ADRIAN AGUIRRE Architecture & Design
Typology: Ephemeral installation, pavilion, winter station Location: The forks, Winnipeg, Canada Year: 2021 Stage: Competition proposal Team: Adrian Aguirre, Regina Sanchez, Samantha Lopez Nove e mezzo Ascend, disappear, interact. A “post-contemporary” interpretation of pneumatic/ inflatable installations from the 60’s 70’s and visions of temporary structures from Russian suprematism.9 1/2 speculates through a static inflatable structure …
Functional beast challenges comfort and user experience in architecture, forces the user to engage in a series of mechanics to enter the hut (stand, kneel, crawl, stand up).
Iris Typology: Pavilion, Interior installation, Exhibition Location: RIBA Gallery; London, UK Year: 2020 Stage: Competition Team: Adrian Aguirre Iris challenges the modern vision of homogeneity and human standardization in architecture, questioning the role of architecture in relation to comfort and the user experience, aiming to contest the classical architectural discourse which imposed through …
Origins and memories Typology: Pavilion, Mextropoli 2020, Arquine 22 Location: Mexico City, Mexico Year: 2020 Stage: Competition Team: Adrian Aguirre The history of a nation endures on people’s memory through the objects of everyday use; the use of bamboo as a reinforce for constructive system named “Bajareque”, “Charangas” in Veracruz, furniture, etc.; as well …
I'm not from here Typology: Pavilion, Winter station Location: Ontario, Canada Year: 2019 Stage: Competition Team: Adrian Aguirre I’m not from here explores geometrical disequilibrium, where space basic element is an anthropocentric element – existing life ward towers – and is transformed into a non-anthropological triaxial plane, where planes fold in three dimensions, considering …
To kneel, to stand, to interact Typology: Pavilion, Warming hut Location: Winnipeg, Canada Year: 2019 Stage: Competition Team: Adrian Aguirre According to Bernard Tschumi “Architecture is defined by the actions it witnesses as much as by the enclosure of its walls”, the proposal for the Warming huts designated as “To kneel, to stand, to …
Ante(mush)room Typology: Pavilion Location: Year: Stage: Competition Team: Adrian Aguirre, Vanessa Gomez, Andrea Ramos Ante(mush)room An eclectic icon to see and be seen, an exploration where the triaxial plane fold from ceiling to wall and the digital and analogue (crafted) architecture merge through geometric and material control. Geometry is generated through height variations of four …
Dolly or the tale of the sheep who walked down the river and became a pavilion Typology: Warming hut/pavilion/shelter Location: Winnipeg, Canada Year: 2018 Stage: Competition Team: Adrian Aguirre, Andrea Ramos The animal kingdom has found behaviours to adapt to extreme conditions, bears hibernate, arctic fox changes color as camouflage, monarch butterflies migrate, alligators …
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Mexico City, Mexico, 2017 Team: Adrian Aguirre The history of a nation endures on people’s memory through the objects of everyday use; woven bags, baskets and chairs are part of the Mexican collective memory. Historical weave employs those memories as objects of national identity and melancholy. We live in an epoch of simultaneity, of juxtaposition of disperse elements, …
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