studio kg

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# Episodes
15 episodes
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Episodes of studio kg

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  INFOMAB10 PAVILION
  
  (Mobile pavilion; Madrid, Spain; 2009-2010)Infomab10 is a pavilion designed and built in record time and within record budget. It consists of an off-the-shelf 28m3 glass-fiber reinforced polyester water tank that was intervened. 100 circular perforations allow speckles of natural light to flood the space during the day, whereas during the night they project the internal light towards the outside like a constellation. Two doors allow circulation through the space.It was installed temporarily at...
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    Apr 5, 2010
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    02:03
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  STICKINGRINGS
  
  (DIY modular partition system, 2008)Our everyday environments -offices, living rooms, waiting lounges, restaurants...- often require flexible and permeable separations that generate privacy without compromising spatial generosity.STICKINGRINGS is a modular partition system that can be assembled freely, intuitively and very fast. The adjustable density and porosity of the resulting screen allows different degrees of privacy.The system consists of an array of diverse diameter rings that click on...
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    Sep 7, 2009
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    00:46
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  INICIARTE 09
  
  (Art institution stand; Madrid, Spain; 2009; collaboration with Ramiro Losada)Iniciarte is an initiative of the regional government of Andalucía to promote emerging artists from that region of Spain. Its stand in the ARCO contemporary art fair was an opportunity to generate a memorable environment which stayed in the memory of visitors through its unique spatial experience and which provided a moment of visual relaxation in the midst of the hectic atmosphere of the fair.It consisted of a horse...
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    Jun 11, 2009
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    01:16
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  INFOMAB
  
  (Information distribution system; Madrid Abierto; 2006-2007) The annual public art programme Madrid Abierto requires an information beacon that advertises the artistic interventions in the centre of the city. A mobile green house meanders around different hot spots in the city distributing graphic information and giving indications about the art pieces and the artists.
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    Dec 13, 2008
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    01:01
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  TALKING FISH
  
  (Reality distortion; Hyde Park, London; 2002)As part of an illegal action exercise, a gold fish was conceptually fished out of the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park and locked inside a bottle of water hanging from a tree. The passers-by could listen through headphones the monologue of the fish impersonating multiple characters from all over the world reflecting the multiculturality of London.
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    Dec 13, 2008
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    01:06
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  PAPER MAD
  
  (Documentary video; Madrid, Spain; 2004)This film follows a day in the life of a group of Latinamerican paper collectors moving around the streets of Madrid. It reveals a layer of the city that normally remains hidden to the naked eye, showing that planning a city is not just thinking of streets and buildings but also coordinating the systems that supply it and serve it.
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    Dec 13, 2008
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    02:49
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  M-Pack
  
  (Animated video; London, UK; 2003)M-Pack is a visionary prototype system conceived within the Wasternisation project. It consists of a basic construction kit that assists the user in settling into a new life. The animation portrays in a direct and humorous way the basic principles of self-construction and gradual settlement.
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    Nov 2, 2008
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    03:41
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  KWS FESTIVAL
  
  (Landscape and territorial planning workshop; Pesoz, Asturias, Spain; 2007)The KWs festival is a territorial proposal developed during the landscape workshop PH02 in the beautiful but depopulated Navia river valley in Northern Spain, notorious for the large amount of electricity produced by its dams. It consists of an annual festival of light, illuminating landscape features, thus calling attention on its spectacular beauty and creating a new activity engine for an economically depressed regio...
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    Nov 2, 2008
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    13:32
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  KALEIDOLIGHT
  
  (Interactive light display, shorlisted in Bombay Sapphire competition, 2006)Architects are used to working with the dimension of light and with glass as a medium that allows visual transparency. However, the kaleidolight explores the capacity of glass as a light-mediating element in virtue of its light conductivity.The kaleidolight proposal develops a concept of wall based on the accumulation of a simple iterative glass element that filters like a sieve the light entering a room and at the sam...
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    Jul 24, 2008
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    01:38
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  LOCUTORIO COLÓN (one night)
  
  (Public art commission, Madrid Abierto, 2005-2006)Collaborators : Maki Portilla Kawamura - Tadanori YamaguchiWe believe that Plaza de Colón in central Madrid should maintain the communicative character we attribute to the person it is named after. Now, more than five centuries after that first contact, we suggest using this agora to highlight the contemporary state of relationships between Europe and Latin America.The entangled social melting pot of Madrid contains new emerging communities, co...
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    Jul 21, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    01:33