Fusiles, Photocopied Festival Fusilar means plagiarise but also means execut e by f irearm. Fusiles is an exhibit ion of copies tha t I organized via public call in the school of archit ecture. Anyone could par t icipa t e anonimously hanging his collabora t ion within the school and surroundings and sending an e mail with its loca t ion. On the last day of the open call, we ellabora t ed a map of the exhibit ion, tha t only remained complet e unt il the cleaning t eam took the copies away.
– 2012 Collective exhibition
– METAFUSIL, Contribut ion, Copy Shop.
– FFFFFOS, Contribut ion, Chapel of the school.
– Contribut ion, Main Hall.
– Vir tual show
LINK fusilesf est ivalfotocopiado.tumblr.com
– Map of the exhibit ion
TEATRO PRADILLO Visual Identity
Pradillo Y A FLIPAR
is the visual ident it y I
developed as member of the Pradillo communit y and communica t ion t eam on 2015 and 2016. Pradillo Thea t er ( LINK ) has been one of the most innova t ive and necessary projects for the live ar ts in Madrid for years. Suppor t ing product ion and programming non - commercial and cont emporary performing ar ts, engaging a wide range of cultural agents and publics.
THE PROJECT LEVANTINISM, a delirious hypothesis Levantinism
is a long t erm research
project tha t has its st ar t ing point in Proyecto Vacaciones (with Jonás Murias, in Ma t adero Madrid, 2014), is t est ed in Edif icio España Holiday Town ( Final Thesis Project, E.T.S.A.M., 2016) and is int ensif ied as an experience in Levant inist ic Bea ts X SAUNA –
LINK (with
Juan Jones, Experience, 2017 ). It has been recognised with the highest qualif ica t ion as a Final Thesis Project. It has been published in
LINK , PLATAFORMA ARQUITECTURA – LINK , and has been
Archit ectural Digest –
present ed in several lectures in Madrid (Mast er of archit ecture, MPAA8, Udd Espegel projects studio) and London (NEW UNIT INTERMEDIATE 4: IMPLOSION a t Archit ectural Associa t ion).
–2014 - 2017 Research
THE FIELD RESEARCH
Proyecto Vacaciones – Objects t imeline, Ma t adero Madrid
Proyecto Vacaciones
(The holiday project) is
a research on the vaca t ion home boom in Spain as an het erotopy where innova t ive rela t ions between body and public space, ways of living and land occupa t ion models occur. From the 1960´s to the 2010´s. From the pro development policies to the burst ing of the real est a t e bubble. It took place in the summer of 2014 and was developed trough a series of f ield trips, int er views, act ions, events and public present a t ions.
–2014, with Jonás Murias Research
– Final publica t ion
– Travelogue
– Dest ina t ion Caravia
– CASTLE – CASTLE
– HOLD – HOLD
– Inf init y beach
– Be a tourist in your own cit y
– HÓRREO HÓRREO – HÓRREO HOUSE
– Cook a homemade Sant iago Cake and
– Ask every bracelet maker in the promenade
replace an industrial one.
to make a bracelet with his name
THE BOOK
The collect ion of objects, images, t exts and voices of Proyecto Vacaciones and some of the researchal ma t erials of Edif icio España Holiday Town was compelled and present ed as evidence of the exist ence of LEVANTINISM. This sor t of retroact ive manif esto is an a tomized but consist ent narra t ive tha t suppor ts this theory and introduces some of its innova t ion tools and ways to learn f rom it. This “learning f rom” opera t es with the concept of innova t ion process itself understood as a transmut a t ion of value. The book is described as a f acsimil of a book published many years ago tha t was supposedly found by Wang JianLin, the chinese bussinessman owner of Edif icio España.
–2016, with Bruno Delgado Ramo Self – Publishing
THE BUILDING
EDIFICIO ESPAÑA HOLIDAY TOWN Edificio España Ciudad de Vacaciones
(Edif icio España Holiday Town)
is the labora tory where the principles of LEVANTINISM are t est ed in order to verif y its exist ence. It is a plan for an int er vent ion on the Edif icio España in Madrid, a mixed used tower. It is the ma t erial legacy of the delusions of grandeur and ma t erial pover t y of post-dict a torship Spain. It condenses the contoverses of the history of the country in its ruinous structure. The delirious dream of being the f irst ver t ical cit y in Spain and its subsequent abandonment unt il its purchase by the grea t est chinese investor. The rehabilit a t ion plan is based in the idea tha t the building is a land of promises in which the real par t is only wha t has meaning in collect ive memories. The rest can be demolished and f illed, building a building inside another building. LEVANTINISMO is toolif yed and its principal contribut ion is highlight ed as a redef init ion of LUXURY. This LUXURY is t est ed in three levels and ma t erialit ies. The new building is called EDIFICIO ESPAÑA HOLIDAY TOWN, where the sun is allways bright.
–2016, tutorized by María Langarita Intervention on existing building
“THE
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HER E
E DOOR OF YOUR DREAMS SINCE 2016”
– Made in Levant e
– Map of promises
“ONLY PAR
– Mixed ma t erialit ies
– Cheap luxury
RADISE FEELS MORE LIKE PARADISE”
THE EXPERIENCE LEVANTINISTIC BEATS
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before reading to lis The Levantinistic Beats
is an experience tha t
int ensif ica t es LEVANTINISM by applying the tools learnt f rom it into the cont ext of SAUNA. CLOUD, a f innish sauna in Ma t adero Madrid where dif f erent cultural agents and publics of
Beat
of the last track p the lights we
the cit y could int eract. LEVANTINISTIC BEATS was a soundscape by Juanito Jones, searching for a new music genre playing a wide range of tracks f rom many dif f erent sources to inspire the “Levant inist ic f eeling” as it happened with BALEARIC BEATS in Ibiza´s grea t est t imes. It also was a succesion of vaca t ional landmarks tha t measured the t ime, a sequence of living images, the invent ion of a new drink with secret ingredients and very very slow built collect ive ext asy. As the SAUNA policies are body posit ive, no photos – no cell phones, there are no images and wha t happened can only be remembered by wha t is lef t.
–2017, with Juanito Jones in SAUNA, a project by Carlos Monleon Experience
The
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that dan
Three
Dolphin shaped helium balloons that remain floating in the ceiling of the Nave 16
sten to
t Two
played before ent out
Pink bath robes with the words LEVANTINISTIC and BEATS embroidered in the back
ads of sweat
t ran the bodies of the ncers and dried in the concrete floor
An
Empty jug with rests of something called HORCHATRĂ“N The
GLITTER That is still in our swimsuits
THE WAY THINGS GO, A book of instructions TWTG
The Way Things Go ( LINK ) is an exhibit
project by Paula Garcia-Masedo tha t happens as a dialogue between a design t eam and a building t eam and in dif f erent galleries. It is made with products f rom a home improvement company and a dist ance rela t ion. Archit ecture t eams genera t e a set of intruct ions. Building t eams perform the instruct ions f reely, with no super vision. Some kind of disturbed utopia is built in the form of specif ic, non-funcional, uncommon possibilit ies. The Way Things Go ref lects on how things circula t e in the world and how individuals can put them in rela t ion one with the other. The instruct ions book is designed as a pa t ent book covered with got ele, a paint ing t echnique tha t is usually used in house int eriors. This transf er strongly communica t es the cura torial concept of the exhibit ion as well as builds a very rare and desirable object.
–2016, with Paula GarcĂa-Masedo Publishing
SEE HOW IT WAS MADE
HERE
WATCH THE VIDEO
HERE
We are middle class and all our dreams will come true COCACOLA
Coca Cola,
an ent irely ar t if icial and massively
known, insanely capit alist and 24/7 opt imist ic subst ance, is the ult ima t e expression of our t ime. The performance enlivens a delirious audio t ext mashup on this both f ascina t ing and controversial CocaCola spirit in the bodies and voices of those who are a perf ect cont emporary subproduct, the millenial genera t ion. Love, polit ics, democracy and ar t if icialit y are deployed in a non linear narra t ive built up with t ext extracts, such as google transla t ed song lyrics, oral t est imonies, poetry, thea t er scripts, ads and news.
– 2014, with Nacho de Antonio Performed by Nico Porras, Pablo Mera, Mariam Al-Hamouti, Íñigo de Barrón Live Arts
“SO DO
O YOU WANT TO GO TO DISNEYWORLD, ON´T YOU, LITTLE MOTHERFUCKERS?”
WATCH C
Adolfo Su Madrid Ba WATCH CLIP Heineken, St arbucks, Nivea
HERE
Coca Cola
was performed in the caf et eria
while its normal act ivit y was t aking place. The performers were list ening to music and a series of instruct ions of the act ions they had to do while the public was list ening to the mashup of pre recorded music and t ext with headphones.
HERE
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WATCH CLIP Pepsi o CocaCola
HERE
“FLY ON THE WINGS OF LOVE”
255, Dos Cinco Cinco (LINK)
is a publica t ion made by students of the
school of archit ecture with the f inant ial suppor t of the students associa t ion. Each issue has a dif f erent forma t associa t ed with its topic tha t approaches f rom a wide variet y of collabora t ions a dif f erent research. It is an open f ramework where, while tue discussion is set, people who get involved achieve an high level exper t ise autonomously. The editorial commit ee is open and it is leaded by a dif f erent student every year, whoo coordina t es and proposes working guidelines. I was in charge of the publica t ion f rom Sept ember 2013 to Sept ember 2014 and act ive member of the editorial commit ee f rom the beggining of the publica t ion.
POST CORRUPCIÓN 255 #16 Nov. 2013 POST-CORRUPCIÓN (Post Corrupt ion) is a research on wha t happens af t er the corrupt ion boom in Spain. How the imaginary and the modern ruins tha t are lef t or have been built with the clash of the bubble, set a complet ely dif f erent cont ext in which we all are pushed to work in. The wide range of collabora t ions f rom students, archit ects, ar t ists and thinkers come in the forma t of an an account book.
– 2013, with 255 Research, Publishing
FETICHE 255 #17 March. 2014
Fetiche (Fet ish) is a research on how obsessions, collect ions and f et ishes could def ine our pract ice. It is a collect ion of obsessions of people who are producing archit ecture and design tha t come in the forma t of a series of collect able and int erchangeable st amps. The present a t ion was a popular celebra t ion where the issues appeared by smashing a piĂąa t a.
–2014, with 255, Research, Publishing
FICCIÓN 255 #18 June. 2014
FICCIÓN
(Fict ion, the building of media t ic
space) is a research on how the media t ic space and the physical space are built and build each other. The forma t of this issue was a newspaper where the specula t ive and realist ic approaches f rom the contribut ed were all set into several homogeneous grid of t exts and images.
–2014, with 255 Research, Publishing
DPA PRINTS (LINK)
is the publishing label of the Projects Depar tment
of the Superior Technical School of Archit ecture of Madrid. I conceptualized and st ar t ed wha t became the beginning of a series of publica t ions tha t aim not only to f eed the cont ext of learning and t eaching archit ecture, but also to show the results and cultural products of it to the world.
TALKUMENT 1–2
TALKUMENT
are transla t ions of lectures into
books where the images shown come along with transcript ions of the speeches, writ t en in a made up code to enable the reader to underst and their oral ma t erialit y. I begun the series with the transcript ion of Keller East erling and Fernando Castro Florez lectures.
– 2015, DPA Prints Publishing
PLANIMETRIC HOLLOGRAPHICS
PLANIMETRIC HOLLOGRAPHICS
is
the results book of a course of archit ectonic projects tha t involved Madrid and Seoul students. All the projects were put together with the other documents produced in the course. These dif f erent t ypes of documents, such as images, t ext messages, e mails, plans and drawings, were organized by t ype of document inst ead of by author as it is usually done. Tha t allows the reader to make its own lectures and also to use the ma t erial in an unprejudiced way.
– 2015, DPA Prints Publishing
OVNI 1&2
OVNI
had the challenge of changing the
projects are published in the school of archit ecture. Inst ead of big, expensive books, the excellent projects are present ed in a post er tha t can have a grea t print run and a websit e where the full present a t ions are shown.
– 2015, DPA Prints Publishing
CRITIC ALL
CRITIC ALL
was the results book of a
congress in archit ecture. It is a book which is two books as the same t ime. It includes both the academic t exts produced as well as side not es and conversa t ions tha t took place in two dif f erent layouts which can be read separa t edly or together.
– 2015, with Jonås Murias, DPA Prints Publishing
PAMPHLETS AND SO ON POP UP
was a t ext publica t ion tha t appeared
suddenlu in the meal trays.
PFC LEAKS
want ed to be the biggest book in
the world in the Guinness Records, as well as the biggest f ree int ernet archive of Final Thesis Projects of all t imes.
PRE EXISTENCE
was a conversa t ion between
two twit t er bots as well as the prospectus for the Mast er on Archit ectonic Projects.
– 2015, DPA Prints Publishing
Las SWIMMERS
Las Swimmers
is a duet of girls whose mission
is to dive in every swimming pool in the world. The pool is st ill one of the most int ense, f ascina t ing and relevant cultural symbols. As well as being an extremely magical object, it is a parcel of built paradise tha t invokes the logics of pleasure where a sor t of handy zone of except ion is built. As an archit ectonic device, it is a shared space, a common ground tha t builds a very specif ic social and personal boundary.
–2016 ... , with Mariam Al-Hamouti Photography
– Nine swimming pools, 1968, Ed Ruscha
Las Swimmers were born on August 2016 with a reenactment of Ed Ruscha´s Nine swimming pools and a broken glass. Inst ead of the backyard pools in 1960´s Southern California as synonims of the increasingly prosperous, act ive and social lif est yles, present ed empt y of subjects, Nine PUBLIC swimming pools and a broken pair of sunglasses is shoot ed in nine consecut ive days in 2017 in nine public leisure inf raestructures in the Spain post crisis scenario.
– Nine public swimming pools, 20
– Wa t ermelon, 2016
16, Las Swimmers
– A broken glass, 1968, Ed Ruscha
– A broken pair of sunglasses, 2106, Las Swimmers
“FOLLOW YOUR DR
– Las Swimmers sincronized choreography for the Olympic Games
Follow t
adventure
Las Swimm
HERE Wa tch Las Swimmers 24 hours challenge
HERE
Inst agram, Facebook, and the appropria t ion of some of its logics in Las Swimmers vir tual prof ile ( @ssswimmers ), is used as a travel log and as the vir tual parliament to share the process and build a mithology around them tha t could give f eedback to the project. Las Swimmers begun in tha t way their public-domain commitment of never st aying away f rom their swimsuits.
REAMS AND FOLLOW LAS SWIMMERS”
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es of
mers
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Dive into the map of Las Swimmers World
HERE
EN CASTILLA LA MANCHA HAY MÁS DE CIEN POLIDEPORTIVOS IDÉNTICOS
EN CASTILLA LA MANCHA HAY MÁS DE CIEN POLIDEPORTIVOS IDÉNTICOS (There are more than a hundred ident ical spor t pavillions in Cast illa) is an ongoing project suppor t ed and awarded by INJUVE. It is a visual a t las and a ref lect ion on a paradoxical repet it ion of an archit ectonic object by a sor t of non planned mist ake. How this phenomenon could speak by itself about some polit ical, geographical and collect ive imaginary layers tha t have built Spain. The f ield trip tha t will t ake place on 2017 summer will be ma t erialized into a photo-book tha t will be published on Sept ember 2017.
–2017, with Íñigo de Barrón, INJUVE, 2017 Research, Publishing
RACA RACA RACA RACA RACA
RACA
is an experiment al podcast radio st a t ion
based in the school of archit ecture of which I am current ly in charge. It´s challenge is to produce an open knowledge cont ext both inside and outside the school f rame. It has an extremelly powerful abilit y to produce and share cont ent, genera t e a network and involve the communit y.
–2017 Research
– Visual ident it y of some of the ongoing projects
List en to RACA
HERE