Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ student team wins first prize at Ice Hotel
The Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ team of Maha Benhachmi (U2), Muye Ma (U2) and Mahya Sabour (U3), with the assistance of Luis Alvarez (BSc[Arch] 2015), won first prize in the Architecture Éphémère competition at the outside Quebec City at the opening celebration on Friday, January 15. A total of 32 teams from the universities of Laval, Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾, Montréal and UQAM submitted design panels to the competition, of which three were chosen to be built as theme rooms. First prize was awarded to the Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ team for their room Courant Céleste, while second went to Laval (Refuge aux castors) and third to UQAM (Au coeur de la mêlée). (The Ice Hotel sculptors of the room modified the Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ design in their execution, inverting the scheme, to reduce the risk of water infiltration.)