Finalist Projects for Students Proposals ’11

The finalists in this category were: Buoyant Light (Claire Lubell and Virginia Fernandez) La delgada línea roja (Sílvia Cruells and Guillem Colomer) Light Cycles (François Byrne and Gwénaël le Bihan) SLS_Safe Lighting System (Inès Le Bihan and Thomas Droze) Twilight zone (Born in Born design studio: Tobias Olsson, Kasra Alikhani and Fredrik Lundgren) With a prize of €3000, the judges have decided to give the 2011 LAMP AWARD STUDENTS PROPOSALS to BOUYANT LIGHT by Claire Lubell and Virginia Fernández of the University of Waterloo (Canada) for "the emotional character obtained for an object of huge functional use in its setting and the proposal's great interest. It especially highlights the approach's creativity, the sensitiveness with which it responds to the landscape and to the use of renewable energies." And it awarded MENTION to: LA DELGADA LÍNEA ROJA by Sílvia Cruells and Guillem Colomer of ESTAV (Escola Superior d' Arquitectura del Vallès) for: "the formal simplicity of its application in the landscape and for the emotional value it contributes. It highlights its capacity to evoke emotions in the user and adapt itself to very different urban environments."