Award ceremony of the competition "Sustainable is beautiful"
The awards ceremony of the student competition entitled "Sustainable is beautiful" took place on 23rd February. On this occasion, the jury awarded three prizes among the almost thirty projects in competition, which involved more than 80 students in architecture at the EPFL. This competition has been organized by the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) with the support of Real Estate and Infrastructures Department (DII), EPFL Sustainability Unit, EPFL Student Foundation (FEE) and the Vaud section of the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA). It focused on the creation of a new "Point Vélo" on the EPFL campus, integrating the principles of sustainable construction. All the projects are exhibited until March 1 in the Project Room, Foyer of SG Building, EPFL Campus.
The new “Point Vélo” program corresponds to a total area of 200 m2, mainly consisting of one office and spaces dedicated to reception, repairs and storage. As part of a willingness to promote soft mobility, the planned site for the new “Point Vélo” is located in the northern part of EPFL campus, along the Chemin des Arpenteurs, not far from M1 station.
The architectural approach has to be based in particular on searching for an appropriate adequacy of the means employed, on mastering constructive processes with the vision of demolition and on the creative use of materials with low energy, environmental and economic costs. The competition thus offered students the opportunity not only to imagine the architectural design on a conceptual angle, but also to experiment its achievement by developing it in its constructive reality.
Representing as much the academic world as the professional practice, the jury will be composed of Prof. Emmanuel Rey, Dan Bolomey, lecturer, Pierre Gerster, Delegate of Real Estate & Infrastructures, Philippe Vollichard, Deputy for Sustainable Campus Unity, Isabelle Cahour, FEE representative, Astrid Dettling, architect, representing SIA and Sandra Maccagnan, architect, Fournier & Maccagnan, Bex. At the end of the evaluation process, the jury has decided to attribute three prizes.
The first prize, corresponding to 4'000.- CHF, has been awarded to the project proposed by the students Micael Lopes et Antoine Vauthey.
The second prize, corresponding to 3'000.- CHF, has been awarded to the project proposed by the students Charles Capré, Caroline Charvet, Rémy Cottin et Rama Elias.
The third prize, corresponding to 2'000.- CHF, has been awarded to the project proposed by the students Yves Franchetti, Raphaël Nyckees, Dereck Raubach et Jonathan Repond.
This competition is conceived as the first step of the process supposed to lead to the effective realization of the building welcoming the new Point Vélo. The winning team will be involved from the project development to its implementation phase, in collaboration with an architectural firm, which will be appointed for that purpose.
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