Grajal de Campos, León
Jaca, Huesca
Vejer de la Frontera, Cádiz
The project that was awarded first place and a €12,000 prize came from the Basque architects Imanol Iparraguirre Barbero and Aritz Díez Oronoz. Their project, which is entitled “Lázaro” (Lazarus) seeks to give this town in León back the lost vitality of its main plaza. They are reconfiguring this space with new houses and stores, and rebuilding the old fountain that had always been a gathering point for locals. The palace is also recovering its image and its gardens, and its inside is being remodelled to house tourist lodging, along with other uses.
The jury praised the proposal’s respect for the site’s history and its choice of designs, construction techniques and local materials, which might generate more and better quality jobs in the town, thus empowering and strengthening Grajal de Campos’ unique identity.
Because of the excellent quality of the other proposals that were submitted, the jury also decided to award three honourable mentions, with a prize of €2,000 each awarded to the proposals entitled “Graliare”, by the architects Xavier Espinós Bermejo, Estefanía Fernández-Cid Fernández-Viña, Lucía Espinós Bermejo and Rodrigo Toro Sánchez, a proposal that paid intense intention to getting back local construction jobs and to the economy that they would generate; “Campos de Tierra”, by the Wabi-Sabi studio (Laura Bacete Cebrián, Raúl Cubo Contreras, Alejandro Domínguez Rueda, Andrea Figueroa Chaves and Pablo Navas del Peral), who conducted an exhaustive analysis of the local architecture to apply it in their design proposal; and “Tierra de Caminos” (Land of Routes), by a team of architects consisting of Javier de Mingo and Carmen Bueno, with a meticulous design that emphasised the local identity.
The proposal the jury selected for the €12,000 first prize was entitled “Abriendo a Cal y Canto”, by Granada architect Juan Moya Romero, which he prepared with his collaborators Sara Lobón Ruiz, Luis Tovar Timmerman, Víctor Rejón Terrones and Víctor Manuel Jiménez Sánchez. Their design proposed an ensemble which shows the many qualities in the architectural tradition of Vejer: a compact and stepped urban fabric of whitewashed buildings extending organically from the bottoms of the windmills, ensuring that the windmills never lose the role they have held for centuries, always defining the skyline of the town from this side.
The three honourable mentions the jury awarded, each receiving a €2.000 prize, were handed out to “El jardín de las Hespérides”, by the team of Abelardo Linares del Castillo-Valero and Elena Jiménez Sánchez, who made masterful use of an exuberant local architecture and proposed to create several public squares around the existing windmills; “El límite de la ciudad”, the proposal by Nuria Prieto González, was notable for using a terracing system to mitigate the visual impact the expansion might have; and “The Windmill Quarter”, from the prestigious US architecture office Fairfax & Sammons Architects, showcased the talent of this firm in configuring attractive city blocks with a distinctive local character.
It was published on the occasion of the Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition and the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards 2017 Ceremony, as well as the inauguration of the Traditional New Architecture Exhibition in which were showed the works of the winners in both initiatives from June 14 to July 23, 2017 in the Arquería de los Nuevos Ministerios in Madrid.
This publication will present the results of the 2017 Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition and Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards. Both competitions are organized by INTBAU (the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism), thanks to the collaboration of the Department of Building and Architecture of the Ministry of Public Works and Infrastructure, the Department of Beaux Arts and Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, the Rafael Manzano Prize and the Council of Architecture Institutes of Spain.
On Wednesday, June 14, 2017, the Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition and the Building Arts Awards were presented at the Arquería de Nuevos Ministerios.
The event was presided over by: Mr. Julio Gómez-Pomar, Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport, and Housing; Mr. Luis Lafuente, Director General of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage; Mr. Richard H. Driehaus; Ms. Harriet Wennberg, Director of INTBAU; Mr. Alfonso Samaniego, Vice President of the Spanish Council of Architects’ Associations; and Mr. Alejandro García Hermida, Coordinator and President of the Jury for both initiatives.
The exhibition showcasing the work of the winners was inaugurated in the same building and was open from June 15 to July 23.
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