Architect Tais Guevara receives the Final degree program award from Chair Madera Onesta

Recovering agricultural and artisanal traditions, mimicking the natural environment and contributing to recovering the identity of a fishing community are the objectives of the projects recognized by the Chair Final degree program Projects (PFC) Madera Onesta 2025 competition.

In this edition, Tais Guevara (CEU San Pablo) received the award for the proposal 'Rincón de las Sensaciones', a gastronomic complex installed in La Hiruela, in the Sierra del Rincón de Madrid. Its project, inspired by the local traditions of La Hiruela, seeks to revitalize sustainable tourism linked to the area's gastronomy. The proposal uses stone as a timeless integrating element and is built of wood for "its warmth and ability to dialogue with the environment".

"The implementation, the exhaustive analysis prior to its constructive materialization and the use of wood as the main element, in its interplay with space and light" led the members of the jury, José Manuel Cabrero, Director of the Chair, and Manuel Enríquez, architect and president of the association Arquitectura y Sostenibilidad (ASA), to award the work.

The projects 'Tejiendo la Palma', by Manuel Alexander Fustamante, and 'Escuela comunitaria de pescadores', by Esmeraldas Lía , received runner-up prizes from the jury. The first proposal presents the creation of artisan workshops in La Palma, converting, in the words of the jury, wood into "a cultural vehicle capable of linking tradition and innovation".

The second runner-up project proposes the sustainable Building of an educational facility that seeks to recover the collective identity of a vulnerable fishing community on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. The proposal "uses local materials, such as brick and the fishermen's own nets, giving special prominence to the mixed system of wood and cane that forms the main elements of the new constructions," explain the members of the jury.