From the general to the particular: The excercise and its purpose.
Historically, every building has been designed according to its use. The spaces, the circulation, the ilumination and the location are planned and distributed to comply its purpose. But, before we can understand how to distribute spaces this way, we must understand the esence of the space itself. We must understand the spaces without use, furnitures, doors or windows, and we must design them using three basic elements only: walls, slabs and stairs.
The Building Itself.
The spatial organization has a big influence on the way we design a building. In this project, the location is an especific place on a city next to the Caribbean Sea. The original context is formed by a great square that`s limited by both the urban front and the coast line. We are able to modify the context to convenience (mantaining its esence, of course). My project is located away from the coast to emphasize its verticality, contrasting it with the horizontality of the sea
. Scales and spatial distribution.
The building is 36 mts high, and it has 144 mts2on the base. This measures create a 3 to 1 ratio, and the perfect conditions to design vertical spaces. There`s a lot of empty spaces created by the design of the slabs. This way, the facade becomes structure, and every single wall must be a load-bearing wall, specially the ones that support the circulation system.
Particularities
This is a project that explains how the vertical spaces work, and the important participation of the walls and slabs in this process, so it is useful to the architecture students in the first year of their careers. However, this is only a design excercise. This means that the project has no real structural calculations, and therefore, it will not be considered for construction.
From the general to the particular: The excercise and its purpose.
Historically, every building has been designed according to its use. The spaces, the circulation, the ilumination and the location are planned and distributed to comply its purpose. But, before we can understand how to distribute spaces this way, we must understand the esence of the space itself. We must understand the spaces without use, furnitures, doors or windows, and we must design them using three basic elements only: walls, slabs and stairs.
The Building Itself.
The spatial organization has a big influence on the way we design a building. In this project, the location is an especific place on a city next to the Caribbean Sea. The original context is formed by a great square that`s limited by both the urban front and the coast line. We are able to modify the context to convenience (mantaining its esence, of course). My project is located away from the coast to emphasize its verticality, contrasting it with the horizontality of the sea
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Scales and spatial distribution.
The building is 36 mts high, and it has 144 mts2on the base. This measures create a 3 to 1 ratio, and the perfect conditions to design vertical spaces. There`s a lot of empty spaces created by the design of the slabs. This way, the facade becomes structure, and every single wall must be a load-bearing wall, specially the ones that support the circulation system.
Particularities
This is a project that explains how the vertical spaces work, and the important participation of the walls and slabs in this process, so it is useful to the architecture students in the first year of their careers. However, this is only a design excercise. This means that the project has no real structural calculations, and therefore, it will not be considered for construction.
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