Project: Green offices

After a few weeks without publishing posts, I'm back with a new project. In this case I developed a singular office building.

 Floorplants

 

Elevations

It is a building thought for a young and little enterprises because of its minimalist design with four spaces and community wc's per floor. But the main feature of this construction are the gardens that each floor have.
 
The floorplan is similar to an "H" and we find four different situations for the gardens which change at every floor and this pattern repeats for three times along the 12 floors.

The idea is that all the workers of each floor can take a break at a green zone in the middle of the city regardless of the floor in which they are.

The two bigger volumes are destinated for the enterprises and the central volume is for the stairs, 3 lifts and the wc's.

The structure of the terraces are calculated to hold a full garden with big plants and some trees.
     
The facade from the 1st floor up to the top is made of glass with diferent tones for the office volumes and the stairs core. The floor 0 is made of concrete.

 Front facade

 Back facade

 

project: museum

The building developed in this project is a mesum with two showrooms. This is an easy configuration because we worked about two open spaces to fill with the expos.

floorplan

 section

 elevations

The main room is basicaly thought to welcome the paintings and sculpture with an important colour composition and that's why the entry of natural light is limited. The different light during the day modifies the colours of the works of art so we thought that is better to use mainly a constant and artificial light.

This space is in an irregular building with the main facade in an inclined position and there is where we find the entry to the museum. We get into the museum throught the floor because the upstairs start under the building  from the street and there is an horizontal door which bring us to the reception.
In this space we find the wc's too and the remaining space is for the expo in two different levels linked by stairs.

The other space is a full natural light space because the walls and the roof are made of glass. This showroom was thought as a polyvalent room. The showroom is in a lower level but all the perimeter is at the roof 0 and that's let us to look the outside.

The offices would be in a different building to keep the design of the building as we see in this project.   

project: academy

In this project we want to transform an empty local to an studies academy.
We work with a local of 132 m2, some columns spread by the local and a wc and a little store as the only rooms built.
The needs indicated by the client are:
- another wc.
- 1 classroom.
- 1 meeting room.
- office.
- reception.
The first space we find is a reception of 6,52m2 space situated in front of the entry and it share one wall with the office. It is a 24,68m2 space in which we install 4 work points with closeds and photocopier.

At the other side of the corridor we find, in first place, the 41,54m2 classroom for 18 student and the teacher. It will be equiped with projector, pc's, and all the material to take the classes. The second space at this side is the meeting room with 21,80m2.

With the new wc we'll construct, the academy will get one for men and another for women and at the same corridor of the wc's we'll install a photocopier and a vending machine.
Finally, the room already construct at the beginning will be used as storage room.  

Project: home

This is just an interiorism exercise exploring the possibilities of Autodesk Revit. The initial plane is from a real flat which is delivered to us for working on it.
The libraries of fornitures, lights, kitchen components, etc... are very extensive and we try to use similar types of components to give a coherent line for the whole flat.
The intention is to bring to the flat a confortable enviroment.
We suposed a situation in which we can't make any construction work so it's nacessary to choice the correct components to make cozy spaces.
The flat is compound by:
- single bedroom
- double bedroom
- bathroom
- storage room
- kitchen
- sitting and dinning-room
- balcony
All the rooms but the bathroom and the storage have opennings to the outside so all of them have natural light.

 single bedroom

 double bedroom

 bathroom

 kitchen

 dinning room

sitting room

Sydney Opera House

This building situated in Sydney (Australia) and designed by Jorn Utzon at 1957, is one of the most famous of the XX century and was declared as World Heritage at 2007. Was opened at 1973.

The building has an expressionist design and is compound by prefabricated "shells" each one token from the same semisphere. This shells form the roof which occcupies about 1,8 hectares has 183 meters lenght and 120 meters wide and rest above 580 pillars sunk up to 25 meters under the sea level. The shells are covered with 1.056.006 tilings of 2 different colors forming a chevron and they are made to clean themselves.

The two bigger groups of vaults belong to the Concert Hall and the Opera Theater and the other saloons had the smaller vaults. The smallest vaults covers the Bennelong restaurant.

These are the theaters:
- Concert Hall  with 2670 seats and the bigger pipe organ of the world with 10000 tubes.
- The Opera Theater, 1547 seats.
- The Drama Theater, 544 seats.
- The Music Hall, 398 seats.
- The Studio Theater, 364 seats.

At september 1955 the contest started receiving 233 projects from 32 countries which challeged for a $100.000 price and the winner was announced at 1957 rewarding Jorn Utzon.

First stage: Podium (1959-1963)
Started immediately at 5th december 1959 because the government was afraid to lose the public money and that suposed problems due to the unfinished planes. That caused that a lot of columns for the roof were made with a minor resistance than the necessary and, finally, the roof musted be redefined.

Second stage: external vaults (1963-1967)
The initial construction process thought was an in-situ formwork, but the team realized that it was very expensive and then changed to the prefabricated ribs. The structural calculation was very complicated and it required one of the first uses of a computer. Finally the solution was to project all the vault as sections from a semisphere.

Third Stage: Inside (1963-1973)
This stage started at 1963 but at 1965 Utzon was fired and his job was assumed by Peter Hall becoming the main responsible for the inside design. At 1966, the acoustic counselor, Lothar Cremer confirms that the initial design from Utzon allowed only 2000 seats at the main room and the increasing up to the 3000 seats would be a disaster for the acoustic. After a lot of changes due to the Utzon's initial designs were'nt good enought for the Opera House, there were added two more theaters. Finally, at 1973, the building was finished with a total cost of $102 millions.

Project: Hotel (studies final project)

Scketchup renders

In this post I want to show you my studies final project. Althought the renders are not very good, generaly, I'm proud of this work.

 floorplan

 elevation

section

It is a hotel compuond by 12 floors, 2 undergrounds and an annex 2 floor building for the office which I'll explain below.

Starting from bottom of the main building, we find the parking in the -2 floor in which we arrive by a circular ramp and, using the same ramp, in the floor above, we find the kitchen, the dressers and the cold rooms.

The floor 0 is for the hall, the restaurant and the bar plus the corresponding wc's. The major part of the walls in this floor are made of glass to bring as much light as possible. There are and exclusive elevator and stairs to comunicate the restaurant and the kitchen between the 2 floors.

Scketchup renders

The next seven floors contain the first room class: 12 double rooms per floor with bath room and equipped with closed, table and tv.  We find a relax and reading zone at the middle of the floor with confortable seats.

The 8th floor is for the gym with a fitness zone and a swimming pool and a jacuzzi at the part of the floor covered by glass, due to this fact, it seems like the water zone is at the outside.

Scketchup renders

At the floor 9 we find the second class, the simple suite with a sitting room, bed room and bath room with jacuzzi. All the materials used in this rooms are of a hight quality. The smaller size of the floors above the gym and the bigger sizes of the rooms provoke the suppression of the comunitary reading zone at the middle of the floor but, obiously, the rooms are more confortable.

The last 2 floor are compound by the simple suites (3 of them in floor 12) and the first class suites. Three full luxury duplex with a huge terrace, sitting room and bar at the low floor and a big bed room with a big bath room at the high plant. At the floor 11 we also have an observatory for the clients.

To move between the the floors we can use two stairs cores at each buiding sides with two lifts in each core, and the service has a janitor's room with cleaning material.

Over the inning of the parking there is the annex building. We are talking about the building for the offices at the first floor and a warehouse at the the second floor.

remade renders by Revit

Project: Jenga Building

Remembering the Jenga game, the Jenga building is a residential construction with different residential uses and different target people. That's because there are three flat types that change while the building grows.

The floor 0 is reserved for wide commercial space with glass walls and independent entries from the main entry of the building.

 floorplans

section

elevation

The floors from 1 to 5 contains the first type of flat, eight lofts per floor grouped in twos. Each group has its corridor starting from the stairs and lift at the core of the construction. The last 3 meters of the corridors are made of glass to improve the light entering at the lower plants. The lofts has a big terrace, wc, kitchen and space enought for table, sofa and double bed.

The next 4 floors present the second type of flat. We are talking about four flats per floor with dinning and sitting-room, kitchen, wc, three rooms and a bigger terrace. The corridor follow the same idea from the lower floors.

The last floor has the last type, four flats with two main facades and the same stays than the flats below. This flats are bigger and its terrace are bigger too.

The roof of the stairs core are made of glass to bring the light from the outside.

The external image is conditioned by the different types of the flats with an structure that chage each few floors. This is the fact that gives the Jenga aspect to the building because the terraces look like the gaps resulting at the Jenga tower during the game.

The colours of the facades are, mainly, three: white paint for the terrace walls, brown paint for the rest of the walls of the facades and grey for the carpentry and the metallic elements.