Academic challenge that will take AU student to Italy has application extended

Students and recent graduates in Architecture and Urbanism have until December 18th to enroll for free in the Natural Stone Challenge – 1st Brazilian Academic Architecture Award. Launched by the Brazilian Center for Dimension Stone Exporters (Centrorochas), the World Natural Stone Association (Wonasa) and Vitoria Stone Fair, the competition seeks to contribute to improving the training of new professionals and to disseminate the application of natural stones from Brazil in the sector. of architecture.

Holder of the greatest geological diversity in the world, Brazil has more than 1,200 varieties of materials that, in their most diverse forms of finishing and application, will serve as a source of inspiration during the Challenge.

Students (from the 3rd year) and recent graduates (2nd semester/20 to 1st semester/22) of Architecture and Urbanism courses in Brazil, duly enrolled in an educational institution or registered with the Council of Architecture and Urbanism, can participate. The objective is to register a project that specifies the use of natural Brazilian ornamental stones. Registration, which runs until December 18th, is free.

The works must be sent in digital format through the Natural Stone Challenge website (www.desafionaturalstone.com.br), where the regulation and the complete schedule are also available.

Participants who have already sent their projects will be able to choose to improve them and resubmit the new version, within the new deadline (until December 18th next), or keep the version already sent, which will be considered in the evaluation of the judging committees .

The winner will win a trip, including a companion, to Italy

The first place in the national stage will win an international trip, with the right to a companion, to participate in the Marmomac 2023 Fair, the main international event in the ornamental stone sector, which will take place from September 26 to 29, in Verona, Italy. To get there, subscribers will go through regional stages.

The five best individual projects from each of the national regions will be awarded a course “Coordination and Flow in BIM” (totaling 32 hours). The regions are divided as follows:

Region 1 – Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Federal District, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, Tocantins.
Region 2 – Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Sergipe.
Region 3 – Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro.
Region 4 – São Paulo.
Region 5 – Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul.

The runner-up in the national stage will win a trip to Espírito Santo to participate in the Cachoeiro Stone Fair, which will take place from 22 to 25/08/2023. Winners in 3rd, 4th and 5th place will win an Android tablet.

Brazilian stone sector

Holder of the greatest geological diversity in the world, with more than 1,200 varieties of materials, Brazil is the 4th largest producer in the world and the 5th largest exporter of dimension stones in the world. The national productive arrangement of rocks generates around 480,000 direct and indirect jobs.

Brazil also has a large industrial park for the supply of finished and semi-finished products, works of art, design, architecture, among others. In 2021, the industry exported approximately $1.34 billion, achieving the best year-on-year growth in 18 years (approximately 36%). In 2022, Brazilian exports accumulated, between January and September, more than 1 billion dollars in revenue. The result demonstrates a positive variation of 8.36% in the sector’s performance, in relation to the same period of the previous year.

The challenge is carried out by the Brazilian Center for Ornamental Stone Exporters (Centrorochas), World Natural Stone Association (Wonasa) and Vitoria Stone Fair, with institutional support from the Brazilian Association for Teaching Architecture and Urbanism (ABEA), the Brazilian Association of Architecture (AsBEA), Autodesk, Unity and sponsored by ETC Brasil.

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Natural Stone Challenge – 1st Brazilian Academic Architecture Prize

Registration until 12/18/22: www.desafionaturalstone.com.br