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.

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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...

project: students comunity

The reason for this post is an students comunity, 84 flats distributed in 14 buildings and destinated to people who is studying and, maybe, with a low budget.
The concept for each building is: - 6 complete rooms with wc, bed and studying zone at floors 0, 1 and 3.
                                                  - 1 comunitary kitchen at floor 2
                                                  - 1 laundry at floor 4 with terrace

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We can see 2 volumes for each building. With a wood aspect, there is the crowd of rooms, kitchen and laundry and, glued to this, closed with glass, there is the stairs core with a lift.

The rooms have natural light due to the main window at the back facade and a another window that looks to the stairs core. It's important to remember that the stairs are closed by glass and that's why this window receive natural light.

Inside the rooms, the studying zone and the sleeping zone are separated by the full wc with a sink, toilet, bidet and shower. The rooms have a microwave and a little freezer.

The kitchen counts with 3 hotplates, 3 sinks and two freezers, able to let the people of the building prepare their food easily and quickly.
The last floor, the laundry, has three washer, three dryer and a terrace for hanging laundry and take a break during the studying day.
The crowd of buindings create an interior square. It is an oval green space for all the students who are living in this flats.

Project: neighbourhood

 
This project explains the main characteristics of a construction of a neighbours comunity with a pool.
Occupying a whole apple in a town we want to construct a total of 13 townhouses of two floors, a pool and an undergruong parking.

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Entering to the neighbourhood across the main entry we find the interior yard with the community pool and the entry of every houses.
Each house also has a private yard in front of its entries limited by its gates.
The houses are compound by 2 floors. At the floor 0 there are the kitchen, the sitting and dinning room and a full wc with shower and heading to the first floor across the upstairs we arrive to the 2 bedrooms, another full wc with bath and the balcony.

Basicaly, there are 3 different kinds of houses but the rooms ara generaly the same at each one.
As a complex mainly thought as a holidays apartments, these houses are not spacially big but are equiped enought to be occuped for a long time easily.
Underground, entering across the main facade we find the parking with 32 places. Once we left the car we arrive to the interior yard by an upstairs.
The pool is a good dimensions amusement with 9.3m width, 15.3m large and 2m deep at the deeper zone and 1m deep at the other side.

Project: library

 

This is the project in which we develope a library as a singular building, but in this construction we will find more spaces than just a library.
The place of this building is a two-levels terrain and the build will be situated at the higher level and flying over the lower level.
The design is an "square donnut" with two floors.

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Elevation

We can get into the building passing trought the main door at one of the facades of the interior "hole" after we walked under the first part of the library.

Once in, we find the information point and the w.c.'s.
If we walk to the left, we enter to the main library. It's a double-space room with work places at the two levels with a hight amount of natural light due to the top part of the facades are made of glass.  
Walking to the right, the first stop of the way is the kids library, an special space for the learning and fun of the children without disturbing the adults.
We keep walking head to the multipurpose room, ready for theaching, meetings, essays, etc...
and over this last space, at the upstairs, there are the "group-work" rooms. These rooms may be rented by groups of people who need to work together.
Part of the second floor is destinated to a terrace, a good place to take a brake during the work time.