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Partners

Isaac Cobo i Displas

Daniel Coll i Capdevila

 

 

Collaborator Company

Gabrielides Architects

Manhattan Loft Corporation

 

 

Staff past and current

Filip Remplakowski

Paula Tosas

Jo-anita O’Dude

Ernesto Ayala

Taiga Kasai

Naoya Mayzumi

Tokuichiro

Dani Perlado

 

 

Engineers

Xavier Font Sola

Eng Cam (SP) CEng MICE (UK)

 

 

Photography

David Windmill

 

 

Multimedia Designer and Producer

Alejandro Moreno

Simon Lepp

 

 

Collaborators

Marta Tuneu

Fernanda Arrillaga Sanchez

Nausica Gabrielides

Francisco Miguel Aguirre

Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa

Fernando Carrera

Nacho Herrero

Dietmar Koering

Tobias Klein

RIBA Pylon Design Competition

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Pylons are a necessary object to transport power, but they have a huge impact on our visual experience of the landscape.

The existing pylon has been a success, in terms of engineering.  It has been a great choice both for its construction and for the way it transports energy. The materials, its resistance and the transparency of the structure make them an efficient entity. However, too much space is taken for the sake of transporting energy.

In an era where displacement isn’t synonymous with inactivity, why not design a way to produce power while it is transported?

We want P167 not only to transport but to generate energy at the same time. For that, we have to make use of the resources available everywhere, the sun and wind.

As one of our premises is making better use of the space, we want each of the components to work, to produce energy.

P167 will contain 4 vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT), as they have a large surface area it’s more efficient to cover them with solar panels. So as to compensate for one resource for the other.

With only 10 pylons we could supply 150 households with their energy requirements.

On the other hand, we talk about less impact; we achieve it using translucent materials, on a lattice structure. That gives the pylon a light aspect, irrespective of its dimensions. The sinuous motion of the helical shape harmoniously moves with the landscape as the clouds would with the sky.

Exhibited at The Building Centre

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Moulin Rouge

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The proposed architecture emulates the act of dance. The street experience is everything Moulin Rouge stands for. The form of the façade pulls the spectator into the previous Moulin location which becomes the courtyard, moving its location as it climbs the buildings levels. This façade-courtyard draws light into the building during the day and funnels the spectacular light of the performing cabaret at night. The building is in constant dialogue with its context.

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St. Vicents de Montalt Town Center

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Recognizing the town’s traffic accumulation through the main street in the old city and the necessity for a new social space, we propose the re-activation of the church’s surroundings. As an extension to this area, with the intervention of few cuts in the climbing topography, we introduce new circulation, include over 50 alternative half subterranean car parking, extend the adjacent town hall and most important reactivate the area for social events.

The project uses materials, vegetation and pure geometry concerning views and areas to provide an innovative proposal to St. Vicens.

Medical Center ‘Africa Digna’

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This project presents an idea to cover a medical necessity in Kenya as a collaboration with the ONG ‘Africa Digna’. We propose to create a construction with local opportunities, adjusting the design to Kenya’s possibilities.

This first Medical Centre would cover the necessities of over 150000 people, but moreover, we see this as a prototype of a yet to come series of multiple centres.

For that, we invaded within the design an integral of variables related to specific considerations such as material, location and orientation, wind and sun direction, capacity and size, and structural capability.