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We review the winners of all the prizes organized by the FAD, which can be visited in room A of Disseny Hub Barcelona until October 21st.
Finding together the best practices and latest trends in architecture, interior design, graphic design, industrial design, art and fashion is a unique opportunity to take the pulse of the sector in one of the cities in which it is a referent. Under the title “The best design of the year”, the FAD demonstrates, year after year, the importance of identifying and giving visibility to creative excellence in all its aspects, showing the winners of the prizes that it organizes.
In this article, we review the winners in the professional categories of all prizes, including the jury’s evaluations on each of the award-winning pieces, which can be visited in the room A of the Disseny Hub Barcelona until October 21st.
The FAD Awards in Architecture and Interior Design 2018
Organization: ARQUIN-FAD
Jury: Anna Bach (presidenta), Ricardo Carvalho, Pau de Solà-Morales, Cristina Domínguez, Carmen Moreno and Susana Pavón.
FAD Architecture Award 2018:
Project: Life Reusing Posidonia / 14 public protection homes in Sant Ferran, Formentera
Authors: Carles Olivé Barceló, Antonio Martín Procopio, Joaquín Moyá Costa, Alfonso Reina Ferragut and Maria Antònia Garcías Roig, all of them from the Balearic Institute of Housing IBAVI
Rigger: José Luís Velilla
Engineer: Estudis d’Enginyeria de les Illes
Jury’s verdict: “For proposing a social housing model of high architectural quality, which uses the resources of its immediate surroundings to propose constructive solutions, these homes, promoted by the Balearic public administration, represent an example of good architectural practice that incorporates sustainable criteria of a natural way to improve the habitability of spaces and the life of its inhabitants. ”
FAD Interior Design Award 2018:
Project: Can Picafort in Santa Margalida, Mallorca.
Authors: Jaume Mayol Amengual, Irene Pérez Piferrer (TEd’A Arquitectes)
Quantity surveyors: Guillem Mas and Bernat Parera
Engineer: SIE enginyers
Jury’s verdict: “For the skilful and sensitive occupation of materials, squeezing the possibilities of ceramics with different construction calligraphies, a warm and human domestic space of calculated imperfection is achieved, elevating the handcrafted construction to a poetic dimension.”
FAD Award for City and Landscape 2018:
Project: Praça Fonte Nova, Alameda Manuel Ricardo Epirito Santo, Lisbon, Portugal
Author: José Adrião, architect
Engineer: ARA, Caetano Gomes, Sustentable Pensamento, NPK
Jury’s verdict: “By taking on the complexity of the place in a proactive manner, enhancing the democratic use of public space, the project proposes the conversion of an old parking lot under a viaduct in a square as a place for stay and activities, where skateboarders coexist with other citizens. Pre-existing trees gain a new meaning and common space emerges from abandonment.”
FAD Prize for Ephemeral Interventions 2018:
Project: Pavilhão do lago
Location: Porto, Portugal
Authors: Carlos Azevedo, João Crisóstomo, Luis Sobral, architects (depA)
Rigger: Otiirna Art Works
Engineer: Edgar Brito, Luis Oliveira
Photographer: José Campos
Jury’s verdict: “For his poetic dialogue with the landscape, the intervention is a device of mirrors that with a simple gesture enhances and changes the perception of the landscape.” The Pavilion manages to blend in with the natural environment while generating a set of opposites, hiding a space antagonistic interior, a projection room In short, The Pavilion creates a magical place in the garden. ”
International FAD Award 2018 (ex aequo)
Jury: Louisa Hutton, Josep Ferrando and Diane Gray.
Project: Parlament Vaudois
Location: Lausanne (Switzerland)
Authors: Esteve Bonell Costa, Marc Collomb, Josep Maria Gil Guitart, Patrick Vogel (Bonell i Gil Arquitectes + Atelier Cube)
Engineer: Structure: Yves Weinand. AZ Ingénieurs Bulle SA.
Jury’s verdict: “The refreshing aspect of this scheme lies in the confidence with which the architects place a new shamelessly new architectural element in the urban environment whose geometry, scale and materiality are managed, on the one hand, to refer to the past – to complete a historical set – and, on the other hand, to clearly address the present and the project in the future. The ability of the authors continues in the interior, where their various interventions – from the grand staircase that borders the historical facade, to the interior of the Sala Perregaux – convinces by the appropriate but bold architectural forms, as well as by the carefully chosen materials, mostly in wood in contrast to the old stone, which, together, communicate the importance of the activities carried out in its interior, those of the cantonal government. ”
Project: School in Orsonnens
Location: Orsonnens (Switzerland)
Authors: Jaume Mayol Amengual, Irene Pérez Piferrer (Ted’Arquitectes)
Jury’s verdict: “A compact and neutral volume takes as a model the traditional Swiss construction to project a contemporary look on the constructive system that defines it. The use of the structure not as a mere mechanical actor, but as a spatial structuring of the program, the circulations and the light, give character inside the volume. The construction meets the characteristics of each of the materials used without losing their independence, but providing the value generated by their coexistence: the weight reflected in the collection of the stereotomy of the stones and the lightness of the tectonic coupling of the wood. The classrooms are organized in a centrifugal manner around a central void that acts as the agora of the building, a void inhabited by a beautiful arboreal structure defined by a pillar composed of wood. A constructive element capable of explaining by itself all the architectonic decisions of the work, example of its coherence. ”
FAD Award of Opinion 2018
Category Architecture
Project: Life Reusing Posidonia / 14 public protection homes in Sant Ferran, Formentera
Authors: Carles Olivé Barceló, Antonio Martín Procopio, Joaquín Moyá Costa, Alfonso Reina Ferragut, Maria Antònia Garcías Roig, of the Institut Balear d’Habitatge IBAVI.
Rigger: José Luís Velilla Lon
Engineer: Estudis d’Enginyeria de les Illes
Category Interiorism
Project: Can Picafort
Location: Santa Margalida , Mallorca.
Authors: Jaume Mayol Amengual, Irene Pérez Piferrer (TEd’A Arquitectes) Rigger: Guillem Mas i Bernat Parera
Engineer: SIE enginyers
Category City and Landscape
Project: Calle Plaza
Location: Barcelona
Authors: Ramon Bosch i Pagès, Elisabeth Capdeferro i Pla, arquitectes (Bosch.Capdeferro Arquitectura)
Rigger: MOR technical architecture slp
Engineer: Enigest sl
Category Temporary Interventions
Project: Codi Petri. Staircase of the Cathedral of Girona
Location: Girona
Authors: Cristina Masferrer Juliol, interior designer, Víctor Almazán Guasch, architect, Gustavo Torres Mendoza, modeler and animator 3D
International category
Project: School in Orsonnens
Location: Orsonnens (Switzerland)
Authors: Jaume Mayol Amengual, Irene Pérez Piferrer, arquitectes (TEd’A arquitectes)
FAD Prize for Thought and Criticism 2018 (ex aequo)
Jury: Carme Rodríguez, Guillem Carabí and Tomoko Sakamoto
Work: La recherche patiente. Le Corbusier 50 years later / 50 years later
Authors: Jorge Torres Cueco and Clara E. Mejía Vallejo
Editorial: General of Architecture Editions (Valencia)
Jury’s verdict: “On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Le Corbusier, in 1965, different publications have been published They confirm that the study of their work continues to be relevant in the 21st century, among which this jury has been able to evaluate, especially the one that collects the results of the International Congress “LC2015, Le Corbusier, 50 years later”, organized by the Department of Architectural Projects of the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the Fondation Le Corbusier, a work of great quality and scientific rigor, that combines the contributions of most recognized specialists with the researches of less consolidated scholars, offering a wide analytical panorama and a great amount of graphic documentation, in correspondence with the prolific activity of the architect.”
Work: “Thermodynamic Interactions. An Architectural Exploration into Physiological, Material, Territorial Atmospheres.
Author: Javier García-Germán
Editorial: Actar Publishers (Barcelona)
Jury’s verdict: “The jury wants to highlight the interdisciplinary nature of this book that observes thermodynamics from different perspectives, combining the scientific and material with the interpretation psychological, philosophical and historical, in relation to the tradition of modern architecture. Through a polyphony of diverse voices – designers, architects, scientists, engineers, ambientologists, historians, physicists and paisagistas – the uninitiated reader can enter the subject and obtain a global vision while deepening it.”
ADG Laus Awards
Organization: ADG-FAD
Below you can see the main award winners of the ADG Laus Prizes. The award-winning students appear in a separate article exclusively for the work of the youngest. If you want to know the entire list of winners of the ADG Laus Awards click on this link.
Grand Laus Graphic Design:
Project: Escola Massana de Bendita Gloria
Jury: Paco Adín, Nacho Lavernia, Michael C. Place, Ismael González, Irma Boom, Pablo Rubio Ordás , Sonia Sánchez, Malva Sawada and Anna Haas
Chairwoman & Chairman: Olga Pérez and Pol Pérez
Studio / Agency: Bendita Gloria
Client: Escola Massana. Center d’art i disseny
Description of the project: Visual identity (applied to web, stationery, communication elements, etc.)
Jury veredict: “The Grand Laus Award for Graphic Design in the corporate identity section of medium and large companies is for the Bendita Gloria studio for its proposal on the Escola Massana. The jury has valued the timeless nature of the project, its simplicity and elegance, and highlights the fact that it gives a public art school a high visibility and social impact. It also highlights that the project of Bendita Gloria achieves a result of the most visual, stylish and very solid with few media and minimalist ingredients.”
Grand Laus Advertising:
Project: The Fire of Nanouk Films for Temporada Alta
Jury: Celeste Dalairac, Ignasi Tudela, Maria Fabuel, Xavier Hidalgo and Enric Soldevila
Chairman: Samuel López
Studio / Agency: Nanouk Films
Client: Festival Temporada Alta
Description of the project: Spot
Jury veredict: “The production company Nanouk Films, last year’s winner in the Audiovisual category, becomes the winner of the Advertising category with a project for the same client, the Festival Temporada Alta. The promotional spot of the festival, «L’Incendi», is valued for its bravery and excellence. The jury highlights its ability to differentiate itself from last year’s spot and, precisely, to reinvent itself while maintaining that excellence.”
Honorary Laus 2018: Oscar Mariné
“All influences, all styles and all projects that we can imagine build the gigantic figure of Oscar Mariné. With him, the field of visual communication in Spain has widened. Designer, artist, communicator, modern, cinephile and music lover. Creator of images that are part of everyone’s history. And actor of fundamental moments in the cultural life of the country. National Design Award in 2010 and, from the ADG-FAD, Laus de Honor 2018.”
Laus Companies and Entities: Sónar
“The award recognizes companies or entities with a relevant track record due to their good relationship with design and communication. This year, the Board of ADG-FAD has decided to award the Laus Enterprises and Entities award to Sónar, valuing “their particular visual world, a step always ahead of the trends in communication and the use of social networks, in tune with their breakthrough spirit. It has been growing with the city of Barcelona, placing it at the center of the world’s creative communities.”
Laus Aporta – Fundació Banc Sabadell
This prize values the projects that stand out for their social, economic or cultural contribution.
Jury: Olga Pérez, Pol Pérez, Pere Esteve, Samuel López, Alejandro Masferrer, Anna Solsona, Daniel Ayuso and Montserrat Corominas.
Laus Aporta – Fundació Banc Sabadell Professional:
Project: The Good Virus
Studio / Agency: Contrapunto BBDO
Client: ATELCA (Associació Trastorn Específic del Llenguatge de Catalunya)
Description of the project: Digital Marketing
Veredict of the jury: “The metaphor reveals the importance of the Specific Language Disorder and the difficulties of identifying it. Understanding it, raising awareness among professionals and introducing it into university curriculum are the ATELCA battle horse , who has had the vision of trusting an agency such as Counterpoint to communicate and revitalize the problem through the audiovisual piece that can be viewed here ”
ADI Awards 2018
Organization: ADI-FAD
The ADI Awards include three prizes: Delta Awards of Product Design, ADI Medals, for product design students, and the ADI Culture Awards for projects that enhance and enhance the design culture. In this article you can see the Gold Delta Awards and the ADI Culture Awards, aimed at professionals. You can see the entire list of the winners here.
Delta Awards 2018
Jury: Luca Nichetto, Isabel Lopez, Anna Cybulska, Pepe García and Joan Forrellad
Products for people:
Gold Delta
Project: Melic, kangaroo method
Design: Maria Vayreda Duran
Company: Lamardebé, Tetex Canarias SA
Description: Therapeutic baby carrier shirt, exclusively designed to carry premature, low weight or delicate health babies through the Kangaroo Method, which is healthier and based on the benefit of skin-to-skin contact, using the body heat of the mother or father. Melic is the result of the union between the most advanced textile technology -seamless with OEKO-TEX® certification- with the traditional knowledge of the care of premature babies. It provides autonomy to the caregiver, comfort and well-being, as well as security and surveillance for the newborn.
Jury’s verdict: “For its simplicity, naturality and multifunctionality for women and children. The product works not only as a mere accessory but also as an extension of the body itself. ”
Products for the indoor habitat:
Gold Delta
Project: Tekiò
Design: Anthony Dickens
Company: Santa & Cole
Description: Tekiò, a name derived from the Japanese word” adaptation “, transforms an ancient Japanese craft into a contemporary LED lighting system in which, from washi paper modules , vertical suspension lamps, horizontal lines, circles and ovals emerge. Anthony Dickens was inspired by Chochin, the traditional Japanese paper lantern. Santa & Cole edits Tekiò thanks to the work done with the best craftsmen of Japan, combining traditional processes, high quality materials and new technologies, while taking advantage of the cultural heritage and the tradition of working with paper. Paper is a delicate, flexible and malleable material, the folds make it more resistant and modify its opacity. Paper filters light, clarifies it. Tekiò is a decorative light that creates leisurely environments with a light that sets the mood and illuminates in a low voice.
Jury’s verdict: “For having created a lighting system that uses a traditional material such as paper and applies artisanal techniques in a timeless product. ”
Products for the external habitat:
Gold Delta
Project: Trebol
Design: Gerard Arqué
Enterprise: Escofet 1886
Description: Pavement for exterior and interior.
Concept: The Clover tile reveals an interpretation of the nature of exciting reductionism and high poetic intentionality. The result is a beautiful pavement of botanical inspiration and extraordinary versatility of aggregation. The combination of the three hexagons forms a trefoil with the rib in high relief that provides excellent anti-slip conditions, as well as a comfortable tread. The plasticity of its design allows aggregations in hexagonal tiling. Manufactured in vibro-pressure bilayer concrete in grey or greenish grey of 45 mm thickness. Alternatively in HPC (High Performance Concrete) with thicknesses of 27 mm and 17 mm.
Jury’s verdict: “For a Mediterranean and organic design that is identified as a neomodernism of Barcelona and shows the relevance of the use of the pavement decorative in urban furniture. ”
Products for mobility:
Gold Delta
Project: oh_24
Design: Estudi oh! bike
Company: oh ! _bike Factoria
Description: Electric bicycle that combines design, technology and innovation to go further in the easiest way. With agile handling, its concept responds to two main objectives: simplicity and lightness.
Jury’s verdict: “For solving a basic electric bicycle, which seems very little designed but is practical, light and attractive.” That’s it, you just catch it and go to work. “It incorporates a removable battery, perfectly integrated and protected, allowing a range of 50 km The uniqueness of the frame, transmission belt clean and silent, powerful hydraulic disc brakes, effective gear changes and 24 “wheels, make oh_24 the lightest bike, only 15 kg, resistant and comfortable.The integrated bionic technology adapts to the cyclist and assists you for optimal and efficient pedaling.”
International design:
Gold Delta
Project: Palco Low Voltage
Design: Artec3 Studio
Company: iGuzzini illuminazione
Description: Collection of projectors and profilers for interior with LED technology, installed in minirail with low voltage power. The system allows the use of different dimensions of projectors and a wide range of powers and optics, among which stand out the optics for contour projectors, which allow to profile exact cones of light with a high luminous density and efficiency. The use of CoB LEDs, combined with a collimator element and a telecentric reflector with a lens base, emits a precise beam of light without chromatic aberration. Available in diameters of 51, 35 and 19 mm, Palco Low Voltage is ideal in environments of museums and commercial spaces.
Jury’s verdict: “For being a very simple way to cut out light and expand the possibilities of how to illuminate an area in a space. paradigm change of the LED in a gesture very easy to apply. ”
Delta Opinion Award:
Project: Landscape
Design: Emiliana Design Studio (Ana Mir, Emili Padrós)
Company: Figueras International Seating
Description: Versatile system waiting seats for collectives, designed to create dynamic and flexible environments in terminals, hospitals or other public spaces. Lanscape provides different ways of sitting, enhances user communication and facilitates incorporating elements such as planters, litter bins or signaling elements. Following ecodesign criteria, no element is welded or fixed with permanent anchors, all its components are removable, recyclable and easily identifiable.
ADI Culture Awards 2018
Jury: Martin Azúa, Valentín Roma, Anna Puigjaner and Ethel Baraona Pohl
ADI Culture Award Project (ex aequo):
Project: Humanium Metal by IM
Responsible: Peter Brune, Miguel A. Barreiro, Simon Marke Gran, Johan Pihl,
Description: Humanium metal designed by IM is the first chain of supply that distributes metal that comes from destroyed firearms for commercial production. Humanium metal increases the socio-economic and political security of people living in areas affected by high levels of violence. Inspire consumers, businesses and authorities to join together to find a solution to one of the most serious problems in the world.
Jury’s verdict: “The project invites to rebel against necropolitics, a type of sovereignty based on human extermination, which is opposed with the disarmament of contemporary violence. ”
Project: Topografies of sensellarisme
Responsible: Daniel Cid, Francesc Pla, Eva Serrats, Arrels Fundació
Description: Arrels does not act from condescension or protectionism but from co-learning. This positioning based on forms of collaborative practice has determined from the beginning how to work on this project. In order to comply with a program of support and attention, geographies have been designed in the form of a day center, residence, occupational center, shared or individual flats. Nodal services that seek to offer solutions to the day-to-day needs of people living on the street. To these services have been added an occupational workshop and a new type of apartment with low demand.
Jury’s verdict: “The project addresses economic dispossession and social cornering by means of a non-negotiable standard: people are neither have nor have they do not have, they are what they choose or prefer. ”
ADI Culture of Opinion Award:
Project: Christmas Lights Raval Km0
Responsible: Curro Claret, Maria Güell. Impulse SCCL, Fundació Tot Raval
Description: Lighting project of several streets in the Raval district of Barcelona, generating a process of training, production and accompaniment of unemployed people, with the production of Christmas arches that illuminate the streets. All this developed within an environment that encourages participation with community and network work by various entities, institutions and collectives.
ArtsFAD Awards to the artistic creation
Organization: A-FAD
Jury: Martí Peran, Gerardo Peral, Josep M. Civit, Maria Palau and Maria de Lluc Fluxà.
More information: Consult the finalists and more information on these awards in this link.
1st ArtsFAD Prize
Title: Infinity Pool
Author: Kind of Cyan
Material: CyanotypyTechnical: Cyanotipia
Concept: The technique of cyanotype, or solar photography, it allows us to make reproductions in blue tones, and create a semi-abstract image that represents the shapes that are created when the sunlight illuminates the slowly moving water.
Jury’s verdict: “Because of the boldness. The audacity to recover an old technique without nostalgia, provoking ambiguities that question the banal.”
2nd ArtsFAD Award
Title: Limitation: essence of the object
Author: Laura Juanós
Material: WoodTechnical: Wood carved and polished; turned wood
Concept: Is it necessary to give objects a specific function so that they can be artifacts? Are the objects the constant result of functionality? What happens to them when they do not fulfill the specific function for which they were created? The object is detached from a relationship that allows us to identify it with a concrete form, in order to make an analysis of the world of objects, inquiring into our memories, granting them a function through a relationship established by our imaginary and by the memory of the objects, proposing series of forms totally free of use.
Jury’s verdict: “For the care in the making of utensils that make utensils and prolong the care with the objects and for the objects”
Opinion Award
Title: Situar-se
Autora: Anna Fando
Material: Table of wood
Technical: Acrylic painting on wood
Concept: The artist investigates on the performative body and its relations with the social, identity and the spaces that are produced. In 2017 begins an investigation into bodies, dissidence and activism transferred to art. Moving between TransFeminist, cyborg, decolonial and posthumanist theories, a textual project begins that forces us to define, not without academic formality, the look of where the thesis’s story unfolds. This conjecture is transferred to the performance of the artist in the plastic field. Situation is to put the body and define affinities, theories that shape the identity and be aware of the capacity of the body itself.
MODA-FAD awards
Organization: MODA-FAD
Jury: Paula Feferbaum, Claudio Furest, Roberto Piqueras, Francesca Tur and Carole Touati.
Merit in Fashion Design Award: Víctor von Schwarz
Collection: Double Life, 2018
Concept of collection: ‘With a great acceptance on the part by the media, the public and the institutions inside the world of fashion, but with limitations for the almost non-existent market, we end up, in the end, accepting any type of work that distracts us from our true profession. We work in offices, designing for other brands or collaborations and working for more than 12 hours a day. Moreover, we are still invited to social events and labelled by the media as the ‘new generation’. A double life between creativity and reality that usually doesn’t last more than 10 years. As representation of this ‘Double Life’, the collection is divided into two parts: one purely black and white with shapes that are inspired by office dress code. The other, with pastel tones, glitter, fantasy and much more voluminous shapes. The fabrics used for this collection are wool, hair, cotton and silk. And a feeling of sadness. As it reflects the exhausted scenery that represents the collection.
Jury’s verdict: “For portraying the reality of working life in fashion in his last collection and the creative evasion in the sector; for being the reflection of a new generation of creatives that combine work with design of their own pieces; for innovation, internationalisation, history and commercial probability.”
Merit in Fashion Innovation Award: Piñatex® by Ananas Anam
Concept: Piñatex wants to tackle the challenges that are currently presented when developing a product that integrates commercial success and promotes social, ecological and cultural development. From this viewpoint, Piñatex emerged as a natural based, non-woven material that consumers could use as a sustainable alternative, that offers a better option in the future. The material is made from pineapple leaf fibres, a product from the agricultural industry, of which doesn’t require a large amount of land, water or pesticides to product the raw material. Ananas Anam works with the values of the circular economy, that combines investigation and innovation to improve the well-being of the land and its people throughout the life cycle of the product.
Jury’s verdict: “For innovation, for the sustainability of his pieces, for being a benchmark for other brand, for the quality of the final product and for future prospects.”
Merit in Talent of the Year: Pepa Salazar
Concept: Pepa Salazar is one of the most projected talents of Spanish fashion. Valencian designer established in Madrid, presented her first collection in 2013, for which she won the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Talent, an award she won in the following edition. In the Fall-Winter 18/19 collection the designer presents a universe marked by the images of the absurd, fictitious and utopian, belonging to the mythology and paganism of primitive cultures. In a decontextualization exercise, the collection features long overcoats of an exaggerated volume, knitwear with geometric patterns and black and sober tops as a realistic counterpoint. The contrast of materials and colors accentuates the dream references of the collection.
Evaluation of the jury: “For the combination of colors and textures and the choice of fabrics in their latest collection, to have a powerful brand image, for the use of technology, for their character and the strength of their collections.”