Project Location:              Germany-wide at a test pilot, then Europe-wide
Project about:                        Limehome
Date:                                           2022

THE PROJECT DESIGNS LIMEHOME FOR A NEW ERA OF DIGITAL & ENVIRONMENTALLY-CONSCIOUS DESIGN HOTEL APARTMENTS
Limehome aims to be a unique hoteling leader. But, in this project not only will it be a digital experience hoteling leader but also a sustainable and green leader, offering upscale living that is environmentally conscious.

The current issue with hoteling: Hoteling is an expensive industry with a lot of eyes on it, often when you arrive at a hotel, environmental consideration is not top of mind. Nowadays more than ever there is pressure from the public for environmental awareness and action. Also, hotel furniture is considered a liability, its value lowers with time. Naturally, the furniture Limehome is buying for these fully-serviced homes would need replacement or maintenance over time, thus adding to the costs to the business. Lastly, when a user arrives at to hotel very often they find themselves himself restricted by the kind of equipment and utilities offered by the hotel, such as; one bin to throw everything in, an electricity-guzzling kettle, or even the lack of a dishwasher to save water consumption in cleaning.

Overview of the circular economy business shifts proposed:
Rethinking THE SOURCE: Partnering up with environmentally conscious suppliers and furniture designers
Rethinking THE PROCESS AND LIFE: Prolonging and maintaining the life cycle of furniture to reduce its liability
Rethinking USER’S DAILY HABITS: Install recycle and environment-friendly utilities and disposables for visitors to be able to recycle easily

Project Location:   Unilever, Blackfriar, London to HQ Burlington Gardens, London, UK
Client:                       Royal Academy of Arts
Project Team:         Lara Waked, Luca Fogliata, Mariana Botero and Joud Malhas
Project Status:       Under construction

The RA is looking for a meaningful change in its workspace our team is required to research  analyze and reconfigure the workspace to better service its users, optimize their performance, increase employee morale and belonging. Some of the employees are beginning to get attracted to more trendy sectors or banks offering competitive benefits. Except there’s a twist, our research and proposal for the project will take place in two different buildings respectively. Our challenge is to achieve these needs by analyzing the currently occupied location and apply our research learnings to their move back to the headquarters at Burlington Gardens. We developed a comprehensive research package to help the Royal Academy identify and develop its work culture to be designed into an enriching office environment upon their return to their HQ at Burlington Gardens.

Project type:           Digital Environments Masters workshop at – IE University, Spain
Supervisor:              Ignacio Calles
Project Team:         Lara Waked, Jale Sari, Maricruz Pedrera, Irantzu Rekalde
Project Status:       Submitted Spring 2016

A client project simulation for a firm that requires a problem reporting app. Between its workspace and employees our team is required to research analyze and reconfigure how the workforce can collaborate and engage though reporting app and better optimize their performance. We wanted to refocus the idea of the reporting app not be exclusive to a negative reporting context but also become a constructive space for launching project ideas and uploading reports regarding the statuses of these projects and promote interest and collaboration between employees on different tasks.

Project Location: Paseo de Castellana, Madrid, Spain
Project type: Academic Construction Workshop at  IE University, Spain
Supervisor: Manuel Perez Romero
Project Status: Submitted Spring 2013

What happens when you want to pack your pitched-roof off to a parade? An Origami inspired fold system is developed and operated by a cable structure system. Designed to adapt when a light parade is beneath along the walkway or over bazaar booths aside the walkway, the structure is one-sidedly supported. The materials of the coated wood for the roofing and corrugated fiberglass packaging and structural support helps leverage the light weight of the structure for ease of transport and assembly. The challenge lies to rethink roofing elements of a parade or circus by identifying the elements of structure in relation to the functionality of the the object as a whole and defining the process of its assembly thought development of it technical details.

Project Location: Not Applicable
Project type: Academic Design Communication at Woodbury University, Los Angeles
Supervisor: Benjamin Farnsworth
Project Status: Submitted Spring 2014

To select an iconic object from the vintage past and recreate it using a digital modelling program to assist in the control and creation of manipulative shifts. Beginning the sculpturing process, is to identify a series of controlled operations to produce the desired feel and transformations. Followed by, their application to the object at a clear and distinct points. Finally to use inspired representation techniques to demonstrate the operations taken on the respective object.

Through the process of remodeling a vintage Walkman via Rhinoceros the first operation of manipulation is to torque, the object is distorted using an angular twist and scalar shifts. Representational techniques are applied and inspired by hybridization between the visual appeal as a graphic design animation with an overlay of cartoonic line works. Finally as an ultimate addition to the piece was an experimentation of pixelation reprography techniques via by grasshopper and illustrator.

Project Location: Segovia, Spain
Project type: Academic Alternative Design Practice at  IE University, Spain
Supervisor: David Diez
Project Status: Submitted Fall 2014
Team: Direct Collaborates: Lara Waked, Greta Magani, Yvo Corpataux  and Maud Collomb + Extended Collaborates: 15 x SDW Team Members
Project Website: http://www.daviddiez.com/SDW/?cat=21

The theme of linked design provides a wide window of interpretation of how design has been manufactured or developed and its impact on consequent design in an evolutionary manner. An exposition about these relationships in all their forms takes place in the Segovian context. The organization of the topics covered exhibit locations, marketing, guides and welcome packages are designed and developed.

Additionally each sub team organizes a topics for the exhibition; For our sub-team we suggested the theme of “Alternative Origins”
The theme discusses how now a days ‘We live in a globalized world where mass production has consumed the markets with manufacturing standardization. To evoke a memory of what was once was an alternative origin of common objects, we are creating spaces that simulate alternative pre-globalized contexts where these objects once would have been. This for the purpose of cultivating design links that were once well known but now forgotten.’

Our Sub team was also responsible for mapping out article archives and and compiling them into a book.

Project Location: Paseo de Castellana, Madrid, Spain
Project type: Academic Construction Workshop at  IE University, Spain
Supervisor: Manuel Perez Romero
Project Status: Submitted Spring 2013

Transforming the materiality of an object to a material that would not work in the same circumstances thus causing a catastrophe. When dealing with the catastrophe, our task is to be inspired by and invent solutions with a technically informed and creative approach of the Frankenstein Strategy. The selection of an inverted aquarium leads to the rethought ts envelope and its relationship to the ocean under-water environment thusly, where the catastrophe will be implemented. By transforming the materiality of the envelope to flexible carbon fiber glass, a challenge of structure brings itself forth.