Playing SketchUp

This is a volume exercise and a little investigation of the different work styles of the SketchUp 2014.
Basicaly, the idea is to present an opaque pyramid sectioned by a crystal and wooden cube.
The indoor distributions is not defined yet.

Professional project: isolated house (continues...)

new ideas expecting to be applied

option 3

option 4

option 5

Professional project: isolated house

As a proposal for a job that consists in an isolated house in Barcelona, we show some renders of discarded options.
The program demanded by the clients is one dinning and sitting room, kitchen, 4 bedrooms (if it's possible), one of them as a suite and another wc.

Option 1

Option 2

 

Project: Twisted

A four floors building is presented in this post, a building made by five offset "boxes" piled one by one with one dwelling on each floor.
The idea of the outside is to represent the concept of five volumes shaked and moved from its suposed initial position. The criterion is that each floor is displaced in one direction from de fllor below. This fact is not only for the image, this fact helps the structure system due to, with this design, we can reach a big terrace but with a short overhangs at the main facades of the flats. In adition to this, the stairs core and the box of the elevator works to give stiffness to the construction.

elevations

The inside shows a parking on floor 0 and four open flats at the rest of the floors. The dwellings are equiped with one kitchen, one sitting and dinning-room, one w.c., a main dormitory with bathroom, 2 more bedrooms, one office and one terrace. All the spaces look to the outside therefore, all of them has natural light.

floors

There are two ways to enter to the flats: by the stairs, as usual and by the elevator because it enters directly into each flat.

New Construmat

               

Beyond Building Barcelona, this is the new way to name the expo Construmat 2015 at Barcelona.
The past wednesday 17th september, Arquimund was at the presentation of the international salon of the construction in Fira de Barcelona.
Due to the delicated situation of the sector, the organization of Construmat wants to make a step forward and become a more important platform to power the activity. Beyond being just an exhibition of new technologies, technics and works made, this year Construmat will have the firm intention to connect the world, to be an international hub between the places in the world with job oportunities and the professionals who are looking for a jobs.
The participation during the presentation of Gonzalo Bernardos (Doctor in economy and teacher at UB) showed the lines to be followed by the sector to recover its health but in a more sustainable way. The rehabilitation and the sustainability must be the main chance for the inmediate future but the more important is to recover the public construction.
Also participating in this event, the main secretary of the Ministry of Territory and Sustainability of the Government of Catalonia, Pau Villòria, explained that, despite the complicated moment of the economy, the Goverments of Catalonia and Spain have the clear intention to invest again in public construction as soon as they can because they understand that this is an important key for the sector.
Not as bad news as we usually listened at the last years for the architecture, engineering and construction in this presentation which invites to look forward.

Trade Show Displays Booth Exhibits & Truss Construction Singapore Tokyo Japan Barcelona

The following video shows the rise of different stands created by Show Spaces for expos in Singapore, Tokyo, Japan and Barcelona.
The quick construction is different kind of construction from the normally showed in this blog, but also interesting due to the time, the space and the techniques used to rise the stands. The coordination between the diferent workers have to be almost perfect to not disturbe themself and the structure are based on a prefabricated steel.
The stands need to get an impact to the visitors of the expo and that's why the designs are daring and impressive. The using of the lights, the impossible lines and the big displays to talk clear and easy with the visitor are a great tools to get this target.
This is a short life construction thought to remind in the memory of the visitors for a time because it's part of the corporative image of the enterprises showed and, clearly, the stands we will see in this video walk the correct way to be remembered.

Trade Show Displays Booth Exhibits & Truss Construction Singapore Tokyo Japan Barcelona

Project: institute

After a few months out of my blogger activity due to my studies, finally I come back with a new project that I want to share with you.
This project developes the design of an institute separated by modules and fully equiped with classrooms, informatic rooms, garages, laboratory, library, theater, bar, playing field and conciergerie.

 situation

 floorplants

elevations

The conciergerie, the first stop in our travel across the equipments, is a round build made of glass to distribute the people who ask for any place inside the institute.
At the left of the conciergerie we find the three main buildings because we are arribing at the classes. The two buildings with the classroom flank the building of informatic works. The three volumes have the same design only differentiated by the height (the classroom  with 4 floors and the informatic with 2). The image is a big volume resting on a small one where we fing the inning to the building. Inside threre are two classes per floor, wc's and we can move inside by the stairs and the elevator.

Behind this, there are the garages and the laboratory. At the same building we find two spaces ready for mechanical activities and a lab for the chemical studies. This edification is also equiped with wc.

The library, at the opposite side of the enclosure, is connected with the bar to let the students take a brake easily.

At the hightest part of the enclosure, rise the playing field for the sport activities and the theater. The theater is a big space which looks to the rest of volumes by a glass main facade thought to make shows, conferences etc...