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TESLA PoD

Sculptural charger for electric cars

When working over the summer for this guy who ran some properties in Chelsea and who hired me to curate and design couple shows, he happened to lease the ground floor of a building in 26th street to TESLA motors. (I think they are gone now again from there).

Anyway, I had this idea for charging the electric cars, inspired by the armadillo retractile shell.

Just imagine you arrive to your garage and instead of having a greasy car there, you have this slick sculptural pod, where the car sleeps, and suddenly your garage is an empty room with a nice sort of sculptural element.

You could turn your garage into a living room, or a music room.

So, I sent it to them. Of course, they never responded. But I still think it is a great idea. I think it will happen sooner or later.

Project Gallery

Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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