Each year, Velux organizes a
countrywide competition, the winner of which is offered a student stay at the
company’s architecture department in Hørsholm near Copenhagen. Magdalena Urbaniak, a five-year student of the
Wrocław University of Technology Faculty of Architecture is the laureate of the
13th edition of the competition.
Students from over 40 Polish universities were invited
to take part in the contest. From among all the applications, always only one
laureate is chosen.
The candidates had to submit their cover letters, CVs,
recommendation letters from a representative of the faculty, and a portfolio
presenting their achievements. Also, they had to prepare a project (accompanied
with a drawing) of a house complying with the idea of sustainable building.
Students that qualified for the second round, were interviewed by members of
the jury, composed of representatives of the Warsaw University of Technology
Faculty of Architecture and the Velux company.
This year, Magdalena
Urbaniak from Wrocław University of Technology proved to be the best. She
is currently a fifth-year student at the Faculty of Architecture and she has
already been in Denmark as part of the Erasmus student exchange programme. She
continued her first-cycle degree studies there and graduated from the Via
University College in Horsens. She is already an experienced architect, as she has
worked in an architectural company in Portugal and participated in many
workshops in Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, and even in China.
Magdalena Urbaniak will go for a two-month student
stay (from 1st August till 30th September) in the
architecture department at the Velux headquarters in Hørsholm near Copenhagen. In the last few years, students took part e.g. in
the development of an urban renewal plan for a housing complex in Copenhagen
constructed in the 1960s, the renovation of a hospital in Chile, or the
designing of a house on water in Amsterdam.
The student, asked by the competition organizers about her architectural
interests, replied that for her the most important thing is the functionality
of the designed objects.
Velux covers all the costs of transfer and living in
Denmark. During her stay, the student will also receive a small allowance.
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Translation:
Dariusz Więcławski
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