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Galactic Suite

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GALACTIC SUITE
(Italy)

GALACTIC SUITE

The year 2012 will see the inauguration of the Galactic Suite,a holiday proposal in a orbiting resort, 450 km above the world’s surface. It is an ambitious project and thanks to the use of new technology with a low environmental impact and reduced costs, will present the first, highly-emotional step towards the full-scale, deliberate development of space travel.

The Space Tourist Company, founded in Barcelona by architect Xavier Claramunt, conceived a new method of tourism, that will revolutionize technology, experiences and schools of thought associated with hospitality. The Galactic Suite is a program that involves an 18-week training session to ensure that travelers enjoy their unique trip safely and to the full: approximately 48 hours’ travel in a space ship and four days’ residence in the Space Resort, 450 kilometers above the earth. Continue reading →

La senda de los gigantes: los arquitectos españoles conquistan el cielo

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Arquitectura Viva
FLAMENCO TOWERS
(Spain)

LA SENDA DE LOS GIGANTES: LOS ARQUITECTOS ESPAÑOLES CONQUISTAN EL CIELO

[…] mostrando en tal disparidad de propuestas para resolver tipologías coincidentes el esfuerzo de los estudios más ambiciosos de este momento por dar respuestas formales ‘pregnantes’, que consigan ocupar un lugar en el ávido mercado de imágenes que actualmente dirige la arquitectura, y que ya no se halla en la crítica especializada, sino en los gabinetes de las grandes agencias que manejan la información a escala global. En parecida dirección actúan otros equipos de arquitectos como el barcelonés EQUIP Xavier Claramunt con sus dispares y llamativos diseños para China o Barcelona […] Continue reading →

Hotel Hospes Granada “Palacio los Pato”

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Hueco Arquitectura
HOTEL HOSPES GRANADA
(Spain)

HOTEL HOSPES GRANADA “PALACIO LOS PATOS”

El estudio de arquitectura EQUIP Xavier Claramunt ha diseñado la recién ampliación del Hotel Hospes Palacio Los Patos en Granada. Gracias a este proyecto, cuyas obras han durado 18 meses, el hotel contará con 22 nuevas habitaciones exclusivas, que se suman a las 20 ya existentes.
El nuevo edificio, con una superficie de 7.100 m2, está situado al lado del palacio del siglo XIX y destaca por el espectacular muro cortina de alabastro que recorre la fachada. Para este proyecto, EQUIP Xavier Claramunt ha pensado una estrategia visual, un juego perspectivo. Continue reading →

El proyecto Casa Barcelona presentará innovadoras propuestas de vivienda social y sostenible

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CASA BARCELONA, CONSTRUMAT
(Spain)

EL PROYECTO CASA BARCELONA PRESENTARÁ INNOVADORAS PROPUESTAS DE VIVIENDA SOCIAL Y SOSTENIBLE

Bajo el comisariado del arquitecto Ignacio Paricio, el proyecto Casa Barcelona llega a su quinta edición en el marco de Construmat 2009 con la instalación de un módulo de dos pisos en el que cuatro arquitectos internacionales muestran sus propuestas de vivienda social, innovadora y sostenible.

Casa Barcelona se erigirá en el pabellón 3 del recinto de Gran Via, sede de la 16ª edición de Construmat. El estudio de arquitectura Pich Aguilera ha diseñado una espectacular instalación de 300 m2 en el que los arquitectos participantes han desarrollado sus propuestas para cuatro tipologías diferentes de familias. Los alemanes Sauerbruch Hutton, el madrileño Andrés Jaque y los catalanes Carme Pinós y Xavier Claramunt son los responsables de dotar de contenido a este nuevo proyecto de Casa Barcelona. Continue reading →

La innovación no conoce prejuicios ni complejos

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Innobai
EQUIP
GALACTIC SUITE
(Spain)

LA INNOVACIÓN NO CONOCE PREJUICIOS NI COMPLEJOS

Una empresa puede aspirar a ser excelente en el camino “seguro” de la tradición, pero también puede proponerse desarrollar proyectos que aúnen excelencia e innovación. Seguir un rumbo predeterminado no es garantía de éxito, así que, ¿por qué no explorar nuevos caminos? Xavier Claramunt ha sido uno de los protagonistas de la inauguración del Año de la Creatividad y la Innovación en Euskadi.

Las empresas que hayan decidido apostar por la innovación deberían eliminar las ideas preconcebidas en lo que se refiere a qué deben ofrecer a los clientes, evitar los prejuicios y revisar los conceptos básicos, por muy conocidos que sean, para conseguir encontrar la respuesta única que todo proyecto, cada uno con sus peculiaridades, necesita. Continue reading →

Al límite, por favor

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Promateriales
GALACTIC SUITE
BMW MOTOR MUNICH
FLAMENCO TOWERS
TORRE BEIJING
(Spain)

AL LÍMITE, POR FAVOR

Xavier Claramunt es la cabeza visible de EQUIP, una compañía multidisciplinar de Arquitectura. Dentro de este equipo, sus trabajadores se afanan día a día en crear, muchas veces sin cliente, proyectos y estrategias que van más allá y, sin duda, algunos de sus más famosos proyectos nacidos de este LAB, son el hotel espacial o el catálogo de rascacielos.

Mientras, el trabajo paralelo del EQUIP, ese que se desarrolla en el “mundo real”, es un creador incesante de joyería, diseño industrial y proyectos de arquitectura que abarcan hoteles, interiores, instalaciones efímeras, tiendas y viviendas. Entre los últimos proyectos destacan el nuevo concesionario de BMW en Sabadell, los hoteles Hospes Palacio de los Patos en Granada y Chic&Basic Born en Barcelona, o diversos conjuntos de viviendas en la zona del Delta del Ebro. Continue reading →

Galactic Enterprise

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GALACTIC SUITE
(Netherland)

GALACTIC ENTERPRISE

We’re watching the sun rise for the one-hundredth time. It’s the last day of our six-day stay in the Galactic Suite, and seeing the sun slide into view from behind the earth is still an amazing sight. When compared with our trip to the Himalayas in 2011 and our expedition to Antarctica the previous year, this holiday tops them both. For a mere €3 million, the organizers even threw in an all-inclusive 16-week stay on a tropical island, where we learned everything an astro-tourist needs to know before rocketing into space. Continue reading →

Design Dream

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Casa International
ASCER
BMW MOTOR MUNICH
GALACTIC SUITE
FLAMENCO TOWERS
HOTEL HOSPES GRANADA
TORRE BEIJING
(China)

DESIGN DREAM

“Innovation is thinking about something that interests you and doing it” – Xavier Claramunt

Architect and designer Xavier Claramunt is a tireless worker. He is also a man of action. 14 hours, 7 days a week, but considering the huge amount of material and ideas that accumulate in his studio, he couldn’t work any other way. However, the way he works is rather relaxing, which is based on assuming that nothing is impossible. That must be why he can move easily between the meticulous world of jewellery and the impossible volumes of his skyscrapers, as well as working on designs and interior design projects where style is the outstanding feature. He is the driving force and leader of EQUIP XCL, a company which provides a surprise in each new project and which has made permanent innovation its best means of moving on and growing. Continue reading →

Best suite

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HOTEL HOSPES PALMA
(United Kingdom)

BEST SUITE

Pool terrace Suite, Hospes Maricel, Palma de Mallorca
A glam escape in the 1950s, famous for its ‘whisky corner’ where Errol Flynn used to hang out, the Maricel would have been our kind of place. Located 15 minutes drive from Palma city centre, the Maricel re-opened in 2002 to general acclaim. The new extension with its 22 guest rooms, two suites and a health retreat completes the package. The two new suites feature TV projection screens, bathrooms with sea views, private plunge pools and expansive sun decks. No surprise then that Hospes, Spain’s most innovative hotel chain, is behind the grande dame’s comeback.

Estudio Laiguana

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Renovating for Working
LAIGUANA STUDIO
(Spain)

ESTUDIO LAIGUANA

En Poblenou, una de las zonas más conocidas de la Barcelona industrial, se ubica una antigua fábrica de principios del siglo XX, en cuya planta superior se ha desarrollado el proyecto: un estudio gráfico y un plato de fotografía.

El estudio ocupa un amplio espacio en forma de L y se compone de varias salas de reuniones, despachos y unos servicios, mientras que el plató de fotografía es un área sin particiones, pero acondicionada para ser dividida según las necesidades.

Para conservar la estructura original del edificio, se han mantenido las paredes portantes de fábrica de ladrillo y el techo. Este último se realizó en una rehabilitación anterior y está formado por bovedillas y viguetas de hormigón, sostenidas mediante perfiles de pared a pared. El suelo era irregular y se corrigió con un nuevo forjado que flota sobre el anterior gracias a una estructura metálica que mantiene la distribución de cargas de la estructura original. Continue reading →

Chic&Basic Born

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Design and Dialogue
HOTEL CHIC&BASIC BORN
(China)

CHIC & BASIC BORN

1. “Crossover” is very popular in different design areas nowadays. And what is your view towards this and is there such design elements in your works?
We work always without prejudices. We have a strategy, we have a process, but we are wide open to shocking surprises. We work for people, we provide answers, and in fact we have no style. Crossover has been always there, with different names… like curiosity, culture. It’s the idea of staying prepared to listen to anything that happens around you. Different situations demand different solutions, and you need to be prepared to pick any sort of clue from any field.

2. Environmentally friendly and advanced materials are very popular today. Are these materials largely applied in the interior design? What is the common idea of most people towards this?
Environmentally friendly is a concept, it is loaded with abstraction. Interior design is about glamour, senses, materials, loaded with dreams, but physical. That is to say, if a material is environmentally friendly then has an added value, but not necessarily on the interior design side. Once say that, we definitely have to be more conscious about our planet and especially about what people think about our planet. We envision the future using materials that you can recover, not in the sense of recycling, but in the sense that nature is able to provide them regularly, have you heard about wood? Continue reading →

Created in Barcelona: EQUIP Xavier Claramunt

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Created in Barcelona
EQUIP XAVIER CLARAMUNT
(Spain)

CREATED IN BARCELONA: EQUIP XAVIER CLARAMUNT

Reinventing, approaching people and making constant proposals, that’s how clear things are for EQUIP, this versatile team of architects and industrial designers led by Xavier Claramunt. For these professionals, the development process is just as important as the end product. In a desire to offer constant innovation, they have just launched a new approach to projects – “Responses”. This initiative combines the disciplines of architecture, interior design, industrial design and jewellery, areas where the team has been active since 1990. Besides opening their own office in China in 2005, EQUIP Xavier Claramunt also works together with Ferran Adrià, Hospes Hoteles, BMW, Chic&Basic and Cosmic.

Galactic Suite

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Extreme Architecture
GALACTIC SUITE
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GALACTIC SUITE
‘Pages extracted from Extreme Architecture by Ruth Slavid, to be published by Laurence King Publishing, Autumn 2009. Text ©Ruth Slavid. Design ©Laurence King Publishing.’

If the idea of a trip with Virgin Galactic (page 186) feels a bit tame to you, one organized by Galactic Suite might be more to your taste. Describing itself as ‘one of the leading companies in the emerging space tourism industry’, and, founded in Barcelona in 2007, it ‘creates and develops cutting-edge concepts to improve the orbital tourism experience’.
Its founder is Xavier Claramunt, an architect with a practice called EQUIP Xavier Claramunt in Barcelona, which blends architecture, interior design and jewellery. His interest in outer space led him to set up the space tourism company Galactic Suite. Continue reading →

Shop in Barcelona

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In Detail: Interior Surfaces and Materials
BATH TIME
(Germany)

SHOP IN BARCELONA

Chameleon-like appearance through play of light Translucent polycarbonate web panels
This diminutive shop for bathroom accessories is located in the elegant shopping area Passeig de Gràcia in the centre of Barcelona. It is not easy to find, however, being hidden away deep in one of the blocks of the “Eixample”; that is the name used by the people of Barcelona for the grid-like quarter, designed by Cerdà at the end of the 19th century, at the edge of the old town centre. Continue reading →

Esencia plástica

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Proyecto Contract
HOTEL HOTUSA BCN DESIGN
(Spain)

ESENCIA PLÁSTICA

[…] El EQUIP de Xavier Claramunt ha sido el responsable de todo el proyecto, excepto del amueblamiento de la planta primera, en la que únicamente -a nivel de mobiliario- se han encargado de realizar el mostrador de recepción y el de la barra del bar. Muebles y atrezzo han corrido a cargo de María Eugenia Médici y Judith Panadés, del departamento de Proyectos e Interiorismo del grupo Hotusa, al que pertenece este hotel. […] Continue reading →

Laiguana Studio

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Atlas of Office Interiors
LAIGUANA STUDIO
(Spain)

LAIGUANA STUDIO

This old factory, dating back to the beginning of last century, is located in Pueblo Nuevo, a known industrial area in Barcelona. The top floor plays host to this project.
In this large L-shaped space the client wanted to install a graphics studio and a set for photo shoots. The studio is composed of several small meeting rooms, offices and amenities, while the photo set is an area without divisions, but which can be subdivided if needed. Continue reading →

Frederic Homs Born

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FREDERIC HOMS BORN
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FREDERIC HOMS BORN

This Frederic Horns establishment is located in the Born neighborhood of Barcelona. The Born is a very active area of the city with narrow, maze-like backstreets and limited direct sunlight. The arched Catalan roof structure, complete with small metal beams, has been retained and painted black, along with the cast-iron pillars which frame the space. The original cement paving has been restored, freed from obstacles and decorated with graffiti of large-sized letters extending up to the wall area.
The space features a series of large, luminous letters. One of these letters is on reinforced wheels so it can be moved to the facade looking out onto the street. In addition to illuminating and organizing the interior space, the letters are highly visible from outside, appearing as though they had fallen from a luminous sign of large proportions.