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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OAC mailing box

Final piece of the OAC mailing box.

 
It's a mailing box for the citizens suggestions.

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It takes the shape of the existing furniture.

The closing key it set in the middle, as a "house window".

The piece is in varnished black MDF.

The paper is protected by the shape but gently escapes to be easy to take.

All can be opened for easy maintenance.

The open piece brings to our mind some kind of housing icon.

It's gently set above the floor to create a shadow.

The glass is embedded in the material, being easy to be replaced.

The "interior" space has some spatial qualities that remember other architecture projects, being part of the studio guidelines.

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Aigua de ribes

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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Aigua de Ribes

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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RaichdelRio Logo and Cards

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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Ave Maria published in "arhitext"

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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