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Proiek::Habitat Equipment | Martín Azúa

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Democratization of design: launching a new family of outdoor public furniture of high quality and low cost access to different budgets, looking for simplicity and feasibility are the main requirements. The starting point will be a specification developed by Proiek: to establish goals for quality and cost in addition to the definition of material and technology.

Type of exploitation of result: option C.

Proiek::Habitat Equipment

Proiek is a company committed to a new concept of solutions, products and services featuring stainless steel in the field of public furniture and architecture.

Its philosophy is based on four main pillars: Project culture, understood as the vital incorporation of intellectual creation to the industrial process, understanding the process as being a value in its own right; industrial capacity, ideas require proper physical materialisation, which can only be upheld on the optimum manufacture of the objects. To this end Proiek has all the experience and backing of one of the biggest industrial groups in this country: the reliability of our materials, always committed to quality products, with little maintenance and great strength both as regards weather aspects and daily use; adaptation to people’s requirements, the willingness to cater for new social needs such as accessibility and sensitivity as regards the environment, making ideas and objects work in the benefit of people and the place where these are located.

Its work covers the area of contemporary public furniture, with a broad range of products especially designed by nationally and internationally renowned architects, and architecture: micro-architecture (light architecture), unique projects (sculptural designs) and façades (emblematic buildings).

Coordination with the DISONANCIAS project will be carried out by the Proeik’s Design and Innovation and Marketing Departments. These departments will also have the collaboration of the Engineering Department, as well as the support of various external bodies.

Artea (Bizkaia). www.proiek.com

Martín Azúa

Martín Azúa (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1965) has a Degree in Fine Arts, specialising in Design, from the University of Barcelona. He did his Post-Graduate in Architecture and Design of Ephemeral Assemblies at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona. He combines his work as a designer with that of a teacher in the Escuela Superior de Diseño Elisava and in the Higher Graduate Design Studies Department of the Polytechnic University of Catalunya.

He is currently collaborating as a designer for different companies and institutions, an activity that he combines with an experimental research piece that has been shown in the following one-person and group exhibitions: “Safe”, MOMA, New York; “Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; Royal Institute of British Architects, London; and “Living in Motion”, Vitra Design Museum, Germany.

He designed the medals for the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona 2003 and the packaging for the Madrid 2012 Olympic Bid, as well as being responsible for the design of the FAD 2007 medals. His work “Basic House” has been acquired by MOMA in New York and is currently being displayed in its permanent collection. He also recently did the design for the “Thirst” exhibition in the Zaragoza Expo 2008.

www.martinazua.com