‘Jumpthegap’ top award goes to Iranian architectural designer
Iranian architectural designer Mohammadreza Shahmohammadi ranked first in the professional section of Spanish festival ‘Jumpthegap’.
The organizers of the event received over 6,000 entries from 135 countries, ISNA reported.
‘Jumpthegap’ was launched in 2004 by bathroom brand Roca in collaboration with BCD Barcelona Design Center. The 2017 competition is open to creative professionals and students under the age of 35 and encourages creativity, innovation and sustainable concepts for the bathroom space.
This year’s competition coincided with Roca’s 100th anniversary and offers entrants the opportunity to win two awards of €10,000 in each of the professional and student categories as well as a special sustainability award of €6,000 from Roca’s ‘We Are Water Foundation’ (WAWF).
Shortlisted projects will be selected by an esteemed group of global architecture and design professionals. Patrik Schumacher, principal of Zaha Hadid Architects served as head of the panel of jury along with Ma Yansong, founding principal of MAD Architects, and Royal College of Art design graduate Valentin Vodev. Sophie Thomas, director of Thomas Matthews agency in London and practitioner of sustainable design helped select the WAWF award.
Schumacher said that Shahmohammadi’s design is simple, delicate, innovative and beautiful and is able to solve problems of water insufficiency, lack of space and danger of water for children in the bathroom.