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Models matter
Defining an architectural project begins with ideas, relationships, needs… that are shaped in two dimensions in the form of sketches, approximations…
But architecture is about space, about volume, and in this case models are often more adequate three-dimensional tools to work with than 2D representations on paper.
Point of view
In the production of architecture, it is necessary to operate with all the points of view of confrontation with reality.
Distant: Seeing reality from afar, from above. Here we will be able to analyse urban relations, contexts, implementations, dialogues… The urbanistic vision carries it implicitly, but also any project, at some point, needs it.
Close-up: The view from a nearby point of view will teach us to see the more human scale, the scale of use and perception.
And finally, the detail: The encounter of direct matter and its complex dialogue. Designing objects involves this almost physical contact; there are no more plans at the end, there are prototypes.
Álvaro Siza said something very beautiful about this some time ago:
‘The eye, in order not to atrophy, needs to go through all these scales’.
We will be presenting here, briefly, a small series of our models that go through these three points of view.
- Distant
Urban projects: interaction of spaces, full-empty, volumes of objects, beginnings of texture on their surfaces.
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Bayonne, Entrée de ville
Project: 2010-2012
Construction: 2012-2016
Model made in wood, foam board, methacrylate
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Masterplan for the lakeside and city center of Lugano, Switzerland
Project: 2021
Parallel study mandate – Not realized.
Model made in cardboard, foam buildings, wood details.
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Nice, Grand Arenas
Competition: 1st Prize
Project: 2011-2020
Model made in foam board and methacrylate
Measures: 100x120cm
Scale: 1/1000
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- Close-up
Particularly suitable for large buildings, allows to perceive the general view and some detail.
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Parliament of the North Holland region (Haarlem)
Project: 2006
Competition: 1st prize – Not realized
Position in space and formal interaction with its surroundings.
Model made in wood, foam board, methacrylate
Measures: 44 x 39 x 21cm
Scale: 1/100
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Film Theatre, Barcelona
Competition: 1st Prize
Project: 2004-2005
Construction: 2007-2012
Model made in foam board
Measures: 39 x 37 x 22.5
Scale: 1/50
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New Camp Nou
Project: 2015 – Not realized
Model made in wood, methacrylate
Measures: 100x80x30cm
Scale: 1/500
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- Detail
Furniture mock-ups or prototypes: millimetric definition of the new reality.
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Coffee table for Banco Sabadell
Project: 1980
Prototype
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Inox counter for Banco Sabadell Foundation
Project: 2022
Model made foam and wood.
Scale: 1/10