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Designzug, a tribute to design

Joaquín Gámez Espinosa

1ºBA Interior Design
Designzug Portada

Designzug is a tribute to the Bauhaus. The project is centered on the wagon that was selected, which belonged to Amerika, the train that Hitler used to travel during World War II. It was a carriage that had all the luxuries, concrete floor, marble bathrooms and gold details.

As Nazism closed this school, I wanted to give a 180º turn to the meaning of the wagon.

The wagon has been distributed in different rooms for private use, with its bed and private bathroom. The shapes used correspond to those used in the paintings of the school, diagonals for the storage areas, straight lines for the rooms and curves for the bathrooms. The structure of the windows in the rooms are paintings by different painters of the school, such as Mondrian, Herbert Bayer and Laszlo Moholy Nagy.

For the furniture I have also chosen designs of the different teachers who taught there before the exile to other parts of the world. As the focal point of the wagon I have taken the F51 sofa by Walter Gropius, founder of the school. I have also selected Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray, Hynek Gottwald for the beds or Wilhelm Wagenfeld for the lighting, as well as the lamp that has been designed taking as a reference the painting Composition Z VIII by László Moholy-Nagy.

With this project I wanted to show that design, as well as art, are forms of expression that cannot be censored.

Image gallery

1 - Designzug, un homenaje al diseño
2 - Levantamiento propuesta
3 - Levantamiento propuesta
4 - Planos
5 - Plano Detalle
6 - Lámpara inspirada en László Moholy-Nagy
7 - Dibujo
8 - Panel A2
Designzug Portada