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Regional Holcim Awards 2011 Latin America Announced in Buenos Aires

date added: 08.10.2011

The winners of the 3rd International Holcim Awards competition for sustainable construction projects and visions from across Latin America have just been announced. A total of USD 300,000 was presented to eleven outstanding projects at a ceremony in Buenos Aires. The winning projects mainly address the challenges of intensified urbanization – and range in scale from innovative community buildings through to broad master plans and infrastructure projects.

Holcim Gold Award: Urban remediation and civic infrastructure hub, São Paulo, Brazil by Urban Think Tank, Brazil: Project is embedded in the challenging situation of a high risk zone

The Swiss-based Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction conducts the competition in parallel in five regions across the world. More than 6,000 submissions for projects located in 146 countries entered the Holcim Awards which aims to promote sustainable responses from the building and construction industry to technological, environmental, socioeconomic and cultural issues.

Holcim Gold Award: Urban remediation and civic infrastructure hub: Outdoor night performance.

A multifunctional public building in the Paraisópolis favela of São Paulo, Brazil won the top prize of USD 100,000. The Grotão – Fábrica de Música prevents further erosion and dangerous mudslides on the steep slopes and provides social and cultural infrastructure to a community which is effectively separated from the formal city. The project led by Alfredo Brillembourg of Urban Think Tank includes a terraced public space featuring areas for urban agriculture, a water management system, a public amphitheater, a music school, a small concert hall, sports facilities, public spaces and transport infrastructure.

Holcim Gold Award: Urban remediation and civic infrastructure hub:Project catalysts.

Head of the jury and Dean of Architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) in Mexico City, Carolyn Aguilar, praised the project for its unifying concept, premium cultural facilities, architectural quality, and integrated involvement of the local community in a socially-inclusive planning and management approach. “The project has the potential to contribute to an enrichment of social awareness and cohesion in the area, and applies technical features in an exemplary and educative character,” she said.

Source: www.bustler.net

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