Varia is a basic and flexible office system developed in 2013 for Ezgo that integrates benching, light panels, and private office solutions using fewer components to provide multiple solutions. The Generica collection developed in 2012 includes wall shelves, tables, benches, and outdoor furniture made of aluminum, wood, glass, and textiles to create personalized home spaces. Conceptual, designed in 2009 for Solinoff Corp, is an adaptable office system that provides private and open workstations through panels, benches, storage, and files in a simple and elegant way responding to Latin American market demands.

1. CARLOSBAQUERO
PORTFOLIO

2. VARIA
BENCH SYSTEM
2013
Client: EZGO
Design: Carlos Baquero
Less components more solutions. By using a simple but versatile
structural configuration Varia provides solutions for diferent environtments
within the office space. The design intention was to develop a system
easy to produce with low investment and fast market entry. Varia was
released in 2013 and is currently under production for Ezgo SA.
Varia is a basic and flexible office system
that integrates benching, light panels and
private office solutions.

3. The bench basic station provides all
the wiring and technical requirements
mantaining a simple collaborative
environment.

4. GENERICA
Home Furniture
2012
Client: PRIDE Product Innovation and Design
Design: Carlos Baquero
A light collection, made of aluminum pieces, planes and lines that
become volumes. Indoor and outdoor furniture for relaxed and
young spaces that provide multifunctional solutions. Black and white
components are mixed with colored glass and textiles to create a
personalized home space.
A combination of folded aluminum
sheets, reforested wood, colored glass and
outdoor textiles.

5. VAI
TIVÚLUNGA ALTA LAUX
LEPOUFESTERNI VAI LEGNO
The Generica collection is composed
by wall shelves, coffee table, tv table,
ottoman, dining table with wooden or
glass surfaces and two diferent types
of benches.

6. BANDS
OFFICE SYSTEM
2010
Client: PRIDE Product Innovation and Design
Design: Carlos Baquero
Bands is a multipurpose system designed to give a vast array of solutions
with few components, from tables and freestanding configurations, to
executive stations, while delivering different possibilities for storage,
bookcases, file cabinets and screens.
Continuous and uninterrumpted bands that
turn, bend and transform creating vertical
and horizontal planes.

7. Sketches and technical specifications
for Bands system.

8. SIESTA
BREAK ZONE
2013
Client: Contexto Urbano
Design: Carlos Baquero with Mónica Ocampo
Siesta is a solution for reduced space offices that brings relax, phone call
or conversation spots to spaces that are usually not used or occupied by
lateral files. The product includes personal storage, relax bubbles and a
green surface that changes the office environment, reducing stress and
increasing communication.
A solution for a relaxing break or an
informal conversation in a crowded office.

9. CONCEPTUAL
PANEL BASED SYSTEM
2009
Client: Solinoff Corp
Design: Carlos Baquero leading Solinoff Design Team
Conceptual was designed as an office system that provides solutions for
private and open spaces creating operative, collaborative or executive
workstations with simplicity and elegance. It is an adaptable program that
responds with technical solutions to the demands of the latin american
market, the target of Solinoff Corp.
Conceptual is the integration of many systems or components: The
panels, Porto bench system, Metafiles storage system and Active 2
lateral files.
Conceptual integrates the best of panel,
freestanding, bench and storage systems.

10. Conceptual integrates with Porto
benching system, making possible to
connect a freestanding station with
a panel line with complete wiring
compatibility.
Interactive and collaborative meeting
spaces were designed and developed
integrating Barco XDS technology,
a technology that allows in site and
remote conference and information
sharing.

11. PORTO
BENCH SYSTEM
2008
Client: Solinoff Corp
Design: Carlos Baquero leading Solinoff Design Team
Porto was the first benching system designed in Colombia. The goal
with Porto was to design a system that was light and simple, but with the
same capacity for wire and cable management that a panel provides.
Porto won the Lapiz de Acero design prize in 2009.
Attention to details, simplicity, robust cable
management and compatibility.

12. Lapiz de Acero Prize ceremony, may 2009.
The Solinoff design team: Diana Martínez,
Viviana Hurtado, Germán Forero, Lorena
Serna, Carlos Castro, Ivan Vega, Giovani
Gil, César Gómez, Leonardo Ardila, Walter
Useche.

13. WOOD
Desks and casegoods
2008
Client: Solinoff Corp
Design: Carlos Baquero leading Solinoff Design Team
Wood was conceived as an update for the classic executive desks,
credenzas and casegoods. It combines wooden parts with steel and
glass accesories for a renewed look, integrating cable management.
Woods original product was developed in 2005 and updated for the
Conceptual system launch in 2009.
A classic and elegant solution for private
and executive spaces

14. ACTIVE 2
Lateral files
2008
Client: Solinoff Corp
Design: Carlos Baquero leading Solinoff Design Team
It was conceived as a new product from its structure to its contemporary
look integrating new components like colored glass doors, handles
and electronic locking systems to fulfill the new storage and security
requierements of the corporate workplace.
Redefining storage for the new aesthetic
and functional requierements

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