A room for you and me

architecture26th Jun 201829th Jun 2018

This is a room for you and me.

Based on the project La Fe Ciudad Solidaria, a reinterpretation of the interior design for one of the rooms is made. In the Diploma project, the social intention was clear throughout the whole process. However, the final results in the design felt quite impersonal for me after a while. While this is an obvious handicap when designing big projects focused in general needs instead of particulars, I felt it was correct to confront my project again, this time in a smaller scale.

You can navigate through the room with your mouse:

How much did I change? What did I learn ever since? What is important for me now, as an architect and as a person? How could this all be reflected in an interior design project? The result is a mix in between my reality when I designed it for the first time, the person that I am now, and the wishes I have for a near future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Modelled in Blender, textured and rendered with Cycles Render.

Mi casa, tu casa (the antidemocratic house)

architecture19th Jun 20183rd Jul 2018

“A line that delimits nothing, that describes no contour, that no longer goes from one point to another but instead passes between points, that is always declining the horizontal and the vertical and deviating from the diagonal, that is constantly changing direction, a mutant line of this kind that is without outside or inside, form or background, beginning or end and that is alive as a continuous variation. Such a line is truly an abstract line and describes a smooth space.” A thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari.

This conceptual project is a collaboration with textile artist Patricia Mascarell. The aim was to explore the limits of the abstract and physical lines that define flexibility in architecture. In an utopian case in which flexibility of programme and materials is infinite, how do we establish the forms and uses that satisfy us? Should design follow democratic ideals? Or maybe, democracy is not necessary anymore when we can agree, and that is the whole point when designing our homes?

Who needs democracy when we can agree?

From another point of view, how can we approximate architectural lines to the concepts of abstract lines?

 

Roles: Concept, Design, Drawings, Sketches, Illustrations, Model making, Graphic Design, Installation.

Team: Patricia Mascarell and Daniel Vera.

Hasta aquí llegó el agua

graphic design4th May 20183rd Jul 2018

The title of this series of illustrations, which is still under development, is inspired in the famous sentence that can be found on the facades of some old buildings in the city center of Valencia. Literally means “the water reached this point”, and it’s a memory of the huge flood that hit Valencia back in the 50’s, which dramatically changed the face of the city. The illustrations show a mix of nature, tradition and architectural thinking to ask questions about the future of the city and its reaction to prospective decays.

The center of the border

film20th Dec 201727th Jun 2018

The Center of the Border is an experiment on personal borders. As a part of a bigger project about borders, it deals with the issue through the materialization of an abstract individual space, which is the actual personal border. The border presents itself more as a filter than a limit, flowing with the person but changing irregularly his/her perception of reality. This filter is made by particulars, prejudices and experiences.

Directed/Written/Produced by Patricia Mascarell and Daniel Vera.

Flexible intimacy

architecture14th Oct 201727th Jun 2018

“What my boyfriend does when I’m not at home?” is the title of this project, which combine interior design and textile art to analyse the concept of intimacy in architecture in order to blur its lines and make real flexibility possible. We created a new system of curtains that move in a new direction (perpendicular to the window) to produce fractions of spaces, each one with a variable level of intimacy associated.

 

 

NOA

architecture20th Nov 201427th Jun 2018

The National Observatory of Amazonia, NOA, was a proposal for an ideas international contest of architecture. The project, a construction that offers a unique observation experience for visitors, was selected as finalist in the contest. It addressed issues such as integration and sustainability in architecture, which are especially sensitive in such an special environment.

Team: Belén Castelló and Daniel Vera.