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BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
"Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes"
Walter Gropius
INTERIOR DESIGN DEGREE
MADRID POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY (Madrid. 2004)
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY (London. 2015)
Received and acquired solid background knowledge in several and different subjects related to architecture and design, such as construction, building installations, art and architecture history, technical and live drawing, practical projects...A deep training triggering the onset of design career.
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FINAL PROJECT: THE SENSORIAL JEWELL
The project part from the remarkable historical placement, as the unit works sitted on 41 Vittoria Road in the center of the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham. Crade of Industrial Revolution, Jewerells spread their workshops along this Quarter developing the start of what will be the Industrial Revolution.
Beginnings were not always easy. Working and living conditions had to be transformed.
This is the point where arises the first question what is a whorkshop?.
This question allows the opportunity to reflex about workspace and work time.The intention is to grant to this work units the dignity that, they miss in a past. In this way the work place changes to become a pleasant place, to become a place where the past hard job is turned in leisure activities.
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FINAL PROJECT: INTERIOR DESIGN
FOUNDATION
Creating a new interior designers fundation where to meet, learn, keep in touch and catch up with all the relative of the profession.
Two floors plus a basement and a roof terrace where to play and enjoy with concepts as interior-exterior, steam-empty, cold-warm, hard-cushioned...
The program contained a library, 2 exhibitions, clasrooms, offices, bar...
The result was a project where to fell two different "interior"concepts. One as the seed, heart, absorvent inside plenty of silence, astract and vaporous. The other, outside the seed, was the oposite, the exterior, the carcase, protection, cold, brillliant, hard...
(In the gallery: some of the panels).
AWARDS AS INTERIOR DESIGN STUDENT IN U.P.M. MADRID:
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VELUX CONTEST SECOND PRIZE. Apartaments withing historical beer factory "El aguila". Madrid. Spain.
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PLADUR CONTEST SPECIAL INSTALLERS PRICE. Nature Learning Centre within Natural Protected Park "Las Hoces del Duraton". Segovia. Spain.
OTHERS:
Basic photography course. Creative techniques.(UPM)
Contemporary painting courses, European and Spanish in the 18/19 centuries (Thyssen Museum, Museo Reina Sofía Museum. Madrid).
Baroque painting history in Spain.(Prado Museum. Madrid).
FURTHER EDUCATION:
Graphic design course: Processes, Photoshop, Auto cad, Illustrator.
Multimedia applications graphic design course.
Infographics & 3D Studio course: 3D StudioMax, modeling, texturing, animation.
Industrial Design course: Materials, Eco-design, Processes, Projects, Reports.
Shop-window & visual merchandising course: Perception's theories, practical cases.
Sustainable construction course: Materials, history, eco-building solutions.
Casts course.
Buildings' Pathological & Rehabilitation course .
