ArchYouth-2020 - the third season of the All-Russian architectural competition and educational project, which is held among Russian students and graduates of architecture and construction colleges and universities. Within the framework of ArchYouth a series of training seminars is held, at which, together with invited experts, students understand architectural glass, double-glazed windows, profile systems. Experts from Pilkington Glass, STiS, SP Glass, Schueco, Deceuninck Rus - companies with a worldwide reputation that are engaged in the production and supply of high-tech architectural glass and components for facades. Students consolidate the knowledge gained in practice: during the ArchYouth season, they participate in an architectural project competition with an emphasis on energy-efficient glazing, which ends with the final defense of projects in front of a competent jury.
The third season was attended by 554 young architects - students and graduates of architectural and construction colleges and universities from Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova and China. Participants from 66 cities, 57 universities and 16 colleges presented their projects. ArchYouth-2020 has turned from a local closed competition into an international one, securing its status as one of the largest competitions held among young architects.
18 projects (9 full-time and 9 correspondence) that scored the most points during the semifinals reached the final of the competition, which ended the ArchYouth-2020 season on February 17. The competition was held in three categories "College Students", "University Students", "Graduates". In addition to the architectural goals, all the finalists coped with the most difficult task: they selected the glazing options for the objects, taking into account the natural and climatic conditions and energy efficiency requirements at the proposed construction site.
The final defense of face-to-face projects took place on February 17 at Imperia Sky Loft, located on the 43rd floor of the Empire Tower in Moscow City. “It is no coincidence that we chose this place for the final,” says Konstantin Kukhtov, founder and ideological inspirer of Youth in Architecture. - Moscow City is the most outstanding architectural dominant of modern Moscow. Skyscrapers, during the construction of which the latest technologies in the field of facade glazing were used, are organically intertwined with the concept of the competition, the main goal of which is to increase the level of knowledge of future architects in the field of energy-efficient glazing."
The final jury of ArchYouth-2020 included:
Alexander Zmeul, chief editor of the architectural portal archspeech.com
Ekaterina Trots, Master of Architecture, Senior Architect and Civil Engineering at Schueco
Volker Guth, CEO of Deceuninck Rus
Maxim Lazutkin, Technical Regulation Director Pilkington Glass Russia
Oleg Manov, founder and CEO of Futura Architects
Yuri Vissarionov, head of PTAM Vissarionova
Semyon Starikov, chief architect of PTAM Vissarionova
Lev Minullin became special guests of ArchYouth-2020, Head of Special Projects Development Department, Deceuninck Rus, Vadim Sokolov, Siegenia Gruppe facility development manager, Elena Matseiko, chief observer of the Construction.ru portal, MAAM professor Konstantin Savkin, Arina Kirstanova, columnist for the archspeech.com architectural portal, teachers and staff of educational institutions and many others.
The works of the winners received high points according to several criteria: architectural idea, comfort, safety, functionality, energy efficiency, architectural graphics, technical graphics, explanatory note, presentation. Each of the winners had a detailed understanding of the intricacies of the glazing of their project, correctly calculated the formulas of double-glazed windows, and selected glasses and profile systems.
Anna Danilova, a student of KADR # 26, won an unconditional victory in the category "College Students", which is the winner of Youth in Architecture for the second time.
Anna has developed a project for the School of Arts located in the Technopark district of Moscow. The main features of the object are the roof, turning into relief, and the use of large areas of glazing, which corresponds to the main concept of the building - the openness of art for residents and guests of the microdistrict. An interesting architectural and planning solution was appreciated by the Deceuninck Rus company and presented Anna with a trip to Belgium, which includes a visit to the city of Bruges and the city of Gitz, where the plant of the Deceuninck concern is located.
The main prize in the category "Students of Universities" went to a student of SPbGASU Valeria Dzhigil, who prepared a bright presentation with elements of theatricality, which was unanimously noted by all members of the jury. For the creation of the multiplex project, in the prototype of which lies a film strip and a cinematic firecracker, Valeria received a prize - a trip to Germany with a visit to a production facility in the city of Siegen and a one-day excursion program from the Siegenia Gruppe company.
The winner of the competition in the category "Graduates" was Ilya Metalnikov, who graduated from the College of Architecture, ADR # 26. Ilya, who is also the winner of Youth in Architecture for the second time, presented a project for a multi-storey residential complex consisting of cell apartments. Maxim was inspired to create the project by the famous House of People's Commissariat for Finance of Moses Ginzburg, a monument to the era of constructivism. Shueco presented the winner with a certificate for participation in the Architecture Tour to Germany.
A special prize from the magazine "Architectural Bulletin" was received by a student of NNGASU (Nizhny Novgorod) Semina Ekaterina for substantiating and interpreting the image (the project "Guest house for tourists in the Arctic").
The winners of the correspondence form of participation are:
Category "Colleges"
Tsarik Anna, student of the Minsk State College of Architecture and Civil Engineering for the project "Terrace type multi-storey residential building with an exploited roof" (a special prize from Deceuninck Rus - a trip to Belgium with a visit to the city of Bruges and the city of Gitz, where the plant of the Deceuninck concern is located).
Category Universities
Shapoval Ilya, student of the Moscow Institute of Architecture for the project "Middle-rise house combined with townhouses" (special prize from Shueco - a certificate for participation in the Architectural Tour to Germany).
Category "Graduates"
Shkeleva Polina, graduate of the Vologda State University for the project "Developing Center for children of preschool and primary school age in Kotlas" (special prize - a trip to Germany with a visit to a production facility in the city of Siegen and a one-day excursion program from the Siegenia Gruppe company).
The finalists and winners of the competition not only replenished their portfolios with new projects and received valuable prizes and awards from SP Glass, Pilkington, STiS, Siegenia Gruppe, Schueco, Deceuninck RUS and SPEECH magazine, but also were able to establish close ties in a professional environment, as well as demonstrate the knowledge gained to potential employers - heads of architectural workshops. The most active and talented - also thanks to ArchYouth - have been hired by architectural workshops for permanent work.
About SP Glass group of companies
The SP Glass group of companies was founded in April 2012. It unites two largest Russian enterprises for the development and production of glass and glass units for windows and facades - Pilkington Glass and STiS. The group's shareholders are Glasswall (Russia), the Japanese corporation NSG Group (owners of the Pilkington brand), the RUSNANO corporation and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
The flagship products of SP Glass are glass and insulating glass units with magnetron nano-sputtering, made using Double Silver technology. This coating contains over 15 layers of various metals, including two layers of silver. The total thickness of the coating is 1000 less than that of a sheet of paper, it is not visible to the human eye, but with it the glass acquires outstanding characteristics in terms of energy efficiency, sun protection and translucency.
SP Glass products provide comfort in apartments, private houses, commercial and public buildings in 43 regions of Russia and in 33 countries of the world. By the beginning of 2019, the geography of the group's export supplies includes: Australia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bulgaria, Honduras, Georgia, India, Jordan, Iran, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Cyprus, Kyrgyzstan, Korea, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, New Zealand, UAE, Poland, Singapore, USA, Taiwan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Finland and Estonia.
Among the iconic Russian objects glazed with the participation of SP Glass are Platov airport in Rostov-on-Don, FISHT stadium in Sochi, Federation tower in Moscow City, stations and interchange hubs of the Moscow Central Ring, an elite residential complex Vorobyov Dom and Dom na Mosfilmovskaya in Moscow, Europe's largest shopping and entertainment complex Aviapark in Moscow.
