Two graduates of the University of Navarra win an international lighting award
Last Christmas, Francisco Javier Chocarro and María Urmeneta projected a fir tree with recovered glass bottles in front of the Baluarte of Pamplona.
award The Pamplona architects Francisco Javier Chocarro San Martín and María Urmeneta Fernández, graduates of the University of Navarra's School of Architecture , have received the first WAN Lighting Awards 2012 in the category of installations. Organized by the architecture and interior design magazine World Architecture News, the awards recognize the best lighting work at design for products, projects and installations.
Francisco Chocarro and Maria Urmeneta were distinguished by the fir recovered glass bottles that projected in front of the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona during last Christmas. The project was promoted by the Commonwealth of the Region of Pamplona, in order to raise awareness among citizens about recycling.
To make it, 2,328 bottles were used, 90% of green glass, provided by Bodegas Pedrola. The tree, six meters high and almost five meters in diameter at its base, had a conical steel structure composed of four quadrants, which facilitated assembly and subsequent disassembly, as well as transport and storage. In addition, a counterweight of more than three tons was placed to gain stability against the wind.
The judges noted that project is "honest, imaginative, simple and well-designed". The awards recognize the best lighting work on design for products, projects and installations around the world. In second and third place were selected a spiral reflective structure installed in an office building in Qatar and a rotating dome installed at the Holburne Museum in Sydney, respectively.