Antonia Lara Industrial Designer
INDEX Product Design Thesis Project: Reedaco 4 Toast Element -Design Bienal 2015 6 Whineglass Wherry Rowboat 8 Portable Emergency Kitchen 10
Community Design and Public Installations Welcoming Area (Huellehue, Chile) 14 Agapes’ 2014 (Ritoque, Chile) 16 First Agape 18 Second Agape 19 Hospitality Plaza 2012 (Corral, Chile) 20 American Extention Sculpture (Corral, Chile) 22 Lookout (Tarabuco, Bolivia) 24
Graphic Design “NutriTree” Business Cards 26
Photography Published Photography 28
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Thesis Project: Reedaco Reedaco is an ergonomic object that combines electronic engineering and industrial design. Its purpose is to detect colors for people that are visually impaired, specifically for those who suffer from achromatopsia, by using RGB sensors and transfering color to a verbal response. I studied the importance of our hands and their constant communication with our brain. After researching haptic studies and observing daily gestures, I concluded that our hands and their movements allow us to understand every characteristic of an object except color and that the sensorial information detected with
our touch is more reliable than information detected by our sight. The design process began by observing the interaction between geometrical figures and hand movements. This allowed me to understand the most common gestures used to hold average sized objects. The modeling process began by printing simple surfaces and testing them with Valentina, a six year old user of Reedaco. These were modified according to her interaction with them. By doing so, the final surface of the object was designed according to Valentina´s gestures.
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J a) Lithium Battery b) Headphone Jack c) Micro USB Charger d) Mp3 Player/ Processing Unit e) Speaker f) Booster g) RGB Sensor- TCS3200 h) Arduino i) Switch j) Power Button
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Toast Element Design Bienal 2015 During 2014, I attended a workshop organized by Ricardo Lang that emphasized that that the gathering of people, especially around food is the one of the fundaments of design. Our workshop teacher is a well-known national designer and was asked to prepare the opening toast for the fifth version of the Design Biennial. I was in charge of designing a wooden
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object that would hold a glass and a small bowl, where the food would be presented. I used 3mm plywood to make different models. The idea of the design was to allow people to hold both glass and bowl with one hand. The flexibility of wood allows the glass to slide itself in place and hold the bowl as well.
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PRODUCT
DESIGN 4362 mm
Whineglass Wherry Rowboat
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The design and dimensions considered for the construction of this rowboat are based on the “Whineglass Wherry�. I used the Stitch and Glue technique during the constructive process. Each side of the hull is stitched together with copper wire and glued with epoxy and fiberglass on both inner and outer sides of the rowboat. After finishing final details, the rowboat, as well as kayaks and canoes that were also built, were sailed through Rio Negro (located in the south of Chile) for ten days.
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Portable Emergency Kitchen In May of 2014, a fire affected more than 15,000 people in Valparaiso, Chile. During this situation, a temporary kitchen and dining room was organized by the workshop that I was attending. We served 200 lunches per day for a month and a half. This time allowed us to observe the necessary space and equipment needed during emergency situations. The final exam was to present a scale model of a portable kitchen that could be used in any catastrophe. The only limitation was that all of the equipment needed to fit in a 97 cm x
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57 cm container. The kitchen is designed to be used by three people. It has two work surfaces that are connected to each other by the stove, and beneath the work surfaces, there is a storage area for food and equipment. After working individually at first, I collaborated with four classmates to improve the design. The final construction was used on an academic trip in a southern rural area in Chile. This design was also presented in the Sixth Version of the Design Biennial in Santiago.
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COMMUNITY DESIGN AND PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
Welcoming Area Huellelhue, Chile In 2014, Ricardo Lang’s workshop considered the act of celebration and the reunion of people to be the fundaments of design. Our Travesía (voyage) was to Huellelhue, located in the south of Chile. Its hills are surrounded with typical flora and fauna of the “Valvidivian jungle” which makes it a popular destination during the summer. Our scale modeling process was done in our studio before departure. We built a welcoming area where the locals could receive tourists. We made scale models and defined the structure
before we travelled south. The construction started by digging holes to locate posts. Our second task was to make joints between two pieces of 6x1, we overlapped them and joined them with bolts and nuts. Another group located them perpendicular to the six posts, as well as made and installed the structure of the roof. During the final phase, we were installing the benches and tables below the roof. During our last day at Huellelhue, we arranged an official inauguration of the construction with the local families.
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Agapes’ 2014 Agape is defined as a meal attended by many people to celebrate a special event. The third year industrial design students are in charge of preparing every element considered for the celebration; food, utensils and structure. We used the same structure for both Agapes’ and used different utensils in each occasion.
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Structure design of the mantles used for both Agapes and their movement.
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First Agape The elements designed for the first Agape sought to create a meeting place beneath two main mantles. In this scenario the food and utensils would be found floating beneath both mantles. During the beginning of the ceremony, the mantles were at ground level. Once the structure was tensed, the mantles would rise. This allowed students and teachers gather around food.
Design that held food, a small cup and napkin. 300 units per mantle.
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Second Agape Unlike the first Agape, this event was designed to create a circular reunion, therefore the food and utensils were located inside of detachable cardboard containers. At the beginning of the celebration, the containers were located under the mantles and once they were lifted, these were carried to specific point arounf the structure. The cardboard containers were designed to hold aproximately twenty small cups and brochettes. Since the amount of food reaches to about 600 units, we also designed mouldings to make a series production.
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COMMUNITY DESIGN AND PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
Hospitality Plaza Corral, Chile Hospitalidad mediante arcos
In 1984, the faculty of Architecture and Design of PUCV included annual Travesias (voyage) to the curricular program. Travesias are poetic journeys through America in which students and teachers travel to remote rural areas to design and construct according to their workshop studies. These constructions were considered gifts for the locals and their land.
My first Travesia was to Corral, an island located in the south of Chile. During this opportunity, we designed a park for the island’s church. We worked in five groups; each group had to present a particular way that hospitality was presented in the landscape. After individually sketching and modeling as a group, we decided to present hospitality as repeated natural arches. We designed an area where
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people could sit and face each other in a circular way. The benches were connected by vertical wooden posts. During this experience we had no access to electricity, therefore we learned to use saws and chisels to assemble the pieces of wood that would form part of our sector of the park. The park was designed and built in approximately one week and a half.
Totalidad de Plaza de la Hospitalidad
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COMMUNITY DESIGN AND PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
American Extension Sculpture Corral, Chile As a side project of the “Hospitality Plaza”, we presented a sculpture. I had the pleasure and opportunity to have as a teacher a renowned Chilean sculptor: José Balcells. José designed a sculpture that represented Americas’ horizontal extension by using ten modular parts carved in native wood. Along with a group of students, I worked in the woodcarving of the pieces that shaped the sculpture, and each piece was two meters long. A local craftsman made
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vertical cuts shaped as semicircles using a chainsaw. He also made the perforations needed to locate the nuts and bolts that would join each part. We chipped the cuts using hammers and later started chiseling to form smooth surfaces. Once this long process was finished, we sanded all of the sides of each part of the sculpture. We finished up the assembly process by varnishing the sculpture twice.
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COMMUNITY DESIGN AND PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
Outlook Tarabuco, Bolivia In 2013, we travelled to Tarabuco, Bolivia. Tarabuco is a rural area located about 65 km east of Sucre. During our ten day stay, we built a lookout on the top of one of the most visited hills of the valley. Along with our teachers, we designed the structure and reviewed the tasks necessary to build it as best as possible. The outlook consisted in two parts: one was a path surrounded by a fieldstone wall, and the other was a wooden pier with two levels. The construction started by tracing
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specific points in which we would later locate the foundations of the pier. We divided the workshop into three units: the first was in charge of making and transporting cement from one point to another, the other group removed rocks and built a path with a fieldstone wall, and the last group assembled and installed the different parts of the pier. My role was to work in all of the groups but was mainly in charge of the photographic registration of the Travesia.
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GRAPHIC DESIGN
NUTRITREE 4 Ori nt 1 84 o icina 5 Vi a Mar
Priscila Guzmรกn Nutricionista T: M: IG:
+56 (9) 99174879 NUTRITREE.VINA@GMAIL.COM @NUTRI.TREE
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NUTRITREE 4 Ori nt 1 84 o icina 5 Vi a Mar
Priscila Guzmรกn Nutricionista T: M: IG:
+56 (9) 99174879 NUTRITREE.VINA@GMAIL.COM @NUTRI.TREE
Business Cards Nutritree, a local nutrition center, requested me to design two different business card graphic designs. Both needed to incluyed elements from the food pyrimad as well as working with a wide chromatic palette. All of the illustrations are original and were drawn by hand and converted to digital media.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Published Photography The four pictures shown were sent and published in the first edition of “Atrasluz”; a photography magazine lead by the Faculty of Architecture and Design of PUCV. The first edition aims to show pieces that express different ways of movement, celebration and expression found in cities. https://issuu.com/atrasluz/docs/atrasluz_edicion_01
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Parque Transandino
Movimiento Ciudadano
Arte Callejero
Equilibrio
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Antonia Lara Sรกnchez 8572340179 larasanchezantonia@gmail.com linkedin: linkedin.com/in/antonia-lara-sanchez-763806ab/?locale=en_US
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