E12 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

Wood de travers

Couvet (CH) – Runner-up

Team Representative: Tomás García Píriz (ES) – architect;  Associates:  Juan Alcalá Lara (ES), Paloma Baquero (ES), Javier Castellano Pulido (ES), Luis Miguel Ruíz Avilés (ES), Juan Antonio Serrano (ES) – architects
Contributors: María de Lara Ruiz (ES), Álvaro Rodríguez Sainz de Rozas (ES), Álvaro Tejada Tenorio (ES) – architects; Claire de Nutte (BE) – landscape architects; Yu Bruno Masuda Rodríguez (ES) – engineer-architect; María Martín Rodríguez (ES) – student in architecture; Serena Vianello (IT) – student in engineery

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J. Castellano Pulido, T. García Píriz, J. Alcalá Lara, P. Baquero, J. A. Serrano and L. M. Ruíz Avilés

"We propose the possibility of generating a contemporary construction system that represents the region itself. This is a system involving cooperation between craft workshops and architects, artists and businessmen; some of them take part into the new entrepreneurial companies area. The constructive logics of stacking are provided as an intuitive intellectual resource linking tradition and contemporary architecture, a way of building the future of the region upon the construction innovation […]"