Aerogel Architecture Award 2023

Aerogel Architecture Award 2023 je súťaž pre architektov, stavetných inžinierov a študentov. Do tretieho ročníka medzinárodnej súťaže môžu účastníci posielať projekty, na ktorých bol použitý aerogél ako izolačný materiál. Výzva je určená tiež študentom, ktorí sa môžu zapojiť prostredníctvom ideových návrhov s využitím tepelnoizolačných, akustických alebo translucentných vlastností aerogélov.

Vyhlasovateľom je Empa (švajčiarsky federálny materiálový výskumný inštitút). Ako sekretár súťaž organizačne zabezpečuje Michal Ganobjak (Aerogel building integration Laboratory for Building Energy Materials and Components).

Webstránka AAA 2023
https://www.empa.ch/web/aaa

We are delighted to invite you to submit your examples of aerogel use in architecture, construction, refurbishment and monument preservation as built solutions or student projects. We are searching for the top realized projects internationally to showcase the best projects of architects, civil engineers or top project ideas of students from these fields. The best projects selected by our jury will be shortlisted for our Aerogel Architecture Awards ceremony hosted near Zurich at NEST Empa campus, which will give broad recognition to the projects. The projects will be published in relevant international magazines and portals. The award celebrates the best examples with regards to energy efficiency, unconventional solutions, translucent daylighting, high performing buildings solutions with use of superinsulating aerogel materials.
 
For the previous AAA you can find the media release about the winners of August 2022.  All entries can be found at the AAA2022 RESULTS. Now in the following again to the AAA2023:

CATEGORY

REALIZED SOLUTIONS / architects, civil engineers and their studios
STUDENT DESIGNS / architecture and civil engineering students

SCHEDULE

• December 19, 2022 – Competition announcement and registration opens
• April 30, 2023 – Project submission deadline (23:59 hours Zurich time)
• June 02, 2023 afternoon – Winners announcement event in Nest building, Empa Duebendorf (on-site and public stream)

AAA 2023 is part of the 3rd day of AIA - Aerogel Industry Academia Forum 2023, May 31 - June 02 - in preparation, save the date)

JURY

• Ralf Kilian // Fraunhofer IBP / Preservation of Historic Monuments and Preventive Conservation / Germany
• Beat Kämpfen // Kämpfen Zinke + Partner / Switzerland
• Volker Herzog // Herzog-architektur / Germany
• Manfred Wehdorn // Wehdorn architekten / Austria
• Matthias Koebel // Siloxene AG / newly founded Empa start-up / Switzerland

CONDITIONS FOR SUBMISSION

Architectural and civil engineering studios can submit realized projects of renovation, refurbishment or new buildings located in any country and place. Students of architecture and civil engineering can submit their proposals and design studio projects with use of aerogel based materials. The award is communicated in English. Projects should be no older than three years. Highly encouraged are submissions of realized projects of renovation of protected buildings, refurbished buildings and new buildings where the energy efficiency was improved using aerogel insulation materials or translucency of silica aerogels is used. Winners will be invited to Switzerland for the announcement event, which will take place at the NEST building at the Empa campus in Duebendorf (Zurich). The winners will receive a memorial trophy and will be invited to introduce shortly their project within ca. 10 minutes to broader audience.

THE HOW-TOs OF SUBMITTING YOUR PROJECT

Please send a ZIP or RAR file (max. 20MB) to email michal.ganobjak@empa.ch (secretary) until deadline. Feel free to access files for download for poster layout (AI or PDF). For your submission, choose 6 digit identification number (0-9) please. You should try to avoid numbers in the sequence please, as well as same numbers or alphabet characters. Mark your poster and name ZIP file with your identification number.

• 1 PDF A1 size poster (portrait) with plans, section, photographs and linear drawings (poster layout to download above)
• 1-3 pcs JPEG - cover photos of the project, which will be used in media and webpages, high resolution
• 1x detail of use of aerogel based insulation (on the poster), linear technical drawing with emphasized aerogel part (Blue RGB – 95,183,215) and list of materials, photos of detail if available
• Fill-in please the online registration form (or if it is not working for you, send us please the Excel file of Registration form as an attatchment to michal.ganobjak@empa.ch). Send by email the ZIP file with selected details on aerogel use in your project, description with ca. 300 words of the project. Text, picture and detail can be placed also on the poster.

* with submission you agree with the publication of the project and confirm, that you took care about property rights for images, graphics and drawings, which are part of your submission.

CRITERIA OF EVALUATION

• Preservation of appearance in case of cultural heritage
• Energy efficiency concept
• Originality of the solution

AWARD

Winners in both categories will receive an invitation to present their projects at the Awards event, a trophy, a certificate and broader public recognition, including publication of their project.

Student category will be additionally awarded with financial prize:

•         1st place – 1500 CHF (ca. 1500 €)
•         2nd place – 1000 CHF
•         3rd place – 500 CHF
•         Honorable mention – 250 CHF (if jury decides)

http://aerogelapplications.org

Príklady realizácií s využitím aerogélu ako tepelnej izolácie nájdete na stránke Aerogel Anwendungen, alebo v priloženej brožúre: