27/05/2015
- Events
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.
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.