Who said it was easy to opt for a project when the general level is so high? After this arduous task, the jury of the 2nd edition of the ROOM Awards decided on the 8 selected ones that demonstrated that creative turn in their discipline, challenging boundaries and showing a different way of exploring their field of action. These are the 8 winners who have obtained the award designed by MUT Design with Krion® material. Congratulations to all of them!
Future Award
Teresa Fernandez Pello
There is art beyond the most conventional methodologies, and this is demonstrated by Teresa Fernández Pello, winner of the Futuro Prize for establishing relationships between digital culture and the spiritual future of the new millennium. A complex and transgressive creative practice that she establishes a reflection on the present to explore it through technological support and the most advanced design.
Crafts / Art Design Award
Mimesis Collection. Jordi Ribaudí
Giving new life to the materials discarded by the industry is a thought that looks towards the future, and that is what Jordi Ribaudí achieves in his collection Mimesiswinner of the Craft/Art Design Award. Through her work, Ribaudí turns a discipline such as crafts into a testing ground for transforming waste into an iconic object with a completely poetic aura.
Art Award
Little Valles
Analogue and digital form the backbone of the imagination of Cachito Vallés, winner of the Art Prize. An imaginary with which he seeks to project the immersive experience through pieces with a high technological percentage. Through the development of softwares sophisticated, Vallés gives the power to light, sound and movement to address the essence of humanity.
Ephemeral Spaces Award
Twist. Animal Studio
If we look at the backgroundfrom Studio Animal we can get an idea of the importance that color has in their portfolio. And in Twist, In the winning project of the Espacios Efímeros Award, chromaticity becomes a brutalist and out-of-scale tool to generate optical games and reformulate the concept of scenography from completely radical approaches.
Product Design Award
Woodstraps. Summumstudio
Sometimes simplicity is the key to success: this is how Summumstudio has demonstrated it with its luminaire. Woodstrapsfor LZF Lamps. Winner of the Product Design Award, this sophisticated lamp is shown as a bold object that, with few materials, is capable of filling the dimensions of a space with nuances, and all through a simple movement of our hand.
Interior Design Project Award
Tramo Restaurant. Selgascano and Andreu Carulla
Sustainability must be an indisputable part when planning a project, and Selgascano and Andreu Carulla were clear about this in the Tramo restaurant, winner of the Interior Design Project Award. A proposal that preserves the original beauty of the space and turns the restaurant itself into a manifesto in defense of the planet’s limited resources.
Architecture Project Award
Casa Eñe. Albar Studio
It is essential that architecture be put at the service of those who inhabit it, but also of the environment that hosts it. That is what Estudio Albar has designed in Casa Eñe, winner of the Architecture Project Award. A humanist approach that highlights the concept of passivhaus to fully respect the environment and the needs of the user.
International Award
Michael Anastassiades
Cypriot designer Michael Anastassiades is one of the leading representatives of a generation of designers and creators who take design to levels of art. And it is that apparent simplicity and poetic purity of his work that makes it unforgettable and has earned him this recognition as an International Award.
You can read more news about the two editions of the ROOM Awards at this link.