Ephemeral installation

Shadows in Gravity / Faculty of Architecture and Art UDD SurSur +  Eletres Studio Its materialization started from the architecture office Eletres Studio and in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture and Art UDD SurSur, Concepción Chile, the Shadows in Gravity Pavilion project had as its general idea to propose an experimental and sensitive pavilion that would allow the recognition of the social. and landscape values. of one of the largest cultural stages in Chile, the esplanade of the Biobío Regional Theater designed by Smiljan Radic, Eduardo Castillo and Gabriela Medrano. Academic experience The project was executed within the cycle of annual academic activities called Detonating Experience 01 “Contact... More

Breve means Brief. Brief. Adjective lasting or taking a short time; of short duration. Brief is the coffee you drink in the morning to wake up everyday. Brief is the nap you take after lunch to recharge and get back to work. Brief is this intervention, and the duration of such. Jaime Navarro Breve (Brief) is a 10 square meter project we designed for Design House 2020 inside Publico Coworking in Mexico City. Because of the location inside a coworking, we wanted to create a space that somehow related to the typology, so we landed on a breakroom, which we understood to be as a refuge of the daily work life, the place where you escape to answer a personal phone call, to get coffee or just take a nap after lunch. Jaime Navarro T... More

According to the popular Chinese legend, the discovery of tea was a wonderful coincidence attributed to the Chinese Emperor Sheng Nung, who happened to be resting under the shadows of a wild tree when a light breeze blew a few leafs off the branches and into a bowl of boiling water nearby creating an aromatic infusion which made the Emperor decide to try it and be captivated by its flavour. Jaime Navarro Camelia Tea Room is our interpretation of such facts and it seeks to generate a multi-sensorial experience through design. Jaime Navarro The space was originally the meeting point for family and friends who used to drink tea, which added a load of symbolism for the proposal. The interior space is divided in two and connected thr... More

Our project 'Cocina María Luisa' was selected to participate in the first ever Architecture Pavilion for the 'Abierto Mexicano de Diseño' or 'Mexican Design Open'. Jaime Navarro Instead of choosing to only exhibit images of the project, we decided to re-create the design with its essential items adapting it to the exhibition space, the fantastic jewel of early twentieth century architecture, the Postal Palace in the Historic Center of Mexico City. Jaime Navarro had to cover the marble top of one of the original tables set around the space with a folded black steel sheet, in order to keep it from harm; we built a wooden screen and covered it in volcanic stone, and brought our own steel volcano and charred wood table... More

BusStopSymbiosis is an enigmatic piece of urban furniture, winner of a competition launched to architects, designers and artists that intended to built temporary structures for the public space in Porto’s downtown, which improve the daily lives of citizens and tourists. Apart from the reduced budget, the main selection criteria were based on the search for an innovative idea and its appropriate integration in the selected site, being essential that the proposal would be fast and simple to implement and dismantle. The public space of the site selected for the intervention - Largo dos Lóios - is designed by the flow of public transport, taking as central element a broad set of (three) banal bus stops. BusStopSymbiosis takes advantage of th... More