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·Winning students along with their tutor will travel with all expenses paid to a real estate sector conference in Latin America.
·Isabel Noboa Pontón presented the recognition to the winning team.
FOR USa leading leader in the real estate sector, successfully completed the third edition of PRONOBIS AWARDS FOR ARCHITECTUREin this call Universities from all over the country participated and 30 projects were registered. The winners were revealed at an awards ceremony that was held together with Isabel Noboa Pontón, President of Nobis Holding de Inversiones and founder of this initiative, created in order to challenge the skills of young students, encouraging them to create innovative and environmentally friendly projects. responsible, promoting the values that characterize this company.
The challenge of this third edition consisted of the development of the “Visitor Center” Building within the Karibao macroproject, located in Playas via Engabao. This building would be one of its main attractions. The participating teams presented creative, innovative and sustainable designs, optimizing resources and maintaining the guidelines of Karibao’s architectural style, offering hotel, commercial and recreational services.
The Espíritu Santo Specialty University received first place, with its team made up of students José Andrés Mendoza and Karen Bohórquez, accompanied by their tutor, Architect Leonardo Rodríguez. The members of the winning university project They received as a prize a trip with all expenses paid, to attend an international congress of the real estate sector in Latin America. The second place creditors obtained WACOM graphic tablets, which allow them to design in a better way, both in their academic and professional lives, and the third place received a subscription to a software license for an architectural design program. In addition, all the winners received a Full Day or day trip at Karibao that allows them to enjoy the place that inspired them to create their proposals and its multiple amenities.
The qualifying jury was made up of Mr. Felipe Bernal, Special Representative of Pronobis; Architect Christian Wiese, author of iconic works such as The Point and Maxximus; Architect Pablo Vintimilla, General Manager of Vintimilla Constructora; and Architect Carolina Romero of Lifestyle Architeture. All of them are prominent architects and builders, who have developed projects with PRONOBIS as one of their requirements. The parameters that were taken into account for the selection and qualification process of the groups of finalist students were the different factors such as innovation, functionality, sustainability and the iconic model of the project.
Through this initiative Pronobis promotes innovation, avant-garde, creativity and sustainability, as fundamental values in higher education and its faith in the development of its country. “Pronobis Awards is a commitment that we have made to motivate future generations of architects to implement sustainable practices that reduce the use of resources such as water and energy, generating awareness of the impact that their designs will have on the ecosystem,” he highlighted. Felipe Bernal.
FOR USalso announced that the call for the 4th edition of the Pronobis Architecture Awards will begin very soon with new surprises.