It is important to have skills in teamwork, research, experimentation, conceptualization, and design. Depending on the competition, executive resolution, documentary production, executive production, and group editing skills are required.
It is essential to have successfully completed Projects 5 and 6.
Depending on the competition, the objectives can be varied:
- To provide students with the ability to synthesize, reflect, represent, and even research, as competitions are very diverse.
- To learn to work with light and shadow as construction materials
- To learn to work with materials and their behaviour in light
- To learn to carry out a complete project and its execution
- To learn construction technologies and systems
- To learn computational design and digital manufacturing
- To learn to build with one's hands
- To learn to organize construction processes
- To learn to work on projects and objectives
- To learn to work in a collaborative team
- To learn to manage time, material, and human resources
Llum BCN Festival
ETSALS is participating once again this year in the Llum BCN festival in the Poblenou neighborhood of Barcelona. The school, through this elective course, will be represented by its team of students, who will design and build a light installation with their own hands for the festival, which will take place in February.
The Pladur® Construction Solutions Competition has recognized the innovation and creativity of architecture students, highlighting projects that challenge boundaries and provide unique solutions to the world of architecture and construction.
Christmas Lights
Barcelona Design Center, together with the Department of Commerce, Restaurants, and Consumer Affairs of Barcelona City Council, is organizing a competition in different neighbourhoods of Barcelona. The essential idea is for Christmas lights to invade shop windows and become an important part of the window design project. Design schools and retailers are invited to participate in the competition.
Students will design a commercial window display, and the selected teams will be responsible for its production, assembly, and dismantling in the corresponding window. "Christmas" lighting the window displays will be an important part of the project, but a comprehensive window design must be conceived, considering the products the establishment typically displays. The design will be based on the window size of the awarded store. The materials used for the project must be recyclable and sustainable. The selected students will be required to present their project in-store, either digitally or in print on an A3 size sheet, in the presence of Barcelona Design Center:
Aspects to be assessed by the expert committee _ The aspects that the members of the expert committee will assess when choosing the most innovative window display will be:
- Originality and creativity
- Prominence of lighting in the window display
- Recyclability and sustainability of the materials used
- Values and impact of the window display on the public
- Execution of the proposal
The course will emphasize the "design through making" method, with a focus on research and design through experimentation and the construction of 1:1 scale prototypes, for learning and consolidating the installation design.
Idea 30%
Final Proposal 30%
Participation 15%
Assembly 25% (*)
(*)For those without assembly, this value will be reflected in the remaining concepts.