2012/2013 Edition
The record number of participants was once again broken in this edition with over 3,400 students and professionals from 102 countries. The jury was presided over by Kazuyo Sejima, winner of some of the world’s most prestigious national and international awards in the architecture industry. The other members of the jury were Josep Congost, Andrés Jaque, Benjamin Kempton and Harri Koskinen.
For the first time, the winning project was a new concept of WC, Still You, with an ergonomic adaptable design especially conceived for elderly people with reduced mobility. Its authors were Sanna Völker and Marta Cuquet.
Winners

Still you
Sanna Völker & Marta Cuquet (Spain)
Finalists
These are the finalists’ projects of the 5th jumpthegap® Roca International Design Contest, chosen among the 518 received from 102 countries:
Ebath
Raquel Pissarra (Portugal)
Exstream
Aleksandra Lubaś (Poland)
Lift
Marta Szymkowiak (Poland)
Runshower
Susana Malhão (Portugal)
Electroclean
Alejandro Delgado & Arturo García (Mexico)
Kinetic Flow
Sehoon Koh & Hyuna Shin (United Kingdom)
Roca watAIR
Magdalena Chudy & Aleksander Gruszka (Poland)
Simplewash
Eleonora Drudi (Italy)
Wash'n'eat
Aleksejs Donka (Latvia)
Pre-selected
These are the names of the shortlisted projects evaluated by the jury:
- BATH WALL (Sela Lim & Daehyun Kim) - South Korea
- BATH / BEDROOM (Magdalena Łuczyńska) - Poland
- BEACH / BATH (Natasza Sałańska & Dawid Zebrowski) - Poland
- CLOCK (Han Shi) - China
- EBATH (Raquel Pissarra) - Portugal
- ELECTROCLEAN (Alejandro Delgado & Arturo García) - Mexico
- EXSTREAM (Aleksandra Lubaś) - Poland
- FEATHER (Wojtek Janicki & Tomasz Ferczykowski) - Poland
- H20 LOUNGE (Tereza Volna) - Czech Republic
- HELLO (Vasco Pinto Alves) - Portugal
- HYDRO CHAISE LOUNGE (Lukasz Paszkowski) - Poland
- IMPLEMENTO (Pavel Buzeu) - Belarus
- KINETIC FLOW (Sehoon Koh & Hyuna Shin) - United Kingdom
- LIFT (Marta Szymkowiak) - Poland
- PAPER SINK (Riccardo Trevisan) - Italy
- ROCA WATAIR (Magdalena Chudy & Aleksander Gruszka) - Poland
- RUB N'ROLL (Andrzej Gizler & Ewa Krzewicka) - Poland
- RUNSHOWER (Susana Malhão) - Portugal
- SAND-AWAY (Kacper Holenderski & Bob Spikman) - Netherlands
- SHATH (Jose Fernando López Viciana & Teresa Fernández Marco) - Spain
- SIMPLEWASH (Eleonora Drudi) - Italy
- SPIN (Chun Tso & Chun Shing Tsui) - Hong Kong
- STILL YOU (Sanna Völker & Marta Cuquet) - Spain
- THE CLOUD (Alberto Martinez Garcia & Rocio Garcia Peña) - Spain
- THE RAIN ROOM (Agnieszka Jabłońska) - Poland
- WASH'N'EAT (Aleksejs Donka) - Latvi
- WATER CIRCLE (Karolina Wilk & Iga Słowik) - Poland
- WHITE BATH (Vladislav Kozlovskiy) - Russia
- ZOOM HAND WASHER (Charles Williams) - Canada
Jury
Professional and Student
Awards Ceremony
The Still You project, designed by Sanna Völker, a Product Design student at IED Barcelona Escola Superior de Disseny, and Marta Cuquet, Interior’s Design student at the same school, is the winner of the 5th edition of jumpthegap®.
Video


Images
- Award Ceremony at the Roca Barcelona Gallery
- Finalists at the photocall
- Winners Sanna Völker & Marta Cuquet (Still you project)
- Josep Congost (Roca), Marta Cuquet and Sanna Völker (winners), Kazuyo Sejima (president of the jury) and Isabel Roig (BCD)
- Kazuyo Sejima (Pritzker 2010 - president of the jury), Josep Congost (Roca design manager - jury member) and Isabel Roig (Managing Director of BCD)
- Finalist Marta Szymkowiak (Lift project)
- Finalists Magdalena Chudy and Aleksander Gruszka (Watair project)
- Finalist Susana Malhao (Runshower project)
- Finalist Aleksandra Lubas (Exstream project)
- Finalist Raquel Pissarra (Ebath project)