Aurora Baba | Portfolio
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This portfolio contains the design and visualisation work done by Aurora Baba during her freelance work and for order to the companies she has been working.
00355 69 43 05 703 http://www.wix.com/auroraark/graph aurora.ark@gmail.com
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More projects and images can be found in the website adreess: http://www.wix.com/auroraark/graph.
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Human Rights Symbol
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In November 2013 the design of Human Rights Symbol, a statue that was used symbolizes diversity of human beings and at the same time this valuable rights being puteded in an Albanian basement. The statue was funded by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and is given as a gift to the ministry of social welfare and youth. The realization was made by ‘‘Design by Pana’’ company.
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REACTION 15.2
Exchanging Memories and Information in Public Space In August 3-18 i was part of the workshop 15.2 held by MEDS (Meetings of Design Students). Our project was created as a part of the workshop titled REACTION (MEDS 2013) that was consisted of a series of small urban interventions (ACTIONS) on chosen locations around the Graça neighborhood in Lisbon. The main idea behind the workshop was to provoke participation by the residents of Graça through proposals for alternative uses of pub- lic spaces. At the same time the proposals contested the gentrification process that is rapidly changing the area. During the workshop, fifteen groups of students developed urban furniture, children’s playgrounds, meeting points, temporary art installations and organised events with the residents. About REACTION 15.2: REACTION 15.2 developed small art interventions that were installed at eleven locations around the neighbourhood. The various installations are centred around the idea of exchanging memories between the users and the site on one hand and imprinting information in urban space on the other. By pointing at some hidden characteristics of the sites, our interventions expand the ways of reading and using public spaces in Graça. The interventions are highly visible and interactive but small in size, provoking close contact and participation. Since all other actions of the workshop took very different form and appearance, part of our idea was to develop a branding strategy by imprinting information about REACTION in unified manner at all locations. The installations are almost always in the same colour and are intended to remain at the locations after the other temporary installations are removed. About the INTERVENTIONS: We designed seven different interventions, some more permanent while others taking the form of an event. Most of them were produced using the technology at the Fab Lab in Lisbon, while others were composed of found objects. We altered and manipulated the found objects in order to hide their original identity/memory and reveal a new one. Our group benefited greatly from the use of the Fab Lab in Lisbon and the expertise of its members. MAP OF THE INSTALLATIONS: http://goo.gl/maps/WsfTN
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1. MISSING THINGS We located elements that characterize a certain location (a tree, a fountain, a decaying wall) and placed installations that point at their “missing” or “hidden” qualities. By pointing at what is missing we show metaphorically that there is always a possibility for alternative use and reading of the urban space. 2. TILES Strongly influenced by the tile-facades in Lisbon and their decaying state, we located places where the tiles are missing to place our installations. We installed newly fabricated tiles with laser-engraved information that relate to the REACTION workshop on one hand and the pattern of the neighbouring tiles on the other 3. SKYLINE Using one of the Miradouros (viewing platforms) in Graça as a site for REACTION, we placed an acrylic plate with engraved skyline, declaration of urban rights, and a QR code. The skyline of Lisbon is drawn as a line based on personal interpretations of the cityscape. 4. PUZZLE GAME The aim of this interactive installation is to provoke longer presence of the users at the sites and provide information. At each site of the workshop, we placed a puzzle, fabricated at the Fab-Lab, and once completed it provides information about the workshop and contains engraved motifs from various characteristics of the locations. 5. EVENT – PAPER PLANES – DECLARATION OF URBAN RIGHTS This event was conceived as a symbolic act of sending the declaration of urban rights to the community. 6. LOST AND FOUND – PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION At one of the locations we placed an exhibition consisted of found photographs from one of the abandoned buildings in the neighborhood. 7. EVENT – EXCHANGE OF FOUND OBJECTS We changed the appearance and imprinted the logo of the REACTION workshop on objects that we found and offered them to the participants of the workshop. The aim was for each participant to bring home one object as a remainder of the workshop and at the same time use the found objects that would otherwise become waste.
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Character design Developing and creating deferent type of character based in the storyline!
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Every RENDER is part of a specific project done in collaboration with the projectual studio working at that period of time.
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Interior Visualization
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Unik Fitness Gym The project was implemented in Tirana, Albania by Eco Design Architects & Consultants. I have been involved in this project as an architect, 3d visualization Projekti consists in creating an efficient use of space despite frequent columns. Team leader, architect : Elton Sulejmani Architect, 3d visualization,drafter : Aurora Baba Drafter, facade engeener : Ardit Brame Photography credit : Ervis Bostanxhi
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Unik Fitness Bar Unik Fitness Bar consists of a single floor measuring 400 sq. m, being a part of a fitness gym club situated in the social floors of a multi-storey residential building. The owner asked Ecodesign to design a comfortable and predominantly white coloured lounge-style coffee bar that will accommodate the fitness club members but also other people looking for a social place with a relaxing and enjoyable atmosphere. Their challenge was to transform an ordinary space divided by a ‘forest’ of multiple columns, pipes and stairwell into a dynamic space and to create an intense aesthetic experience. Ecodesign approached this concept by stylising the columns into figurative forest trees integrated within the design to define its formal composition as an artificial landscape inspired by nature. Their aim was to create interplay between the organic forms and the decorative lighting. Says Architect Elton Sulejmani for Architizer. Realisation Eco Design Architects & Consultants Team leader, architect : Elton Sulejmani Architect, 3d visualization,drafter : Aurora Baba Drafter, Facade engeener : Ardit Brame Photography credit : Ervis Bostanxhi
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Andy’s Gym Realisation Eco Design Architects & Consultants Team leader, architect : Elton Sulejmani Architect, drafter 3d visualizer : Aurora Baba 3D model, gym visualizer : Ermal Cingu Photography credit: Aurora Baba, Eco Design Architects & Consultants,Andy’s Gym
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Unik Bar 2 Realisation Eco Design Architects & Consultants Team leader, architect : Elton Sulejmani Architect, drafter 3d visualizer : Aurora Baba Facade engeener, drafter : Ardit Brame Photography credit: Aurora Baba.
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For more projects,envolved while working at Eco Design Architects & Consultants please visit the website http://ecodesign.com.al/
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