IS ARCH

21/12/2018

Student Projects
Sebastian Ritter / Florian Senn

21/12/2018

Student Projects
Vanessa Mayer / Larissa Müllner

21/12/2018

Student Projects
Allegra Stucki / Lenz Schnell

21/12/2018

Student Projects
Saida Brückner / Melanie Underhill

21/12/2018

Mikael Blomfelt / Sandro Straube

14/12/2018

El Colegio Montfort, en el Centro George Pompidou de París.

10/12/2018

El máximo galardón recae en la regeneración del frente portuario de La Palma de Jorge Henríquez y el tercero en una biblioteca en Guanarteme de Ernesto Ibáñez

10/12/2018

El joven arquitecto Jorge Henríquez Yanes, que acaba de recibir el Premio Internacional Isarch, propone regenerar la zona portuaria de Santa Cruz de La Palma y darle protagonismo al Risco de La Concepción.

10/12/2018

Meet the winners of this year's edition!

3rd Prize: The Fabulous super library, Ernesto Ibáñez Galindo

The point is: people don’t go to libraries. However, they keep coming every weekend to fast food restaurants and clothing stores, although we cannot come up with any logical reason of why one prefers to pay for a bad hamburger instead of reading a book for free. The shopping centre has established itself as a basic pillar of family leisure throughout the world.So, from the procedures of visibility and globalization strategies of large companies, we will take and use them for our own purpose. Small eco-stores and folk-politics are not working. The 'think global, act local' implies a withdrawal, but we think global and act global, with the purpose of building a counter-hegemony, a movement that goes beyond the local scale, which puts knowledge in the hands of people and the media so that it can be used and shared. We do not need automatic doors or fingerprint readers, we need a library that can become the town square if the people demand it.
I decided to participate in IS ARCH because it is a well-known international competition that offers students a good platform to introduce their projects.

10/12/2018

Meet the winners of this year's edition:

2nd Prize:Capital for the Collective: The Labour Miracle, Erik Bean

Capital for the Collective: The Labour Miracle explores how sea level rise can be harnessed to positively influence the formation and critical engagement of public urban space. A hypothetical narrative, in which the Labour Party of the United Kingdom is pressured to prove their ideological ideas through architecture, is used to critique the relationship between ideological and pragmatic reactions to climate change.

Sea level rise is approached not as a design limitation but rather as a unique opportunity. The Labour Miracle harnesses sea level rise through three architectural strategies: Protect labour through the formation of inhabitable Labour Citadels, Provide new public spaces, and Participate in the development of civic mindedness and altruistic public contribution.

The ISARCH Awards are one of the few international architecture competitions for students or recent graduates to be recognized and share their work. Every year the ISARCH awards put together an exciting and interesting jury, therefore, I was eager to enter my work. I am very pleased to be recognized this year.

10/12/2018

Meet the winners of this year's edition!

1st Prize: Hotel Escala para navegantes, Jorge Henríquez Yanes

My will to participate in the competition of IS arch started with the idea to show my final project,
that took place in La Palma, Canary Islands, on an internacional virtual platform like this. I wanted
to take a chance with this competition because I thought it was great oportunity to learn from other
colleagues and their way to see architecture.
The project starts as a re-interpretation of the landscape, to how it was originally, a hydro volcano
formed from salt water. The building attempts to impact the area of the cliff and bay as little as
possible.
The ground floor of the building is of a gauzy appearance, so that air, light and views of the bay
pass through it and vice-versa. In this way the ground floor returns views to what they once were,
with the incorporation of the new marina in front.
The buildings physical plant facilities are located on the ground floor, along with storage rooms,
staircases, lifts and the hotel reception. On the upper floor are located the restaurant wing, kitchen,
leisure areas and conference rooms.
The residential rooms are placed in a horizontal slice. The third floor houses the hotel guestrooms,
as elongated double rooms, with views of the bay beside a south facing patio that protects from the
northerly breeze, with a swimming pool at the front and the solar beach.

08/12/2018

IsArch Awards 9th edition winner published at the newspaper eldiario.es!

El trabajo galardonado es una propuesta para la regeneración del frente portuario de la bahía de Santa Cruz de La Palma.