Aigua de Ribes

The wall has been finally constructed!
Now we'll have to come with a nice colour scheme...
Some photos of the wall in place and construction process:

The two inferior rows are small dark colored stones.

The intermediate one is small light colored stones.

The upper one is big dark colored stones.

Color changes will be maximized when the rain takes a way the dust.

The wall change dramatically the appareance according to light.

Or to the views.

Having several material qualities.

A small resting area is created.

Constructio process photos.

View from the river.

Creating a space to hide the rubish.

Wall was created with two people: one in the machine and the other one on site.

Wall going up.

View from the road.

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Site visit to define the exact position of the walls

In the image detail of the entrance section: we lowered the right part in the image, and with the extra pieces created a bench.

Site photo of drawn section.

Checking the stones.

We are proud to have a new member in the team: Núria Comella (www.alterfocus.net). Here spontaneous checking the bench possibilities.

Detail of the upper boxes.

The rock before being boxed.

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Visit to the site and some quick sketches to check the result.

Color test

Color test

Color test

Color test

Color test

Color test

Color test


We'll probably go for the blue, maybe the corporative blue.

First phase of perimetral wall as decided with mock-up.

Second phase of perimetral wall.

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Mock up ready

Construction starting as soon as we have the budget approved!

 Mock up in place

Showing final height.

A quick rendering of the different materials: lower part of small red stone, then a layer of small white stone and finally a layer of  red big stone.

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Unicef's shop window

How would you make a shop window without budget?

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When they asked us to "refurnish" the entrance of the Unicef shop in Barcelona with no budget we immediately thought of "epidermical" solutions that could give maximum result with minimum expense.



From our point of view, the problem was that the store was (dis)connected from the street by a dark passage filled with outlet products, far from being a welcoming place.



Studying the shop (beyond the open white door) we discovered the blue, a colour that was immediately taken as a solution. We also discovered that light wasn't in the product, but in the corridor space.


So the solution was: buying some painting and light diffusers. That was our proposal. And our hands, of course.



Walls were painted in blue and white and light was pointed at the product.


So now between the street and the shop there was not a dark passage, but a place where to start thinking of what you will buy inside.


Besides, we created stencils with the Unicef logo, that we placed in the wall, both in positive


And in negative, making visible that it was a Unicef shop (not so clear before the intervention)


So the goal was accomplished: creating an entrance, giving a shop window, and connecting the shop to the street.


Besides, we also created a product-placement system made with old boxes found in the store and the stencils previously used, so that the product can be now showed in a wide range of possibilities.




360º sight of result. You can see the stencils in the walls and boxes, the product placement and the connection between the shop window and the shop.






This project was done with (and thanks to) Pau Gonzalez-Rojas Amat, who commissioned us the job and appears in the photo.





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