Portfolio by Alejandro Nuñez

PORTFOLIO | 16+ Arch Alejandro Nu単ez Lopez

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PORTFOLIO | 16+ Architect Alejandro Nu単ez Lopez | issuu.com/alenunez | alenunez20@hotmail.com

Grecia House | P01

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AV Brasil | P02

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Palliative Center | P03

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Trio Tower | P04

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DEGREES

PROFESSIONAL

ACADEMIC Q | Santa

General Degrees

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Project blog: nunez2010.blogspot.com Web publication: worldlandscapearchitect.com/student-project-qsanta-alejandro-nunez-lopez

TRANSVERSE LANDSCAPES "The fascination for the edges is in its ambivalent and simultaneous role of division and connection. The edges mark the transition between different forms of existence. Transmit and control the exchange between the different territories. They are the playground of discoveries and victories. As a result of unfinished disputes, showing its structure at many scales " Batty y Longley (1994). Fractal Cities.

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THESIS PROJECT | 2011

SANTA

QUEBRADAS RIVER VIEW | SANTA CECILIA NEIGHBORHOOD

Introduction Q | Santa consists of an integral project that seeks to generate a vision of a city that doesn't deny its context or itself, where its systems and functions are integrated and overlapped, trying to find the most appropriate way to combine the urban artificial systems with the natural systems, through the generation of relationships of dependency that have been tested in other latitudes, where both systems benefit and become optimized. It's based on the thought that the city is written, erased and rewritten by itself continuously according to its changing context, new demands, and its new operating systems. The increments of the urban complexity are dictated by the increase in the amount of information that each city stores, the cultural hybridization, the evolution of knowledge, the demand for new activities and programs, and the awareness of resource management. The innate human need to enhance and form new relationships, new connections, has been the determining factor in the process of shaping a new perspective of the outside, of a dynamic and contemporary city, but above all, human. This project is developed under the theory of the topological behavior of the contemporary city: the new cities, complex, flexible, dynamic, fluid, in constant change; and the various relationships of dependency and interaction generated among its many layers and systems. It pays special attention to the relationships between natural and artificial urban systems; pathological problem that is present in basically every city in the countries of Latin America, and the implementation of these theories in the case of the Quebradas River's waterfront, within the city limits of San Isidro del General, Perez Zeledon. The intervention aims to be a means to adapt the city to face the current circumstances, resulting from the inconsistencies in the economy and the displacement of the agricultural sector, which has left a high percentage of general unemployment, and an accelerated city growth without a plan or strategy, because of the high immigration rate to the city of people seeking for better working conditions and a better quality of life.

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Theoretical fundamentals The theoretical foundations for the project Q | Santa are probably the main contribution generated by the thesis. The generation of the strategy and project implementation are based on a critical and comprehensive study of different theories and field studies about the behavior and origins of the city (focusing on the Latin American context), and the superposition of this information, which allows to obtain the primary objective: to generate a more accurate criteria in order to analyze the urban behavior, to define profiles and relation systems, estimating its growth, issues, and provide the best possible answer to the problem raised. In summary, the general discourse is structured around what will be called Urban Topology.

Etymologically, topos (place) + logos (study). The topology developed a leading role in the design and organization of the modern city, planned from a detailed study of its connections and the understanding of the place through its abstraction, using schemes that simplify each space as a point, and are drawn, study and understand the relations between them. Topology studies the properties of objects regardless of their size or shape, is concerned with properties that do not have a magnitude, is the study of those properties of the solids that remain unaltered by continuous transformations. Study all the conceivable forms, abstract shapes and multidimensional, as continuity, stretching or compression. For the topology, the changes and the evolution of the form are essential features for its understanding and classification. The principle the "gum page" (Stewart, Ian 1988) and the basic behavior of the topological condition, also applied as a solution to the adaptation demands and the constant changes that the contemporary city requires , where even its programs can be considered as a liquid adapting to the multiple forms of the vessel that contains them, or a travel line or trajectory, which is deformed and curved according to the different forces acting over it.

The contemporary city is characterized by the instability of its many economic, formal, and social processes, and the overlapping of multiple functions and systems. It's a city built through motion or connective lines, organized topologically rather than geometrically, a city capable of reconstructing and reinventing itself continuously on the basis of changing circumstances and new appropriation processes through its own operating systems.

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Suarez, Gabriel (2006).

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Topic Integration and unification of the residual spaces over the Quebradas River Waterfront in the city of San Isidro del General. This project tries to explain the topological behavior of the contemporary city: complex, flexible, dynamic, constantly changing, and the various relations of dependence and interaction generated among its many layers and systems. It tries to propose a method to define and improve the relations between natural and artificial urban systems; relation that usually became a problem in basically every city in the country, and the implementation of this method in the case of the waterfront of the Quebradas River, located within the city limits of San Isidro del General, Perez Zeledon, San Jose.

Problem How to integrate the multiple systems that converge on the eastern side of the city, by developing an intervention on the waterfront of the Quebradas River based on an extensive investigation of the social, natural and economic context behavior, and the manipulation and improvement of the existing processes, programs, relations and the users daily travel lines. The lack of a strategic vision with the capacity to promote a coherent and integrated development of the city and the many systems that converge in it, both natural and artificial. The lack of knowledge or interest in managing the natural boundary created by the Quebradas River, that generates a spatial segregated city, hindering the dynamics and communication between the neighborhoods and the downtown, leads to a general pathologic tendency to deny the residual strip generated on the banks of the river.

District | San Isidro del General

Canton | Pérez Zeledón

Province | San José

Location

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Internal analysis: Operation

Definition of the internal analysis parameters San Isidro del General

The internal analysis will consist of separating the urban system in its three essential subcomponents, aiming to extract the most relevant information of each one, maintaining a global vision of the situation. Observing subsequently the main points where the systems converge and differ. To conclude: a synthesis that re-integrates the three subcomponents to obtain an accurate diagnosis and choose the best strategy and spatial possibilities to detone a unification and territorial consolidation.

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Residual spaces generated by abandonment

Inappropriate use of the riverfront

Invasion of the protection area by the commercial development

Extensive parking areas on the riverfront

Abandonment and degradation

Waste pollution

The legislation about the protection of the river withdrawals has succeeded protecting certain green areas along the riverfront, but the developments and industrial programs that exist before the law, even prior to the urbanization of the territory, as the old sawmill, livestock and commercial invasion, have degraded the ancient biological corridor to a narrow strip. This strip is particularly degraded in the areas adjacent to the bridges, where the relationships between neighborhood and city have increased, not positively, but in an invasive form. In some places it has even disappeared. Many of the territories on the riverfront that were abandoned and deforested by their former rural activities still remain unused, and therefore, abandoned.

Internal analysis: Natural context The Quebradas River Waterfront Biological Corridor

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Internal analysis: Social context

Connectivity, transport and public space Target Audience

The neighborhoods have 2 connections to the center, which would be the bridges at the north and south of the urban riverfront, with strong structures designed to withstand the forces of the Quebradas River's flooding. Sidewalks of 70cm wide and a high traffic, with vehicles traveling between 60 and 90 km/h, represent a high risk to all pedestrians who use them. There's also a pedestrian bridge in the northern side of the riverfront, which is in very bad condition, with signs of danger at both ends. For these reasons, even the habitants of the locations closer to the center prefer to cross by car. We are talking about a ridiculous car ride, between 300 and 700m on a flat territory, that the people in the neighborhood have to make every day in order to cross over to downtown to go to their jobs and activities, because of the insecurity generated by crossing the bridges by foot.

It's a situation of segregation generated by a poor urban connectivity, which could be confronted by increasing the number of connections between the neighborhoods and the downtown. The general automobile dependency would be significantly reduced by increasing the number of connections to downtown from the neighborhood, reducing also the traffic and therefore, pollution emissions on the main roads.

Northern Bridge

Pan American Highway

General connection to the eastern neighborhoods and the peripheral ring

Heavy traffic road, the city's main external connector

To San JosĂŠ

Southern Bridge

Alternate exit route

Unique connection to Santa Cecilia neighborhood

Public transportation exit way to the eastern neighborhoods and the peripheral rings, city's alternate exit route

Families

Total residents

People of productive ages

1132 4412 2956 971 485

Children up to age 15

Senior citizens

The neighborhoods have been developed on new territories, which two decades ago were not taken into consideration for the development of the city because of the obstacle represented by the river. " The target audience will be the neighborhood residents, families, people in productive ages, children, and seniors. The accelerated growth and the lack of planning for these new territories, has produced a population structure almost without public space, weakening the organization, dialogue and exchange of its inhabitants. The neighborhoods should count, according to the standards projected for Latin America, with at least 44120m2 of public space in order to function properly. The current area destinated for the neighborhood's residents public space add about 0m2. The growth of the neighborhoods generates the saturation of the central park, and demands many unnecessary displacements to the residents. The new urbanized territory requires new public spaces, which in the past were unnecessary because of its rural situation, and were never considered during the urbanization process.

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Valley School

Internal analysis: Economic context

Dynamic and potentialities Productive Environment

Shops

Farmers Fair

Los Reyes Bar

Red Cross

Escalante Pradilla Hospital

The city possesses a high range of services and institutions that make it the main reference node in the south of the country. On the banks of the river the Farmers Fair has been installed. It's one of the few in the country with its own building, and one of the largest. Its dynamic and colorful activity promotes itself as a tourist attractor node. The fair has strong roots and social, cultural, and economic implications, for the city was founded and developed by the agricultural activity. The medium and small producers, which represent the largest and most fragile piece in the economic system of Perez Zeledon, found there a place to exchange and interact directly with the consumers. Agriculture becomes a cultural expression, and characterizes the canton, and therefore the city of San Isidro. The location of the program over the basin is an important factor in the city's consolidation processes. Even though at this time the element is confined to a corner on a segregated area, it offers the possibility to become a new milestone that could integrate a series of urban operations.

Rudis Hotel Police Station

La Corona Supermarket

Pali

Town Hall Cathedral Chirripo Hotel

National Bank

Arenas Store La Reina del Valle Bar

Sinf贸nica

INS

Post Office

Megasuper Supermarket

Pharmacies and clinics

Strengths The fact that the urban territory has expanded itself more because of necessity rather than because of spatial planning, has generated a great diversity in regard to social classes. There is also high availability and flexibility for a territorial expansion. Most of the residents on the neighborhoods work at the city. The territories have a high proximity condition with the city.

Opportunities The geomorphological conditions of the river's esplanade are favorable to a denser urban development, walking routes, comercial exchange and a dinamic urban life; also, the existing natural boundaries facilitate a mandatory status to densify the city. The several number of wastelands could cover the demands of public space generated by the neigborhoods. The riverfront generates favorable conditions for recreation spaces, walking routes, and bike paths, as an alternative option to that of the vehicle's.

Weaknesses The cultural ties that link the people with the river are too weak. There are no mechanisms, regulation plans or programs that direct and enhance the growth of the neighborhoods, as well as no public space in the neighborhoods.

Hazards The flooding river and the lack of control over the waterfront.

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Internal analysis: Synthesis

Operation and possibilities of the riverfront San Isidro del General

p The demand for public spaces and connectivity of the neighborhoods could be solved by the development of different strategies on the riverfront. The territory offers the possibility of facing the problem in several ways: public spaces, a linear park and pedestrian bridges, creating continuity and dialogue on both sides of the margin.

s Reforesting the riverfront and conserving the protected areas identified by the law withdrawals could balance the degradation of the river's biological corridor. The regeneration of the biological corridor through the development of a linear park, as a contemplative and functional element, could also be a very profitable tourist attractor.

o The economic environment indicates a series of activities that could be linked on both sides of the basin, and could also be potentiated by the generation of new paths, nodes, attractors and strategic routes.

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02 Sector 2

03 Sector 3

ZONE 3 | Northern side of the urban riverfront

flood level

Space Availability

Interaction between margins

Relationship with the river

Biological corridor density

Multifamily housing

Single family housing

Services

Trade

ZONE 2 | Central side of the urban riverfront

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Space Availability

Interaction between margins

Relationship with the river

Biological corridor density

Multifamily housing

Single family housing

Services

Trade

02 ZONE 3 | Southern side of the urban riverfront

flood level

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basin characteristics

basin characteristics basin characteristics

Space Availability

Interaction between margins

Relationship with the river

Biological corridor density

Multifamily housing

Single family housing

Services

Trade

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STRATEGY "The alienated city is above all a space in which people are unable to map (in their minds) either their own positions or the urban totality in which they find themselves" Lynch, Kevin (1960). The image of the city.

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Note: This document includes selected information to reference the thesis research. The complete document has been published on the web in the following addresses: nunez2010.blogspot.com or the author's profile: issuu.com/alenunez

Step 1 The longitudinal trajectories The parallel trajectories along the river are conceived as the central element that structures and organizes the transversal game of connections that unify the territory. This vertebral element is projected as a system of bike routes and walkways, optimizing mobility over the territory and allowing to break the actual dependence on the automobile. The parallel paths also maintain strong relations and a formal proximity to the river, allowing the integration of the segregated elements: the waterfront and the urban system, connecting the various programs proposed to the neighborhoods, such as: recreation, sports and contemplation. The main route is projected in a north-south direction along the Santa Cecilia neighborhood, also integrating the Pocito neighborhood at the north of the Pan American Highway, through a passage under the bridge. The north and south nodes consist in two observation towers of about 25m high each, developing a dual function: first, the role of thresholds, indicating the main points of access to the city park Q | Santa, and second, the function of guidance elements, taking advantage of the general horizontal condition of the city.

01 Implementation Spatial constuction strategy

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Step 2 Connect | The absent structures The proposal doesn't try to generate or impose new travel lines, or to compete with the current circulation patterns; it simply tries to improve them in function of the urban behavior knowledge, flow analysis, and projections of the appropriation capacity of the waterfront; taking the existing collective memory of the place and complementing it based on two basic principles: connect and extend. If we take a look at the previous models removing all the proposed new lines and connections, the many gaps, dead ends and low permeability of the urban structure become evident in both sides of the river, which difficult the recognition and appropriation of the city by its own habitants, and creates a barrier that prevents the territorial unification.

02 Implementation Spatial constuction strategy

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Step 3 Tangential nodes and transversal trajectories The nodes are the breaks in the tissue: the points of departure, arrival, and even pauses within the paths. These will be the elements with the capacity to convert the various spaces into places. Nodes are projected strategically and equipped with tactical activities: anchors and attractors that generate motion and tension on the travel lines over the territory. The paths are routed and bent around the node's tangential axes, allowing to demonstrate different activities in it during the habitant's daily displacements, promoting interaction and the exchange of ideas. Redundant nodes: Redundant nodes are proposed as tangential multiple nodes, with the ability to redirect and intersect several routes, increasing the chance of human contact. A single point can show several different perspectives of the same place. Redundancy is a common element of the learning processes, and in the urban behavior, an element with the capacity to generate and strengthen an urban culture. Redundant nodes will be linked with leisure activities, culture and general traffic. General nodes: General nodes act as elements of spatial diffusion and appropriation: as subliminal advertising. The relationships and forms adopted by the different nodes are consequential from the study of flows and the condition of the valley, the river, and the context limit, as a set of identifiable elements based on a specific language. The activities and the strategic positioning of the nodes seek to create relations with various elements of the river, the people, and the city. They seek to generate emotion and thought: â&#x20AC;&#x153;designing an experience that results in the appropriation of the placeâ&#x20AC;? (Tuan, 1977).

03 Implementation Spatial constuction strategy

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Step 4 Programming The different programs and activities are planned from the study of the possible relationships and links that can be established between them, both among the new programs and the existing programs, seeking to maximize the number of contacts and overall efficiency. The paths are configured hierarchically according to the intensity of the different relationships between programs, which are adapted in layers over the territory with the objective of maximizing the spatial uses and provide a hybrid platform. The programs are adapted to the river and the territory conditions, both formally and functionally, integrated through a series of public spaces in all layers, seeking to take the urban life to the higher levels.

04 Implementation Spatial constuction strategy

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Step 5 Public and permeable spaces The set of public, permeable, and reforestation spaces has multiple purposes: it will be the interface to integrate natural with artificial topological systems, protecting and regenerating the waterfront natural system throughout a strategy involving both functional and psychological aspects, by appealing to the collective memory of the population through recreation programs, transit, tourism, trade, and sports, to generate a series of relations of dependency between the urban systems. They seek to provide an integration platform that allows the exchange of ideas, but in addition, this platform aims to be a catalyst that guides the development of the city to a more consistent growth, more human, that promotes the growth of the general culture and urban life.

05 Implementation Spatial constuction strategy

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PROJECT "All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind". (Karl Marx) (Marshall Berman)

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Notes: This document includes selected references. The complete compilation of scenarios and the location of each can be seen in the attached document "Serial Views" of the thesis "Q | Santa". The complete compilation of charts and presentation boards for this project can be seen in the attached document "Graphic Guide" of the thesis "Q | Santa".

02 BMX ramps and Coffee plaza Overlapping programs can integrate diverse activities. BMX ramps, with a very dynamic activity oriented to a younger audience in the lower levels, superposed with contemplative programs on the upper plaza, composed of river observation areas, and as a service space attending the contextual demands of three complementary programs: a restaurant, a bar, and a coffee shop, seeking to maximize the various temporalities of the place.

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03 West bike route and Plaza Fuentes This plaza has a series of tangential relations with several trajectories. The most important of them would be with the Plaza Santa Cecilia, on the other side of river. The plaza is designed to operate as a pause for multiple travel lines and includes water and exposed concrete as design elements to reference the river flow and rocks.

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04 East bike route and bridge between Plaza Santa Cecilia and Plaza Fuentes The Plaza Santa Cecilia keep a formal relation with the Plaza Fuentes. It also integrates the bike path, the longitudinal deck over the river, various programs over the waterfront, and the public spaces on the upper levels. Non-permeable surfaces are handled as floating slabs, in order to reduce the interference with the underground water flows.

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05 Interstitial spaces and Plaza Santa Cecilia's Bridges The two layer plaza generates the possibility to distribute the urban life along the waterfront also into the higher levels, generating a multi-layered urban condition. The programs on the upper levels are selected by their far-reaching and high demand qualities, and activities with a wide temporary range, raising the potential of the upper layer.

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06 Bookstore at the Santa Cecilia Plaza The lower level of the plaza seeks to generate a condition of permanence, through a strategic distribution of the trees, shaded zones, permanent furniture, and some selected programs. The bookstore provides a reference node, which complements the architectural programs in the buildings and seeks to project the activities to the outside.

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12 North Tower, bus stops on the Pan American Highway The northern node has a special significance, placed on the side of the Pan American Highway, the country's most important road, with a very high traffic. The node consists of a localization tower and a northern access threshold to the project, a connector that integrates the western riverfront with the the shops, and a dynamic platform, with several ramps to facilitate movement, a bus stop, several elements of shading and arborization. At ground level a reflecting pool surrounding the tower, street furniture and a store intended to be a soda or ice cream shop to complement the picnic area.

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Q | SANTA Masterplan Overview Integration, and the development of this concept in theoretical and practical cases is probably the main contribution of this project, understood in its wider perspective: connections, communication, systems, travel lines: between people, between neighborhoods, between social strata, between architectural programs and activities, hoping to demonstrate that there are multiple ways to make city over the city, projecting it, connecting it, to make it more livable, integrated. The "dependency relations" concept was also developed, explaining and illustrating its potential for improving and perpetuating healthy relationships between the city and its natural context. Consequently, it provides a possible solution that will be complementary to the existing strategies for cleaning up the urban river, and through urban and anthropological resources that dictate that, in order to keep the river clean, we must go beyond the simple activity of cleaning it. We must also find ways to link it directly and unquestionably to the promotion of the city, the commercial success, cultural and social development of the community. This project demonstrates the formulation and development of a comprehensive intervention strategy, oriented to maximize relations and the productive potential of the city, through the balance between its operative systems. Promotes the idea that the thought in our profession must go beyond the walls of the building or the boundaries of the lot. Each project should contribute to the city, based on a proper consideration of the environment in which it will be developed, either social, economic or natural, or all at once as in most cases.

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SPA

Bar / Restaurante

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NPT 8.80

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Architectural Development The intervention faces the need to develop a regional and a flexible strategy of analysis and intervention (besides the generation of a new theoretical urban speech), and the development of a strong site study and diagnosis; a series of variables that raise the complexity level of the master plan, and consequently of the resultant architectural project. The project will be solved, initiating from the definition of the expected relations and the programmatic strategy, that would become a master plan aproach, defining itself, more aware and adapted as the scale increases, solving smaller areas each time.

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50m

Cicloruta

GRAPHICS

Parada de Autobuses

30m

NPT 7.00

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Lucernarios

Superficies en madera Tratamiento para exteriores

Policarbonato + Lámina microperforada

CPB

Estructura de soporte Tubo de acero

Superficies en madera Tratamiento para exteriores

Superficies en madera

Jardinera superior

Cubierta acrílica

En acero laminado en frío

Tratamiento para exteriores

Estructura transversal

Gradas y entrepisos En concreto armado

NPT 0.80

Deck Santa Cecilia

Bordes en acero

Canoas internas

Superficies en madera

Estructura longitudinal

Bajantes pluviales

Apoyos en acero

Tubo de acero

Nodo Santa Cecilia

Columnas en concreto

Estructura secundaria

Conector Interno

Estructura secundaria

Entrepiso en tubo estructural

NPT 4.60

Entrepiso en tubo estructural

NPT 4.60

NPT 0.80

NPT 4.60

Estructura monolítica en concreto armado

Conector a Plaza Fuentes

Remate a Plaza Fuentes

Tratamiento para exteriores

Estantes

Tubo de acero cromado + Malla microperforada

Vigas del paso elevado Postensadas

Muros en concreto armado

20cm, acabado en concreto expuesto

Barandas de cable tensado

2" cable superior, 1" cables inferiores

Gradas en madera

Estructura secundaria

Barandas de cable tensado

2" cable superior, 1" cables inferiores

Acceso superior

NPT 4.60

Deck en madera

Tratamiento para exteriores

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Plaza Santa Cecilia

En concreto armado

NPT 0.80

Conector a Plaza Fuentes

Placas de cimentación Pilotes de cimentación

Dependiendo de los resultados de laboratorio

NPT 0.80

Deck Santa Cecilia

Entrepiso en tubo estructural

Muros en concreto armado

40cm, acabado en concreto expuesto

NPT 4.60

40cm, acabado en concreto expuesto

Postensadas

Remate a Plaza Fuentes

Tratamiento para exteriores

Muros en concreto armado Vigas del puente

Área verde

Muros en concreto armado 20cm, acabado en concreto expuesto

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Muros en concreto armado

Entrepiso en tubo estructural

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Vigas del puente Postensadas

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Calle pública Ciclovía y ruta peatonal

Loza flotante prefabricada en concreto

Pilotes de cimentación

Jardineras centrales

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NPT 0.80

40cm, acabado en concreto expuesto

Placas de cimentación En concreto armado

Conector a Plaza Fuentes

Carpeta asfáltica

Muros en concreto armado

NPT 0.80

Conector a Plaza Fuentes

NPT 4.60

Remate a Plaza Fuentes

ISOMETRICO LIBRERIA Y PLAZA SANTA CECILIA

Barandas de cable tensado 2" cable superior, 1" cables inferiores

Vigas del puente Postensadas

SEC

Lucernarios

Policarbonato + Lámina microperforada

Estructura de soporte

Tubo de acero

Jardinera superior

Canoas internas

En acero laminado en frío

Estructura monolítica en concreto armado

Barandas de cable tensado

Gradas y entrepisos

2" cable superior, 1" cables inferiores

Canoas internas

En acero laminado en frío

Jardinera superior

Gradas y entrepisos

Estructura monolítica en concreto armado

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0.8

Conector Interno

Plaza Elevada

NPT 1.20

NPT 4.60

Plaza Elevada

Nodo Santa Cecilia

NPT 4.60

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Iluminación para interiores Spots de 50w

Jardinera superior

Cielos en fibrolit

Tierra vegetal

Filtros

Base del Jardín

Recolectores internos de agua de la jardinera

0.2

3.8

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Filtro

Iluminación exterior indirecta

Piedra tercera

Alogenos 100w

3.4

Luces direccionales

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Bajantes pluviales

Tubo de acero

Estantes

Tubo de acero cromado + Malla microperforada

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Tubo de acero cromado + Malla microperforada

Muros en concreto armado

20cm, acabado en concreto expuesto

0.7

2.2

2.4 0.4 0.7

0.7

Iluminación exterior indirecta Alogenos 100w

Muros de concreto

Muros en concreto armado

Rejillas

0.9

Tubo de acero + Malla microperforada

En cuero sintético

Librería

NPT 1.20

Rejillas

Sillones de lectura

0.5

Plaza Santa Cecilia

Acabado lujado reflectivo mate

20cm, acabado en concreto expuesto

2.4

NPT 1.20

Tubo de acero + Malla microperforada

0.5

0.8

Librería

1.2

Plaza Santa Cecilia NPT 1.20

NPT 1.20

0.4

0.4 Contrapiso En concreto

Canales de recolección de aguas

Contrapiso

En concreto

Canales de recolección de aguas

En concreto

Lastre compactado

0.6 2.2

0.6

1.6

1.8

2.8

T03

0.6

2.8

4.6

T04

T12

T13

T12

T04

T11

T03

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10 | DESIGN WORKSHOP The organization of the new cities tends to question the traditional methods: the rigidity of the orthogonal grid and land use limitations. We can mix services, commerce and housing to improve the behavior of the urbanized territory, manipulate travel lines and general flow to achieve a more adaptable environment. In this proposal, we try to apply these concepts, interconnecting the entire set, allowing continuity, transition and interaction between the various programmatic elements that compose the project. We seek to integrate certain services in the residential area and expand the circulation spaces to give a more urban character to the higher levels.

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SECOND PERIOD | 2008

D10 MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING

This project's first intention was to reinterpretate the way of life of the Liberia city's residents, and adapt it to a vertical housing scheme. We developed a vertical neighborhood concept, creating spaces that enable interactions among the housing units' users. The levels of interaction and proximity among the people of Liberia are very high, and we tried to promote this community behavior, attempting to provide also a certain level of privacy to expand the project's market angle. The common areas provide a space to generate vertical flows and green shaded public spaces, creating micro-climates between the housing blocks. We decided to summarize our intentions in 4 words:

CONTRAPOSITION PARALLELISM CONTENTION FLUIDITY In order to explain these 4 four concepts, we first definined the contraposition as the way we seek to link the commercial activity with the residential area, generating direction changes in formal and functional terms in the set, with the objective of achieving blocking the massive commerce invasion inside the new neighborhood, the urban infiltration. In the case the parallelism, it would be implemented regarding to the residential and commercial buildings' distribution, to generate double blocks with the same direction and a shared circulation line. The fluidity refers to the general behavior that we seek for the multiple routes, covering the entire field, defining the space and form of the multi-family blocks, and generating direct and continuous connections. The concept of linearity can be seen reflected in these connections, and also a way to establish the program within the site.

We decided to compare the residential uses' typology used to establish a contraposition between the commercial and residential uses. The general routes will be external and the commercial blocks will be located in the center providing space for 2 facades and 2 different commercial areas. As a first step in the set developing process, manipulating the social networks' concept, we generate a series of intentions that we apply directly in an intuitive manner on the site, defining the main the access point, and based on it, and using the line, point and plane theory, we developed all the routes (both pedestrian and vehicular), nodes and architectural programs.

Working area

Geometrizing by golden section

Distribution of radios

Set distribution

Housing blocks distribution

SOCIAL NETWORKS SERVICES + COMMERCE + HOUSING A network is defined as a set of nodes linked by lines. A network usually defines the relations between the components and subcomponents that compose it, and also their behavior and intensity. A component is a subset of nodes and relations.

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RURAL Medium Exploitation High Privacy Horizontality

URBAN High Efficiency Agglomeration Verticality

DISPLACE + CONTAIN CONTINUITY | MOTION | SPACE | PROTECTION Based on the concept developed in the master plan initial model, the component would try to break the symmetry, the static generated by the simple repetition of elements creating a more continuous set, by appling the displacement concept to fold the program, resulting in a more dynamic composition, more mobile and temporal. This organization generate 6 different and integrated habitational components, which are configured in a way that they keep a negative space, an open area in the center that would work as a contention and private social space.

REFERENCES

CIUDADELA COLSUBSIDIO Colsubsidio highlights a number of important guidelines, some of them similar to those we expect to apply to achieve our project goals. As the fundamental principle, it is designed based on the people, rather than the car, which provides a much more livable city and a higher space quality. It defines three design objectives to consider: the humanization of the city, preserving the privacy of the home and generating public life, an integrated neighborhood, that has complementary services to the residents, as food markets, recreation, healthcare facilities, and finally, a unique identity.

80M2

62M2

TWO Bedrooms

DISPLACEMENT The displacement concept allows to generate a more dynamic and continuous set. Applied to the program, it generates a flow in the composition, creating voids and contention spaces, the program defines more dynamic and continuous limits that set the individuality of each element.

ONE Bedroom

CONTENTION The contention areas between the housing units' set will function as social private spaces, where even the children could play safely.

80M2 TWO Bedrooms

SPACE Duplex and triplex housing generate a more dynamic and continuous space, giving a stronger character to the different housing units, visual openings, liberation, airflows and a better distribution.

130M2 THREE Bedrooms

PROTECTION The projections, additions, subtractions and slopes of the project, besides the material selection, maintain the objective of working as a climate protection for the Guanacaste's desert weather. The concrete functions as an excellent thermal insulator, which would generate a higher comfort level in the internal spaces.

STRUCTURE

75M2

40M2

PROGRAM

TWO Bedrooms

ONE Bedroom

COMPONENT

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COMPONENT

The component is developed in different design areas, trying to perform accurately in all of them in every way, from the concept, to space and structure. In this graphic, the component is shown in its western and northern facades, showing a solid and strong facade that protects the interiors from the eastern sun, and a much lighter one to the north; also the continuity and dynamism in the concept proposed.

PROTECTION

STRUCTURE

The grids, in addition to some climate protection also provide a virtual boundary that gives more privacy to the internal spaces. The structure functions as an envelope of concrete floors and walls. The roofs attempt to express the function of space: the form the program.

The structural design's basic principle is the continuity, allowing the space to fluctuate: sometimes setting itself free with a double height, connecting other single or triple height spaces, and sometimes compressing and adapting itself in low circulation or intentional smaller areas. It introduces a game of thin and thick walls, depending to the structural or design needs, distributing also the building's machanic system.

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Eastern View

Southern View

Northern View

Considering the concept based in a game of movements and displacements of the programmatic components, the continuity offered by a reinforced concrete system with load-bearing walls will satisfy the need from both design and structural points of view.

| STRUCTURE

-00 Level -4.00m

+05 Roof

+04

Level 9.00m

+03 Level 6.00m

+02 Level 3.00m

+01 Level 0.00m

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Presentation Model

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Impermeabilizante acrilico Impermeabilizante acrilico

Malla electrosoldada

varilla #5 @ 25cms AD

Viguetas pretensadas

Tipo PC 3 con bloques tipo C

Cielo en plycem

a=3

Cielo en plycem

Cielorraso suspendido con ensambles automaticos

0.5

a=3

Paredes de bloques 19x20x40 cms

a=3

Cubierta de lamina ondulada HG Calibre 31

Clavadores

Tubo estructural a=3

Larguero

Tubo estructural 92x92x1.8mm

Emplantillado

2.5x5 cms @ 60 cms a=3

Malla electrosoldada varilla #5 @ 25cms AD

Malla electrosoldada Viguetas pretensadas

varilla #5 @ 25cms AD

Tipo PC 3 con bloques tipo C

Viguetas pretensadas

Cielo en plycem

Cielorraso suspendido con ensambles automaticos

Marco de ventana

Tipo PC 3 con bloques tipo C

Cielo en plycem

0.3

Cielorraso suspendido con ensambles automaticos

Aluminio + Vidro entintado de 6mm de grosor

Paredes de bloques

19x20x40 cms

Marco de ventana Malla electrosoldada

varilla #5 @ 25cms AD

Viguetas pretensadas

Tipo PC 3 con bloques tipo C

Cielo en plycem

Cielorraso suspendido con ensambles automaticos

0.3

Selected Details

Aluminio + Vidro entintado de 6mm de grosor

0.5

Private housing modules

Total population capacity

Overall View

Total parking spaces

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Internal View | Spatial quality, the housing modules composition

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11 | DESIGN WORKSHOP The context, either physical, social, cultural, economic, natural, or combinations of them, ends up defining the language, behavior and form of the project, its architectural programs, events, shapes and densities. But it also demands to us a critical and ethical thought about the possible impacts generated by the project, its materials and resource management, and its future operation expenses, both in its early or late stages. The project presented below seeks to achieve a balance between the demands of economic growth and tourism of the Carrillo Town, with the possible impacts on their culture and natural resources.

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THIRD PERIOD | 2008

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Puerto Carrillo Cultural Center | Observatory

Plans | Sections | Perspective Views

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12 | DESIGN WORKSHOP Urban Marginality | Social Housing "The first action to achieve a change has to be restoring their self-esteem" (Gisela Aranda, 2002).

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FIRST PERIOD | 2009

420 2100 25600 Families

Inhabitants

M2 The main focus of this part of the study is to understand the housing situation that considers, on a primary instance, the individual, thereby achieving a more human element, more contextualized, more efficient from many points for view, capable to adapt, considering the appreciation of the object more as a process, that in some point will be able to integrate into the community, not as an imposition, that would instead generate segregation. Developed in order to achieve a common understanding of the situation from an external position, as a theoretical framework.

Barrio Nuevo | Curridabat

San JosĂŠ | Costa Rica 79 | 80

After analyzing multiple studies and graphics about population migration tendencies, it is known that the immigrants move primarily from the periphery to the center and vice versa. This movement to the interior of the city is explained by many reasons, mainly practical: the search for more opportunities, security, status, affordable housing, and the social policies of the government.

Not for me ... for my children, so they can live a better life!

MARGINALIZATION Barrio Nuevo's exclusion process is generated by 3 main elements, the San Jose neighborhood, Las Rosas neighborhood, its surrounding factories, and the Multiplaza Mall.

San Jose Neighborhood | 01 There's a rejection to Barrio Nuevo generated by the residents of the San Jose neighborhood and the industrial sector, essentially because of social problems. This rejection is even expressed in a physical way, through a strong and high wall.

Multiplaza Mall | 02 The rejection from Multiplaza Mall has always existed; because the ghetto debilitates its commercial image, but the case is that the mall is posterior to the neighborhood.

Las Rosas Neighborhood | 03 The strongest issue, referring to the marginalization and rejection of Barrio Nuevo, occurs in this area, where the neighbors have even hampered their main access.

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Up Better construction quality Religious instalations Electric service Communal dining Vehicular access

Down

River's risk zone Low construction quality Drug problems No electric service Sewage

Up vrs Down

Within the neighborhood itself there's a marginalization process, the up and down sides, generated by various conditions: social and economic; they talk about drugs, problems paying the electric bills (for these are shared between various families), and accessibility

Contamination Industrial area, waste in the river, etc. Adictions Drug and alcohol abuse. Crime Assaults in the area. Lack of sexual education High birth rates, disease. Community organization Lack of an organization.

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Toll of 100 colones one-way, 200 round trip, controlled on a private house to cross to San JosĂŠ neighborhood.

The vehicular access is a dirt road that operates as a service access to the factories, of about 800m long.

01 WALL

HUMAN PHYSICAL LIMIT

Physical limits built by the factories and the San Jose neighborhood function as a strong segregation factor.

02 RIVER

TOPOGRAPHY + RIVER (NATURAL LIMIT)

The river and the topography constitute strong determining factors for the neigborhood's segregation process.

The bridge constitutes the main access to the neighborhood, and the most problematic area because of the landslide occurred on September 2009.

*ADAPTATION

The use, changes in use, material handling and reuse, reflect to some point their way of life, trying to move forward with all available means.

*ROOTS

The neighborhood shows its own identity, the desire for improvement in the way that they try to work the aesthetics of their houses with the short amount of materials that they can get, usually reused.

"The generation of a house inside another house as a process of mutation, evolution, where the house improves its conditions by developing a new structure from the inside, more like a living being than a lifeless building".

MORPHOGENESIS As a metaphor, the morphogenesis applies to many levels of the social structure: change, mutation, improving; in some cases gradually degenerating from generation to generation. In this case, we found it interesting how it applies to the development of the house, and how we might include this aspect to the proposal, reusing the components in better conditions to generate a new structure from the inside, that reflects an improvement in the living standards of the Barrio Nuevo's residents, evolution.

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Considering all the results from the analisis, a conventional home is not what's needed, in this case, the answer probably doesn't even arise as a permanent shelter because of the ilegal status of the local residents on the ground, however, it may be a home that each individual could understand, inhabit and a living space that they can appropriate...

NOMADA

METAPROJECT

In some way, the concept is consistent with what we are searching for with this project, the marginal and illegal situation in which the neighborhood is involved, like many others in the country, could refer to a nomadic subsistence culture; the migrations. A sector of the population that is exposed to possible evictions and natural disasters, such as: floods, landslides, and fires. The project consists of a temporary shelter, mostly for emergencies, so that the users have the opportunity to count on a portable protection for any of the cases mentioned, to suit their basic requirements.

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NOMADA | MODEL CONSTRUCTION D12 TEAM | 1:1 LAB MODEL

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CASEWORK BAMBOO FREESTANDING STRUCTURE

FINAL PROPOSAL

PARASITE PROJECT Our main objective was to design and install a multi-functional structure whose primary priority would be to provide an emergency shelter to the neighborhood's population, but that would also provide the possibility to be a flexible space to host various activities within the community of Barrio Nuevo.

Taking an existing program with strong social implications (such as the communal dining) as our previous studies had already defined, we think of a way to complement it adding a new element, as a sort of parasite program, that tries to fit and improve the existing one. The parasite program proposed, disagreed, in some way, with the roots of the word: as contrary to a parasitic relationship, the introduction of a new programatic component would produce a mutuality situation, where the communal dining is complemented and projected outside through the new space, and the new space would feed out of the existing social roots of the dining.

PANEL SET

PLAYFUL CHARACTER The multiple choices, the game, the mutations, and the alternatives would be a determining part of the project, considering the flexibility required for a multi-functional installation like this, with different spaces and configurations; and with the children as the target user, these ideas will be implicit in the project's concept root.

The spaces could be adapted, expanded, reduced, joined, and divided depending on the specific need of the moment, such as: an emergency shelter, a toilet block, a play space or a little shop.

Â˘152,515 Total price for materials in colones

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GRECIA HOUSE DELIVERY DATE: 03 | 2009 APPROXIMATE AREA: 210m2 LOCATION: Alajuela, Costa Rica The project Grecia House is a single-family house developed with the interior designer Nelly Arias. The client is a lawyer with his children and mother. The design was generated following very closely the client's needs, through fellowship and a series of casual meeting with him and his family. The project achieves to suit all of the expectations of language and spatiality that the client requires. The program was distributed with the size guidelines arranged during the meetings and the design process. Grecia House fulfilled the relevant contracts for preliminary studies, preliminary and construction plans.

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PROFESSIONAL | 2009

PERSPECTIVE | Main facade

23.6 1.55

4.56

1.25

2.41

0.8

1.45

1.55

3.8

2.3

1.55

2.3

4.56

1.25

2.41

estacionamiento

0.8

1.45

1.61

1.55

baﾃｱo

0.72

5 2

P10

0.72

balcon

dormitorio

F1 C1

F2 C1

sala

dormitorio

jardin seco

baja

2 2

F1 C3

sala

F1 C1

terraza

F1 C3

sube

cocina

comedor

F1 C1

baja

F1 C1

P6 baja

0.95

CORTE B - B

3 2

P11

CORTE A - A

0.97

P9 2

F1 C1

baﾃｱo 3

dormitorio

lavado

F1 C1

0.95

P11

baja

2.38

CORTE E - E

8.5

F2 C1

0.97

CORTE E - E

baja

F1 C1

2 3

2.38

D 3

8.5

baja

baﾃｱo

F1 C1

1.56

CORTE D - D C5

CONSTRUCTIVE PLANS | Architectural floor plans

B terraza 1.56

2.3

2 4

acceso principal

2.3

1.87

3.8

1.87

CORTE D - D

23.6

1.61

CORTE C - C

espejo de agua

CORTE A - A

CORTE B - B

CORTE C - C

FUTURO MURO CONTEMPLADO

TABLA DE ACABADOS

A FINCAS

GY A FINCAS

CIELO DE LAMINA DE FIBROLIT DE 8mm DE ESPESOR CON SUSPENSION METALICA (furing) @ 60cms SELLADO, LIJADO Y PINTADO

CIELORRASO ANCLADO LAMINA DE FIBROLIT DE 8mm DE ESPESOR, 1.22m x 2.44m

PLANTA ARQUITECTONICA

SEGUNDO NIVEL ESCALA 1:50

PRIMER NIVEL ESCALA 1:50

CIELOS

PISOS

34.500

507

LOCALIZACION

CERAMICA ANTIDESLIZANTE DE 40x40cm. SIZAS DE 3mm *VER ESPECIFICACIONES

CERAMICA ANTIDESLIZANTE PARA BAﾃ前S. SIZAS DE 3mm *VER ESPECIFICACIONES

DECK EN MADERA *VER ESPECIFICACIONES

ACABADO EN CONCRETO EXPUESTO SEGUN DETALLES

ACABADO EN ZACATE BLOCK SEGUN DETALLES

PISO EPOXICO RESCRETE RCCR (ADITEC, TELEFONO: 22151915) O SIMILAR *DOBLE CAPA, VER DETALLE EN CORTES

PAREDES DE BLOQUES DE CONCRETO 15x40x20cms (25cms) REPELLADO, ACABADO LUJADO

PAREDES DE BLOQUES DE CONCRETO 20x40x20cms (20cms) REPELLADO, ACABADO LUJADO

SIN ESCALA

CALLE PUBLICA

UBICACION

PAREDES

PLANTA DE CONJUNTO Y MOVIMIENTO DE TIERRAS

ESCALA 1:500 SERVIDUMBRE DE PASO A SAN ISIDRO

3 LOTE

PARED LIVIANA CUBIERTA EN MADERA ESTRUCTURA EN PERFILERIA LIVIANA DE METALCO *VER ESPECIFICACIONES

PARED LIVIANA CUBIERTA EN LAMINA DE FIBROLIT DE 8mm DE ESPESOR ESTRUCTURA EN PERFILERIA LIVIANA DE METALCO *VER ESPECIFICACIONES

VIDRIO *VER ESPECIFICACIONES

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PERSPECTIVE | Deck, terrace, and double height living room

8.5 1.87

1.57

0.72

0.97

2.3

0.95

BOTAGUA HG # 26

2.3

3.8

1.55

1.61

1.45

0.8

2.41

1.25

4.56

1.55

BOTAGUA HG # 26

LAGRIMERO HG # 26 1.24

23.6

2.38

LAGRIMERO HG # 26

CUBIERTA DE LAMINA ONDULADA

TUBO ESTRUCTURAL 92x92x1.8mm

1.24

CANOA HG #24

0.18

0.6

0.8

7.44

7.44 3 2

2.4

0.8

2.4

6.38 6.2 PUERTA DESLIZABLE

1.02

PUERTA DESLIZABLE 0.8

NPT 3.20

0.3 0.6

0.6

2.6

0.6

0.8

0.86

1 2.9 1

2 2.2

0.87

2 2.2

0.87

NPT 0.00

2.6

2.2

BAJANTE PLUVIAL

NPT -0.10

2.2

NPT 0.00 PUERTA PRINCIPAL

ESTRUCTURA EN MADERA

FACHADA OESTE

FACHADA NORTE

ESCALA 1:50

8.5

CONSTRUCTIVE PLANS | General facades

0.95

0.97

23.6

2.38

0.72

1.56

1.55

1.87

4.56

1.25

2.41

0.8

1.45

1.61

1.55

3.8

2.3

BOTAGUA HG # 26

LAGRIMERO HG # 26

0.99

CUBIERTA DE LAMINA ONDULADA

1.24

TUBO ESTRUCTURAL 92x92x1.8mm

CANOA HG #24

0.26

0.6

1.8

8.24

7.44 2.4

0.6

1.8 2.4 3

6.2

VF 6.8

0.6

NPT 3.20

0.6

2.6

NPT 3.20 0.6

2.2

3.2

PUERTA DESLIZABLE BAJANTE PLUVIAL

BAJANTE PLUVIAL

NPT 0.00

PUERTA DESLIZABLE

NPT 0.00

VF BAJANTE PLUVIAL

NPT -0.60

BAJANTE PLUVIAL

NPT -0.60

DECK 01 2

DECK 02 DECK 02

FACHADA ESTE

FACHADA SUR

ESCALA 1:50

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PERSPECTIVE | Master bedroom, zenithal natural lighting

8.5 1.87

1.57

0.72

2.38

0.97

0.95

1.87

BOTAGUA HG # 26

CUBIERTA DE LAMINA ONDULADA

TUBO ESTRUCTURAL 92x92x1.8mm

0.72

2.38

0.97

0.95

BOTAGUA HG # 26

LAGRIMERO HG # 26 1.24

CUBIERTA DE LAMINA ONDULADA

TUBO ESTRUCTURAL 92x92x1.8mm

CANOA HG #24

1.57

BOTAGUA HG # 26

LAGRIMERO HG # 26 1.24

8.5

CANOA HG #24

0.18

0.6

7.44 3

0.18

0.6

7.44 3 2

2.4

2 PARED LIVIANA EN MADERA

RECUBRIMIENTO EPOXICO *VER ESPECIFICACIONES

BAJANTE PLUVIAL PVC SDR-26 DIAMETRO 100mm

NPT 3.20

2.4 2.2

6.38

ESTRUCTURA EN PERFILERIA LIVIANA

1.02

NPT 3.20

6.98

1.02

NPT 3.20

0.3 0.58

0.58

0.6

NCT 2.62

NCT 2.62 ENTREPISO PENDIENTE 2%

ENTREPISO POLIBLOCK H660 VAR #3 @ 0.25m AD

0.8

CONSTRUCTIVE PLANS | Structural sections

0.4 2.9

2.62 4

2.2

3.22

1.4 PARED LIVIANA EN MADERA ESTRUCTURA EN PERFILERIA LIVIANA

NPT 0.00

NPT 0.00 PUERTA DESLIZABLE *VER ESPECIFICACIONES

ZACATE BLOCK LASTRE COMPACTADO

CONTRAPISO

HA-210-25-B

NPT -0.60

MALLA ELECTROSOLDADA

MALLA ELECTROSOLDADA VAR #5 @ 25cms AD

VAR #5 @ 25cms AD

CONTRAPISO HA-210-25-B

MALLA ELECTROSOLDADA VAR #5 @ 25cms AD

CORTE A - A

CORTE B - B

ESCALA 1:50

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PERSPECTIVE | Double height living room, tv room and upper corridors

23.6 2.3

2.3

3.8

1.55

1.61

1.45

0.8

2.41

1.25

4.56

1.55

BOTAGUA HG # 26 CUBIERTA DE LAMINA ONDULADA RECUBRIMIENTO EPOXICO *VER ESPECIFICACIONES

TUBO ESTRUCTURAL 92x92x1.8mm

RECUBRIMIENTO EPOXICO PAREDES INTERIORES DE LA LOSA *VER ESPECIFICACIONES

0.58

NCT 5.62

NCT 5.62 ENTREPISO POLIBLOCK H660 VAR #3 @ 0.25m AD

ENTREPISO POLIBLOCK H660 VAR #3 @ 0.25m AD

1.8

2.42

1.8

6.81

2.42

6.2

1.02 0.6

0.6

NPT 3.20

0.58

NCT 2.62

CONSTRUCTIVE PLANS | Structural sections

ENTREPISO POLIBLOCK H660 VAR #3 @ 0.25m AD

2.62 3.24

2.6

NPT -0.61

NPT -0.60

NPT 0.00

CONTRAPISO HA-210-25-B

MALLA ELECTROSOLDADA VAR #5 @ 25cms AD

CONTRAPISO HA-210-25-B

DECK 02 *MADERA SEGUN ESPECIFICACIONES

MALLA ELECTROSOLDADA VAR #5 @ 25cms AD

CORTE E - E ESCALA 1:50

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COLUMNAS EXTERIORES DE MADERA

DETALLE DE ARTICULACION

COLUMNAS EXTERIORES DE MADERA

DETALLE DE ARTICULACION

COLUMNA DE MADERA 20x20cm

VISTA LATERAL ESCALA 1:5

COLUMNA DE MADERA 20x20cm

DETALLE DE ARTICULACION

VISTA LATERAL ESCALA 1:5

COLUMNA DE MADERA 20x20cm

VISTA FRONTAL ESCALA 1:5

8 cm

10 cm

a : menor que 0.18 cm

10 cm

8 cm

a : menor que 0.18 cm

0.5

30째

a : menor que 0.18 cm

0.19

0.08

30째

PLACAS DE ACERO 5mm DE GROSOR PLACA DE ACERO 10mm DE GROSOR

0.3

PLACAS DE ACERO 5mm DE GROSOR

PLACA DE ACERO 10mm DE GROSOR

PERNOS DE ANCLAJE 4 var #3

0.14

2 var #3

PERNOS DE ANCLAJE 4 var #3

2 var #3

COLUMNAS EXTERIORES DE MADERA

PERNOS ACERO GALVANIZADO VIGA DE MADERA 35x6cm

VIGA DE MADERA 30x12cm

ANGULAR ACERO GALVANIZADO

COLUMNA DE MADERA 20x20cm

TORNILLOS ACERO GALVANIZADO

PERNOS DE ANCLAJE 4 var #3

DETALLE DE ARTICULACION

2 var #3

8 cm a : menor que 0.18 cm

VISTA DE ARRIBA ESCALA 1:5

10 cm a : menor que 0.18 cm

COLUMNAS EXTERIORES DE MADERA

HA-210-25-B Acero longitudinal G60 Acero transversal G60 6 var #3 AROS #3 @ 10cms los primeros (2d) AROS #3 @ 20cms el resto

PLACAS DE ACERO 5mm DE GROSOR

ARTICULACION

8 cm

PLACA DE ACERO 10mm DE GROSOR

ARTICULACIONES SUPERIORES ESCALA 1:5

a : menor que 0.18 cm

0.19 0.12

0.08

0.3

0.14

PERNOS DE ANCLAJE 6 var #3 PERNOS ACERO GALVANIZADO VIGA DE MADERA 30x12cm

VIGA DE MADERA 30x12cm

COLUMNA DE MADERA 20x20cm

CAJA

PLACA DE ACERO 5mm DE GROSOR

ESTRUCTURA EN VARILLA 2 var #3 0.092 0.13

COLUMNAS EXTERIORES DE MADERA

ARTICULACION

ARTICULACIONES SUPERIORES ESCALA 1:5

TUBO ESTRUCTURAL ACERO GALVANIZADO 92x92x1.8mm

10 cm a : menor que 0.18 cm

HA-210-25-B Acero longitudinal G60 Acero transversal G60 6 var #4 2 var #3 AROS #3 @ 10cms los primeros (2d) AROS #3 @ 20cms el resto

TUBO ESTRUCTURAL ACERO GALVANIZADO 92x92x1.8mm TUBO ESTRUCTURAL ACERO GALVANIZADO 92x92x1.8mm PLACA DE ACERO 5mm DE GROSOR

0.6

PLACA DE ACERO 5mm DE GROSOR

0.092

10 cm

PERNOS DE ANCLAJE 4 var #3

a : menor que 0.18 cm

0.2

PERNOS DE ANCLAJE 4 var #3

a : menor que 0.18 cm

0.25

VARIANTE SOBRE LA VIGA 1

0.25

DETALLE DE ARTICULACION

0.25

0.141 0.141

0.25

0.2

ESCALA 1:5 0.25

VIGA 01

VISTA FRONTAL

VISTA DE ARRIBA

VIGA 01

SELECTED DETAILS | Joints, beams and arbours

30째

0.5

PERNOS DE ANCLAJE

PLACA DE ACERO

6 var #3

5mm DE GROSOR 10 cm

a : menor que 0.18 cm

0.15

TUBO ESTRUCTURAL ACERO GALVANIZADO

TUBO ESTRUCTURAL ACERO GALVANIZADO 92x92x1.8mm

PERNOS DE ANCLAJE

CAJA

108.7°

ESTRUCTURA EN VARILLA 2 var #3

1.83

0.15

1.83

0.55

4 var #3

0.15

92x92x1.8mm

PLACA DE ACERO 5mm DE GROSOR

AROS #3 @ 10cms los primeros (2d)

10 cm

0.15

2 var #5

a : menor que 0.18 cm 0.1

VIGA 6

DETALLE DE SECCION ESCALA 1:10

V06

0.1

86.9°

60°

0.2

0.6

V01

0.2

HA-210-25-B

0.2

V01

2 var #5

0.2

1 var #4

Acero longitudinal G60 Acero transversal G60 6 var #4 2 var #3 AROS #3 @ 10cms los primeros (2d) AROS #3 @ 20cms el resto

AROS #3 @ 20cms el resto

PERNOS DE ANCLAJE

PLACA DE ACERO

6 var #3

5mm DE GROSOR 10 cm

a : menor que 0.18 cm

CAJA

0.15

TUBO ESTRUCTURAL ACERO GALVANIZADO

TUBO ESTRUCTURAL ACERO GALVANIZADO 92x92x1.8mm

PERNOS DE ANCLAJE

108.7°

ESTRUCTURA EN VARILLA 2 var #3

1.83

0.15

1.83

0.55

4 var #3

0.15

92x92x1.8mm

PLACA DE ACERO 5mm DE GROSOR

AROS #3 @ 10cms los primeros (2d)

10 cm

0.15

2 var #5

SELECTED DETAILS | Ceiling beams

a : menor que 0.18 cm 0.1

VIGA 7

DETALLE DE SECCION

V07

0.1

86.9°

60°

0.2

ESCALA 1:10

0.6

0.8

V01

HA-210-25-B Acero longitudinal G60 Acero transversal G60 4 var #5 2 var #4 4 var #3 AROS #3 @ 10cms los primeros (2d) AROS #3 @ 20cms el resto

0.2

2 var #5 1 var #4 AROS #3 @ 20cms el resto 0.1

0.1

1.92

V01

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AV BRAZIL DELIVERY DATE: 04 | 2010 APPROXIMATE AREA: 7218M2 LOCATION: San Jose, Costa Rica The project AV Brazil consists of a development in its prefeasibility, preliminary studies and preliminary design stages. The terrain is located in Sabana Norte, San JosĂŠ in a high plus value zone. The project was conceived as a redefinition of a previously developed project by other professionals, which couldn't get the approval of the city authorities because of unmet density expectations projected in the PRUGAM Plan for the Metropolitan Area of San Jose. The apartment building aims to satisfy the expectations of the client, supported by studies on the real estate market and the high housing demand that has been growing around La Sabana Metropolitan Park. The research attempts to cover all regulatory implications and considers the market demands, because they will dictate the projects final shape.

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PROFESSIONAL | 2010

VIEW | Main facade

CORTE A

44.6

21.2 6.5

2.1

6.5

7.8

6.6

2.2

6.6

7.4

8.7

5.4

NPT 17.80

CUBIERTA DE LAMINA ONDULADA

NPT 14.80

MURO CORTINA VIDRIO TEMPLADO CON PROTECCION UV

NPT 11.80

ESTRUCTURA PORTANTE EN ACERO

ESCALERA PRINCIPAL NPT 8.80

NPT 8.80

NPT 5.80

MUROS EN CONCRETO ARMADO

NPT 2.80

NPT 0.00

CORTE A

NPT 0.00

PRELIMINARY PLANS | Facades and sections

6.5

2.1

6.5

7.8

6.6

2.2

6.6

7.4

8.7

5.4

TERRAZA

NPT 17.80

CUBIERTA DE LAMINA ONDULADA

NPT 14.80

44.6

21.2

CUBIERTA DE LAMINA ONDULADA

PASILLO

DORMITORIO

NPT 14.80

PASILLO

DORMITORIO

NPT 11.80

MURO CORTINA VIDRIO TEMPLADO CON PROTECCION UV

NPT 11.80

PASILLO

ESTRUCTURA PORTANTE EN ACERO

ESCALERA PRINCIPAL NPT 8.80

PASILLO

DORMITORIO

NPT 8.80

NPT 5.80

PASILLO

DORMITORIO

NPT 5.80

NIVEL PUBLICO

NPT 2.80

NIVEL PUBLICO

NPT 0.00

ESTACIONAMIENTO

MUROS EN CONCRETO ARMADO

CALLE DE DISTRIBUCION INTERNA

ESTACIONAMIENTO

NPT 0.00

ELEVADOR

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VIEW | Main facade

CORTE A

44.6 7.8

6.6

2.2

6.6

7.4

44.6 8.7

5.4

7.8

6.6

2.2

BALCON

6.6

7.4

8.7

5.4

BALCON

DECK EN MADERA

estacionamientos

6.5

NPT 0.00

02 2

NPT 5.80

apartamento tipo 1

apartamento tipo 2

apartamento tipo 3

SUBE

21.2 2.1

DIVISIONES INTERNAS LIVIANAS

04 elevadores

2.1

PRELIMINARY PLANS | Architectural floor plans

NPT 5.80

CORTE B

SUBE

MURO CORTINA 2.1

NPT 0.00

pasillo de distribucion NPT 5.80

BAJA

elevadores

VIDRIO TEMPLADO CON PROTECCION UV

NPT 5.80

CORTE B

06 MUROS ESTRUCTURALES CONCRETO ARMADO estacionamientos

6.5

apartamento tipo 1

apartamento tipo 2

apartamento tipo 3

NPT 5.80

6.5

NPT 0.00

BALCON

puesto de control NPT 0.00

CALLE PUBLICA

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AV BRAZIL Costs and areas | General projections The building height respects the regulatory 18m raised in the PDU (Urban Development Plan of the San Jose Municipality) and the density requirements projected on the PRUGAM Plan. Even though the plan allows more height due to space limitations in the terrain, conservative approach has been taken, trying of find a balance between the number of parking spaces and the number of habitable rooms, seeking to avoid unnecessary expenses or major investments such as building a parking basement, where the descent ramp would consume a very important area which would break the balance between the architectural program, design, and the land dimensions. The program and design was directed to a public of upper middle class, therefore the design quality and form plays a fundamental role seeking to be attractive, innovative and keeping some relation with the typologies and visual projections of the place. The project has a medium size, so the contracting system must be handled by a unitary price rate, with detailed plans, a contractor to manage the general expenses: materials, equipment and manpower, and an engineer to get in charge of the technical direction the project, leaving the architect in the construction stage as the inspector responsible for ensuring the proper performance of the design solutions and details.

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CDC US$ 2040000 US$ 549150 US$ 2589150

Costs of the private areas (4080m2) Cost of the circulation areas (3138m2) Global direct construction costs

CIC US$ 310698

Financial costs

US$ 207132

Contractor utility

US$ 207132

Design honorary and technical studies

US$ 129457

Management

US$ 129457

Advertising and sales

US$ 84147 US$ 990349

Notarial expenses / Taxes / Insurance Global indirect construction costs

LAND US$683000

Land cost | Purchased price in 2007

UTILITY % 33 *Global percentage of expected utility over the investment.

US$ 4362499

Global investment

US$ 6498000

Total income from the sale of the apartments

Land area

1750m2 Transfer areas

525m2 Net construction area on the first floor

1225m2 Occupancy rate

70%

Net area of construction

7218m2

Construction index

412%

Average area per housing unit

170m2

Total number of housing units

PALLIATIVE CARE CENTER DELIVERY DATE: 06 | 2011 APPROXIMATE AREA: 1830M2 LOCATION: Alajuela, Costa Rica The development of the Palliative Care Center in Grecia, started as an academic proposal, and became a project in its early stages of planning, prefeasibility and preliminary design, together with the interior designer Nelly Arias (TRINIDAD DESING). The proposal consists of a new building that fits the growing requirements of the current clinic, which provides care and treatment for patients in advanced and terminal stages, in order to improve their quality of life.

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PROFESSIONAL | 2010

P3 115 | 116

PALLIATIVE CARE CENTER Grecia, Costa Rica

EXTERNAL VIEW | Main facade, ramp, second level terrace

EXTERNAL VIEW | Main facade, general access and the lobby

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INTERNAL VIEW | Central hall, volumetric game, natural zenithal lighting

INTERNAL VIEW | Circular ramp, natural zenithal lighting

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INTERNAL VIEW | Physiotherapy pool, deck

INTERNAL VIEW | Physiotherapy pool, area of diagnosis

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INTERNAL VIEW | Office's waiting room

INTERNAL VIEW | Doctor's Office's waiting deck room

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TRIO TOWER DELIVERY DATE: 10 | 2009 APPROXIMATE AREA: 20716M2 LOCATION: San Jose, Costa Rica The Trio Tower project consisted of a mixed-use contest proposal in the Pozos district, Santa Ana; covering the early stages of design and image development, under the direction of the architect Max Teran. The architectural program was organized in one public horizontal block, composed of shops and offices on the first and second floors, and a public deck on the third. Then, two private vertical blocks: the first one with 12 levels of apartments, and the second with 6 levels of offices.

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PROFESSIONAL | 2009

VIEW | Interior facades, apartment volume view from the terrace

VIEW | Main facade

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VIEW | Terrace over the social level

Land area

3834m2 Transfer areas

1596m2 Net construction area on the first floor

2238m2 Occupancy rate

58%

Net area of construction

20716m2 Construction index

540%

Circulation spaces

2795m2 Estimated number of housing units

Number of parking lots

132

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Links: issu.com/alenunez/portfolio General Briefcase. English

issu.com/alenunez/portafolio General Briefcase. Spanish

nunez2010.blogspot.com issu.com/alenunez Q | Santa. Graduation Project

issu.com/alenunez/academico Academic Briefcase

PORTFOLIO | 16+ "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together" (Mies Van Der Rohe)

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DEGREES

Architect Degree 2011 Graduate with honors on February 19, 2011

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Honor Scholarships 2008 | 2009 Highest average, Architecture School, Universidad Veritas

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Honor Scholarships 2008|2009

Document published on issuu.com/alenunez nunez2009.blogspot.com

External certificates 2010 Project management, direction and budget. Geotechnics, soils and foundations.

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