Final+Project

My project is about a horizontal element that saves the drop between two terrain levels in the context.

Compositively, it is based on a tape that moves and contains the space, creating fugues or an outflow of this space at the extremes of the building, being those specific points the “top” or the concluding spaces, where the most important visuals, contextual relations are, and where the most important activities might take place.

Volumetrically, the composition is about a central long and little wide piece that is “bitten” by two squares at its extremes, being these points the concluding or top spaces, where an inclined or sloped slab appears to scale the space and control it vertically, and also to accentuate the relation to that part of the context, that has a really important long perspective to the sea.

The second square is at a triple height and it’s the concluding point of the building’s circulation plan, it also has a sloped slab in the manner of roof that accentuates the relation with the square at its front, who also has an important building in it.

In the middle of these two volumes exists a transitional space where an internal garden appears to ventilate the space, and also to block the visuals to the square that are reserved to the final point in the path around the building.

Structurally, all the weight is supported by the central long element of the composition. The sloped slabs “bite” this element and thus, it becomes their load bearer, removing the needs of columns to bear their weight. The materials used are a topic that we’ve not entered yet in the design course I’m in, because it belongs to Design 1 course, not Basic Design. Thus, this part shall remain unanswered because I do not have the knowledge to choose the appropriate material for my building yet. But according to what we’ve read in class, I think it would most likely be concrete.

To clarify, we do not have a client per se, all we have to do is designing a building that complies with the space and contextual requirements in the place we placed it on.