EL CHAMIZAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ARCH.413.01 | ALYSSA HESS | Summer 2018
The Performing Arts Center of El Chamizal aims to connect communities not only through various sensory cues but most importantly throught the practice of the performing arts. Music, Theatre and Dance bond us through experience and trust. In an effort to relieve tension between the boarder of Mexico and the United States, the Performing Arts Center aims to reconnect communites and break down boarders.
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1/64” = 1’ -0
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3/32” = 1’ -0
Casa Barragan / Luis Barragan Cuerámaro, Mexico
Parets del Vallès 1985 Arc: Enric Miralles y Carme Pinós Barcelona, Spain
The Atlantic Center for the Arts -MARYANN THOMPSON ARCHITECTS New Smyrna Beach, Florida
CIRCULATION
PRESEDENT ANALYSIS
CIRCULATION
SITE LINES DIAGRAM
TOPOGRAPHY STUDY
EXPLODED ISOMETRIC
VIEW CORRIDORS DIAGRAM
ANALYSIS Context
Overview + Tectonics Campo Volcanico Portillo and El Llanto are two sites of high volcanic activity laid across the border of the United States and Mexico. The terrain, which has been active for nearly 32 million years, is at the southern-most tip of the Rio Grande Rift, and covers a stretch of roughly 3300 square kilometers. The sites have not experienced any active eruptions in roughCampo Volcanico Portillo is part of a Monogenetic Volcanic tween 32 and 23 million years ago. This means that volcanic activity occurs once in each formation, but is often explosive. This has formed a variety of of Maars, Scoria (Cinder) Cones, and one Shield Volcano, within Aden Crater. The topography is jagged, and cannot be explored without 4x4 all terrain vehicles, used often by geologists researching the various organic and inorganic resources and anomolies. More recently, it is the site of tours for intrepid explorers in the region. El Llanto is the site of a former body of water beneath which a violent eruption occured, forming thick slopes of basalt and ash due to the soaked sand exploding on contact with
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(Figure 1) Collage of the Volcanic Field, Human Proximity, and Human Activity. (Figure 2) Potrillo (Aden-Afton Basalt) Volcanic Field (western portion). High altitude photo by L. Crumpler.
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(Figure 4) El Llanto basalt hills. Satellite Imagery photo by Google.
Regional
Geography + Geology mountainous terrain reaching approximately 1500 feet above sea level at its highest points. A wide variety of volcanic rock can be found in the area, including 15 feet thick layers of basalt.
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Largely, the topography is littered with cacti, shrubs, and sand native to the region, highly drought resistant and not easily distrubed. The Southern Rio Grande Rift, including the Portrillo volcanic enites are generally coupled with zones of extension implying that there is a correlation between asthenospheric outpouring and invasive growth of mantle pyroxenites. The methods roxenites may possibly represent preserved remnants of Farallon (oceanic) plate that subducted under the North American plate and mixed with mantle melts and created the xenoliths that have surfaced in Kilbourne Hole and Potrillo Maar.
El Llanto
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(Figure 1) Molt Rock (Figure 2) Desert Vegetation, Cacti, Shrubs. (Figure 3) Close up of Volcanic Rock, Black Mt. (Figure 4) Volcanic Crystal, porphyroclastic olivine-rich peridotite
Potrillo Volcanic Field
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HOT ROLLED STEEL
HONEY MESQUITE
RAMMED EARTH
BARREL CACTUS
WOOD DECKING
ALOE VERA