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We kept asking ourselves one question: what would Gaudí do with the tools we have now?
Just took his obsession with the curve seriously, and built it with everything the 21st century gave us.
So we printed the pieces instead of carving them. Then we finished them by hand anyway, because some things still need a human touch to feel warm.
300+ pieces. No blueprint told us exactly where they'd go, we had to see it in mixed reality first.
A hundred years later, we're still trying to finish his sentence.
These are Onada Terrace Suites, at by /
05/08/2026
We kept asking ourselves one question: what would Gaudí do with the tools we have now?
Just took his obsession with the curve seriously, and built it with everything the 21st century gave us.
So we printed the pieces instead of carving them. Then we finished them by hand anyway, because some things still need a human touch to feel warm.
300+ pieces. No blueprint told us exactly where they'd go, we had to see it in mixed reality first.
A hundred years later, we're still trying to finish his sentence.
These are Onada Terrace Suites, at W Barcelona by Marriott International / Marriott Hotels & Resorts
A project by: External Reference
3D Print by: LAMÁQUINA
Onada Terrace Suites | W Barcelona
A century of Gaudí, translated through mixed reality and 3D print. 300+ bespoke components, including furniture, each one grown from a single curve.
Digital Modernism, built by hand and by machine.
A project designed by
3D Print by
Client:
VAS | Bronze, Delta Awards 2026
Two vessels for one gesture.
Cork milled by CNC and ceramic layered by 3D printing.
In this piece, porous meets polished, and warm meets cool.
Concept & Design: ER
In collaboration with , .materia & .
The piece is going to be exhibited at DHub until September 26, 2026.
28/07/2026
Inspired by Mediterranean cliffs and salt crystals.
This is Escaleras y Mirador Vela.
Concept & Design by: ER
Escaleras y Mirador Vela | From sea to mountain, a space of quiet presence. Once invisible, now part of the landscape.
Noxe | Floor 26, W Barcelona
Where the ocean meets the skyline.
Form. Technology. Emotion.
Experiential design, to the world.
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