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Classic Architecture Studies
These are some drawings and sketches from my degree of Architecture, in Spain. Indeed, they were done during the classes of the best teacher I’ve ever had: Mr. Joaquín Lorda.
He thoroughly explained to us every single aspect of classical buildings and traditional construction, and encouraged us never to give up learning, for which I am much obliged to him!
The notebooks cover the four subjects he taught to us, all about the history of construction, aesthetics, composition and classical architecture, from the early Greek buildings to the late XIXth Century.
Although we studied nearly all the cultures, there is a special focus in Spanish architecture in some of the notebooks. As part of the subject, we had some amazing on site visits throughout the country, involving drawing and measuring. Unfortunately, we couldn’t take any visit abroad...
Medium:
Pen and pencils on several Moleskine Diaries.
Date:
2008 & 2009
2012
Architecture, Drawing
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La Pietá
This is a pen drawing of a Michelangelo’s sculpture, ‘La Pietá’, held inside the Vatican, Rome.
Although it is a rather ubiquitous piece, I was blown away by its beauty and tenderness when I visited it in 2007, and couldn’t help drawing it!
It is so terribly expressing the marble figures are to get up and move...
Medium:
Black pen on rough cardboard
Date:
2007
Size:
50X70 cm
2012
Drawing, Fine Arts
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The Face Study
This is an enjoying face study I did recently, after a visit to the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
I remember being astonished at the expressive faces in a Diego Velázquez painting, ‘The Triumph of Bacchus’, commonly known in Spain as ‘Los Borrachos‘.
I thought I would give them a try myself, with the face of the old man at the centre, happily staring at the observer with that gaze only seen in drunk people...
Medium:
Pencil and acrylic paints on canvas
Date:
2012
Size:
50X50 cm
2013
Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting
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Campaign Against Bullying
This is a personal, self-initiated project I designed as a campaign against bullying within schools in my region.
I had seen so many beautiful yet ineffective campaigns I wanted to try myself how it would be to actually get the people involved...
So I thought:
INSTEAD OF DESIGNING JUST TOP MARQUEE ADS, LET’S BRING THE CITIZENS IN THE CAMPAIGN!
I proposed a three-strand-action plan:
-The first step would be to send every citizen a copy of an intriguing brochure, full with stickers reading ‘THIS IS OVER’.
-At the same time bare compelling adverts would be put into marquees, tempting the people to interact with them by means of the stickers.
-Finally, a hands-on campaign within schools would try to explain the problem to children before it actually happens, both by referring to the happiness of friendship and to the repulse against what bullying is at last: human suffering.
Medium:
Adobe Creative Suite®
Date:
2011
2012
Advertising, Graphic Design, Retouching
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Eunate
This is a project for a new pilgrim hostel and attached monastery at Eunate, a little yet gorgeous location within the Way of Saint James, in the countryside of northern Spain.
I have lived near it since I was a child, spending many summer days in the surroundings, and I love the place and its peace; so I wanted to do my final degree project nowhere but there.
The place is mainly a flat landscape covered by fields of wheat and corn, in which rests a humble, sublime romanic hermitage, from the XIIth Century.
It’s just wonderful how a tiny building like that can dominate so vast a landscape with such beauty!
Although the place is wonderful, the design turned out to be really challenging, as everything I attempted to do disrupted the place dramatically...
Hence, at last, I designed a flat, horizontal body, reduced to its very essentials and intentionally pushed to the ground. This way, it seems to rest there as its surroundings, without interrupting the horizontal dominance, nor the the leading vertical role of the hermitage.
Every single aspect of the design is focused to enhance the project in this way, ranging from the structural design, lighting, facilities, construction and land movements.
The ground floor is reduced to a single, open space dedicated to social acts and celebrations. It aims to be an open pillar-less porch, fully devoted to the landscape.
In order to do this, the structural section works in a way similar to a crane, with half of the first floor cantilevered and embraced by steel suspenders from above, the rest of the section working as a rigid frame.
The upper storey holds the monastery and the pilgrim hostel, with all the main room facing the hermitage (as well as the sunlight in the east-west direction).
The junction point between the upper and lower levels is resolved with a slope, so as to enjoy the views again whilst circulating through the building.
Finally, the wooden slat façade helps to filter the hard sunshine during the summer as well as the internal light during the night, where the hermitage lighting is in the centre of the composition.
It was hard work indeed, yet highly satisfactory!
Medium:
Adobe Creative Suite®, AutoCAD®, Autopano®, Autodesk Revit Suite®, CYPE®, Photomodeller® and laser-cut models.
Date:
2012
2012
Architecture
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The Architect's View
A bunch of architecture drawings, done during my degree at the University of Navarre. Hope you enjoy them!
2012
Architecture, Drawing, Painting
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Human Pathology
Last year I was offered the opportunity to help within an innovative teaching project for students of human pathology, both in the University of Navarre and throughout Spain.
Of course, I accepted.
The main focus is to develop a complementary approach to medicine learning, based on interactive content, to actually see what happens live in the study cases. Henceforth, the students will be able to understand better all the theory being studied alongside.
My role consist in the design process, involving illustration and interface design.
It’s still in beta testing, and I guess it will take a year or more to finish it. By now, anyway, a book is ready for printing.
2012
Illustration, Web Design
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University Drawing
We were assigned during first year at college to draw all by hand the University Dining Building. We must calculate the perspective by measuring the building on site and using the Conic System afterwards.
It was a tough yet enriching experience!
Medium:
Pencil, pens and coloured pencils on a beige soft paper.
Date:
2007
Size:
100X70 cm
2012
Architecture, Drawing, Painting
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Florence Drawings
For the love of painting, some quick drawings during a trip to Florence
2012
Architecture, Drawing
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Master Identity
I did this project for my school of Architecture, as a part-time job during my fifth year. They had recently launched a new master programme and needed an identity.
Although a general branding for the university masters did exist by the time, their wish was to show their master as what it is: a separated and unique programme, focused on construction and energy efficiency, and taught in partnership with the Dresden University of Technology.
So I chose a formal, professional colour palette, and did the logos, icons and stationery for them.
Medium:
Adobe Creative Suite®
Date:
2011
Client:
School of Architecture
University of Navarre
2013
Branding, Graphic Design
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Eyes of a friend
This is an amusing portrait of a good friend of mine. She’s got the most beautiful eyes I’ve ever stared at, and I always wanted to draw them...
I hope you enjoy them as I do!
Medium:
Pencil and rubber on rough greenish paper.
Date:
2008
Size:
30X30 cm
2013
Drawing, Fine Arts
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Beenaps.com
Corporate identity and web design for a Paris-based startup: Beenaps, Inc.
The aim of the company is to offer an online service to connect local businesses and entrepreneurs with customers, in a new, easy and personal way.
The user will be able to manage the shops, freelancers and professionals he/she fancies; easily contact with them and make commands; search specific services or products near his/her location; ask for friend recommendations; and even make a professional account for him or her, where to offer his/her personal skills.
Since we met in September last year we have developed an overall operating draft, yet there’s still a lot of work to do. I do the design and help them with the general ideas, yet they do all the coding and the rest of the work.
Our final target is simple: a clean, useful and easily recognisable site despite its complex nature. I’m personally obsessed with making the most intuitive interface for the user, with as little design as possible.
Medium:
Adobe Creative Suite®
Date:
2012
Client:
Beenaps, Inc
2012
Branding, Web Design
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Everyday objects
How I see the three objects I use, love and hate the most.
2012
Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting
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Vinaroz
This is a proposal for a development plan in Vinaroz, a city next to the Mediterranean sea, in south-eastern Spain.
The command would be divided in two parts:
-First, we should develop the general plan in groups of four people. This stage comprised the design of communications and services, public and private space, calculations and ratios.
-The second part of the work would be done individually. Each member of the group should fully develop one different zone within their general design.
Hereby is my individual part of the assignment.
Medium:
Adobe Creative Suite® and AutoCAD®
Date:
2010
2013
Architecture
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Ezkaba Youth Hostel
Project for a Youth Camp settlement in the mountains of Ezkaba, in the north of Spain.
The goal would be not to disrupt the beauty of the environment with an awkward design, but to gracefully dialogue with it, by contrasting the horizontal planes of the base floor with the surrounding verticality of the forests.
Another wish I had was to make a hut that would be felt as that: a real haven. In order to do this, two deep wooden trusses cover the ‘human space’, protecting the youngsters as an artificial womb from the exterior. However, the base floor is intentionally left open to the views and the magic of the forest, with glass as the only enclosure.
The wooden system connects with the traditional buildings of the region, apart from giving the inner space a calmed and aesthetic rhythm.
Medium:
AutoCAD®, SketchUP®, Adobe Creative Suite® and wooden models.
Date:
2010
2013
Architecture
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Affordable Guatemala
This is an exciting one-week-project I did during my degree of Architecture.
We were commanded to design an affordable house system suitable for a whole family in Guatemala, Central America. It should cost no more than $1500 and would need to be adaptable to the growing needs of any family type.
Furthermore, Guatemala is a common place for earthquakes, so the house must resist movements up to force 7 in the Richter scale.
The solution is based on the cheapest construction material available, plain bricks, yet the final result doesn’t look cheap at all. I wanted it to feel like a home and not as a mere hut.
So I did my best to achieve that homely, warm feeling.
To cope with the earthquakes the walls are reinforced with steel every four rows of bricks. Even with that, they would only cost $8 per sq meter, as the manpower is rather cheap.
The roofing is solved with vaults so that there is no need for a second material. To cope with the tension forces on the vault base, prefab pillars are used as braces, their ends cut to receive the brickwork reinforcement.
Moreover, the space left by the vaults serves as a way for natural ventilation, very useful in such a climate.
The rainwater is recollected in the top of the walls and conducted either to the courtyards or outside, by means of halved plastic tubes embedded in the mortar.
Lastly, the plant is formed by a square grid, where different combinations of courtyards and inside spaces lead to different types of family needs. The courts are big enough for home farming.
Medium:
Adobe Creative Suite®, Cinema 4D® with Vray®, AutoCAD® and plastic models.
Date:
2010
2013
Architecture
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Clinic Leaflets
I first knew about the University Clinic of Navarre during my third year in college, when I worked there as a part-time assistant.
While doing so I came across by accident with some internal leaflets, and I was horrified with their design. I felt so uneasy seeing them every day that I contacted the head of the Educational Services and gave him a new design proposal, which they liked, fortunately.
Since then I have worked with them designing several books and brochures, for the Internal Education Department and the Clinic chaplaincy.
Date:
2009-2012
Client:
University Clinic of Navarre
2013
Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Retouching
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Dare to Love
I first knew about the University Clinic of Navarre during my third year in college, when I worked there as a part-time assistant.
While doing so I came across by accident with some internal leaflets, and I was horrified with their design. I felt so uneasy seeing them every day that I contacted the head of the Educational Services and gave him a new design proposal, which they liked, fortunately.
Since then I have worked with them designing several books and brochures, for the Internal Education Department and the Clinic chaplaincy.
Date:
2009-2012
Client:
University Clinic of Navarre
2013
Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Retouching
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CV
2013
Advertising
