Finalists Announced for "Sprout Life with Your Design" Competition

This year's 20th edition of the Saint-Gobain Student Competition, held under the motto "Bloom life with your design," has concluded its first phase and finalists have been announced. The winning team in Turkey's competition will participate in the international competition in Paris. The first phase of the Student Competition, which İzocam implements each year on a different topic with social responsibility awareness, has concluded and the jury selected 5 projects advancing to the Turkey final from among the projects of 90 students from 25 different universities. This year's competition is being held for the 20th time with the joint participation and contribution of all Saint-Gobain companies operating in the building materials sector. Organized by Saint-Gobain in 35 countries worldwide and hosted in Turkey by İzocam, Saint-Gobain Rigips and Saint-Gobain Weber, this year's competition theme was set as "blooming life" in a neighborhood in Paris. University students participating in the Student Competition will transform the historical heritage traces of Paris's Saint Denis industrial district into green living, learning and rest areas suitable for today's needs through their designs. In the first phase of the competition, students were asked to create a vision for the competition theme "bloom life with your design," design green living, learning and rest areas that preserve the historical heritage traces of the Saint Denis district while meeting today's needs, and transform these ideas into preliminary projects. Of the 19 projects that completed this phase, 5 selected projects will compete in the national final.

The projects that advanced to the final were determined as follows;

The team of Burak Aydın from Samsun Ondokuz Mayıs University and Elif Şencal from Ankara Gazi University, the team of Gizem Çalışkan and Ayça Özüm Sevinç from İzmir Ekonomi University, Baran Yıldız from Istanbul Technical University, Doğan Elen from Gebze Technical University and the team of Ayşenur Çetin and Pelin Çatıkkaya from Kadir Has University. The 5 projects advancing to the final in Turkey will be submitted by 15 April, and according to the schedule, on 18 April participants will present their projects to the jury and compete for prizes. The top three teams in the national competition will receive prize money of TRY 10,000, TRY 7,500 and TRY 5,000 respectively, while the first-place team will also gain the right to represent our country in the international final to be held in Paris on 3-6 June 2020 and compete for the international prize. The project submission deadline for the international phase was set as 30 April. The prizes at the international stage of the competition were determined as follows: first prize €1,500, second prize €1,000, third prize €750, and special prizes and student prizes €500. The competition jury includes Prof. Dr. Abdurrahman Kılıç, Faculty Member of Istanbul Technical University Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ali Erkan Şahmalı, General Manager of Günarda Project Management, Chief Architect, Durmuş Dilekçi, Founder of Dilekçi Architecture, Chief Architect, Doç. Dr. Gülten Manioğlu, Faculty Member of Istanbul Technical University Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hakan Demirel, Founding Partner of Suyabatmaz Demirel Architecture, Chief Architect, and Prof. Dr. Mehmet Çalışkan, Faculty Member of Middle East Technical University Faculty of Engineering.