Pedro Quintela
PORTUGAL
Meet Pedro Quintela - a powerhouse of good design, creativity and innovation based in Portugal. Pedro Quintela's design journey has been nothing short of spectacular, marked by a tireless pursuit of excellence. This dedication is clearly mirrored in Pedro Quintela's impressive haul of 7 A' Design Awards that we showcase here. Spanning across categories such as Architecture and Furniture, Pedro Quintela's work stands as a living testament to a steadfast commitment to design excellence, serving as a beacon of inspiration for designers globally. With each project, Pedro Quintela masterfully blends form and function, crafting designs that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also functional and timeless. This approach underscores Pedro Quintela's celebration of creativity and an unyielding quest for innovation.
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The Boat House Residencial
Expressing the Spirit of the Place is the core believe that guides this design. Through a holistic approach that perceives architecture as a natural evolutionary process, it is intended here to create a consistent intervention from which arises a harmonious place. Only when the structure has assured respect for the place the architect believes the work to be authentic and express value, beauty and truth.
Expressing the Spirit of the Place is the core believe that guides this design. Through a holistic approach that perceives architecture as a natural evolutionary process, it is intended here to create a consistent intervention from which arises a harmonious place. Only when the structure has assured respect for the place the architect believes the work to be authentic and express value, beauty and truth.
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Banchila Multifunctional Stool
The motive to come up with this Design is to create comfort for the thousands of outdoor summer festivals spectators. It is about an ergonomic and light transportable stool with compartments in the inside to carry goods. It can be hold as a backpack or a bag with a single rope. The inspiration of it form is the typical marking fishing buoy. It inside have the shape of the propeller and the cork, as a pure natural material, meets the ecological movement of these festivals. The Banchila results in an unexpected object, which became part of the person who use it due to it intimate experience.
The motive to come up with this Design is to create comfort for the thousands of outdoor summer festivals spectators. It is about an ergonomic and light transportable stool with compartments in the inside to carry goods. It can be hold as a backpack or a bag with a single rope. The inspiration of it form is the typical marking fishing buoy. It inside have the shape of the propeller and the cork, as a pure natural material, meets the ecological movement of these festivals. The Banchila results in an unexpected object, which became part of the person who use it due to it intimate experience.
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The Andam's House Residential House
This intervention is inspired in it historical context, the pre-existing house and in the privacy, brightness and fluidity of spaces required by the client. It perceives architecture as an evolution process that, as in nature, interconnects the three main phases of Adaptation, Transformation and Crystallisation. By going through this stages is pretended to have an authentic accomplishment respecting The Spirit of the Place. Through a holistic concept disorganised energies were worked, assimilated and organised to form a specific structure with identity, creating value, beauty and truth.
This intervention is inspired in it historical context, the pre-existing house and in the privacy, brightness and fluidity of spaces required by the client. It perceives architecture as an evolution process that, as in nature, interconnects the three main phases of Adaptation, Transformation and Crystallisation. By going through this stages is pretended to have an authentic accomplishment respecting The Spirit of the Place. Through a holistic concept disorganised energies were worked, assimilated and organised to form a specific structure with identity, creating value, beauty and truth.
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The Embracing House Residential House
This intervention is inspired in it historical context, the pre-existing house and in the privacy, brightness and fluidity of spaces required by the client. It perceives architecture as an evolution process that, as in nature, interconnects the three main phases of Adaptation, Transformation and Crystallisation. By going through this stages is pretended to have an authentic accomplishment respecting The Spirit of the Place. Through a holistic concept disorganised energies were worked, assimilated and organised to form a specific structure with identity, creating value, beauty and truth.
This intervention is inspired in it historical context, the pre-existing house and in the privacy, brightness and fluidity of spaces required by the client. It perceives architecture as an evolution process that, as in nature, interconnects the three main phases of Adaptation, Transformation and Crystallisation. By going through this stages is pretended to have an authentic accomplishment respecting The Spirit of the Place. Through a holistic concept disorganised energies were worked, assimilated and organised to form a specific structure with identity, creating value, beauty and truth.
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The Azoia´s Jewel House Residential House
This intervention is inspired in the historical context of the place, it pre-existing ruins and the privacy and brightness of spaces required by the client. It perceives Architecture as an evolution process that, as in nature, interconnects the three main phases of Adaptation, Transformation and Crystallization. By going through this stages is pretended to have an authentic accomplishment respecting The Spirit of the Place. Through a holistic concept, disorganized energies were worked, assimilated and organized to form a specific structure with identity, creating value, beauty and truth.
This intervention is inspired in the historical context of the place, it pre-existing ruins and the privacy and brightness of spaces required by the client. It perceives Architecture as an evolution process that, as in nature, interconnects the three main phases of Adaptation, Transformation and Crystallization. By going through this stages is pretended to have an authentic accomplishment respecting The Spirit of the Place. Through a holistic concept, disorganized energies were worked, assimilated and organized to form a specific structure with identity, creating value, beauty and truth.
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Suanni Multifunctional Chair
This Chair was inspired in the curvilinear body shape of the fifth soon of the Dragon, the Suanni. Considered ally and like a lion, it is found sitting and enjoying contemplation. The metaphor of this mythological creature symbolizes it composition from several animals at the same time and it transformation power into human form. Through careful rotation of its thoroughly curved shapes several positions could be revealed as different resting surfaces. Through a holistic approach the conceived design resulted in a synthetized gesture that meets the needs and comfort of todays life style.
This Chair was inspired in the curvilinear body shape of the fifth soon of the Dragon, the Suanni. Considered ally and like a lion, it is found sitting and enjoying contemplation. The metaphor of this mythological creature symbolizes it composition from several animals at the same time and it transformation power into human form. Through careful rotation of its thoroughly curved shapes several positions could be revealed as different resting surfaces. Through a holistic approach the conceived design resulted in a synthetized gesture that meets the needs and comfort of todays life style.
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Cortesia Multifunctional Chair
Inspired in a curvilinear natural line of a human hair, the motivation to design this object was to create a single piece with different positions to enjoy it. The dimensions and angles are solved, in order to find the most confortable postures to embrace the users emotional moment. One can sit, chill out, lean or lay down. The creative challenge was to balance the whole in one continuous surface. The intention was to approach the furniture design by testing it as an interpretation line of thought related to everyday situations and correlate it with the modern society, history and values.
Inspired in a curvilinear natural line of a human hair, the motivation to design this object was to create a single piece with different positions to enjoy it. The dimensions and angles are solved, in order to find the most confortable postures to embrace the users emotional moment. One can sit, chill out, lean or lay down. The creative challenge was to balance the whole in one continuous surface. The intention was to approach the furniture design by testing it as an interpretation line of thought related to everyday situations and correlate it with the modern society, history and values.
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