Words The Kanto Team
Images Michael Angelo Reyes (Kilyawan Farm Resort)
Dominic Galicia Architects’ Kilyawan Farm Resort continues its triumphant flight across award-giving bodies with a coveted shortlist placement at the 2024 Brick Award, organized by Wienerberger AG, the world’s largest brick producer. The farm resort in Ibaan, Bataan joins 49 other projects from around the world as this edition’s nominees, each an exemplar of the potential the humble brick holds as an architectural material. Kilyawan Farm Resort is joined by only two other ASEAN projects on the shortlist: H&P Architects’s HOUSE and former Brick Award winner Tropical Space’s Premier Office, both from Vietnam.
In order to qualify for the Brick Award, each nominated project must satisfy the following criteria, sourced from the awards website:
- A significant part of the project must consist of clay building materials (clay blocks, facing bricks, clay pavers, clay roof tiles, clay façade panels etc.)
- One of the nomination categories must apply to the project
- The project can comprise newly constructed, refurbished, and converted buildings
- The project can include new and reused bricks
- Special attention will be directed to how the project combines functionality, sustainability, climate resilience, affordable living and energy efficiency
- The adequacy of the project in relation to its intended purpose
- The use of Wienerberger products is not required.
A nominated project must also adhere to one of the following project categories:
- Feeling at home: Thoughtfully designed single-family homes, semi-detached houses, and small housing projects that put a premium on user comfort, affordability, energy efficiency, and health
- Living together: Unique residential responses that address trends and issues in urbanization like scarcity of space, energy efficiency and sustainability, climate change, social conditions, and new livability models (Kilyawan Farm Resort is shortlisted in this category)
- Working together: Commercial buildings, offices, and industrial facilities that provide inviting, beautiful, functional, and energy-saving workplaces
- Sharing public spaces: Community-facing structures that champion beauty, sustainability, and practicality. Can include structures from the education, cultural, health sectors, as well as public infrastructure
- Building outside the box: Innovative concepts that draw on the building potential of bricks; can include forward-thinking designs that champion energy efficiency, creative usage of brick both as material and ornament, and new construction methods
This year’s batch of 50 nominees was painstakingly assembled by an international panel of architects who considered each brick project in terms of functionality, aesthetics, innovation, and sustainability: Christelle Avenier of Avenier Cornejo Architectes (France), Christine Conix of Conix RDBM Architects (France), Wojciech Malecki: of Maleccy Biuro Projektowe (Poland), Boonserm Premthada of Bangkok Project Studio (Thailand), and Ingrid van der Heijden of CIVIC Architects (The Netherlands).
Kilyawan Farm Resort has previously been shortlisted at the prestigious World Architecture Festival under the Built Project, Hotel and Leisure category where it is currently vying for an award. The project is also shortlisted for the Best Use of Natural Light Prize at the WAF, alongside eight global projects from the likes of Foster + Partners and Wilkinson Eyre.
The biannual Brick Award will announce the winners from this edition come spring 2024. An awards ceremony will be held in Vienna, Austria, where a price pot of 7,000 Euros is granted to the Grand Prize, and 5,000 Euros to Category Winners. The 2024 winners and shortlisted projects will also appear in the Brick Book, a companion publication to the Brick Award.
Congratulations and best of luck to the Dominic Galicia Architects and Kilyawan Farm Resort teams! •
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