
Triptyque is a French-Brazilian architecture practice established in So Paulo in 2000 by GregBousquet, Carolina Bueno, Guillaume Sibaud andOlivier Raffaelli, who all graduated from the Schoolof Fine Arts in Paris (Ecole dArchitecture Paris-La-Seine). A Paris office was opened in 2008.
Also in 2008, Triptyque won the NAJA award from the French Ministry of Culture, which has regularly broughtto light the most promising names in the young architectural scene in France. This was followed in 2009 by 1stPrize at the 2009 Architecture Biennale of So Paulo and in 2010 by the Zumtobel Group Award in the BuiltEnvironment category.
As Triptyque responds to the needs of emergent cities, its architects have realised the urgent necessity ofdeveloping tools, addressing the key questions and shaping both the urban evolution process and contemporary
construction systems.
Triptyque is made up of two different platforms that work seamlessly to produce a hallmark style ofarchitecture, defined and distinguished by different lines that originate in a team made up of partners and teammembers with cosmopolitan backgrounds. The name Triptyque is the French word for triptych, a work of artmade up of (three) separate parts playing on the notion that the companys creative approach is based oncross-cultural exchanges and experiences.
Triptyques most distinguished projects have included the Harmonia 57 building, as well as exhibitions such asthe 2008 and 2010 Venice Biennale, the creatures at the 2009 Hong Kong Biennale, contemplating the voidatthe Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2010, Swarming Futures at the London Festival of Architecture 2010and 1:1 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
The Triptyque founders and partners photographed at the Guggenheim Museum inNew York. From left: Grgory Bousquet, Guillaume Sibaud, Carolina Bueno andOlivier Raffaelli
Credits:Project manager: Tiago Guimares - Contractor: BGF, Aparecido Donizete Dias Flausino - Landscaping: PeterWebb - Hydraulic engineer: Guilherme Castanha - Structure: Eng. Rika/ Eng. Rioske Kanno - MetallicStructures: Planmetal - Wooden works: Libanio Justino da Silva - Wooden decks: Zanchet - Glass: Revglass -Air conditioning: Disarcon
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2010 winner in the Research & Initiative category:
New York Resource & Mobility by Terreform ONE + Terrefuge
A visionary research project that plans a sustainable future for New York City, drawn up under the auspices ofthe non-profit design group Terreform ONE + Terrefuge, was selected by the jury as the winner in theResearch & Initiative category. Basing their work on a scenario of rapid population growth, massive climatechange and steadily rising sea levels, Terreform ONE + Terrefuge have created a visionary model of a fullyautonomous and self-sufficient city of the future.
For the jury it was the integrated approach that was decisive: This project is a rich source of interesting ideas ofreal substance. The research team has responded to the need to think on a much larger scale these days. The projectquite rightly throws up more questions than it answers. But it also presents a range of visionary potential approaches thatare already acting as catalysts in the urban development debate.
The New York City Resource & Mobility research project is a conceptual master plan for the ecological futureof New York City, made up of seven individual projects. Areas of investigation include waste, water, food,mobility, energy and habitat needs. It examines urban infrastructure and urban resources on a colossal scale andtests the limits of the citys capacity to become fully autonomous and self-reliant.
The research applies the economic model of resource exchange, not just to the production of goods andservices, but also to the environmental performance of the city as a whole. New York City can do much toreduce its own footprint. Key measures include harvesting energy from the sun and wind, greening the city tocool it down, collecting rainwater, reconstituting waste for habitation, growing large amounts of food, softeningvehicles and giving streets back to pedestrians. Terreform ONE + Terrefuge also propose: technologicallyadvanced vehicles; re-imagining work on the basis of the continuous replacement of materials; restructuringneighbourhoods to provide all of the needs of daily life within walking distance; abandoning zoning by use in
favour of ubiquitous areas; re-using aged buildings into new ones; and thinking about every single aspect ofplanning in design with the aim of maximum interdependence.
For the transformation process, Terreform ONE + Terrefuge propose a radical strategy: the reversal of figureand ground, of public and private property. The immediate transfer of half the street space from the vehicularto the pedestrian realm will mean that the old fabric will be replaced both by an abundance of productive greenspace and a new labyrinth of irregular blocks. Fast movement will be accomplished underground in a highlymodernised subway and along the rivers and new cross-island channels, and waste materials will be mined fromtrash dumps to build seven new islands the size of Manhattan using automated, robotic three-dimensionalprinters.
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Terreform ONE + Terrefuge
Terreform ONE [Open Network Ecology] + Terrefuge is a non-profit design group founded byMitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolovathat promotes green design in cities. Through its creative projects andoutreach efforts, the group hopes to illuminate the environmental possibilities of New York City and inspiresolutions in areas like it around the world.
Terreform ONE + Terrefuge is a unique laboratory for scientists, artists, architects, students, and individuals ofall backgrounds to explore and advance the larger framework of green design. The group develops innovativesolutions and technologies for local sustainability in energy, transportation, infrastructure, buildings, wastetreatment, food, water, and media spaces.
Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D.
Mitchell Joachim holds a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Masterof Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) from Harvard University, an M.Arch. fromColumbia University and BPS SUNY at Buffalo with Honors. He is an AssociateProfessor at New York University and previously was the Frank Gehry Chair at theUniversity of Toronto. Earlier, he was faculty at Columbia, Syracuse, Washington,and Parsons. He was formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed.He has been awarded fellowships at TED2010, Moshe Safdie Assoc. and MartinSociety for Sustainability at MIT. His work has won many awards, including theHistory Channel and Infiniti Excellence Award for City of the Future, and TimeMagazine Best Invention of 2007, Compacted Car w/ MIT Smart Cities. His project,Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published.
Maria Aiolova, LEED APMaria Aiolova received her MAUD from Harvard University, and a B.Arch. from theUniversity of Sofia, Bulgaria and the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. She iscurrently on the faculty of Parsons the New School for Design. Along with theZumtobel Group Award in the category Research & Initiative, she has won the BuildBoston Award and the AIA Scholarship Award. She has also been successful in anumber of competitions, including first place in the CHARLES/MGH Station, Bostonand the Izmir Post District International Competition, Turkey. As a founder anddirector of Compost Art Center, a non-profit artists residency program, she hasbeen involved in the design and construction of affordable and dynamic space forartists. In 2004, she formed the Design/Build Partnership focused on simple houses of
modest scale and budget in the Hamptons, challenging the current standards of grandeur by utilizing simple
sustainable building strategies. She has taught at the University of Toronto, Wentworth Institute of Technologyand Boston Architectural Center and has been a visiting lecturer and critic at Harvard GSD, ColumbiaUniversity, CUNY, Washington University and Rhode Island School of Design.
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Credits New York Research & Initiative:
Terreform ONE + TerrefugeMelanie Fessel, Oliver Medvedik, Dan O'Connor, Emily Johnson, Webb Allen, Niloufar Karimzadegan, LaurenSarafan, Philip Weller, Jane Marsching, Zachary Aders, Yu Ping Hsieh, Emily VanderVeen, Aurel von Richthofen,Lydia Kallipoliti, Matt Cunningham, Fred James.
Other contributors/volunteers:Kent Hikida, Serdar Omer, Andrei Vovk, Michael Sorkin, Makoto Okazaki, Noura Al Sayeh, Byron Stigge,Nathan Leverence, Lukas Lenherr, Matt Kipilman, Adam Watson, Craig Schwitter.
MIT SOFT Car Group:Yanni Loukissas, Axel Kilian, Patrik Kunzler, Robyn Allen, Louis Basel, Raul-David Poblano, Robyn Allen, LouisBasel, William Lark
With special thanks to:William J. Mitchell, MIT Media Lab, Smart Cities Group, Ryan Chin, ONE Odyssey, KARV, MetropolitanExchange (MEx)
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Commendations for eight additional projects
As well as selecting the two prizewinners, the jury also awarded honourable mentions to four projects in eachof the two categories.
In the category "Built Environment" these include a New York High Line design and redevelopment project(James Corner Field Operations); a Centre for Women in Burkina Faso (FARE Studio); the newly developedElm Park suburb of Dublin (Buchholz McEvoy Architects); and the new California Academy of Science buildingin San Francisco (Renzo Piano Building Workshop).
In the category "Research & Initiative", honourable mentions went to a rural student project at theUniversity of Talca in Chile; a cross-border exchange programme and symposium "Political Equator II" (EstudioTeddy Cruz) involving the USA and Mexico; a highly poetical idea for an office and studio building in Columbia
(Husos Architects); and a master plan for a wind park in the North Sea (Office for Metropolitan Architecture)that aims to meet the entire electricity needs of the Netherlands.
New York High Line Frauenzentrum Burkina Faso Elm Park California Academy of Science
Universitt von Talca Political Equator Il Geschftsgebude Kolumbien Windenergiepark Nordsee
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Information on the Zumtobel Group Award
The Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment is presented by theAustrian lighting company Zumtobel Group in conjunction with Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin. The awardis designed to honour outstanding sustainable solutions and approaches in architecture and engineering thatmake a pioneering contribution to a more liveable future. In the Built Environment category the award ispresented for exceptional architectural, engineering or urban design projects realized within the last two years.In the Research and Initiative category the award is given to an innovative current research project or socialinitiative developed by NGOs, universities, or independent groups and individuals. The accompanying purse isintended to foster the progress of the ongoing initiatives. 2010 marks the second time the Zumtobel GroupAward has been presented, following the initial awards in 2007.
FounderZumtobel Group
Curator and organiserAedes Architecture Forum
Kristin Feireiss, Hans-Jrgen Commerell
Award categories
Built Environment: EUR 80,000Research & Initiative: EUR 60,000
Selection process and expertsThe 40 projects presented for the jury's consideration were chosen by independent experts acting inconjunction with Aedes. The following experts were involved in the selection process for the 2010 Award:
Erwin Viray (Singapur)Leon van Schaik (Australien)Friedrich von Borries (Deutschland)Matthew Beattie (Irland)Mathias Klotz(Chile)
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The jury's selection criteria
The two award-winning projects were selected from a worldwide total of 40, proposed by an internationalgroup of experts. Determining the laureates in the two categories was the task of an independent 7-personjury. As they assessed the nominations, the jury paid particular attention to the interplay of sustainablestrategies, combined with the aesthetics and quality of the architectural design, and the ethical, social andeconomic added value represented by the projects.
Jury
Enrique Norten,Architect / TEN Arquitectos, Mexico City and New York (Mexico, USA) Yung Ho Chang, Architect, Head of Department of Architecture / Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, Cambridge (USA)Colin Fournier, Architect / University College London (UK)Brian Cody, Engineer, Chair of the Institute for Buildings and Energy, Graz University of Technology
(Austria)Andreas Ludwig, CEO Zumtobel Group, Dornbirn (Austria) 2003-2010Anna Tibaijuka, General and Executive Director / UN Habitat, Nairobi (Kenya)Stefan Behnisch,(Chairman) Architect / Behnisch Architects, Stuttgart (Germany)
Left to right: E. Norton, Y. H. Chang,C. Fournier, B. Cody, A. Ludwig, A. Tibaijuka,S. Behnisch
Catalogue and exhibition
To accompany the 2010 Zumtobel Group Award an exhibition and catalogue have been prepared in
conjunction with Aedes Berlin, documenting the two award winners and the eight commended projects. Theexhibition will go on show on 9 September 2010 in Bregenz to mark the presentation of the awards. It will thentravel to locations including Zumtobel Light Centres and Forums in various places and the Aedes Gallery inBerlin.
As in 2007, the research undertaken in the context of the Zumtobel Group Award has been published in bookform:
Architecture of Change 2: Sustainability and Humanity in the Built EnvironmentGestalten Verlag, Berlin 2009Publishers: Kristin Feireiss and Lukas FeireissISBN 978-3-89955-263-8
For more information, visit www.zumtobel-group-award.com
