INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
ISABEL DAMETO
RESUME
Palma de Mallorca 1995
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Barcelona 2013-2017
Barcelona 2019
Milan 2020
Amsterdam 2023-2024
DESIGN /ARCHITECTURE
Bachelor Degree in Design
EINA, Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art of Barcelona. Attached to the UAB.
PGCert in Environmental Arch. and Sustainable Urban Design
CAMPUS La Salle - Ramon Llull University of Barcelona.
Policy Design and Urban Planning
Planning Theory & Practice ; UD: Issues & Tools ; Spatial Planning & Infrastructure Design. Politecnico Di Milano, Italy.
Pre-Master Architecture & Technology
Academie van Bouwkunst, Amsterdam.
Mallorca 2015
Collaborator at Jaime Vidal Ferrer Architecture Office
Barcelona 2015-2016
Barcelona 2017
Mallorca 2018-19
Mall. - Rtm. 2020-22
Rotterdam 2023
Mallorca 2023
Rotterdam 2023
Rotterdam 2024
Remotely 2024 WORK EXPERIENCE
Mallorca 2020
FREELANCE WORK
Mallorca 2020
Mallorca 2021
Mallorca 2021
Mallorca 2023
Remotely 2024
Internship at BarcelóBalanzó Arquitectes
Internship at b720 Fermín Vázquez Architecture Office
Interior Architect at SON Estudi
Interior Architect at LDFL Studio
Visual Merchandiser at INDITEX
Co-creative direction at PLA
Interior Architect at StudioBiek
Assistant Designer at MVRDV
Interior Architect at Hinter den Bergen
Kitchen renovation in a single-family home - Tramuntana
Whole renovation of a family apartment in Palma.
Family house. Full architectural & interior design at LDFL Studio. Countryside family house renovation.
Remote and local collaboration with PLA. Interior, graphic and furniture design, marketing, brand identity and business management.
Collaboration with Hinter den Bergen
PHOTOGRAPHY
30 hrs Digital Photography Course with Giovanni Bettinello. Centro de Expresión Creativa Illa de l’Aire BCN.
University Expert in Applied Professional Photography. EFTI, International Center of Photography and Cinema of Madrid.
Personal Projects. www.idameto.com
HOSTELRY & RETAIL
Retail assistant at IN SIGHT Luxury Concept Store.
Event hostess at XVII Congreso Directivos CEDE.
Workaway at Hostel Roots, Tilburg.
Waitress at Arzu Foodbar, Rotterdam.
Visual Merchandiser at INDITEX.
Creative direction at PLA.
SOFTWARE SKILLS
AutoCAD / Rhino / Archicad / Vectorworks / Sketchup
Twinmotion / Enscape
InDesign / Photoshop / Lightroom / Illustrator
Mac OS / Microsoft Office
LANGUAGES
Spanish Mother tongue. Catalan Mother tongue.
Portuguese Great understanding, elementary conversation. Italian Great understanding, elementary conversation.
English Proficient. Advanced writting, reading and speaking.
· B2 First Certificate by Cambridge English Language Assessment (2013).
· TOEFL iBT (2019).
Dutch Basic understanding, reasonably good. Currently studying.
WORK
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FONAMENTAL son estudi
LOCATION Mallorca - SPAIN.
PROGRAM Plublic square renovation.
PROJECT Competition - 1st Prize (2016-2021).
“Fonamental” is a proposal that starts from the foundations of the Plaza. The subsoil physically conditions the Plaza due to the presence of two parking floors. [...] From the analysis of the place, this intersection between levels was detected as a place of opportunity. Acting in the central longitudinal strip could not only improve the integration of the different spaces of the Plaza and its surroundings, but also connect, nurture and articulate new possibilities for the future of this public space. Where the wall used to divide, now there is a new topography to interact (bleachers). Where people used to cross in the dark at night or under the sun in summer, now there is shade and illumination at night to walk (pergola). Where there was no activity, now there is a new space that would give life to the Plaza (polyvalent space).
JH APARTMENT ldfl studio
LOCATION Mallorca - SPAIN.
PROGRAM Private house renovation.
PROJECT Competition - 1st Prize.
“Fonamental” is a proposal that starts from the foundations of the Plaza. The subsoil physically conditions the Plaza due to the presence of two parking floors. [...]
From the analysis of the place, this intersection between levels was detected as a place of opportunity. Acting in the central longitudinal strip could not only improve the integration of the different spaces of the Plaza and its surroundings, but also connect, nurture and articulate new possibilities for the future of this public space. Where the wall used to divide, now there is a new topography to interact (bleachers). Where people used to cross in the dark at night or under the sun in summer, now there is shade and illumination at night to walk (pergola). Where there was no activity, now there is a new space that would give life to the Plaza (polyvalent space).
WORK
NOT RELEASED / CONFIDENTIAL mvrdv
PROGRAM Listed building transformation.
PROJECT Competition (2023).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
GOMILA mvrdv + gras
LOCATION Mallorca - SPAIN.
PROGRAM Master plan - PLOT 5.
PROJECT Acquisition.
Camper shoe brand, purchased a series of neighbouring plots around the Plaza and asked MVRDV and GRAS to develop a renewal plan that echoed Camper’s philosophy of combining heritage with innovation and creativity.
The seven diverse buildings, each executed in a different colour and material, add 60 rental homes in a variety of styles and sizes intended for local inhabitants who work in the surrounding area, as well as additional commercial space. The many bright colours, emphasised by the Mediterranean sun, advertise the vibrancy and rejuvenation of the neighbourhood. Each of the buildings brings not only its own character, but also unique amenities, with facilities such as restaurants and bars being public while amenities such as pools are accessible to residents of all buildings within the plan.
WORK PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NIO mvrdv
LOCATION Abu Dhabi.
PROGRAM NIO House and showroom concept design.
PROJECT Pitch (2024).
Nio House Abu Dhabi, invites you on a journey inspired by earth and sky, infused with the spirit of the city. A memorable experience, blending NIO’s identity with local values.
The Gallery is welcoming with a reduced design, elevating NIO’s identity with innovative, locally-inspired details. Transformed into a space that honors shared values. We strived to maximize site features, creating an optimized gallery with visibility on both facades and a versatile sunken club
CREATIVE
CO-DIRECTION pla
LOCATION Mallorca - SPAIN.
PROGRAM Creative co-direction.
PROJECT Product & graphic design.
Along with Irene Peukes, the founder of PLA and fashion designer, I helped co-directing the firm, from graphic to furniture design.
TSP + TSM shelves are designed with the traditional “solomonic leg” as the main feature. They are meant to be light and delicate shelves were to showcase the handcrafted PLA products.
Posters, lookbooks, brochures and first ideas for a new website, are part of the work done for PLA. Along with interior design advise.
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
A LAYER AROUND THE INNER FACADE
Concept / the goal of this project is to achieve the design of a building where the inner walls do not have direct contact with the facade in most of the floor. The purpose is to avoid inner corridors, creating a unique outline that distributes the rooms at the same time that has other uses. After several layout designs this has come to generate a skin around the apartment, which is also an active part of it.
Due to its disposition in the inner facade of the building, it gets all the possible light. For this reason, all the rooms facing it are open, their only enclosures consist of curtains and eventually, sliding doors.
Design / the corridor around the inner facade of the building is wide enough to also allow the performance of other functions or activities, such as certain sports, children home playgrounds, storage...
The main concept is to let the inhabitants design their own distribution as the sanitary installations are divided in four cores and distributed in a way that allows a mildly random or sofly guided distribution of the rooms. The project contemplates the possibility of distributing the houses in more than one level.
A glass room arises as a communal area in the hall of each floor. The whole community would decide their uses, which could be and elderly or children active area, an actual indoor greenhouse, a yoga/meditation space, a simple living where to read, knit... In short, the same space along the floors of the building, where to perform any of the previous activities as long as the inhabitants of the building agree.
The project also contemplates the inclusion of a space that would be shared, in this case, only with the owners of the unit of one floor. They would decide where to locate it, if it would be open or closed and also its use.
In summary, two collaborations: one between the owners of the floor and another regarding the welfare of the community which would imply the consensus of all of them as this spaces are shared and anyone could use them, so the distribution or design would need to be supported by the unit on its whole.
An outdoor mesh metal curtain which wraps the facade & which is adjustable from the inside by users.
Flexibility is the key of the project. To be able to move around and use the space with the maximum freedom, at the same time that the place is offering visibility and real interconnection.
A continuous corridor which acts as a layer behind the facade. It is both a distributir and a performing area, thus, an active oart of the apartment.
shared terrace.
Semi-private
PERMEABLE
AN OUTDOOR SHELTER
LOCATION Sineu (Mallorca) - SPAIN.
PROGRAM Meeting point/Spiritual self retreat.
ORIENTATION Main volume faces south - east.
PROJECT Reform and extension.
Concept / a same space where to generate two offers based on different and opposite needs. The slim personality and distributive flexibility of the interior space offers to the user/s the opportunity of appropriation in this brief period of time. Simplicity in spatial behavior is interwoven with the landscape.
The meetings in group are indefinite in time and in form, for what in every use, a new unpredictable situation arises where the space answers with rapidity, as it does it when it is a question of an independent use, since thanks to a series of distributive blocks, the interior space limits itself to offer a control major for the only occupant.
Design / the context and surroundings as a common scenario were the paired programs will take place. Nature plays a key role, as it openly receives and thus, soothes which draws upon the isolated condition into a magnet of disconnection, in both company and intimity.
The light impersonality of the interior space offers to the users the possibility of appropriating ti it in this brief period of time, which close to a distributive flexibility, the integration of the volume with the context and the capacity of adjustment to the way and his climate changes, establishes a respect based on the game of the mobility and the practicality, where there is kept always a simplicity of behavior that is woven by the landscape.
ACCESS & ENCLOSURE WATER &
SEASONAL USE
MEETING SPACE
COOKING WORK SPACE
ORIENTATION
Municipality of Sineu
A dirt road, a fence and two volumes. This becomes the base material of the project, accompanied on every angle by a smooth and friendly landscape that acts as a backdrop.
The existing elements of this project do not have any architectonic aesthetical interest, they are merely concrete and sandstone blocks walls, without any kind of conditioning or habitability facilities. This materiality, along with the neglected state of the building and the location itself, give the whole an impersonal appeal.
On the other hand, the visual material is made up by everything else that the view can reach, being it essential to the place and its distinctive charm. the breadth of the flatness, the ringing of sheep bells or the smell of wild fennel, are sensory experiences as remarkable and essential as the good execution of a functional architectural design that merges with them.
The goal of the project is to achieve a relation and easy connection between the user and its environment, to create an instant bound and understanding of its sorrounding, to make the user another participant in this scenario.
SOUTH-WEST FACADE
NORTH-WEST FACADE
NORTH-EAST FACADE
SOUTH-EAST FACADE
Mallorca island
UNIQUE SPACE
Friends and family meetings are better when they develop indefinite in time and form.
Calmness 1 USER
Calmness and conviviality are generally two conditions difficult to overlap. The first one demands a wider diameter of self-space while the other is merely about coexisting, regardless of size but how you organize it.
MULT. USERS
Conviviality
Independent and selfconstructed environment demands more pause and accompaniment.
A new unpredictable situation can arise in every use, therefore, the space has to be ready to solve it rapidly.
BLOCKS
A series of distributive blocks delimits the interior space to offer a major control to the occupant/s.
BEECH WOOD FICUS AIGÜES TOILET BASIN
TRADITIONAL RED BRICK
LIGHT CONCRETE
HABERLI KITCHEN TILES
SAFAREIG
(Typical Mallorquin pool)
SEASONS & BLOCKS
The main idea is to extend the use of this space to all seasons of the year, creating blocks that attend and focus to the needs depending on the months, making this place a moldable and flexible space, but also ordered.
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
The change that will help to unify the complex will be the internal connection between pre-existing elements, as well as other modifications that will favor fluid use and contact with the natural
environment. The uses are divided into 3 interspersed blocks, so one is part of the next.
Therefore, the transition through the blocks is gradual in terms of seasons, beginning in winter and ending in summer, maintaining a progressive and patient sense, without losing the characteristic rural aesthetic of the place, which predominates both in the landscape and in the attitude of the users.
HERMETIC BLOCK:
Block that includes the base actions, especially in the cold seasons. In it will be located the wet, preparation or living areas that house furniture and other objects. This also houses the electrical register, the storage of firewood and the new location of the agricultural storage area (above the cistern). For security reasons, it must allow a hermetic seal when closing and leaving the space.
CONECTOR BLOCK:
This block hosts part of the HB, continuing with a semi-open porch to the outside (without the possibility of enclosing), intended for a more versatile use, focused on the summer season, where the Bh can be opened by an intermediate piece of furniture that divides and connects them at the same time. All this area is raised to enhance and give prominence to the landscape that is offered on this side, where we find some steps that descend to the ground and connect with the next block.
OUTDOOR BLOCK:
This last block consists of the porch plus the safareig (Mallorquin pool), which is located 15m from the architectural complex. This area is completely open and consists of a 2x5m swimming pool to cool off in summer and a small area next to a tree to enjoy the views in the shade and in company. It is slightly away from the complex with the aim of creating a route to a more isolated place, which works at the same time as the delimiter of the enclosure.
REUNION SHELTER & SPIRITUAL RETREAT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK
“COMBINATION, KIND OF CONTAMINATION”
Piero Misoni
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
“A SPACE WHERE WHAT IS NOT SO IMPORTANT IS THE REAL SPACE, BUT THE MENTAL SPACE”
Xavier Corberó
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
1.MIRA , Davide Groppi 2.FOLDER, Davide Groppi
3.NEON DE LUZ, Marset 4.FADO, Ikea 5.MORAGAS, Santa & Cole
6.CARRIE, Norm Architects 7.PUR-ERH, Xavier Mañosa
8.PARENTESI, Flos 9.NUS FOCAL, Tonia Fuster
STUDENT VERSION
TRAMUNTANA
A RELATION WITH THE MOUNTAIN
LOCATION Sierra de Tramuntana (Mallorca) - SPAIN.
PROGRAM Pool area implemented on 2019.
Kitchen renovation finished on 2021.
ORIENTATION Main facade faces west.
PROJECT New built swimming pool and solarium.
Kitchen renovation + outdoor’s extension.
Concept / a kitchen reform in a farm located in a rural area of Mallorca. The client is a single person who owns and eventually works the land and his orchard. The design is meant to evoke the esence of the rustic and mediterranean rural tradition. Simple and original materials such as clay, wood and typical Mallorcan fabrics.
Design / the aim has been to merge functionality and comfort in the cooking area such as in the preparation and storage areas. While the most important goal was to ensure a considerable storage space as to update the space by thermal isolation. Due to the owner’s activity, the distribution is focused on facilitating a new direct acces from the orchard and outdoor space. There we find a swimming pool near a limestone bench in which the family gathers in summer.
PORCH
SWIMMING POOL & SOLARIUM
LAND & FRUIT TREES
SANDSTONE BENCH & DINNING AREA
TOILET SHOWER ORCHARD
STORAGE ROOM
FARM SUPPLIES
PORCH & GARAGE
HOUSE
STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK
ENTRANCE & PARKING
KITCHEN
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK
STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
A humble kitchen with old fashioned devices, furniture in a random diposition which prevents a fluent circulation. In the kitchen we find an old wood oven and an old terrazzo sink. There is a division from the kitchen and the great storage room.
In total we find three windows and an acces to the outdoor landing (A) that composes the entrance. On the other side, the kitchen faces the mountain and a corrridor to the swimming pool, which is isolated from the house.
SOLARIUM AREA: IN 2019 WE DEVELOPED THE TRANSFORMATION OF AN OPEN UNUSED AREA INTO A SOLARIUM, S. POOL AND DINING AREA, DESIGNING A BENCH IN SANDSTONE. THIS AREA IS CURRENTLY COVERED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY WHITE SAILS TO PROTECT FROM THE SUN.
Garage / Porch
Tramuntana, a relation with the mountain
SWIMMING POOL
The new plan proposes a different distribution, where the storage space demanded will be divided by a smaller storage room and three closets placed in the dining area.
The kitchen continues facing west but now with an extra window (which has ben enlarged) and the transformation of the former window into a door that enables now the direct access to the orchard and the swimming pool area.
There are some original details that have been redesigned, such as the original bench where the water vase was always placed by the owners and a niche.
Materials and lightning are natural, soft and rustic, although with a contemporary twist. Two clay lamps made by a local artisan have been chosen to illuminate the dinning table. Aditionally, all the storage furniture has been designed specifically for the client.
PINE WOOD ARTISAN TILE
STONE
OUTDOOR INTERVENTION ON THE PATH THAT CONNECTS TO THE SWIMMING POOL AREA & THE ORCHARD.
DESIGN OF THE ENTRANCE MAIN WALL. SELECTION OF PAINTINGS & FRAMES.
Tramuntana, a relation with
STEEL
10 TECHNICAL DETAILS
PROGRAM Technical details.
PROJECT Cantilivered house.
MATERIAL Steel.
Part of the subject Tools 0 from the pre-master Architecture & Technology at the Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam.
Concept / part of the subject Tools 0 from the pre-master Architecture & Technology at the Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam. Developing independently architectural 2D details in a chosen material.
Design / schematic building that becomes constructive and architectural elaborated in ten details.
Art Room & Summer House Kersten Geers David Van Severen Salt Point House Thomas Phifer and Partners
Vertical frame + corrugated mesh 45mm. Insulation panel with metal cladding 150mm. Wood profiles structure for inner metal cladding 45mm. Inner metal plate cladding 3mm.
(detail 4.2)
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