As part of the implementation of the global strategy to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, defined by the Kyoto Agreement, Saint-Gobain in 2005 established an international student competition “Designing an ISOVER Multi-Comfort Home”. Its goal is to form an environmentally responsible mindset among future architects and representatives of the construction industry, as well as to involve them in solving important architectural and design problems: creating projects focused on saving energy resources and ensuring maximum comfort for residents.
Every year the international expert council develops unique competition tasks. In 2014, it is to create an energy efficient school project for 400 - 600 students for the Turkish city of Gaziantep.
300 students from Russian architectural and construction universities applied to participate in this competition. Such popularity can be explained by the opportunity to try your hand at work on a socially significant project using innovative materials within the framework of the “Multi-Comfort House” concept. An important factor is the likelihood of the practical implementation of the project: student work, which took 1st place in the international final, which will take place on May 28 - 31, 2014 in Bucharest (Romania), will form the basis of a real project.
Today the participants of the international student competition gathered at the Saint-Gobain Academy to find out the names of the authors of the best works. Based on the results of the jury's assessment from the point of view of the disclosure of the functional concept, economic, environmental and social aspects, 1st place was taken by Nazmeeva Alina, Chubaryan Gayane; 2nd place - Denis Simo; 3rd place - Erik Avetisyan, Vladimir Sarukhanyan, Sergey Sinitsa.
The authors of the winning project thanked the organizers: “This competition aroused our interest with a clearly set task and design object - an energy efficient public building. We learned a lot of new things in terms of "energy efficient techniques" both in the preparation and in today's semi-final of the competition. In the worthy projects of other participants, we, the architects, have learned useful information from an engineering point of view."
In 2014, students from 24 countries are taking part in the competition. In Russia, in order to maximize territorial coverage and fair evaluation of projects, the competition is held in several stages. During February and March 2014, students from 19 cities compete for the championship in the semifinals of the national stage of the competition, which are also held in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Volgograd, Yakutsk, Vladivostok, Tomsk, Tyumen, Irkutsk, Chelyabinsk, Moscow and online with Nizhnevartovsk, Arkhangelsk, Ulyanovsk and Penza. On April 15, 2014, the authors of the best projects will present their work at the national final in Moscow.
