B&A Awarded "Best Design" at FIU's Festival of the Trees
Bermello Ajamil & Partners Interior Design Studio is honored for best design and innovation
Miami, FL, December 11, 2006 - Bermello
Ajamil & Partners' (B&A) Interior Design Studio was awarded the 2006
"Judges Award for Best Design" award from Florida International University's
(FIU) Festival of the Trees Gala. The festival, which marked its 20th year with
this event, is presented by FIU's School of Architecture Interior Design
program and advisory board to promote greater design awareness and support
design education at the FIU School of Architecture. The yearly design
exhibition is a unique display of provocative "tree" creations from dozens of
South Florida's premiere design and architecture firms. Proceeds from the gala
benefit the Gloria Blake Interior Design Scholarship Fund at Florida
International University.
The award-winning tree, titled "Synergos" (the Greek word for "working
together") was designed by B&A's Interior Design Studio, and sponsored and
built by Kamper Contracting, LLC. B&A's ID Studio's design for the winning
tree was to use individual finish material components arranged together to form
a cohesive whole. "We combined B&A's simple yet cutting-edge design and
Kamper's superior craftsmanship to develop the concept and final design," says
Diana Farmer-Gonzalez, Interior Projects Director and senior associate for
B&A.
The "Synergos" tree accentuates the dynamic relationship between the parts that
make a whole. Its presence relies on the integration of five separate
components: the artistic concept, the material, technology, craftsmanship, and
resources. The tree features six wood panels laminated in different
veneers with the inner profile of each panel cut in the shape of a holiday
tree. Panels are delicately joined at the top by a stainless steel five-pointed
star. Each wood veneer panel is angled 80 degrees up, causing the tree to look
as if it is standing on tiptoe. When illuminated by lights embedded in the
center of the base, the construction reveals a three-dimensional tree-shaped
void surrounded by the metal-edged panels.
"The whole concept is about coming together," says Giancarlo Pietri, who led
B&A's Tree Design team. "The winter holidays are about coming together;
B&A is about designing spaces with materials and placing them together;
Kamper is about building things and joining them together. This design captures
the synergetic efforts of B&A's ID Studio and Kamper Contracting."
The B&A team behind the Festival of the Trees design included
Giancarlo Pietri, Giovanna Brin, Mark Croes, Oscar Pelaez, Rebeca
Cañas-Chamberlain, and Victor Santiago and Diana Farmer-Gonzalez. This year's
trees were recognized and judged by the following design critics: Marianne and
David Russell of Arango Design Store
and
Gaspar Gonzalez, editor of BluePrint Directory
magazine.All sixteen Festival of the Trees designs may be viewed by the public in
the lobby of Brickell Square office building, 801 Brickell Avenue, Miami,
through December 28, 2006.
About B&A Founded in 1939, Bermello Ajamil & Partners,
Inc. (B&A) is a global architecture, engineering, planning, and creative
services firm with offices in Florida, New York, and the United Arab Emirates.
The award-winning firm specializes in providing multi-faceted design services
for education, transportation, maritime, aviation, municipal, healthcare,
corporate, urban residential, mixed-use development, and community planning
projects.
For more information about B&A, please visit
www.bermelloajamil.com.
About Kamper Contracting, LLC
Kamper Contracting provides comprehensive solutions for custom interior
construction needs. For more than five decades, the award-winning company has
combined the best available technology with the finest traditions of European
craftsmanship to create everything from floors to ceilings, in wood, stone,
metal, and glass.
For more information about Kamper, please visit
www.kamper.us.
