RENDERING INTERIORS AND FURNITURE

DESINGARBEIT : Raum Möbel - Berlin

During the month of my Internship I created the renders for a new catalogue for the company. 
It was my first experience doing a Internship.  A small interior architecture design and furniture design company in Berlin that has just started!

These renders allow the company to show in full detail the designs of the furniture to the possible clients. As most of the designs have not yet been built it has been very useful to start sales without any previous investment. 
The possibility multiplies when doing the models in 3D and many varieties can be done, in lengths and material colours and finishing details. 

To complete my work I was asked to create a space where numerous pieces of furniture could be arranged. This final render would be the atmosphere of a working area, big office for a decent amount of users. 

As the company is based in Berlin, i decided the office should seem as if it could be ground level of a common late 90th century building, with wide arched windows, and three big arches to divide 2 spaces. 

Minimalism, practicality and detail is how i perceive the furniture designs and i made a space with common features. 

DESIGNARBEIT-BERLIN

Barcelona Public library and Nursery

 

SEAT 48H ARCHITHON - DIGITAL MUSEUM Winners!! 2nd Prize!! Mahmoud Alkawadri & me. We made it!! 

During 48hrs in the best of locations, Oceans One Club Barcelona, we searched for a concept, designed, modelled and rendered the project. Also had some spear time to prepare for a ass-kicking presentation! 

Project name: DRAGON Digital museum SEAT S.A.
Concept: Inspired in the lines and curves of SEAT new car designs such as the LEON, the museum is planed to follow the dynamic lines of the logo. The building that will contain in a chronological way the contents of SEATS Heritage will be rising in hight floating in to the future. The outer skin is inspired in the patterns Gaudí used to simulate the skin of dragons in many of his designs, they are a sequense of Rhombus that allow to follow the lines in an organic way. Programms used: 3ds max, Photoshop, Vray and AutoCad. 

Der Ort des Werkes

Hafencify University

Prof. Hannah Jonas

DESIGN FORM AND FIGURATIVE FORM

Der Ort

Das Projekt beginnt mit dem Blick auf einen offenen Platz auf der Museumsinsel, umrahmt von der massigen Präsenz des Doms und begrenzt vom Fluss. Ein Ort, bislang ohne Bedeutung oder Modifizierung innerhalb des Städtebauprojekts der symbolischen Akropolis Berlins. Der Ort ist mehrdeutig: Drum herum passiert viel, aber im Innern hat er keine spezielle Bedeutung. Das Ganze wirkt unvollständig. Der Pavillon wird den Ort beleben, ihn aktivieren und die Gegend vervollständigen. Er bringt eine menschliche Dimension und passenden Raum, der vom Betrachter verstanden wird.

Das Werk

Ein Entwurf mit neun Kreisen und einer Passage drum herum. Aus der Entfernung erscheint die Skulptur als ein einziges massiges Volumen. Die Form ist klar und wiedererkennbar. Angefangen mit einem Würfel, aus dem mehrere Blocks extrahiert wurden, die den Raum für Aktivität öffnen. Im Innern können Besucher, geschützt vor der geschäftigen Umgebung, die handwerklichen Werke genießen. Natürliches Licht gelangt ins Innere, ohne dass man den Himmel sieht. Die Decke des Pavillons ist inspiriert von zwei Konstruktionsmethoden, die genutzt wurden im Neuen Museum und für die Passagen, die die Museumsinsel queren. Der Boden verführt Besucher, den Ort auf frei gewählten Wegen zu erkunden. Markierte Pfade halten sie zwar stets auf der Insel. Doch viele Optionen erlauben es Besuchern, die Insel nach persönlichem Interesse zu umrunden, zu kreuzen oder auf beliebige Weise zu erwandern.

Der Ort  - The Place 

The project starts by looking at an open space in the Museumsinsel, enclosed by the volumetric presence of the Dome and limited by the river. A space which yet hasn’t been a point of significance or modification inside the urban projects of the symbolic Acropolis for Berlin. 
The place is ambiguous, around it there are many things happening, but in it, there is no specific reason.
It leaves the whole incomplete. 
The pavilion will bring new activity to the place, activating it and completing further more the site. Bringing Human scale and a legible space understood by the viewer. 

Das Werk - The Work

Plan of nine circles and a passage around it. From the distance the sculpture is perceived as one massive volume. The form is straight and recognisable. Starting with a cube from which different blocks have been extracted, opening space  for activity to happen. When inside, and protected from the busy surrounding, the visitor can appreciate the more crafted work. Natural sky light is brought in through techniques, where clarity enters without seeing the sky. The ceiling of the pavilion is inspired in two construction methods used one in the Neues Museum and the other for the passages that run across the Museumsinsel.The floor plan leaves the visitor to explore it in a free way, Marked paths are limiting the visitor constantly in the island, here options are multiple leaving it to the personal interest of the individual to walk around it, across it or in any other way. 

Alicia Santacana 

Barcelona Public Library Building

Half way! 

Still a long way to go until the end of the project but I would like to register how my work has improved since my last post 13th of March. So I have had nearly 2 months to improve it, ( counting easter holidays in between! ) and its 3 months since i started the project in February. 

I would like comments about it, some critics would be helpful and personal feeling towards it also!

 I'm now on the plain to Hamburg to pick up my Grades and then will be in Berlin for a workshop and then I'm participating in "Archithon" with SEAT in Barcelona to design a museum of technology and future design, which im very excited and proud of! 

It seems as if things are up on the sky! Hope it stays like this for a while! :) 

HCU HAMBURG | PROF. GESINE WEINMILLER 

Prof Ass. Francois von Chappuis  | Hannah Jonnas

DEUTSCHE BOTSCHAFT NEU-DELHI | NEUBAU DER DIPLOMATISCHEN VERTRETUNG 

LUCIE BILÀ | ALICIA SANTACANA

The office building situated in such a warm climate spreads out occupying great ground surface enclosing different open air spaces. 

The building works as a single mass that is sculptured to create three different courtyards, each with a different function. 

Explaining the courtyards gradually, going from the most public to private, the first one is the most representative space for the embassy. It is 20m wide and gives entrance to the building. This space is designed to be the welcoming point for visitors as a place for interaction between the different parts of the building which are facing towards each other, as a place for interaction for the people. To protect the area from the sun radiation it is covered by horizontal lamellas. The “U” shape of the building in favour for sun shade and regulates the temperature in this courtyard. 

The second courtyard is now inside the building. It is the place for visitors that attend to the Visa. They are in the building and have a closer experience to it even though they are not welcomed into the private areas. This place is meant for visitors which for example are waiting for their appointment to have a place to rest, make a phone call, etc. Lamellas here are places vertically, loose mass but win density. They have to protect the place and guarantee the security. 

The third courtyard is the “private garden”. It is a big rectangular garden enclosed two sides by the building it self and the other two opposite sides by the existing residence building. Greenery is important, and minimising the amount of pavements is a good strategy for the climate. The garden is a place where guests can go one step further, and go behind the building to relax and take a walk. 

West façades are protected by vertical lamellas that grow from the ground up to the sunshades on the last level (L2) , creating corridors that connect the different parts of the building. The same strategy is used to give entrance to the Visa. 

The ambassador is located in the highest level, as a representative figure, where, from this point he can control two of the courtyards; the entrance and the behind garden. 

LIBRARY AND NURSERY IN BARCELONA

UPC- ETSAV Spring 2015

Hopefully my last project as a student, i appreciate how much i learned until now and i realise how all my previous efforts are coming together and as a result my skills have improved and I am much more efficient than some time ago.

February 10th - March 9th

LOVE REAP - ZERO ENERGY BUILDING CAIRO

HCU- Climate Responsive in architecture and Urban Planning 

October 2014 - January 2015