Winners of the 61th edition of the FAD Architecture Awards

21/06/2019. [BCN] Spain
metalocus, MARÍA REDONDO

The FAD Awards for Architecture and Interior Design 2019 have been presented, as well as the International FAD. Winners among a set of 492 works presented in their different modalities.

FAD Architecture Award 2019. IES Playa Flamenca by Alfredo Payá Benedito. Photograph by Hisao Suzuki.

FAD Architecture Award 2019. IES Playa Flamenca by Alfredo Payá Benedito. Photograph by Hisao Suzuki.

FAD Prize of City and Landscape 2019. Maritime Walk of the Prat de Llobregat by Jansana, of the Villa, of Paauw, arquitectes. Photograph by Lourdes Jansana.

FAD Prize for Ephemeral Interventions 2019. Mies Missing Materiality by Anna & Eugeni Bach. Photograph by Adrià Goula.

FAD Interior Design Award 2019. Restoration of the reading room of the library and surrounding spaces of the traditional Cibeles building of the Banco de España by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photograph by Luis Asin.

Mention. Rehabilitation Project of Castellana Building, 81 by Antonio Ruiz Barbarin. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal: Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero.

FAD International Award 2019. New Bund District Church of Abalos + Sentkiewicz AS +. Photograph by ZYARCH Photographer.

Mention. Bang Nong Saeng Kindergarten by INDA Chulalongkorn University, Pau Sarquella, Carmen Torres. Photograph by Beer Singnoi, Pau Sarquella.

The decision of the jury, unanimously, is as follows:

FAD Architecture Awards

To award the FAD 2019 prize in the category of ARCHITECTURE to IES PLAYA FLAMENCA, by the architect ALFREDO PAYÁ BENEDITO. The jury highlights the project "It is a building that responds to an extensive and repetitive school program with the economic limitations that are typical of this type of public work, and that, however, is capable of creating an extraordinarily rich space, an internal landscape that is abstracted from an unattractive environment. The clarity of its linear scheme contrasts with the changing character of the spatial episodes that follow one another. The quality of the interstitial spaces, compressed and expanded, resolved with a limited palette of materials, is accentuated by the expressiveness of structural solutions that open wide open areas in relation to the outdoor patio. It is highly valued as a contemporary, innovative and surprising response in the field of school architecture, which is sometimes limited to conventional and closed solutions."

Granting the FAD 2019 prize in the category of CITY and LANDSCAPE to the project MARINE PASEO DE EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT, of the team JANSANA, DE LA VILLA, DE PAAUW, ARQUITECTES. The jury highlights the project "A subtle intervention that manages to combine the will to preserve and improve fragile natural spaces in the process of degradation with the use, enjoyment and appreciation of them by the citizens who have to make them their own. The recovery of the dune ecosystems, of the native vegetation, of the humid zones coexists with internal routes, furniture and recreational and educational uses that respect the environment. The complexity of the work makes him a reference and an example for this type of actions."

To award the FAD 2019 award in the EPHEMERAL INTERVENTIONS category to the MIES MISSING MATERIALITY project, by the architects ANNA & EUGENI BACH. The jury highlights "The Barcelona Pavilion was gradually covered with a white vinyl until it was stripped of all materiality. With this simple and contradictory action, the walls, floors and pillars become a blank canvas, which opens the door to multiple interpretations on aspects such as the value of the original, the role of the white surface as an image of modernity, or the importance of materiality in the perception of space. The building thus becomes a scale model of itself, at a scale of 1:1, in real size, showing a finalized space, but at the same time unfinished. The intervention therefore denies the matter to the pavilion to put it in value.

To award the FAD 2019 prize in the category of INTERIOR DESIGN to the project RESTORATION OF THE READING ROOM OF THE LIBRARY AND SURROUNDING SPACES OF THE TRADITIONAL BUILDING OF CIBELES OF THE BANCO DE ESPAÑA, by the architect MATILDE PERALTA DEL AMO. The jury highlights the project "The room that was once the nucleus of the first building of the Banco de España -now with library use- recovers its original splendor with this intervention, increasing its referential character within the labyrinthine complex of buildings through of sound decisions that reinforce its luminosity and transparency. The balance between the language and contemporary materials and the original architecture is a consequence of the precision in the integration of new functional, mechanical and spatial elements that previous interventions had distorted. The jury values the intense involvement of its author in an attitude that is both respectful and committed: strict and inflexible in the preservation of its architectural values, and radically contemporary in the language applied to the modifications necessary to respond to its current functionality."

Make a mention of the REHABILITATION project of the CASTELLANA BUILDING, 81 (ANCIENT BANK OF BILBAO), by Dr. ANTONIO RUÍZ BARBARÍN, accompanied by the following reflection: "The jury wants to join the debate, increasingly present, around the preservation of the architectural heritage of the twentieth century, recognizing the modélica rehabilitation of this essential work of Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza. In the intervention, the neatness and sensitivity are valued when deciding the elimination of those added accumulated during almost forty years, as well as the restitution of the original constructive and spatial values. The work has been carried out based on a rigorous and deep investigation that implies even greater difficulty considering the enormous complexity that implies updating the performance of the building according to the technical and functional standards required today."

International FAD Awards

The FAD International Awards come to the sixth edition to reward the architectural proposals projected from Spain and Portugal to be located anywhere in the world. In this sixth edition, 41 projects have been presented. To cover a large number of works, those projects completed between 2016 and 2018 have been taken into consideration.

The jury of the International FAD Awards, chaired by Anne Lacaton, as well as Marta Labastida and Pep Quílez as members, has decided to award the prize to the New Bund District Church, designed by Iñaki Ábalos, Renata Sentkiewicz, architects (Abalos + Sentkiewicz AS +). The jury wants to highlight the ability to use architecture as a vehicle in a complex political and social context, as well as to use the capacity offered by the program to generate public spaces of relationship and connection, in an environment and a context where public space has was practically relegated to oblivion. It is, on the other hand, the symbolic representation of a cultural movement that makes its way honestly, free and committed to the environment; a public space for a building, open to the context and its citizens, not only for its symbolic fact but for the capacity to generate spaces of public relation in a complex territorial context.

Mention the Bang Nong Saeng Kindergarten project, from INDA Chulalongkorn University, Pau Sarquella, Carmen Torres.