Architectural office of modular construction in Porto wins international award

 The architectural firm Summary, from Porto and headquartered at UPTEC - Science and Technology Park of Porto University has won the international Red Dot Award: Design Concepts, in the "Habitat" category, with the Gomos Modular Building System. The project is on display till January 2018 at the Red Dot Museum in Singapore.

According to UPTEC, the Gomos Building System is an "innovative, modular system that enables constructing beetling buildings in record time". 

The Gomos System is an evolutionary concrete modular system in the constructive process of a house. Your house is assembled in three days.

Summary presents itself as a space "in search for balance between pragmatism and experimentalism in order to cope with the challenge of contemporary world regarding architecture: How to build in such a way that it makes the whole construction process more brief and summary?"

The Red Dot Award is "an internationally renowned Design Award competition, and is rewarded to top design projects that combine innovation and technology in different categories" highlights UPTEC.

The prize jury cited the Gomos System "as ground breaking reinterpretation on how to construct buildings, a disruptive modular system in simplifying and reducing the construction time".

The awarded project, by reputed architect Samuel Gonçalves will be on display at the Red Dot Museum, in Singapore, by the end of January 2018. This is a first for Summary Architectural firm in Asia that had already attended the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2016.

The Gomos Building System had already been bestowed the National Prize for Creative Industries in 2015, the result being a small-scale housing built in Arouca, Portugal. This system is being applied to other areas.