Thursday, August 6, 2009

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University of Santiago won


With the great joy of those who are teachers in this house for Advanced Studies, attached note on relevant achievement of students of Architecture USACH:
Students Rodrigo Gonzalez Muñoz Matias and Nicolas Folch and Professor Rodrigo Aguilar of the University of Santiago, were first place winners in the Competition IV Architectural Wood hosted by the Technology Transfer Centre Timber CORMA CTT, which involved 55 projects from 18 universities in the country, with a total of 200 students, who designed an Indoor Swim Center and Rowing Club in Valdivia.

The second contest was for students Jonathan Cares, Gustavo Miranda and Paul Feeley, with Professor Rodrigo Aguilar, University of Santiago. Third place, meanwhile, went to Jose Salinas, José Luis Undurraga, Manuel Cambranis and Professor Paul Talhouk, the Universidad Finis Terrae.

The award ceremony was held at the Cultural Center Matucana 100, was attended by representatives from the Ministry of Public Works, the director of CTT, Larrain Ignacio, and various representatives from business, academic and related professional architecture and construction. The awards ceremony was held at the Cultural Center Matucana 100.

Participants had to develop a center consisting of an Olympic swimming pool, gym and cafeteria and a rowing club, with a total area of \u200b\u200b4,500 square meters within the urban area of \u200b\u200bValdivia.

The winning team in the student category received $ 1,500,000, one of whom also travel to Germany in December 2010 to attend the Congress of Wood Structures "Holzbau Forum, with support from Henkel. The prize for second place was $ 1,000,000, while the third place received $ 500,000.

On the occasion, Ignacio Larraín said the contest, held for the fourth consecutive year, aims to promote awareness of wood as a material and research on its potential, its technologies and its multiple uses and applications in the area construction, such as structures, coatings and finishes, among others. He highlighted the sponsorship has given the Ministry of Public Works to competition, allowing work to develop this portfolio you plan to run and the big announcement that has had this version of the competition.

also surrendered four honorable mentions, which fell in the project of the University of Santiago de Igor Aqueda students and teacher Andrés Maximiliano Plá and Atria.
The panel of judges was composed of outstanding professionals related to architecture and construction in wood: Juan Acevedo, Juan Pablo Rojas, Enrique Browne, Sergio San Martín, Humberto Eliash, Wayne Stevens, Christian and Martin Hurtado Valdés, who heads the agency .

The exhibition at the Cultural Center Matucana 100 through August 9, subsequently exhibited at the Sala Isidora Arauco Company until 24 August and then travel to Valdivia to be displayed in a location to be determined.
First Place: UniversidadSantiago http://www.corma.cl/documentos/ctt/1er_lugar_concurso_% 202009.jpg
Second Place: Universidad de Santiago

(Article appeared on the Web CORMA: www.corma.cl/portal/noticias/2009-08/id_1249497093662)

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