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Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Goes to Santos House by Fernando Abelleyro
Fernando Abelleyro recognized for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Santos House by Fernando Abelleyro, designed for Fernando Abelleyro, architect, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Santos House
Using wood as the main constructive element, the house displaces its two levels in section, generating a glazed roof to integrate with the context and allow natural light to enter. The double height space articulates that relationship between the ground floor, the upper floor and the landscape. A metal roof over the skylight flies, protecting it from the incidence of the western sun and formally rebuilding the volume, framing the vision of the natural environment. The program is articulated by locating public uses on the ground floor and private uses on the upper floor.
About Fernando Abelleyro
Argentinian-Italian citizen. In 1995 he graduated as an architect at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires. He was a founding partner of architecture studios (ACM, ARARQ.Ireland & Abelleyro + associates), working in Argentina, Spain and Ireland. In the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, he worked as Senior Project Designer and Project Manager in the Planning and Environment Secretariats. He was Undersecretary of the Architecture and Design Commission of the Central Society of Architects. He has obtained national and international architecture awards in Argentina, Spain, Ireland and Azerbaiyan.
Award Record
With this recognition, Fernando Abelleyro is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award
The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/architecture
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/104440
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/104440
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!104440
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/275359
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://abelleyroyasociados.wixsite.com/abelleyroyasociados
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Santos House
- Function
- House
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Black, Dark Olive Green, Saddle Brown, Dark Slate Gray and Olive
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Fernando Abelleyro, architect
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Fernando Abelleyro
- Country
- Argentina
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #104440
Credits
- Team
- F. Abelleyro and Collaborator P.Coles
- Image Credits
- all the images are property of Fernando Abelleyro
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The project seeks to establish a relationship between the house and the context,to enable maximum natural light. Moving the floors in section, creating a double-height space with a glazed ceiling, which allows the interior of the house on its two floors to be visually and spatially integrated with the surroundings, favoring the entry of light. In turn, a metal roof with a wooden structure that flies over skylight, protects it from the incidence of the west sun.
- Inspiration
- The need to promote a typological construction that enhances versatility and constructive possibility that wood offers; in our country it was never widely accepted as a reliable and noble construction material. It was necessary to generate a project wich expresses the potential of this wonderful material.The inspiration was given by the context itself, given the search to articulate a fluid relationship between the interior and the exterior.
- Research
- Type of research: -Wooden architecture, project and purpose development. Originality. Research objectives: -Achieve an innovative project from its wooden construction. -To deepen the development and scope of wood technology in the field of our architecture. -Generate a rational construction system that meets technical conditions for its normalization. -Manage light and visuals, and the relationship between architecture and environment. Methodology, data collection and research tools used, participants or experiments: -Research and project development. -Rationalization, cutting and purposeful scheme based on the availability and commercialization of wood, sections, dimensions and squares.
- Challenge
- Materialization of this house crossed by various negative aspects that I had to face at the time of its concretion: first, the current legislation that required obtaining a technical aptitude certificate, which translates into the preparation of a manual of the procedures and construction and assembly details that I had to develop in record time.
- Realization and Technology
- Specific wood sheet Structure: Columns composed of ropes and eucalyptus straps free of knots and kiln dry - interior varnish with cedar tint - exterior lasur treatment and polyurethane lacquer with cedar tint. Exterior :Siding of knot-free eucalyptus and oven dry - lasur treatment and polyurethane lacquer Interior : Floor 18 mm eucalyptus phenolic multi-laminate plates - hydro-lacquer with cedar tint. Outdoor deck not-free and kiln-dried eucalyptus boards - lasur treatment and cedar-stained polyurethane lacquer.
- Operation and Interaction
- The essential search to generate a fluid and harmonious relationship with the natural environment. Occupy the space rising from it, generating an object materialized with a natural and simple reading material.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in december 2001 and finished on 2002. it is located in Escobar, Province of Buenos Aires.
- Specifications
- Specifications Unifamiliar house Year of the Architectural project: 2001 Construction:2001/2002 Type of construction: Dry Construction System - Non traditional Main material : Wood Surface: 110 m2 Location: Ing. Maschwitz - Escobar - Province of Buenos Aires
- Keywords
- wood house, dimensional coordination, exterior interior spatial fluidity, light, context, spatiality
