PRAGMATIC TOWER TOWER 1 l ALABANG, MUNTINLUPA CITY DE MESA + ZIALCITA
HIGH RISE CONCEPT Nationwide the Philippines faces several issues when it comes to the educational system. It has been argued that tertiary education has some dimensions of a public good and tends to be underprovided, if left to a market that is unregulated, it is also held that higher education creates some external economies or third-party effects which the individual or the institution providing the tertiary education is not able to capture or appropriate. There are large-scale shortages of facilities across Philippine colleges - these include classrooms, teachers, desks and chairs, textbooks, and audio-video materials. The goal is to create a vision that will further develop Higher Education in Muntinlupa City. To provide a framework that will help in decongesting Manila’s university belt by attracting Muntinlupa college students to take their undergraduate degree within close reach. This in turn will lessen the overpopulated networks that link Muntinlupa to Manila.
LAND USE PLAN BARANGAY ALABANG
SITE LOCATION MAJOR ROADS EDUCATIONAL LAGUNA DE BAY
HOSPITAL GREEN SPACES SHOPPING CENTER RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL OFFICES AND HOTELS
GEOLOGIC MAP OF METRO MANILA BULACAN
CENTRAL AREA
SOIL BEARING CAPACITY (depth of 1m) CENTRAL AREA RIZAL
MANILA BAY
EAST COAST
WEST COAST
WEST COAST
LAGUNA DE BAY CAVITE
SOURCE: SOIL BEARING CAPACITY REFERENCE FOR METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES (Jonathan R. Dungca)
0-200 kPa
Navotas Malabon South Caloocan Manila Pasay Paranaque Las Pinas EAST COAST
LAGUNA
200-300 kPa
North Caloocan Valenzuela Quezon City San Juan Mandaluyong Makati
Marikina Pasig Pateros Taguig Muntinlupa
0-200 kPa
MUNTINLUPA SOIL SOIL TYPE GUADALUPE CLAY ADOBE GUADALUPE CLAY QUINGUA FINE SANDY LOAM
SOIL PROFILE DIAGRAM GUADALUPE CLAY ADOBE (1.5 METERS DEEP) GR
C
CLA
C
SLCM
A.D.
CM
W. AD.
STRUCTURE & CONSISTENCY GR CLA SLCM CM
TEXTURE
C A.D. W. AD.
SOURCE: CITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE MUNTINLUPA 2014
GRANULAR CLADDY SLIGHTLY COMPACT COMPACT
CLAY ADOBE WEATHERED ADOBE
DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE POPULATION
CENSUS DATE
HOUSEHOLD POPULATION
NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS
AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD SIZE
1990 MAY 1
47,178
9,584
4.92
1995 SEP 1
52,286
11,317
4.62
2000 MAY 1
47,111
10,358
4.55
2007 AUGUST 1
59,226
16,610
3.57
2010 MAY 1
63,447
14,729
3.84
59,226
17,505
3.62
2015 AUGUST 1
HOUSEHOLD POPULATION
HOUSEHOLD POPULATION (1990-2015)
CENSUAL YEAR
The age group with the highest population in Alabang is 25 to 29, with 7,904 individuals. Conversely, the age group with the lowest population is 80 and over, with 172 individuals.
DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE STUDENT AND EMPLOYEE POPULATION
SOURCE: PSA 2015
AGE
NUMBER
24 & UNDER
225,593
25 & OVER
278,916
TOTAL
504,509
ECONOMIC PROFILE PER CAPITALIZATION AND EMPLOYMENT
SOURCE: BPLO, 2019
ESTABLISHMENT (per capitalizaion)
NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS
NUMBER OF EMPLOYMENT
MICRO
13,309
63,339
SMALL
1,774
42,223
MEDIUM
492
30,382
LARGE
133
15,102
TOTAL
15,708
151,046
SOCIAL PROFILE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
Child Development Centers
99
Elementary School
19
High School School
9
Tertiary School
2
Tertiary School
10
Technical/ Vocational School
2
PUBLIC FACILITIES
Child Development Centers
100
Elementary School
86
High School School
54
PRIVATE FACILITIES
SOURCE: MUNTINLUPA CITY GOVERNMENT WEBSITE
Technical/ Vocational School
36
CASE STUDY
Universita’ Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano
The new Urban Campus for the Bocconi University is located on a large site close to the city center of Milan, adjacent to the existing university. The project comprises several buildings, each with its own program: the teaching and administration building (a number of interconnected cells), dormitories and a recreation center. These buildings sit in a new park that is open to both the university population and the general public.
CASE STUDY
Universita’ Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano The volumes that compose the teaching and administration building touch one another lightly, allowing for a flow of students and professors from one cell to the next. Every floor has balconies along its perimeter, screened by an undulating metal mesh that creates a porous relationship with the city.
Each volume has an interior courtyard, typical in Milanese architecture and each is designed to have its own distinct character while being part of a larger system. These are lined with porticos at ground level offering peaceful environments for socializing, studying and gathering in the open air. Once inside, the architecture is permeable throughout and characterized by a sequence of columns, transparent rooms and trees. The park presents courtyards of its own, formed by a series of porticos that shelter the garden pathways from sunshine and rain.
CASE STUDY
HSBC Building, Hong Kong
With the handover of Hong Kong to Beijing looming, HSBC’s board wanted a prominent symbol of their bank’s political power. Norman Foster tore up the rule book and influenced how commercial blocks and entire financial centres have been made ever since. It took the 1960s dream of a plug-in, prefab city and made it real, as well as reinventing the slab of stacked floor-plates as a series of vertical neighbourhoods, and it showed how a corporate monument of this scale could actually give something back to the city at street level.
HSBC BUILDING
The entrance to the building was located on the first
HSBC Building symbolizes that Hong Kong is more than just a building. Its open free space is more like a gallery than an office building. Designed with a pattern of travel and lifestyle; and also explains the mobility of colleages and teams within the practice.” -Norman Foster
HSBC BUILDING STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
SOFT 1st FLOOR (open to the public)
The masts are in place to resist lateral loads.
SUSPENDED STRUCTURE (reconfigure offie layouts with ease)
The trusses support the flooors below creating gravity loads. The tension columns that go through the floor to the bottom of the trusses work in the opposite direction of the gravity loads/
PROJECT FRAMEWORK DESIGN STRATEGY
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
PROJECT GOALS
STRATEGY
STRATEGY
DESIGN A PROGRAM THAT AMPLIFIES THE EXISTING SOCIO-CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF ALABANG
TO IMPROVE THE FUTURE ENVIRONMENT OF ALABANG’S COMMUNITY PLAN
TACTIC
TACTIC
ANALYZE ALABANG COMMUNITY PLAN
IMPLEMENT AN INSTITUTION (MINORITY ZONE)
COMPARE MAJOR AND MINOR ZONING AREAS
INTRODUCE AN EDUCATIONAL FACILITY
STUDY ECONOMIC DATA POPULATION (STUDENTS AND EMPLOYEES)
CREATE A COMMUNITY HUB THAT CONNECTS MAJOR AND MINOR ACCESS NODES
SCHEMATIC PLAN PROGRAMS AND FACILITIES
PRAGMATIC TOWER
TERTIARY SCHOOL
TRANSPORTATION HUB
COMMERCIAL CENTER
HOTEL AND RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT COURSES
STUDENT AND FACULTY
CONVENIENCE STORES AND FAST FOOD STALLS
BUSINESS COURSES
PUBLIC E-JEEPNEY
COMMERCIAL OFFICES
CULINARY COURSES
GRABCAR HUB
COMPUTER SHOP
STUDENT DORMITORY
BICYCLE TERMINAL
HEALTH & BEAUTY STORES
ALABANG TOWER SITE LOCATION
3000 sqm
N
EXTERNAL FACTOR WIND AND SUN PATH
WIND PATH
SUN PATH
N
FACILITY ZONING
RY
MITO
DOR
L ONA CATI EDU ILITIES FAC
CIAL MER COM NTER CE
INAL
TERM
FACILITY ZONING
SPLIT CORE SYSTEM
SPATIAL PROGRAM STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
TAPERED TOWER
POROUS ATRIUM
DUAL CORE
VARIOUS CELLS
ACCOMMODATION:
T
Floor Area: 12,000 sqm (3,000 sqm x 4 floors)
I EX
Maximum count: 800 cars (1 car = 15sqm)
TE
RM
AL
AR
EA
E C
N
RA
T
EN
IN
PARKING SLOT
TRANSPORTATION AREA (Basement 1 to Basement 4)
N
ACCOMMODATION:
/ E EA IC R V R YA E S LIT I UT
Floor Area: 6000 sqm Average count: 3000 visitors (1 person = 2sqm) Maximum count: 6000 visitors (1 person = 1sqm)
C
COMMERCIAL STORES
O
UR
TY
AR
D
E
C
N IE N E E V R N TO O S
COMMERCIAL STORES
C
ENTRANCE
COMMERCIAL AREA (Ground to 2nd Floor)
N
ACCOMMODATION: Classroom Floor Area: 42,000 sqm (1500 sqm x 28 floors)
/ E EA C VI AR R SE LITY I UT
Maximum count: 14,000 students (1 student = 3sqm)
AT
RI
C
O
M
M
O
N
UM
A
A
RE
CLASSROOMS
LEARNING FACILITY (3rd to 30th Floor)
N
ACCOMMODATION:
STUDENT TO EMPLOYEE RATIO
Admin Floor Area: 3,000 sqm (1500 sqm x 2 floors)
Student count: 14,000 Employee count: 1,000
Maximum count: 1,000 people (1 faculty = 3sqm)
/ E EA C I R RV Y A E S LIT I UT
AT
1:14 student-employee ratio
RI
UM
FACULTY
M
O
C
M
O
N
A
A
RE
EXECUTIVE AREA
ADMINISTRATION AREA (31st to 32ndFloor)
N
ACCOMMODATION: Dormitory Floor Area: 12,000 sqm (1500 sqm x 8 floors) Maximum count: 2,400 students (1 student = 5 sqm)
/ E A C RE I RV A SE LITY I UT
AT
RI
M
M
O
C
N
O
UM
A
A
RE
STUDENT DORMS
DORMITORY (33rd to 40th Floor)
N
UTILITY MAP INITIAL ZONING
MECHANICAL SHAFT
UTILITY MAP INITIAL ZONING
ELECTRICAL AND COOLING LINE
WATER DISTRIBUTION
UTILITY MAP INITIAL ZONING
SEWAGE WASTE MANAGEMENT
FIRE PROTECTION PATH