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OAC Via Layetana

2012-02-08T20:38:00.000+01:00

Probably coming soon another OAC...

This time in Barcelona!

Place in Barcelona

This time we were asked for a flexible solution and to emphasise the online service

To do so we put away the "autoservice" furniture and added the online service in the rest of the furniture

First we tested one continuous and a broken model, being the continuous the one chosen by the client

Actual state of the place

The place with the proposal

View from the entrance

View from the attention side

The public part is allways near the street

Attention happens in the lower, more intimate part

The continuous line grows towards the entrance to create a counter

In the ground floor is very evident the continuity of the gesture

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New official studio photo

2012-02-02T13:12:00.002+01:00


RaichdelRio, estudi d'arquitectura

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Plaza del Grano

2012-01-20T20:01:00.003+01:00

Competition panels of Plaza del Grano

Panel 1

Panel 2

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2012

2012-01-11T21:06:00.001+01:00

RaichdelRio, estudi d'arquitectura

us desitja un feliç, wishes you a happy, os desea un feliz, wünscht Ihnen ein Frohes

2012

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Europan 2011

2012-01-10T15:23:00.004+01:00

This is the information we handled in for Europan 2011: panels and booklet.

As the first panels of Europan as RaichdelRio, and we're not specially proud of them... ;) we found very difficult to sort information.
Maybe the booklet (we work much more in that format) was easyer to read...

Panels:

Booklet:

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Plaza del Grano

2011-12-31T06:13:00.009+01:00

Our first competition on public space: the refurbish of a plaza with accessibility problems.

La Plaza del Grano is located in Leon, a city in the central part of Spain. This plaza, despite its beautiful realization, actually lacks of accessibility for the disabled and of a good draining system that would allow the water to flow. Besides, the municipality also wanted to provide a clear frame for the bars in the Plaza.

So we started from the actual setup of the plaza.

Then we defined the main circulation paths that would occur to minimize our intervention.

We optimized these paths to fit with the environment.

And gave a subtle definition by giving 2m to the perimeter ones and 1.5m to the ones in the centre.

Finally we located the bars and made clear surfaces to host them.

This paths will host also all the needed infrastructure: drainage, telecommunications... but also a system of geothermic heat that would create clear paths in the hard winters and would acclimatize the outside spaces of the bars to allow using them in winter.

Following this rules we created this plaza with a system of paths that would make the plaza full accessible for everybody, respecting to the maximum the memory, the current state of the plaza: the existing pavement but also the fountain, the cross, the trees...

This way the whole plaza becomes a used space, with the clear contrast between the existing pavement (that remains untouched) and the new pavement (that solves all the problems of the plaza and allows the other to exist without problems). One of the structures of the bars is forgotten in the middle of the plaza creating a lamp or some kind of door (or will maybe become goalposts...)

Here we see the existing pavement covering most of the plaza, the new pavement (a concrete done with the removed stones to give the same appearance), the position of the drainers that will make the plaza clean and the position of the outside dining areas.

A study of the sun shows the new outside dining areas and the plaza in the middle of the street system.

The outside dining area is created by a system of three vertical posts that host two horizontal posts. From the horizontal three different cloths cover jump in different directions to create the shadow space. An additional vertical cloth cuts the wind.

The outside dining areas are always a coordination of two structures, creating a more compact one for the winter, protected from the winds, and a bigger one for the summer, expanding the limits of the concrete space.

An example of one terrace in summer, surrounded by the existing pavement and with a view to the fountain.

Paths in the facade are a slightly wider and always have a geothermic heating system. The dining structures are cloth surfaces floating over the sitting.

A view of the plaza in summer. The plaza remains untouched but all the problems are solved.

A view of the plaza with its surroundings.

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Europan 2011

2011-12-21T20:19:00.015+01:00

Today we present the Europan 2011, the first of this series of competitions we are currently posting.

The development of a new neighbourhood with a new city proposal.

The site is next to a highway (blue) next to a green axis (green) and in contact with the new High Speed Train station and the biggest university campus in Barcelona.

When we started to check the project we had very clear that we wanted some kind of recognizable city (Barcelona and it's green where the clear referent in this case), we wanted to create a green icon able to spot this new centrality point in the map, and we wanted a new use of the street that would suit a new and young neighbourhood.

So we took the given plan, converted it into closed blocks to generate a clear public space, turned public space into a park moving the cars into the blocks and finally created a green icon that would articulate this new area.

This is the plan of the new neighbourhood: you can see how the green axis doubles just before our site to follow and existing river and our neighbourhood becomes a park with the buildings on top of it, respecting the proposed force-lines but creating a new kind of private-public relationship.

In the perspective view you can clearly see how the green icon becomes a "mountain" that recovers the relationship with Montserrat (further in the photo) and spots the new centrality point in this area.

Another view showing how the "cliffs" become the housing areas.

And the park system along the icon at several levels, whereas the green park extends following the green axis.

Separating the cars from the pedestrians we created a friendly street, open to the use and safe for everybody.

Plan of ground floor showing the park around the blocks, still as a street but understood as a green lung for the area. The ground floor becomes a tertiary space that will bring small commerce to the area, making it alive.

This separation of the cars generates a street (gray) with maximal pedestrian occupation and minimal contact with cars.

A view of the park system with the icon.

The trees group in series of 1, 3 or 5 (with a palm) to generate the street landscape.

A view of the ground floor: an open street car-free as a lung of green, and the icon as the new centrality point of the area.

Green spaces.

Public (in the park) and private (inside the blocks) car circulation.

Massing plan.

Private space.

Services: the icon is filled with public spaces, becoming not only a "seen" icon but a "used" icon, reinforcing the idea of a neighbourhood where the citizen is the most important.

Pedestrians walk through all the area in a mix of street and park system.

The housing:

The housing is a modular system based in a block, this block is cut in a diagonal system to create two spaces (night-day) and this "negative" spaces are then turned into an outside living space and the services area.

To create the several typologies more modules are added inside this system.

Giving a wide range of areas that will allow variability inside the block.

Working with modules also allows changes (in time) inside each typology: what was intended to be a typology for a couple with a kid, can become a flat for a single or a shared flat for 3 flatmates without changing the main areas.

The services area is intended to be an open block but can easily make independent the wc and the kitchen.

The open space is slightly changed in the icon and the block to create a more protected space (as the icon would go much higher).

The typological variation in height will create a changing rhythm.

That will be visible from in the facade, giving variability inside a rhythm.

Icon and block share a common housing typology but whereas the block only has space for the tertiary and the cars, in the icon all the inside area becomes a series of services for the community.

Services range from the commerce in ground floor to sports-hall, hospital, offices, parks at several levels...

The icon uses his mass to generate a high park, like a mountain where the cliffs become the housing units and each of the platforms is accessed through the public realm.

A new kind neighbourhood based in the contact with the exterior, where the citizen becomes the main character.

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MNE Published in Arhitext

2011-12-07T13:00:00.003+01:00

MNE has been published in Arhitext.

Post in English:
http://www.arhitext.com/english/2011/12/raich-del-rio-national-energy-museum-exclusively-online/

Post in Rumanian
http://www.arhitext.com/2011/12/raich-del-rio-national-energy-museum-exclusiv-online/

Many thanks to Arhitext team!

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UPC Campus

2011-11-28T15:15:00.006+01:00

Here are the panels of the presentation...

3 for architectural concept

1 for materials

And 2 more for installations concept.

The rest will be kept in the hidden...

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UPC Campus

2011-11-22T15:22:00.008+01:00

We were asked in this competition to think the common spaces of a University: 8 buildings were happening above floor and we had to think how they met in the underground.

We started by understanding the intervention area.

Then seeing which part of the program was circulation and which was going to be a closed, chopped space.

As we were doing a connection space, the circulation comes in the middle to connect to the different buildings at both sides.

Then this space gets deformed to seek for the light (some patios that where digging into the -1 level) and through this action we were creating bigger meeting spaces, like small plazas.

And finally we shaped the interior space of the room separating what could be really dark spaces (storages, changing rooms...) with the semi-public space (shops, gyms...), which could enjoy from the common space but required a controlled entrance.

And this was the resulting space of the 3 different typologies.

A conceptual view of the common space, being defined by two meandrical glass surfaces that created different access typologies and allowed for bigger meeting spaces.

A view of the common space showing this abstract fluid space with a transversal indifferent grid having all the required installations and offering this way big flexibility.

Another view of the common space, with the porch to the patio: a "smoking" room treated exactly as the other rooms.

View from a room: in the rooms the light goes down (direct) and in the common space goes up (indirect).

A plan showing the several space typologies.

A section showing the several light conditions and the tubes of the main installation channels. Height was fixed by the space.

Installations worked as the main concept: two meandrical main channels bring electricity to each point, and transversal lines distribute it through the rooms.

Illumination concept.

This competiton was done with RdL, estudio PVI and JTa; Arau Acústica also joined us as consultant.

Congratulations to the winners!

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MNE Published in arqa

2011-11-11T14:15:00.004+01:00

MNE has been published in arqa.

http://us.arqa.com/index.php/esp/proyectos/museo-nacional-de-la-energia.html

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MNE Published in arqa

2011-11-11T14:15:00.001+01:00

MNE Published in a f a s i a

2011-11-10T14:52:00.005+01:00

We are proud to publish our first work at a f a s i a . We hope to publish more!

http://afasiaarq.blogspot.com/2011/11/raichdelrio-estudi-darquitectura.html

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MNE Published in e-Architecture

2011-11-02T23:33:00.002+01:00

MNE has been published in e-Architecture News.

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/spain/national_energy_museum.htm

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MNE Published in What we do is secret

2011-11-02T10:23:00.003+01:00

MNE has been published in What we do is secret.

http://www.whatwedoissecret.org/madebyblog/2011/10/national-energy-museum/

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Swiss Pavillion for Milano 2015

2011-10-25T14:03:00.016+02:00

Today we present the concept for the Swiss Pavilion in Expo Milano 2015.
It was developed with Andres Clericci, Martin Kurmann, Davide Oliveri (davideolivieri@hotmail.com), Luca Cerullo and Debora Alasraki (www.urbanmedia3d.com).

Given the plot (in a very prominent corner), the theme (food) and the country (Switzerland) we started by developing the idea:

Switzerland as a place of technology, and food technology: technology also as something in the DNA of human being (beer, cheese are already food with applied technology)

Switzerland as a "plus": this would be the theme of the exhibition (more technology, more advantages, more integration...) and would be the plan of the exhibition space (a cross).

A pavilions that will get back to the food cycle: the pavilion had to cost 9M €, we decided to expend 8M € and use the rest to bring back the materials of the pavilion to the food cycle with it. The pavilion will consist of a series of interconnected shells filled up with some kind of biologic material that can be used as part of the food cycle (earth, seeds, compost...).

The Cheese pavilion: as an edible pavilion from Switzerland and including technology, our mind fast went to the emmental, an opportunity of creating a pavilion that would have multiple entrances and this way would interact with the plot where it was.

With these ideas we went through several options, of which we show one:

Elevation

Exterior view from facade corner with exterior auditorium.

Exterior view of secondary patios.

A very rough image of the inside.

The exhibition space makes a cross shape in the space, with a stair as a central and main space illuminated through a skylight.

Next to the rear facade we accommodate all the "partners" exhibition spaces.

In the front facade we accommodate all the public spaces.

And the spaces in-between make the offices, this time clear and regular.

The same system is extended in a series of patios that would receive the visitors and create an outside auditorium.

This lump sum of bubbles (sometimes inside, sometimes outside) create the shells.

And then the whole thing would be wrapped in a very regular and orthogonal pavillion, and then the space in-between would be filled with the organic material that would go into the "food circle"

Program would fit in those bubbles that would interact with each other. Every program had its own bubble, and the auditorium would be the only "complete" one, creating the sitting space.

This interaction would create a main path...

But also allow for secondary paths.

Exterior patios make a big opening to fulfil regulations.

And with this strategy we could react with precission to the site conditions.

This time we played with organic shapes: starting from the circle we created several shapes made of arches that create a much more complex and subtle shape.

These shapes where then revolved and cut bellow the rotation axis, magnifying the sensation of being inside a bubble.

This competition was lost and inaugurates a series of competitions we are developing and we’ll soon post.

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RaichdelRio Logo and Cards

2011-10-18T15:30:00.018+02:00

Today we present the process behind the logo of RaichdelRio.

As we decided to give a new impulse to the office, we arrived to the natural position of rethinking our image, and to do it so we chose Marc Sala, as he had already done the first option.

Old RaichelRio Logo.

This time we wanted a logo that would reflect the way we think and very fast came the idea of a stamp-logo: something that would go back to history (stamps have allways been part of bureaucracy) and would also reflect "analog" values (as we are always very focused on "reality").

We gave this briefing to Marc and he came with this four options.

We very fast liked the firs ones, but the last one had some kind of straight forward simplicity that we also liked. We decided to take out the double-exterior-ring but keep the double typography (one for the outside and one for the inside).
We also agreed in putting the whole name of the studio "RaichdelRio, estudi d'arquitectura", as this second part talks of Catalonia (where we come from) but the stamp would talk the global language (where we want to operate).

With this hints, Marc came with this option that kept the double circle as union of miquel and lluís.

Once we had the logo, we brought the same kind of thinking to the cards, making a backside very simple and straight forward that would dialogue with the other side.

One for Miquel

One for Lluís

And one for the studio? not by now...

And then came the paper decision: very fast came on the table a piece of carton as we use in the models and we decided it to be in gray carton, having the same qualities of manual, architecture and a little bit of strength.

Once we started researching the market, we found that real stamps where very expensive and, sadly gave a digital water to the logos to make the cards:

Final design with digital waters.

When we brought the paper to the print-house they immediately said that it would break the machine and sent us to a very old and creepy print-house where they would eventually print it for us.
Same answer was given in the second print-house but they offered us the possibility of creating a stamp and mechanically stamp it: finally we had came to an analogue decision that would fit into the mechanical era!

Those are the stamps.

They are not gold, just a yellow polimere...

And we finally got our cards.

This is a detail of the digital marks in the design.

And the same zone once converted into analog information.

Another detail.

We arrived to a final decision that we are proud to say that follows our thinking and represent the current state of RaichdelRio

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TRUSTNOBODY

2011-09-15T13:54:00.009+02:00

We were asked to think a concept for TRUSTNODOBODY shop. After a meeting with them, the investigation fields were:
·Relation between mezzanine and shop (between a multitask space and a selling space)
·Position of sponsor zone (shop has a lot of exclusive products and events)
·We wanted also to show three different ways of showing the product attached to these options.

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As we wanted to start a "conversation" with the client, method we find the most exciting and with better results, We decided to present 3 options that would expand the field to the maximum.

First concept was to do a "strip"

That would travel through floor and walls in both floors

to create different relations between upper and lower space (through hinches)

Product would always start from this surface, either from top or from below.

Example of interior view with strip and product.

The sponsors zone would be just the strip reaching the street and going up, creating a double sided sponsor (inside + outside).

A plan of how could this concept be.

And an axonometry (in red the actuation)

Second concept was to create unitary space filled up with "blobs".

to percieve the whole space.

and this way upper and lower space would be just one.

Product would always be in this "blob" shape, either hanging from the ceilling either growing form the floor, as an autonomous object.

Example of interior view with unitary space and product.

The sponsors zone would be one of this "blobs" growing and taking the double space to accomodate the paying bar.

A plan of how could this concept be showing that these blobs come from a "shoe-shape" (maybe making the space into a dancing lesson?)

And an axonometry (in red the actuation)

Third concept was to do an "enfilade"

separate "rooms" with different materials and product placement.

In this case both spaces would be independent spaces.

Product would be specific of each "room", having variety.

Example of interior view with "enfilade" and product.

The sponsors zone would be just one of these rooms (maybe the first one as the easyest)

A plan of how could this concept be.

And an axonometry (in red the actuation)

First feedback was good... let's see! we'll keep you informed ;)

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Ave Maria published in "arhitext"

2011-09-13T14:25:00.003+02:00

As explained in previous post, Ave Maria has been published in romanian magazine arhitext no. 3/2011 (http://www.arhitext.com/english/) «Anti-Utopias / Prisons. Hospitals. Brothels»

Cover and back-cover

Full article in internet:
http://www.arhitext.com/english/2011/06/camelia-sisak-%E2%80%93-on-game/

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Ave Maria published in "arhitext"

2011-09-02T17:03:00.008+02:00

Today we recieved a very beatiful package from rumania:

Arhitext number 217, with two full pages of the project.

More coming soon!

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Ave Maria published in "Modern Architecture and desing news" Magazine

2011-08-12T16:20:00.009+02:00

Ave Maria keeps its way.

It was recently published in digital magazine wssj1
http://www.wssj1.cn/a/shinasheji/snsj/19990.html

and in "Modern architecture & design news":
http://news.architecture.sk/2010/06/pabellon-ave-maria-entrance-hall-by-raichdelrio.php

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OAC Girona published in Oficinas and AIT Magazine

2011-08-12T15:47:00.011+02:00

The OAC Girona has been published in several printed media

AIT Magazine (Germany)

Oficinas Magazine (Spain)

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OAC Girona - Leaf Awards

2011-08-02T13:17:00.010+02:00

We are glad to announce that the OAC Girona has been shortlisted for the LEAF Awards.

Our congratulations to the other shortlisted!
For the complete list of the shorlisted visit the LEAF awards page:
http://www.leaf-awards.com/shortlist.html

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Dinopolis - Teruel

2011-04-12T17:47:00.016+02:00

Some schemes to help understanding the dinopolis project: from a shed to an experience.

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First plan that we recieved: technical space at the edge

Variant aproved: technical space in the middle to access all rooms + isolate sound

The experience as a sequence of rooms: exterior, queues, pre-show, show, exterior

Diferenciation of spaces to create experience: each space is different to the others to reinforce each of the characters. The addition makes the experience. Queues: black box, no input. decompresion room Pre-show: rocky material in walls and ceiling. mineral room Show: a second shaped-skin is created with camouflage textile. vegetal room

The queues is a black box with light only form top. This light changes to create the only input, plus the low sound of the other rooms creates the atmosphere and the rush to enter. In this room the security issues are explained

Pre-show came already as a txt room. Fisitor feels sourrounded by only one material: txt in a rocky texture, even the video is projected on a bigger "rock" of the texture. In this room attraction starts

Show is created by a tent-like shape on camouflage textile. This tent re-creates the video trace providing more comfortable spaces. The tent also hides all the technical issues, including the light that on running through creates shadows on the floor. In this room the 4d cinema happens

Sub experience 1: queues.

Sub experience 2: pre-show

Sub experience 3: show

Sequence of rooms: exterior, queues, pre-show, show, exterior

The sequence of experiences creates the attraction.

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Dinopolis - Teruel

2011-03-06T22:18:00.009+01:00

Dinopolis atraction (Terra Colossus) opened Thursday for the authorities (photo) and Saturday for general public!

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We did everything in a record time of 3 months from comision till opening and 2 months of construction (photo of starting construction).

Aprox. the same photo 2 months later.

Queue space finally took the stars ceiling: a black space as decompresion chamber to enter a new experience.

Pre-show space is a mineral space (allready in comision). Finally the construction stress didn'l allow for our desired image (maybe next time!).

In the show the plants where replaced by a camouflage fabric, making it more abstract but keeping the values.

Grop (constructin company) added much more light than expected and we have to say it was a big improvement.
An example of the shadows created here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6QEwhkqnx8

At the beggining of the show the color lights are of and a white light through the fabric makes a helicopter effect.
You can see it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsJ_UOP2MTM

This is more or less the space as nobody precieves it (with the light on)

Another image to help understanding the "tent" that converts the space from an industrial shed to a projection room.

This is the outside of the attraction. You can see it's basically an industrial shed.

The sourroundings allready call for the attraction.

We don't have a clue who did designed the logo.

The team after the effort: Santiado de León (RdL http://www.rdlarquitectos.com/), Miquel del Río (RaichdelRio, estudi d'arquitectura), Enric Iturbe (JTA), Lluís Raich (RaichdelRio, estudi d'arquitectura).

The team in the first shooting with people. If we had known maybe would'nt had step in! Miquel del Río, Santiago de León, Enric Iturbe and Lluís Raich.

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OAC Girona

2011-03-02T21:49:00.009+01:00

The OAC Girona has been published in several media

Digital magazine "e-architect":
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/barcelona/oac_girona_offices.htm

Paper Magazine "PROYECTO CONTRACT", linked to prestigous magazine CasaViva

Appearance in name at the frontpage.

and 8 full sized pages.

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Dinopolis - Teruel

2011-02-21T18:53:00.005+01:00

Last week we went to see the Dinopolis construction-site.

Working with the constructing company has some disadvantages and some parts of the project will be changed (it's part of the deal!), but I think the defining elements will stay there... let's wait to see how it ends!

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OAC Girona

2011-01-24T17:43:00.013+01:00

The OAC Girona has been published in several media

Digital magazine "What we do is secret":
http://whatwedoissecret.org/madebyblog/2010/12/oficina-de-atencion-al-ciudadano-in-girona/

Digital magazine "Arqa":
http://www.arqa.com/index.php/esp/arquitectura-internacional/proyecto-oficina-de-atencion-al-ciudadano-girona.html

Paper Magazine "Eben", interior design architects association

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Dinopolis - Teruel

2011-01-15T19:22:00.009+01:00

The project keeps going. Some minor changes are done to fine tune the plan but it keeps going fullspeed!
We went last week to meet the constructing company + checking the state of the works.

They are digging now the hole for the moving seats.

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Entrance space is clear, pre-show (mineral) too and now the big question mark is how to give characther to the show space

There are two options:

Keeping the whole space:
-leaves the installations free to manipulate
-keeps the industrial character of the room

Creating a new ceiling
-keeps the installations behind a ceiling
-makes the space more domestic

Whole space options:

Give character with some free shapes that act as illumination.

Leave a band of "black landscape" and painting heraklit with a landscape

new space options:

keeping the plants (preshow - show = mineral - natural)

the new space is a night sky (preshow - show = closed - open space)

What do you think?

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Dinopolis - Teruel

2011-01-08T20:18:00.008+01:00

We are finishing construction documents of Dinopolis.

Looks like the plants may not happen...

We'll keep you informed!

Here an image of the texture in the mineral room

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OAC Girona

2010-12-25T14:10:00.014+01:00

The OAC Girona sits in the ground floor of an existing building. Being the central place of bureaucratic steps in Girona, it creates a clear, easy to use and srong image space. This is a plan set for better understanding of the project.

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The furniture flows in the space defining it through strong force-lines.

Several furniture typologies correspond to each of the functions: counters for reception-information, tables for bureucratic steps, closets to define spaces + support furniture for the waiting areas.

This elements combine in the typical section to create different uses:
Counters are facing street and always have a closet to give privacy. Tables work in a similar way: they face the waiting areas and also rely on counters to define the space.
Sitting areas are always in contact with windows and have the support of small designed furniture.

Cross section through entrance.

Typical entrance: to peak moments at your left (moments where office has a lot of movement: a new administration application or similar) or normal information at your right.

First attention level: fast steps.

Second attention level: more delicated steps.

Counters in space.

Tables in space.

Closets in space.

Waiting area desing furniture.

Online autoattention.

Standard furniture (tables + aero-benches).

Kids' space.

Example of table construction document.

Example of closet construction document.

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National Energy Museum

2010-12-14T14:36:00.022+01:00

In august 2010 we were invited by Feltrero to develop a competition for the permanent exhibition of National Energy Museum (MNE in Spanish). This weekend we got to know that we didn't win this phase. Taking advantage of it we publish it before the final result!

The competition was for 3 exhibitions of approx. 3.000 sqm each. Feltrero contacted with RdL arquitectos (http://www.rdlarquitectos.com/, we collaborated with them also in Dinopolis) to make 3 proposals with 3 teams, being RdR responsible of the exhibition explaining the consequences of the energy use. All museology was from Andres Clerici (http://www.this-is-public.com/about.html)
Here follows the information of our proposal before knowing who the winners are.

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(image from http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=736214)
The first thing we did was looking at the building: it's an abandoned centre of energy supply and our exhibition was in the building hosting the coal storage, in the upper floors. Watching images like this we immediately fell in love with the building and tried to make the exhibition according to it and always on it, never adding elements or hiding the building. And of course the "tolva" will be our leitmotiv.

Regarding the kind of exhibition we wanted to do, it was an exhibition that could benefit from the values of a science centre (activity, scientific rigour, several topics) and the values of a temporary exhibition (clarity of message, quietness in museographical resources, hierarchy of topics...)

We wanted to make the tolva the personal character and so each of the floors created a different relation to the tolva: through it, as opposition to it and on it. This clear idea will guide the entire exhibition (giving importance to the building, different scenarios and clarity, as the purpose was).

The next decision was to start from up to down: bringing people to the top and making them go down by gravity gave us a much more "natural" way of walking through the exhibition: first we would go through an immersion tunnel, then we would walk giving the back to it and concentrating in two new information walls and finally we would take advantage of the big space and lay in two stepped walls.

Looking at the sections we spotted different spaces and gave them importance with our structures: straight lines will show different highs in a very expressive way. Reading the content we spot 3 different topics: energy is more (from more advantage to more disadvantages), solutions to the problems (also in 3 subchapters) and the future solutions (a gallery of the future). So we put each of the topics with the relations and we got a very immersive entrance from more advantage to more disadvantages, then a two information bands for solutions and a chill-out agora for the discussion.

The upper floor, through the tolva: entrance at the lower right side with some totems where you can find your ecological footprint. At your left you would see the problems (climatic change and CO2 problems) and in the middle the immersion tunnel with the different topics, with individual projections in the left part (down in this plan) and group projections in the right part (up in this plan)

The middle floor, against the tolva: two walls relate to the tolva (old-new; no information - with information; straight - kinked) and hierarchies the information. This walls have interior spaces where needed to give deeper information and create different experiences without competition with the others. The floor touches two times to the tolva, moment where an inside view is created and in this balcony we put a metaphorical installation to show the carbon.

The down floor, on the tolva: to explain the future we imagined two linear walls, with kinks but this time instead of being vertical they are stepped because the visitor will not read the information but create it. These spaces make small agoras for discussions with on the latest topics of energy and have built-in screens to self-navigate on several topics or watch them projected on the tolva. A bigger plaza is created to make the gallery of the future, with the last research on energy use.

Diagrams:
-From more advantages to more disadvantages.
-Several topics in a kinked line, with deeper information.
-Several agoras and a superior meseta for the active discussion.

The initial totems.

Inmersion tunnel.

The carbon problems in interactive tables.

The kinked walls against the tolva.

An example of deeper information built in the wall.

The scenery representation of carbon.

The agoras with the built-in screens and the projections.

The future-plaza.

Renderings from sbda (http://sbda.cat/web/).

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Dinopolis - Teruel

2010-12-09T21:14:00.014+01:00

2009-05-20T16:41:00.008+02:00

New proposal for the Office for Citizen Information.

Laser cut tryals of the painted pattern.

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We create a mask which is glued into wall, then painted then removed. This is a mock up to check scale.

This process allow us to make all the walls different, as long it is not a repetition but a whole paper cutted and then painted, thus making the same price all different or all repetitive.

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Office for citzen information (OAC)

2009-05-06T19:21:00.008+02:00

New proposal for the Office for Citizen Information.

Some fast origami-tryals of the new distribution after the last presentation.

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After the presentation we got asked to do some minor changes on the attention area.

This 5 options came to us.

Two twists.

Two twists. Facing the waiting area.

Separated desks

Final proposal, with one twist, like to bellys creating the space.

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Carretera Secundaria exhibition

2009-04-29T18:57:00.006+02:00

Or how architecture can meet other disciplines. Version 2. At COAC.

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When we did the first exhibition, people from the COAC (Official Architecture Organization from Catalonia) came to ask us to make it again, this time in an small exhibition space they have for emergent architecture. If the first time the main idea was a road, this time we climbed the road to the roof and made it a path to the exhibition space, not very visible from the street.

So the first decission was where to end this path that would bring people to this space.

The exhibited pieces would be sourrounded by mesh cilinders to protect them, who were bigger or smaller, and ware placed below the piece, at it's high or even higher, depending on the object presented.

This mesh started as ciliders but once there they got deformed.

And became "gosthy" shapes illuminated by the existing light.

The existing light was another of the subjects to play with.

This space had different colored lights that we decided to use: a general violet light for the exhibition and some bright white concentred light for the pieces exhibited.

The instalation of the "sky path"

Had to solve different problems...

But finally made it's function.

General view of the exhibition.

General plan of the exhibition.

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Office for citzen information (OAC)

2009-04-24T11:06:00.009+02:00

New proposal for the Office for Citizen Information.

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New proposal for the Office for Citizen Information.

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Office for citzen information (OAC)

2009-04-06T12:42:00.007+02:00

Some fast fotos frome the model for the intermediate presentation.

The basic ideas are still there.

View of the attention area, with the "trees" creating the unitary space.

View of the corner, with entrance at the right.

View of the entrance area from the street level, before climbing the stairs.

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Vivir con madera shortlisted

2009-04-02T11:28:00.010+02:00

The project "madera al cuadrado" by raichdelrio, estudi d'arquitectura has been shortlisted

You can see the complete list of winners & shorlisted at http://www.vivirconmadera.info/exposicion/index.asp

and the presentation at
http://raichdelrio.blogspot.com/2009/01/vivir-con-madera-competition_24.html

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Office for citzen information (OAC)

2009-03-16T13:23:00.013+01:00

Some fast images of the definitive project.

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Conference Hall at Ave Maria, Barcelona

2009-03-12T10:12:00.011+01:00

Second version. Model and plans.

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After the previous presentation (http://raichdelrio.blogspot.com/2009/01/conference-hall-at-ave-maria-barcelona.html), we got asked to rethink the project so it could be both a conference hall and a meeting room.

We kept the main ideas: the orientation, the fact of having an "office" space at the entrance, the wall that unified the space... but incorporing the new input: we made a system of telescopic steps than places them in a closet, and made the office a little bit smaller to place the chairs and tables when not being used.

The meeting room holds 30 people with tables and chairs and the conference hall holds 100 people seated.

The telescopic steps were the only option to give visibility to the people sitting in the back and at the sime time allowing the room to convert in a meeting room.

The room as a conference hall

The room as meeting room.

As we said, the main ideas are still there: a continuous wood skin embracing the space, the orientation, the office space...

But the telescopic steps offer the possibility of transforing the space into several possibilities.

Sections showing the different spatial configurations.

The storage space made us think in more detail the office space.

Whereas the chairs were standard chairs, we thought about a table that could be stored easily and despite it could still be a representation table.

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Carretera Secundaria exhibition

2009-03-09T18:32:00.013+01:00

Or how architecture can meet other disciplines

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This was an exhibition about how architecture students deal with other disciplines while studying achitecture. It was done in the ETSAB (the architecture school in barcelona) with ETSAB students.

It was an open registration and people from very different disciplines came to us (including lighting and scenography but also cooking or sewing)

So the question was: how to give to all these different contents a common frame? how to organize them all?
It fastly came the idea of the "secondary road", a road which is not the main road (that would be working in an architecture office as an intern) and that, of course, can be much more slow but can also make you look at the landscape (your enviroment) in a different way.

The first big thing was there: making a road crossing all the hall, and placing the works outside from it, hanging from the ceilling. Al the posters had in one side the work printed and in the other side pictores of "secondary roads".

At the end, it happened that people walked through the road...

The path was done in standard moquete, and we self-printed the lines with a stencil.

Early sketch - concept.

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Raichdelrio on Arqa

2009-03-03T13:40:00.006+01:00

Arqa posted a new about the Ave Maria Hall

http://www.arqa.com/index.php/esp/interiorismo/hall-de-acceso-al-pabellon-de-la-maternidad-barcelona.html

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Raichdelrio on Yatzer

2009-02-27T13:31:00.008+01:00

Yatzer posted a new about the Ave Maria Hall

http://yatzer.com/1545_ave_maria_pavilion_entrance_hall_by_rdr_architects

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Raichdelrio on Dezeen

2009-02-27T10:57:00.009+01:00

Dezeen posted a new about the Ave Maria Hall

http://www.dezeen.com/2009/02/26/ave-maria-entrance-hall-by-raichdelrio/

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