Pamplona Intergenerational Center' contest prizes awarded
Organized by the University of Navarra and association Universal Accessibility, the competition recognized students, professionals, companies and institutions.
The project of the students Sara Catalán (Navarra), Christian Bragado (Burgos), Carmen Francés (Burgos) and José María José María Requejo (Cáceres) has obtained the first award of the project-contest 'Intergenerational Center in Pamplona'. The competition was organized by the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra and the association Universal Accessibility (AAU).
The two runner-up prizes went to the work of students Pau Cassany (Girona), Guillermo Escolano (Alicante), Joaquín Jover (Alicante), José Manuel Tourón (Zaragoza) and Francisco José Verdú (Ecuador); and to Elvira Conejero (Cáceres), Marta Gómez (Vizcaya), Allende González-Lacarra (La Rioja) and Diego Vega (Cantabria).
For the competition, the students of the subject Proyectos II created in teams their proposals for an intergenerational center in the San Jorge neighborhood, which theoretically would be built on an endowment site. The building would be aimed at people of different conditions and ages, in order to favor social cohesion and social meeting .
award
The competition jury, composed of Mariano González Presencio, director of the School of Architecture; José María Casado, president of AAU; José Ignacio Alfonso, director of Pamplona City Council Projects; Maite Apezteguía, architect and representative of high school of Basque-Navarre Architects; and Luis Suárez, professor of the subject of Projects II, distinguished the projects that best contemplated accessibility in their design.
The submission awards ceremony took place at the framework of the conference of Universal Accessibility, in which experts from various sectors analyzed the relationship between accessibility and the media, technology and urban planning, among other topics.
In addition to the student awards, the AAU gave awards to companies, institutions and liberal professionals: the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, the Pamplona City Council, the construction company Erro y Eugui, the Isterria Center, Anet Ingeniería Informática S. L. and the Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa, who during the conference offered the lecture 'The architecture of the senses'.