Aerogel Architecture Award 2025

Aerogel Architecture Award 2025 je súťaž pre architektov, stavetných inžinierov a študentov. Do tretieho ročníka medzinárodnej súťaže môžu účastníci posielať projekty, na ktorých bol použitý aerogél ako izolačný materiál. Výzva je určená tiež študentom, ktorí sa môžu zapojiť prostredníctvom ideových návrhov s využitím tepelnoizolačných, akustických alebo translucentných vlastností aerogélov.

Vyhlasovateľom je Empa (švajčiarsky federálny materiálový výskumný inštitút). Ako sekretár súťaž organizačne zabezpečuje Michal Ganobjak (Aerogel building integration Laboratory for Building Energy Materials and Components).

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O výsledkoch Aerogel Architecture Award sme v minulosti písali tu.

We are delighted to invite you to submit your examples of aerogel use in architecture, construction, refurbishment and monument preservation as built solutions or student projects. We are searching for the top realized projects internationally to showcase the best projects of architects, civil engineers or top project ideas of students from these fields. The best realized projects selected by our jury will be shortlisted for our Aerogel Architecture Awards ceremony hosted near Zurich at Empa campus, which will give broad recognition to the projects. The projects will be published in relevant international magazines and portals. The award celebrates the best examples with regards to energy efficiency, unconventional solutions, translucent daylighting, high performing buildings solutions with use of superinsulating aerogel materials..

CATEGORY

REALIZED SOLUTIONS / architects, civil engineers and their studios
STUDENT DESIGNS / architecture and civil engineering students

SCHEDULE

• January 20, 2025 – Competition announcement and registration opens
• May 16, 2025 – Project submission deadline (23:59 hours Zurich time)
• June 13, 2025, 15:30 – Winners’ announcement event, "Akademie" building, Empa Duebendorf (on-site and public stream)
  (AAA2025 is part of 3rd AIA - Aerogel Industry Academia Forum 2025, June 11-13, 2025)

JURY

• Beat Kämpfen // Kämpfen Zinke + Partner / Switzerland
• Volker Herzog // Herzog-architektur / Germany
• Manfred Wehdorn // Wehdorn architekten / Austria
• Michael O´Connor // Advapor / Advanced porous material consortium / France

CONDITIONS FOR SUBMISSION

Architectural and civil engineering studios can submit realized projects of renovation, refurbishment or new buildings located in any country and place. Students of architecture and civil engineering can submit their proposals and design studio projects with use of aerogel based materials. The award is communicated in English. Projects should be no older than three years. Highly encouraged are submissions of realized projects of renovation of protected buildings, refurbished buildings and new buildings where the energy efficiency was improved using aerogel insulation materials or translucency of silica aerogels is used. Winners of Realized solutions category will be invited to Switzerland for the announcement event, which will take place at the NEST building at the Empa campus in Duebendorf (Zurich). The winners of Realized solutions category will receive a memorial trophy and will be invited to introduce shortly their project within ca. 10 minutes to broader audience. Winners in Student category will be invited to present their project via video presentation.

THE HOW-TOs OF SUBMITTING YOUR PROJECT

Please send a ZIP or RAR file (max. 20MB) to email michal.ganobjak@empa.ch (secretary) until deadline. Feel free to access files for download for poster layout (AI or PDF). For your submission, choose 6 digit identification number (0-9) please. You should try to avoid numbers in the sequence please, as well as same numbers or alphabet characters. Mark your poster and name ZIP file with your identification number.

• 1 PDF A1 size poster (portrait) with plans, section, photographs and linear drawings (poster layout to download above)
• 1-3 pcs JPEG - cover photos of the project, which will be used in media and webpages, high resolution
• 1x detail of use of aerogel based insulation (on the poster), linear technical drawing with emphasized aerogel part (Blue RGB – 95,183,215) and list of materials, photos of detail if available
• Fill-in please the online registration form (or if it is not working for you, send us please the Excel file of registration form as an attatchment to michal.ganobjak@empa.ch). Send by email the ZIP file with selected details on aerogel use in your project, description with ca. 300 words of the project. Text, picture and detail can be placed also on the poster.

* with submission you agree with the publication of the project and confirm, that you took care about property rights for images, graphics and drawings, which are part of your submission.

CRITERIA OF EVALUATION

• Preservation of appearance in case of cultural heritage
• Energy efficiency concept
• Originality of the solution

AWARD

Winners in both categories will receive an invitation to present their projects at the Awards event, a trophy, a certificate and broader public recognition, including publication of their project.

Student category will be additionally awarded with financial prize:

•         1st place – 1500 CHF (ca. 1500 €)
•         2nd place – 1000 CHF
•         3rd place – 500 CHF
•         Honorable mention – 250 CHF (if jury decides)

http://aerogelapplications.org

Príklady realizácií s využitím aerogélu ako tepelnej izolácie nájdete na stránke Aerogel Anwendungen, alebo v priloženej brožúre: