Tutorial. How to make an academic poster?

Publication. 2011, Universitat de les Illes Balears.

This tutorial is the result of the collaboration with the teacher Isabel Escandell. It has been done to help students of second year of History of Art degree in the making of an academic poster.

The aim is to give basic instructions for creating academia posters from first steps like size and color, to the end with the print process. It also includes a few designing examples for posters.

'Round&'Round&

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.

TallaT

Ideas competition for a care equipment and dwellings for older people in the social housing of Camp Redó, Palma. 2011, Consorci Riba.

The existing social housing imposes the need of maintaining the rectangular volume, but to rebuild it. So, the new building has the same floor ground but from first to third ground the volume splits in three small pieces.

It’s a “TallaT” building (“tallat” means cut in catalan). This way, the connection with its surroundings is bigger than now. Furthermore, the new terraces, which now no longer exist, make the neighbours live in a truly community.

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.

Camins d'aigua

Constest for the restoration of the Museum and House Blai Bonet in Santanyí, Mallorca. 2009, Fundació Casa Museu Llorenç Villalonga, Pare Ginard i Blai Bonet.

The project consists in the restoration of the dwelling of the writer Blai Bonet (1926-1997).

2009, june. Façades: Palma Street (left) and Campos Street (right).

It is located in Santanyí. The house is a typical building of Mallorca made of “marés”, a kind of limestone. This house occupies the south of the building site. At the north there is another building, like a shed. Between both buildings there is a courtyard.

2009, june. Details of the courtyard.

The proposal is divided into two actions: restoration of the existing house for transforming it into a museum and elimination of the shed, where there will be a documentation centre dedicated to the writer.

Project.

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.