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Eleventh edition of the student contest

27/05/2015
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Student contest
ISOVER staged its eleventh Multi-Comfort House international student competition in Astana (Kazakhstan) in partnership with the organizers of Astana EXPO-2017, an international exhibition on future energy. 
During the three-day competition, fifty student teams from twenty countries presented their sustainable construction projects to a panel of architects, representatives of local authorities and construction experts. Gonzague de Pirey, Regional Managing Director of the Construction Products Sector for Russia, Ukraine and the CIS, and Fabrice Didier, Chief Marketing Officer for the Saint-Gobain Group, attended the award ceremony alongside representatives from Nazarbaev University.
Over 170 persons, students, teachers and other guests attended this year International Edition, which was also sponsored by three local partners of Saint-Gobain, companies Bifors, Souz EFAM and Raimbek. 

Participants were coming from architectural and engineering universities from: Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, UK and Ukraine.

The contest, held for the first time at international level in Bulgaria in 2005, aims at better disseminating the ideas of energy efficiency as well as the different comfort dimensions among these future opinion leaders and it is based on Saint-Gobain Multi Comfort Concept.

The competition is structured in 2 stages: national stages followed by an international one where the best projects from each country compete. For 2015 edition, 1300 students from more than 90 universities registered for the participation to the national stages.

This year edition task, developed by Saint-Gobain ISOVER in close cooperation with the Department of Architecture of National Company “Astana EXPO-2017”, required participants to design a residential building located in the perimeter of the post exhibition residential expansion of International Astana EXPO 2017. 

The participants had to create sustainable architecture in accordance with EXPO’s theme of Future Energy, integrated into the new urban space while respecting the Saint-Gobain Multi-Comfort criteria and take into account the extreme continental climatic conditions of Astana city and regional context.

The first day of the event was dedicated to the opening of the projects exhibition as well as a city tour of Astana during which the participants had the chance of seeing several representative constructions designed by the biggest architects of the world such as “Bayterek Tower” designed by Norman Foster.
The second day took the participants to Nazarbayev University where the projects presentation was held. Each of the 51 student teams, from 20 countries and representing 30 different nationalities, had the opportunity to present their design and ideas to the jury and other participants as well as to friends and colleagues watching them online as the event was webcast live. 
At the end of all presentations, each team was asked to vote for the best project in their opinion, inaugurating this way the Students Prize that was awarded for the first time this year.
The last day was dedicated to the award  ceremony organized in the presence of Mr Fabrice Didier, Chief Marketing Officer Saint-Gobain Group and Mr Gonzague de Pirey, Regional Managing Director Saint-Gobain.
For the members of the jury: 
•    Mrs. Zaure Aitayeva, Senior Manager - Department of Architecture, National Company Astana EXPO-2017 Kazakhstan
•    Mr. Roland Matzig, Architect, RMP architects Germany
•    Mr. Tyshkanbaev Telman, Architect, Stroy-Logistic,  Kazakhstan
•    Mr. Sakipov Yerlan, Architect, Archipelag, Kazakhstan
•    Mussayev Zhomart, Architect, Tetrader, Kazakhstan
•    Mr. Slawomir Szpunar, International Marketing Director, Saint-Gobain Construction Products France
•    Mr. Leif Andersson, International Manager  Innovation & Solutions, Saint-Gobain Insulation France
•    Smirnov Yuri, Architect, Studio ACC design, Kyrgyzstan

Choosing the winners proved to be a challenging task as all projects proposed creative approaches supported also by strong technical background.

The winner of the Students Prize was Ms Karolina Chodura from Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

The jury decided to award four supplementary Special Prizes for the quality of the projects to: 
  • Mr Mirbek Bekboliev, Mr Kutay Biberoglu, Mr Burak Ilhan from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
  • Mr Tomas Boros from Faculty of Art, Technical University in Košice, Slovakia
  • Ms Zuzana Zelingerová, Ms Barbora Medová, Mr Jakub Med, from Faculty of Architecture CTU Prague, Czech Republic

The winners of the prizes were:
  • 3rd PRIZE: Ms Artenii Valeria, Mr Tintari Andrei from Gheorghe Asachi Technical University, Iasi, Romania
  • 2nd PRIZE: Ms Helene Lacombe, Mr John Edom, from National Superior School of Architecture, Paris Malaquais, France
  • Winner of the 1st PRIZE was a team made of  German and Kazakh students learning at Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering (KazGASA) : Ms Valeria Sidorenkom, Mr Iwan Schroeder, Mr Ruslan Abildinov.
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