FIRST project
SECOND project
CARLIDA TANG Bachelor of Architecture University Santa Maria Caracas, Venezuela 2004 - 2010
THESIS
URBAN COMPLEX APARTMENTS OFFICES STORES
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Urban Complex of several uses: housing, stores and offices in busy area of the city. Development of four commercialfree plantas an garden areas. Development of three office floors with outdoor terraces. Development of a 22 floor building with 78 apartments in total, 42 apts. 140 m2 and 36 apts. 100 m2. Unconventional structure of three supporting vertices and a center module of circulation. Three apartments per floor, featuring a twist of 45 degrees each two floors and different views according to the location of the apartment. It was designed this way because of the location of the land in the middle of the city. The view is awesome in its 360 degree, so it should make the most in the design surrounding the Great Avila Caracas, cosmopolitan city and residential areas around.
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DOWNTOWN CARACAS
Reinforced concrete structure formed by three columns of secondary support brace and steel beams, a central circulation module, consisting of structural hexagonal screens divided into three parts. Apartments in unconventional forms with two types: 100 m2: 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, living room, laundry room and terrace. 140 m2: master bedroom, 2 single bedrooms, maid’s room, 3 bathrooms, studio, kitchen, living room, laundry and terrace.
FIRST FLOOR - STORE
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THIRD FLOOR - OFFICE
SIXTH FLOOR - OFFICE – APARTMENTS
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CONVENTION & EXHIBITION
CENTER
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Convention and Exhibition Centre located in the cosmopolitan area of the city, devoid of cultural and recreational spaces amidst urban atmosphere. Auditoriums: two auditoriums that house over 500 people. Exhibition Area: area of indoor and outdoor exhibitions.
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AUDITORIUM Auditoriums designed radially in the interior, and through structural envelope of shaped roofs shell at outside.
FIRST FLOOR
LONGITUDIINAL SECTION
EXHIBITION Exhibition area integrated by two floors, indoor and outdoor, designed under the continuation of a translucent mesh, unifying the two plots together, culminating with shell-shaped roofs.
CROSS SECTION
FIRST FLOOR
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URBAN
RENEWAL
Urban upgrading for the sector through a road proposal (high streets and new streets) and a rearrangement of uses in the area. Development of an architectural proposal under the focus of social housing in slope, answering the necessities of the citizens and improving their quality of life. Development of an architectural proposal for the cultural sector and its surrounding areas. Integration of the three existing social realities of different spending levels within the same industry, reconsider a plan for future city where the whole problem of housing, work, rest, leisure and ease circulation, ensuring an atmosphere of comfort, ethical, sociological and aesthetic man.
CROSS SECTION OF BUILDINGS
DETAILED CROSS SECTION
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VIEW
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APARTMENTS
BUILDING MODULE
Development of buildings in the form of truncated triangular block based on the principles of “Five points of new architecture� of Le Corbusier in 1926, with the use of reinforced concrete. The piles: for housing does not sink into the ground, but is suspended over it, so that the gardens go under. The Terrace-garden: that keeps insulation condition on new concrete slabs, and makes space on the home in a productive area for recreation. The open floor plan: leveraging the strengths of the concrete, this eliminates the need for bearing walls. Thus, a functional and useful surface is improved utilization, freeing the plant structural conditions.
FIRST FLOOR
CROSS SECTION
The longitudinal window: for the same reason as mentioned above, also the exterior walls are released, and the windows can span the entire width of the building, improving the relationship with the outside.
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LONGITUDINAL SECTION
The free facade: Its architecture is highly rational, refined and excellent use of light and perspectives together, giving a sense of freedom and ease of movement. 12
Integration of arts in an organic building, allowing the creation and diffusion of culture as a community unifier.
CULTURAL
The cultural complex comprises two buildings: Theatre: building under an artistic design and bold in its structure. A structural grid that makes up the whole building, and it is overlapped in the main area for a structural skin in circles to the top.
COMPLEX
Rehearsal Rooms: building that makes set the theater and the rehearsal rooms with the same structural grid. Both buildings are connected by a structural pergola, gardens, reflecting pools, cafes are part of integrating the entire cultural complex.
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