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International competition Hands on Door Handles. 2011, Designboom + Colombo Design.

The project begins questioning the usual polygonal shape of door handles. If usually bags have round handles, why doors don’t? So the door handle becomes a metallic ring.

At the same time we can answer ourselves what happens if we make a hole in the door. That’s not a problem. At home we have lots of “symbolical doors”. Circulation zones, storage rooms... don’t need to be hermetically closed. Even it can be better if we permit light and wind to enter.

Concept of privacy should be revised...

Of course, we should also give the chance of a more conventional solution, where the handle is made of two pieces so the door can be massive.

Barras de Código

Contest for a façade design in Sanxo Llop, Gandia (Valencia). 2010, Aprusa.

The need is to make a façade for a volume unknown in the moment for the call of entries. It’s only known that the use of the building will be commercial and leisure.

The proposal creates a metallic piece called “eeele” that can be installed horizontally or vertically. This permits to create a frame around the ground floor showcases.

Also, the piece has two wings that protect from the sun and at the same time, when it is installed vertically, it creates a gazing game.

6x3

International Ceramic Design Contest, Cevisama 2009, Valencia.

The contest proposed the design of a tile. And the answer was an hexagonal form that can be bent and manipulated to create different patterns.

PAC – Personal Activities Capsule

150% competition. Fundación Caja de Arquitectos grants, 2008.

With 150% the foundation proposed to work on an existing city to find new solutions in order to increase the population but saving the city ground.

The answer to that is the CAP or PAC, Personal Activities Capsule, a cube that lives like a good parasite in the existing buildings of Santa Catalina, a neighbourhood of Palma de Mallorca.