Asedio y Granito
Winter 2023
final thesis project
The master’s degree final project “Asedio y Granito”, awarded with honors, is structured around the idea of conceiving a written architecture project and a communication strategy of the discourses dealt with by the texts themselves. The theoretical corpus around the project idea is nourished by the conversations on the notion of hauntology and new materialisms.
Absence appears as the basic and fundamental unit of the project and the question of how we should face the task of drawing and graphing it becomes the methodology of the whole work.
Spring 2019
Etsam
active spaces (24h shooting sets) and server spaces (routes and circulations). The filming sets are prepared and motorized to continuously reproduce some of the frames of different video clips with which pop culture has (re)produced the aforementioned “aesthetics of the fence”.
Mierda Bonita
Fall 2020
Etsam
The client is the Mercat de las Flors institution itself and the Barcelona City Council, which aims to promote and recover through specific interventions the memory of the building and the Margarita Xirgú square complex. Understanding memory as materiality and time, we will work with the juxtaposition of cultural strata of the complex. Materiality will be explored as a constant becoming between the digital and reality in which representation is key: rendering, texturization, trompe l’oeil. What is the relationship between architecture and its representations, in particular, with digital visualizations of itself and vice versa? The project does not pretend to give solutions or answer any questions, but to formulate them.
Total Recipes
Foodscapes
Spanish Pavilion Venice Biennale 2023
WIP
With C+Arquitectas
Foodscapes is a journey into the architectures that feed the world; from the domestic laboratories of our kitchens to the vast operational landscapes that nourish our cities. At a time when debates about energy are more pertinent than ever, food remains in the background, yet the way we produce, distribute and consume it mobilizes our societies, shapes our metropolises and transforms our geographies more radically than any other energy source. Foodscapes explores the present of our food systems to look to the future and wonder about other possible patterns; ones capable of feeding the world without devouring the planet.
Unzipped Parties
with Iván L. Munuera
Spring 2020
Brillo 2021
Fall 2020
Spring 2021
Spring 2022
Social (Airy) Distances
Criaturas Vulnerables, La Casa Encendida
Spring 2022
With Nerea Calvillo
Air, which used to be considered empty, was revealed to be occupied by microbes – but also by rules, fear, respect, speech and more. All these elements have created invisible walls and limited access to other human bodies. Sometimes, bubbles were formed; at other times, contextual complexities were added in order to calibrate “safety”. Air was reconfigured from a physical entity to a sociopolitical structure. The dimensions that regulate safety – 1, 1.5, 2 metres – have fluctuated over time and across jurisdictions, responding not so much to research findings but to negotiations with labour unions and hospitality managers. Through measurements that only appear to be well defined, social and economic risk has been managed across the world. And yet, what bodily and affective separations were unraveled?
La comprensión del mundo se ha constituido fundamentalmente a través de la explicación cientí ca de las propiedades materiales, y ha desechado saberes con los que se relacionaban antiguas culturas que, dotadas de sentimiento mágico, creían en los poderes de las cosas como atributos para revelar lo ignoto. La materia se de nió como algo objetivable y taxonomizable y se desarrolló la técnica (tekné) como conjunto de saberes instrumentales para manipular y transformar el medio. La arquitectura, la geografía o la astronomía desarrollaron su corpus desde la técnica, mientras que otras como el arte, la antropología y las denominadas pseudociencias (como la astrología), no pudiendo encajar en ese modelo, mantuvieron una relación mas dudosa y con ictiva con lo cientí co conservando viva cierta idea sobre los poderes de las cosas. De esta manera se han podido ofrecer explicaciones alternativas al objeto, la experiencia, los fenómenos y el cuerpo. La perspectiva poshumanista y la sociedad digital actual ponen en crisis el orden técnico interpelando los limites entre los objetos inertes y los cuerpos vivos y nos conduce a buscar en otras tradiciones, en otros discursos y en otras maneras, desde donde invocar el poder disruptivo de la magia y el ritual. CIELO desarrolla una mirada ampliada que incluye fenómenos y acontecimientos que afectan de manera inexplicable, sin excluir la noción digital tecnológica del espacio en el lugar. Es una manera de narrar el territorio como forma controvertida en la que se superponen historias humanas, terrestres, cósmicas y esotéricas. CIELO constela (sana relaciones) aquellos agentes que interviene en el sitio a través del ritual festivo. El objetivo es develar fuerzas invisibles que operan como poderes en el lugar, para visibilizarlos y sentirlos. Se construye una mirada controvertida, paradójica, transescalar y sensorial que establece coaliciones insospechadas que organizan una liturgia e inventan una celebración. Al equiparar datos cientí cos con creencias homologa poderes y propiedades desactivando un con icto que quizás nunca tuvo porque existir.
Chukiteo
Creative direction and scenography for the monthly party “Chukiteo”, hosted by dj Flaca at Sala 1 Razzmatazz. The party seeks closeness with the audience and for that purpose the stage is moved to the center of the dance floor where the performances take place at ground level looking for a more intense and shared experience. In addition, we work in a new art concept designed for each date in order to change the space and give it a special character of its own.
Spring 2022
Razzmatazz
Ángel Peligrosamente Búho Exhibition Design
La Capella
2023
Spectrality, as a metaphor for spaces that escape our perception and our understanding, relates to a web of invisible worlds that stalk the limits of our physical body and our perceptive system. In angel dangerously owl les artistes propose a spectral materiality as an ethic of disorientation. A sensibility that seeks to provide the current time with a collective dimension instead of a productive one, repetitive instead of linear, and reflexive instead of progressive
