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Laguna 182 Residential Building by Thaisa Nascimento Correa Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Thaisa Nascimento Correa for architecture, building and structure design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category for Laguna 182 Residential Building by Thaisa Nascimento Correa. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Laguna 182 Residential Building
Laguna 182 is a residential building in Itajai, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The tower has twenty-nine floors and forty-one apartments arranged in fourteen different floor plans, with two apartments per floor. Curved and sinuous lines shape the facade. Cantilevered concrete terraces change position on each floor, so every apartment has a private garden. Natural vegetation grows across the building. Materials include concrete, glass, ceramic, galvanized steel, aluminum composite material and certified wood. The design aims to reduce environmental impact and support a sense of community.
About Thaisa Nascimento Correa
Materializing an architecture that can inspire, set an example and positively impact this is what moves this architect. She believes that architects are capable of transforming the world through buildings, ideas and the intention that you materialize can inspire and resonate. And when we resonate with a positive idea, an innovative solution makes the difference. Something local, it becomes global. A constant observer, she believes that architecture has the power to influence the way we live and connect everything. Focused on homes and the way people live and connect with everything; in architectural design capable of facilitating and directing how people will act.
Award Record
With this recognition, Thaisa Nascimento Correa is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award
The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://designers.org/design-category/architecture
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/123175
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/123175
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!123175
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/303629
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Laguna 182 Residential Building
- Function
- Residential Building
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Midnight Blue, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Slate Blue, Steel Blue and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Thaisa Nascimento Correa
- Country
- Brazil
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #123175
Credits
- Team
- Thaisa Nascimento Correa,, Julia Schauffert and Fuel
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Through an outline of curved and sinuous lines, with an unique terraces that switch in different positions on each floor, providing that each apartment has its own private gardens. This movement flows vertically throughout the building, surrounded by natural vegetation that integrate and becoming a prominent element in architecture, in the quality of life, in the same way that the building impacts the relationship of users with the sustainability, community, architecture and urban spaces.
- Inspiration
- A Design capable of positively impacting the urban space, people's lives and being an icon for the city. Observing the integral human being and his connections, his needs. The proposal is to create a living building capable of connecting technology, sustainability, the users' relationship with the urban space, providing contact with nature, healthy environments and a sense of community. At the same time that the building holds the responsibility about the design, about to be an timeless icon.
- Research
- The research on the impact of environments on health; about biophilia and knowledge of user habits. United to the goal of innovating the way of living locally. Reflects the design of a innovate and contemporary architecture
- Challenge
- The Challenge of this project is create a design that can be a landmark on the city and at the same time could impact the way of life of the users.
- Realization and Technology
- Concrete Struture, Glass, Ceramic, Galvanized Steel, ACM (Aluminum Composite Material), Natural Plants, LED Light and certificate wood. The choice of materials reflects its design: white; green (from natural vegetation), marble accompany the lightness of the project and the wood brings in its base, on the first floor, a warm color, a necessary human invitation on the building's sidewalk.
- Operation and Interaction
- The proposed design has the idea of reduce the environmental impacts, expand the sense of community and the building count with some solutions: Energy efficiency, urban garden, conscious consumption, termo acustic confort, discharge correct and recycling with local cooperatives.
- Project Duration and Location
- Project is located in Itajai, Santa Catarina/ Brazil Started in January 2021 and finished in 2023
- Specifications
- The development consists of a residential building with twenty-nine floors, two apartment per floor. totalizing 41 apartments on 14 different floor plans. The Terraces with cantilevered concrete structure.
- Keywords
- Landmark, Skyscraper, high-rise building, tower, Sustainability, iconic
