Cosentino Group announces the veredict of the Cosentino Design Challenge

The Cosentino Group, world leader in the production and distribution of innovative surfaces for architecture and design, is pleased to announce the jury’s verdict of the 9th edition of the international competition the Cosentino Design Challenge, in its two categories: architecture and design.

The Cosentino Design Challenge 2015, is a competition for design, architecture, interior design students or similar areas of knowledge anywhere in the world. It aims to foster the talent of students, promoting research into the different conceptual approaches to the layout of spaces, materials and the construction systems that define them, using materials made by the Cosentino Group.

This year’s competition received a total of 278 applications (135 projects for the architecture category and 143 projects for the design category) increasing the participation by 31% when compared to last year’s edition. The applications received included students from the official partner schools of Cosentino Design Challenge, as well as from students from other design or architecture schools around the world, for example Togo, Russia or Bolivia.

The winners of the Architecture competition (awarded euros 1,000 each), had to present an architecture proposal, totally open to the set topic ‘‘Playground: Fun with Surfaces – Umbrales de convivencia’’. They were:

“Lightside” from Alejandro Mosquera (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de A Coruña / Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla), “Ghost Playtown” from Manuel Ruiz (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Granada) and “Materia Viva” from Cecilia López (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid).

The winners of the Design prize (awarded euros 1,000 each), who were asked to focus on “Cosentino and celebration”, giving careful consideration to the relationship between celebration, space, the observer and Cosentino materials, were:

“Multicelebrations Space” from Jonathan Balderrama (UDABOL Universidad de Aquino, Bolivia), “Jelly Beans” from Jorge Luis Ríos and Marta González-Llanos Rey (Escuela artediez, Madrid) and “Kanyon” from Léa Le Boucher, Maëva Jalu, Ysaline Daguy, Marie Boutiller, Anaïs Cipriano and Julie Saunier (ESAM Design Paris).