what is area-lab
and We are an area where engineering and creativity work together with a technology laboratory to design and manufacture machines and mechanisms that interact and generate emotions.
A multidisciplinary and highly collaborative team with experience in fields as diverse as:
- Mechanical design
- Electronic design
- Lighting, Photography and Sound
- Drives, electrical automatisms and Robotics
- Software development for programming
- Various communication protocols and networks
- Pneumatics and Hydraulics
Project History
2023: 16-Person Simulator, 6 DOF and Cine4DX effects | Interactive Sports Equipment | Motorized Aerotrim
- 6DOF Simulator with Cine 4DX effects – Castell de LLoret
- Client: Castell de LLoret
- Simulator Platform for 16 People, 6 DOF and 4DX effects.
- Sculptural Solar Trees.
- VR Disinfection Cabinet.
- Interactive Sports Equipment "Manchester City Challenge" – Abu Dhabi
- Client: Mediapro
- JUMP Jumping modules.
- TOUCH Skill and Reflex modules.
- SPEED Running speed modules
- Motorized Aerotrim
- Client: OnionLab
- Motorized aerotrim with light and sound.
2022: Cosmocaixa equipment | Garden Laser Lighting | Quantum Computer | Casa Batlló interventions
- The Line of Neom /Saudi Arabia
- Client: Mediapro
- Laser line luminous modules with movement
- Cosmocaixa Elements
- Client: Óptima
- Archimedes Screw
- Fire Module
- Quantum Computer
- Client: European Parliament
- Scale model simulating a Quantum Computer
- Casa Batlló Platform
- Client: Casa Batlló
- Various interventions on Circular Platform
2021: Elevator Platform Simulator | Interactive Challenge Equipment for Football Museum
- Wax Museum Barcelona Simulator
- Client: Pascuals Design
- Vibrating platform elevator simulation
- Automatic Doors with lighting effects
- Steel Panels with trackball and Satellite room pushbuttons
- Atlético de Madrid Football Club Museum
- Client: Mediapro
- Interactive machines that challenge visitors with diverse football skills.
2020: Torre Glorias Viewpoint Equipment | Interactive Gobo Spotlight | Interactive Mouse Cubes
- Atlético de Madrid Football Club Museum
- Client: Mediapro
- Interactive machines that challenge visitors with diverse football skills.
- Torre Glorias Viewpoint
- Client: Mediapro
- Methacrylate Urns with Ultra-thin Display.
- Interactive Luminous Spotlight.
- Interactive Mouse Cubes
- Client: Mediapro
- Luminous interactive on-screen mouse cubes activated by movement
2019: Barcelona Science Museum Equipment | Submersible Luminous Suits | Scenography and lighting for Theater play
- Barcelona Science Museum | Cosmocaixa
- Client: Mediapro
- Various interactive elements and mechanisms for the museum's Univers Room.
- Fluidra 50th Anniversary
- Client: Fluidra
- Submersible luminous suits
- Theater Play «Dialegs de Tirant e Carmesina»
- Client: Citart
- Structural Scenographic elements and Led lighting.
2018: Simulator Platform and infrared equipment | Giant Luminous Dress for an entire building | Solar Radiation Semaphore for beaches
- ZOH Huawei exhibition | London
- Client: Mediapro
- Elevator simulation platform and infrared equipment
- 175th Anniversary Santa Eulalia Barcelona store
- Client : Antoni Miralda
- Giant luminous matrix on the facade of the Paseo de Gracia building recreating clothing patterns used by Santa Eulalia throughout its history.
- Client : Antoni Miralda
- Solmaforo
- Client: Innovación Turística Balears
- Beach equipment indicating current solar radiation.
2017: SplitFlap Ferrary Land | Agbar interactive equipment | Split Flap Palau Robert | Mobile World Congress Luminous Matrices | Lighting at Primavera Sound Festival | Sonar Lighting
- Splits Flaps Ferrai Land Salou
- Client: Maediapro
- Split Flaps image matrix for the Ferrari Land theme park in Salou
- AGBAR | ZOH Zone Exhibition
- Client : Mediapro
- Various mechanisms and interactive elements, Ice Wall, interactive steering wheels, simulation platform, for the ZOH virtual reality exhibition
- Splits Flap Palau Robert Barcelona
- Client: Mediapro
- 8×4 matrix, 32 Split Flap images for exhibition at Palau Robert in Barcelona
- Logo for KHEN PHARMA
- Client: Trilope Estarelles
- 3D luminous structure of the Khen Pharma logo.
- Mobile Worl Congres | Graphene Zone
- client: Protopixel
- Luminous matrices for graphene experimentation space.
- Lighting Primavera Sound Festival | Barcelona
- Client : Protopixel
- Digital LED Neon Flex lighting equipment, for the structure of one of the stages.
- AUDI Luminous rings
- Client: Trilope Estarelles
- Model with luminous rings for Audi
- Illuminaries Sonar Festival
- Client : Kike Blanco
- LED lighting equipment with DMX control, for advertising spot
- Client : Kike Blanco
- AECOC Gran Consumo Conference | SER project
- Client: Trilope Estarellas
- Scenography with luminous structures with digital LEDs.
2016: Multiple scenographies Espacio Liceu | Absolut Luminous Iceberg | Liver Demo for Bayer | Laser Projection Equipment
- Liceu Space in Barcelona | Sanfaina Opera
- Client: Frank Aleu | Surreal Lab
- Multiple mechanisms and scenographic elements with interactivity and lighting effects
- Absolut Iceberg
- Client: Protopixel
- Methacrylate Iceberg, with touch-sensitive faces, Touch and Smart Film, and Digital LED lighting
- Liver Simulation Desk for Bayer
- Client: ADN Play Films
- Steel desk, Touch tactile, with lighting
- Touch sensor interface with lighting and video player in a realistic sculpture of a liver
- Visyon Estudio Bay Cabin
- Client : Protopixel
- Luminous matrix 2 m structure with digital LED
- Laser projection
- Client: Onionlab
- Wirelessly controlled equipment with RC Servos for the movement of Laser projection mirrors
2015: Large Split Flap Reception Mobile World Congress | Gulliver Robots | Hermes Barcelona Equipment | Mechanical suit, Crane and lighting for Theater show
- Split Flap Mobile World Congress 2015
- Client: Exit Design
- 145 mobile Split Flap panels in the Reception Hall and a matrix of 10×9 panels outside
- Robotic Show The Dreams of Gulliver
- Client: Roland Olbeter
- Control system for a transformed trailer that unfolds and launches the robotic puppet show.
- Hermes Gallery Barcelona
- Client: Medialb &Space
- Luminous control desk with RGB LEDs and prop pipes for mapping
- «Amor Brujo» Show
- Client: Carlus Padrisa
- Structure on mobile crane and mechanical suit with controls for RGB LED lighting.
2014: Luminous sculpture Giant inner ear | Split Flap Images Expo | Interactive and Luminous CocaCola mechanisms
- Achtbrücken festival | Germany
- Client: Roland Olbeter
- Giant Internal Ear luminous sculpture composed of an internal LED luminous matrix and a parallel robot at its end
- Idees que es mouen Exhibition | Generalitat de Catalunya
- Client: Exit Design
- Split Flap panel matrix with rotating images.
- Coca Cola Centenary
- Client: Medialb &Space
- Various interactive mechanisms and luminous display elements.
2013: Giant kinematic sculptures for the Opera House | Sensor equipment for the Loewe Gallery in Madrid
- «Aida» Opera in Verona | Italy
- Client: Roland Olbeter
- Giant cinematic sculptures, three camels and a 4m elephant
- Loewe Gallery Madrid
- Client: Boolab
- PIR (Infrared) detection sensors and ultrasonic distance sensors, for perimeter detection and “touch” detection in a piece that represented a tree.
2012: Musical Robots for Sonar and Festo | VFD Vestas screens
- Pollywogs Sonar Festival
- Client: Roland Olbeter
- Technical direction, assembly and technical support of the Pollywog musical robots.
- FESTO Fair in Stuttgart and Hannover
- Client: Roland Olbeter
- Technical direction, assembly, and technical support for the Pollywogs musical robots
- VESTAS Madrid
- Client: Exit Design
- Structure and installation of 66 VFD (Vacuum Fluorescent Display) screens connected via serial protocol
- Client: Exit Design
2011: Life-size kinematic sculpture of a horse | Goldberg Machine for the Energy Museum of Ponferrada | Motorization for HD video camera
- Opera in Cologne | Germany
- Client: Roland Olbeter
- Real-scale kinetic sculpture of a horse.
- Energy Museum | Ponferrada
- Client: Transversal PC
- Goldberg machine: mechanisms, gears, LED lighting, structural elements, micro-screens.
- Projector support
- Client: Urano Films
- Design and construction of various mirror supports for 90º video projection, with variable and adjustable 360º rotation.
- Motorized panoramic mechanism
- Client: Urano Films
- Motorization equipment for HD video camera, with speed regulation and rotation reversal.
2010: MIDI control with analog pianola | Robot from the movie «Eva» | 12m hand finger control | Box with landscape and Garrilli character mechanism
- Submusic Box
- Client: Quim Tarrida
- MIDI control system with analog pianola.
- Robot from the movie «Eva»
- Client: Escándalo Films
- Design, development and construction of a radio-frequency controlled robot.
- Hand from the Tannhäuser Opera at the Scala in Milan
- Client: Roland Olbeter
- Control system for the movement of the fingers of a 12m hand.
- Garrilis
- Client: Estudio Mariscal
- Box with wooden landscape and endless movement mechanism of the Garrilli character.
2009: Interactive Display Table for the FC Barcelona museum | Simulator platform of a ship's interior | Simulation of Volcano eruptions and seismic movement | Animatronic doll | Pluviometry demo display
- FC Barcelona Museum
- Client: Exit Design
- Interactive display table of 7m x 1.6m with 24 touch panels.
- Urns and exhibitors with adjustable light
- Client: Exit Design
- Eco-resort San Blas – Tenerife
- Client: Eco-resort San Blas
- Museum of the history of the island of Tenerife inside a hotel resort. Various elements for 5 rooms:
- Pailebote. Hydraulic structure simulating the interior of an old ship in full swell.
- Volcano simulation with eruptions and seismic motion simulation platform.
- Animatronic doll of San Blas
- Structure and display for demonstrating pluviometry.
- Various structures for extras.
- Stone cutting machine and system for filling a Tajea.
- Client: Eco-resort San Blas
2008 - 2000: Rain and Storm Simulator | Expo Zaragoza Equipment | Functional Hexapod Robot | Robotized Meninas | Mechanisms for La Fura dels Baus | Sensors and controls for Marcelí Antunez
- Expo Zaragoza | Extreme Waters
- Client: Expo Zaragoza
- Rain machine combining video projection, rain effect, and storm lightning effects.
- Client: Expo Zaragoza
- Expo Zaragoza | Oikos
- Client: Expo Zaragoza
- Control elements, sound, effects, and lighting for models and automatisms of the pavilion.
- Client: Expo Zaragoza
- Opera Orlando Furioso
- Client: Roland Olbeter
- Musical robots with 24 pistons, pizzicato, damper, and resonator, are part of the opera.
- Client: Roland Olbeter
- Expo de Haichi |Japan| Spanish Pavilion
- Client: CABB
- Functional Hexapod Robot with perimeter detection.
- Client: CABB
- ARCO Fair | Las Meninas
- Client: Ximo Lizana
- Robotized stainless steel Meninas, motorized and controlled by microprocessor.
- Client: Ximo Lizana
- Colors Show | Castellanetta Marina (Italy)
- Client: Estudio Mariscal
- Automated robot show.
- Client: Estudio Mariscal
- Canary Islands Volcano Exhibition | Fundació La Caixa
- Client: Fundació La Caixa
- Various interactive elements: Globe with continental drift mechanism, volcano with eruption demonstration
- Client: Fundació La Caixa
- Happy Factory | Diagonal Mar Shopping Center
- Client: Global Imagineering
- Bubble generation tubes and monolith with light sequences
- Ninth Symphony Show
- Client: Roland Olbeter
- Lighting system for shadow back projection.
- Rèquiem Show
- Client: Marcel·lí Antúnez
- Pneumatic mechanism for facial and limb manipulation controlled by PC
- Furamóbil
- Client:La Fura dels Baus
- Interactive pneumatic and electrical automation systems
- Afasia Show
- Client: Marcel.lí Antúnez
- Analog sensors and controls
Who we work for
For those who have a conceptual great idea and need collaborators with solutions.
- Museums
- Media content companies
- Designers, Advertising and Branding Agencies
- Set designers and artists
- Architects and interior designers
- Creative event companies
- Event and exhibition companies
Our Beginnings.
1990-2000 | Initial training
It all began in the 90s with a young Carlos Jovellar, with great curiosity and passion for technology. He began collaborating with artists and set designers who, in their creativity, needed technical and technological support.
This implied constantly researching and evolving to provide the best solutions to the challenges of the “custom-made suits” that were presented to him.
2000-2008 | The embryo
Together with Christian Konn, they created “EBA”, a small company dedicated to satisfying the technological needs of artists and set designers.
They participated in projects by artists such as “Roland Olbeter”, “La Fura dels Baus”, Marcelí Antunez, Estudio Mariscal, Ximo Lizana, Alberto Carvajal, Konic Thtr…
In events such as, Teatre Grec Barcelona, Fundació La Caixa, ARCO Fair, Expo Zaragoza, Spanish Pavilion at the Haichi Expo – Japan, “Tierra Mítica”, Global Imagineering for Diagonal Shopping Center.
Recent History.
2009-2019|
The team expanded, Daniel Barbero joined, and later Enrique Jovellar. We develop and manufacture in our workshops in Ripollet.
The projects grew, requiring greater complexity in electronics and automation, which led to a collaboration with ESTEVEMOTION, a company managed by Esteve and Francesc Amo. This company is dedicated to electronics and industrial automation, with whom strong collaborative ties have been forged over the years.
2020- Onwards
We created area-lab, we integrated as partners of Estevemotion SLNE, increasing our design and technological development capabilities, both electronically and mechanically.
We moved and developed our activity in Rubí.
