During a recent ceremony at the Institute of the Arabic World in Paris (France), Air Liquide rewarded architecture students from around Europe for their ideas on the oxygen plant of the Future.
This competition of ideas, entitled “Rock my Plant” and launched in 2013 by Air Liquide’s i-Lab, offered architecture students from around Europe the opportunity to dream up and design Air Liquide’s air separation unit of the future, using the principal technological bricks that make up this production unit.
Thanks to this competition, 65 students from seven architecture schools in France, Italy, Poland, and Turkey were given the opportunity to present their ideas and vision for reinventing the aesthetics and the organisation of the oxygen production unit of the future. In total, 40 projects were submitted.
The jury – co-chaired by the architect Jean Nouvel and François Darchis, member of Air Liquide’s Executive Committee in charge of innovation – was composed of Dassault Systems’ Vice-President for Design Experience, Anne Asensio; Industrial designer and founder of the Agency Plan Créatif (renamed Babel), Clément Rousseau; Air Liquide’s Research and Development Director, Olivier Delabroy; Development Director for the Air Liquide group’s Large Industries World Business Line, Walter Maurer; and Scientific Director for Air Liquide’s R&D Department, Bernard Saulnier.
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