Three architecture students from Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña won 2nd place in the ADOACERO 2023 competition, a competition that encourages students to innovate with steel material in a structural and morphological way. The winning students were Celin Sosa, Catherine Valdez and Carmen Oneida Espinal, who were supervised and oriented by the professor and Architect Ramón Méndez. This is the eighth time that UNPHU has won the competition.
The competition aims to promote and encourage complementary actions to academic-pedagogical models of design of innovative architectural ideas, for Architecture students of the Latin American region, using steel as raw material, with proposals that help solve the objectives and goals of the 2030 agenda of the United Nations Organization for sustainable development.
ADOACERO is the first phase where projects are presented at the local level, therefore the winning team of the first place will then go to represent their project at Alacero 2023, edition that will be held from November 8 to 9 of this year in Transamerica Expo Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The universities that participated this year were: PUCMM, UCE and UNPHU.
About ADOACERO
The Dominican Steel Association (ADOACERO) aims to promote the use of steel throughout the value chain as a resistant, innovative, safe, sustainable, and environmentally friendly material.
About Alacero
The Alacero Congress has been held annually since 1962 and is a meeting place for the value chain of the Latin American steel industry. It seeks to promote the debate on the challenges that the future presents and issues that impact the sector, advancing in the development of business, ethical and responsible practices, to contribute to the industrial and socioeconomic growth of the region.
