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CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL INFORMATION EZEKIEL FLORES CORDOVA 14 OCTOBER 1995 MONTERREY, MEXICO ezekielflores95@gmail.com +52 8119098542
ACADEMIC FORMATION 2011-2014 2014 - PRESENT
TECNOLÓGICO DE MONTERREY, CAMPUS CUMBRES TECNOLÓGICO DE MONTERREY, BACHELOR ARCHITECTURE
MONTERREY, NL, MEXICO MONTERREY, NL, MEXICO
ARCH DESIGN STUDIO I (RESIDENTIAL) ARCH DESIGN STUDIO II (HOUSING) ARCH DESIGN STUDIO III (EDUCATIONAL) ARCH DESIGN STUDIO II (COMMUNITARY) ARCH DESIGN STUDIO IV (MIXED)
ARCH. LUIS VILLARREAL ARCH. RAUL BADÍA ARCH. MARCELO ESPINOSA ARCH. KAREN HINOJOSA ARCH. MARCELO ESPINOSA
ARCHITECTURE STUDIOS AUG JAN AUG JAN AUG
2015 2016 2016 2017 2017
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AUG - JAN 2016
FREELANCE ARCHITECT
DESIGN CONTRIBUITOR RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS
OCT - DEC 2017
AM ARQUITECTURA
INTERN, MODELING, PROJECT CONTRIBUITOR, REPRESENTATION
HYDE PARK LIBRARY CITIZEN PARK ROME CONTEMPORARY CHAPEL PAPE OBSERVATORY TOWER BIENNAL NL SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTS ENEA 2018 (SELECTED)
INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL (FINALIST) INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL NATIONAL (1ST PLACE)
CONTESTS 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 2018
WORKSHOPS 2015 2016 2017 2017 PRESENT
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ACCESIBILITY WORKSHOP FOR ADAPTABILITY OF SPACES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE, SEMANA I WORKSHOP “PENSANDO EN LOS NIÑOS” ANALYSIS OF A LOCAL PARK AND DESIGN OF IMPROVEMENT PROPOSALS, SEMANA I WORKSHOP OF DIGITAL ILUSTRATION , CANALLETOS DESIGNING A FOOD FACTORY WORKSHOP, SEMANA I WORKSHOP OF ARCHITECTURAL ILUMINATION, ITESM
EXHIBITIONS AUG 2016 JAN 2017 APR 2017 AUG 2017 MAY 2017 OCT 2017 JAN 2018 MAR 2018
PROYECTA EXHIBITION, ITESM PROYECTA EXHIBITION, ITESM RUTA E EXHIBITION, ITESM PROYECTA EXHIBITION, ITESM FINALIST EXHIBITION, SCHOOL OF N.L. ARCHITECTS BIENNAL EXHIBITION, SCHOOL OF N.L. ARCHITECTS PROYECTA EXHIBITION, ITESM SELECTED WINNERS
HOUSING COMPLEX, DESIGN STUDIO II ITESM DESIGN CENTER, DESIGN STUDIO IIII ITESM DESIGN CENTER CITIZEN PARK, ARCH. DESIGN STUDIO IV CITIZEN PARK CITIZEN PARK THE VINDS, ARCH. DESIGN STUDIO V THE CONNECTION
SELECTED PROJECTS ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, ITESM PANORAMA TEC,
HOUSING COMPLEX, DESIGN STUDIO II ITESM TOP FIVE GPA OF ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL
PUBLICATIONS AUG 2016 JAN 2017
LENGUAGE SPANISH ENGLISH
NATIVE 600 TOEFL ITP BUSINESS LANGUAGE TESTING SERVICE BULATS CI (ADVANCED)
SKILLS AUTODESK AUTOCAD AUTODESK REVIT ARCH. SKETCHUP ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ADOBE ILUSTRATOR RHINOCEROS VRAY FOR SKETCHUP AUTODESK 3D MAX MICROSOFT OFFICE
ADVANCED LEVEL ADVANCED LEVEL ADVANCED LEVEL ADVANCED LEVEL ADVANCED LEVEL INTERMEDIATE LEVEL ADVANCED LEVEL INTERMEDIATE LEVEL ADVANCED LEVEL
MANUAL SKILLS HANDRAWING L SKETCHING MODEL MAKING
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL ADVANCED LEVEL ADVANCED LEVEL
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PROJECTS
RESIDENTIAL
CULTURE
EDUCATIONAL
PUBLIC SPACES
RELIGIOUS
MIXED USE
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2016
2018
2017
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THE VINDS The project starts as an understanding of the primary concepts of the wind. The desig methodology that develops the form, is based on the strategy to understand and interpret the behaviour that the wind takes when making contact with elements. The contact is described graphically through curved lines that have the meaning of the wind and these curved lines transform into the object that generates space. The process is then defined by the form and then putting the function in it. The project then respond to the necessities of the user and is developed by the graphic information given. This mixed use project unifies a mall, a cultural center, offices and housing units. The project generates its own shadow and adapts into the final form of the building.
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STUDIO DESIGN SITE PROF.
Arch Design Studio V December 2017 Monterrey, MĂŠxico Arch. Marcelo Espinosa
MONTERREY, MEXICO The site is surrounded by industrial buildings, schools, and small apartments, it is located near downtown of Monterrey and is in front of one of the biggest metrostations of the city. The site is a node that conect into the main roads of the area having an impact on the development of the project. This node is surrounded by a school and also the main street Felix U. GomĂŠz
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DESIGN METHODOLOGY The design methodology is based primarly on the consistency of the design factors that allow the manipulation of a determined form. The project is developed through a series of experimental diagrams considering the wind graphic interpretation and the manipulation of this methodology to produce a form.
1. Everything starts with the site and a proposed form according to site regulations, which determine a starting platonic shape.
2. This platonic shape is deformed by the wind. The wind is interpreted as curves which determine the form.
3. The wind can be interpreted as main projections which impact the shape, and create in the darker spots the highest frecuency of wind flow.
4. By interpreting the projections, voids between the different facades interact and intersect the platonic form.
5. These voids then are sintetized into curved lines that reduce the complexity of the form
6. These voids again interact and conect wit the different facades in order to let the wind flow through the project to create a different techtonic.
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7. The voids then intersect with the platonic form and these are conected creating holes inside the generated form.
8. The form its manipulated in order to give the wind a different direction and modify the direct surrounding of the project.
9. This manipulation then is considered into two other voids that allow more air flow and a more complex form.
10. All of the voids, from the dominant wind flows fro the south east, and the manipulated ones converge and intersect with the platonic form.
11. TIn order to create the spatial parameter, the project is cutted in a five meter order to create different floors.
12. Then tby emerging the voids and the spatial parameters that create the final form of the building.
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PROGRAM The program is defined by the public and private spaces, the more private, the more higher place it wll take to be in the project. The density of the project focuses on putting together different activities in a same building, having four buildings in one.
The program is developed through a complex process of mixing activities, this by considering the specific characteristics of every situation. The fact that the project evolves into one volume, creates a different type of urbanism, where the form of the building works as a warehouse of possibilities. LIVING APARTMENTS
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OFFICES
CULTURAL
STORES
STRUCTURE The structure concentrates onf the main cores of the building that allow the operation of mechanical elements. One importan condition is that the building lets a few parts to hang and to act in cantilever, having modular segments with columns in order to sustain the forces.
Structure Sections
OPERATION The circulations take place in the building by putting all together the mechanical and electrical elements in to the main cores. These cores (green) allow the operation of the building but also act as a structural reinforcement and columns.
Operation Diagram
Facade Section
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PLANS
MASTER PLAN
FLOOR PLAN I
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PLANS
FLOOR PLAN XI
FLOOR PLAN VI
FLOOR PLAN III
FLOOR PLAN II
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FACADES
EAST
NORTH
WEST
SOUTH
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SECTIONS
INTERIOR
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MODEL
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ETHEREAL CHAPEL “Ethereal is the delicate arrival of the supreme concept, the essence of the unknown, the idea of something that is out of this world.� -Unknown The deities of this world are identified as a circle that represents the nature of our beliefs, these are eternal and yet, misterious and perfect . This eternal beings connect into earth, materialized and transformed in a curved delicate way, not of this world. Light, rather than being exposed and over used, is essential to materialize this deity that enters the space in a way that all humans can approach and relate to. The project transforms into an object that rather than following a determined form, is the product of the conceptualization of the union between deities and human beings.
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CONTEST DESIGN SITE TEAM
Rome Contemporary Chapel July 2017 Rome, Italy Mariana Morales
ROME, ITALY Located in Via Giulia, an italian famous road proposed by Pope Julius II whom tried to conect the religious structure of the Roman empire with a street that now works as a turistic area. The project is placed as a contemporary example of religious architecture. The historical context of the site delivers a site where the context gives a new reason to make architecture to connect people.
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CONCEPT DESIGN This deity concept has been seen differently through the ages but it can be interpreted as the same. Deities and beliefs have been exposed separately, however, the natural essence and meaning of our beliefs attract an universal thought in which all of them trust in a sense of the unknown, a sense that this supreme ideas are not from this world. On the whole, these beliefs and religions belong to the nature of our own existence. God.
Perfection lands on earth.
Interconection between divine and human.
Earth connection in different levels.
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Divine covering for God- Human Interaction.
PROGRAM By developing the idea of the formal interaction between the Gods and humanity, the structure arises with different arms that carry the covering of the building. The platforms are sustained by these “tentacles� that allow the building to arise and have its final form. The building is covered by stone panels that centralize in the eternal materials, and then the program evolves into basements that allow this program to correspond and work for the activities of the building.
ISOMETRIC VIEW
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PLANS
MASTERPLAN
SECTION
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CITIZEN PARK The citizen park rises as a struggle for the rights that we have as a community, which is why the project gives rise to activities that promote democracy, coexistence, the free expression of ideas and that also fulfil the function of providing a green area with spaces for rest, relaxation and connection with nature. On the other hand, the park is an accessible and inclusive place, respecting its uses, customs and current flora, also serving as a mean of connection that facilitates access and pedestrian flows. In 2014, the site was going to be transformed into a parking lot, but this was changed because of the struggle of a group of citizens that defended the place by camping in the site, stopping the construction of the parking lot. Later on 2017, a contest of creating a new green space.
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CONTEST PRICE DESIGN SITE PROF. TEAM
Citizen Park In Monterrey Finalist May 2017 Monterrey, Mexico Arch. Karen Hinojosa Mariana Morales Rohan Shenoy
MONTERREY, N.L. , MEXICO GREEN AREAS The project is located in downtown Monterrey. It is surrounded by a lot of local commerce and convenience stores, also the project is surrounded by parking lots and different drug stores. In the day, a lot of people use the small tables to eat because the park is very close to gubernamental buildings, making it a place to rest.
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SITE ANALYSIS The study of urban context reveals that the most concurrent users are those related to the surrounding government offices, visits related to the surrounding public spaces and local commerce, as well as occasional visits of children and citizen associations.
PARKING LOTS
GREEN PUBLIC AREAS
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GOVERMENT BUILDINGS
LOCAL COMMERCE
DESIGN FACTORS The design factors are related to the tree conservation an the understanding of the user flows and and the necesitties of the park.
1. Actual Site and user flows.
3. Projected flows through floors and addition of trees.
5. Concept of citizen platform.
2. Desired user flows.
4. Respect to the trees and path definition.
6. Final definition of the project.
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PLANS MASTER PLAN
VEGETATION
ILLUMINATION
Different kinds of trees were used in order to maintain the visual quality of them in all of the seasons of the year. Some of the rise on the winter and some of them raise in the summer.
Since the site is dangerous at night, the project required ilumination in order to avoid any kind of undesired activity.
ILUMINATION PLAN
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URBAN FURNITURE A special furniture was designed in order to treat with specific issues like to create union between citizens and a place to have small reunions. Creating an all inclusive park that has a lage variety of activities for all kinds of people.
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SECTIONS
Transversal Section
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Longitudinal Section
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THE CONNECTION After the earthquakes that have occurred in recent years, public space has become an important issue to prevent and generate opportunities to raise awareness and inform citizens about natural phenomena. That is why architecture becomes a center of attention to solve and provide ways and strategies that allow learning that citizens should consider. After the earthquake that occurred on September 19, 2017, the 286 ร lvaro Obregรณn Building suffered a landslide, leaving 49 people dead. The project is about an Experimentation Center for social awareness about the emergency and also a new methodology to prove the legacy of the past and the tragedy.
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CONTEST PRICE DESIGN SITE PROF.
National Architecture Students Competition First Place March 2018 Mexico City, Mexico Arch. Pedro Pacheco Vรกzquez
LA CONDESA, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO Well known neighberhood “La Condesa� in Mexico City represents the daily life of the contemporary living in Mexico, defining the new and old sensations that the erthquakes from 1985 and 2017 have left. The neighberhood is spetial because of its importance in the urban morphology,and stands for the new model for future living in the country. This significance is defined by the logic to create cultural spaces that provide knowledge to future generations.
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CONCEPT
THE INFINITY. Mexico has witnessed the events and tragedies within time. Time is infinite, and the waves of an earthquake are maintained for eternity.
ALVARO OBREGON. 286. Its history of tragedy is part of the conceptual development since it brings together the memory of the earthquake.
THE HOPE. The divinity represented in light coming from heaven is the source of hope that Mexicans have to move forward.
THE UNION. It is the connection and the means of contact from an earthly situation, seeking and yearning for the future.
THE ASCENDENCE. It is the remnant of the past and at the same time the unit that guides the future. 49 spheres lead us to the beyond, to knowledge.
SITE ANALYSIS
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PARKS SYSTEM. The site is located around a series of corridors that allow pedestrian access and free circulation.
MAIN AVENUES. The main avenues are in front of the project so its development allows a large amount of vehicular flow.
SECONDARY STREETS. The main avenues are in front of the project so its development allows a large amount of vehicular flow.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT. The public transport revolves around the vehicular flow, reason why the site is of easy access by this means.
PROGRAM The program is developed considering the methodology of the public space and the private space, from the space that can be shared and converted into a public space in case natural phenomena occur.
Water Storage Emergency Stairs
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Light Opening
Restrooms + Elevator + Storage Simulation Ea r t h q u a ke simulator
Restroom Cleaning room
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Inv e s t i g a t i o n center Pe r m a n e n t Exhibition S t o r a g e Pe r m a n e n t Inv e s t i g a t i o n Center + Individual study Te m p o r a r y Exhibition
Storage + Cleaning + Elevators Cafeteria + Snacks Reception Tickets
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Machines + Cleaning room Administration
Public Restrooms
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EXPLODED DIAGRAM
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USE For the development of the project, formal situations are generated and from there technical situations that are solved from calculations and measures defined by the norm, with the purpose of providing comfort and sustainability to the project.
CIRCULATIONS. They occur through the spiral that crosses the entire building, from the basement to the penultimate level. The emergency circulations are given through a cube for installations and emergency circulations and service for the building. The underground space has the possibility of protection through its large universal access ramps.
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STRUCTURAL SYSTEM. It starts from a foundation slab that allows rigidity to the general structure of the project. A duality between concrete and steel is generated. From the slab, a structural grid is generated that is stiffened with windings on the long sides to allow the identity of the old building, now renewed.
WATER RECEPTION. Water collection systems that allow the collection of water through a series of slopes that guide the water and allow its natural path. The water is reusable for the garden of the building and for the public walk that is in front.
SUSTAINABILITY + ENDEMIC VEGENDATION. To the South, East and West the building is protected both by its facades and the neighborhood facades. The entrance of light is only allowed through the skylight that allows illumination during the day, leaving also the north facade free. It will be used short plants of the region and trees of the region such as Jacarandas and Magnolias.
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Book Stacking
Series of Volumes
Respect for trees,
HYDE PARK LIBRARY The digital revolution is taking over the essence of libraries, the book culture has been on a decline, and as evolving humans we should seek the adaptation of new technologies into libraries to connect individuals into the world of books. Books have been a beacon for humans to unify in the way we feel, express and in the way we see the world. The project appears as a living book, a book for all people and that is conceived through the understanding of its immediate context, without harming any tree.
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CONTEST DESIGN SITE PROF. TEAM
Hyde Park Library March 2017 London, UK. Arch. Karen Hinojosa Mariana Morales Rohan Shenoy
HYDE PARK LONDON, ENGLAND Located in the legendary Hyde Park, the site is fulled of trees that are old enough to be called of this park. The park is surrounding the serpentine lake which is in front of the site of the project. Its location is defined by two main corridors.
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CONCEPT DESIGN The library respects the horizontality of the context and through its transparency, the building disappears with the foliage. The glass panels are screens that project the thoughts and the stories of those willing to share. The volume contorts to provide the optimal visual directions of the lake, and the volumes respect the contextual trees.
TREE CONSERVATION
CONNECTIVITY
TREE CONSERVATION + CONECTIVITY
TREE CONSERVATION + LAKE VIEWS
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PROJECT FUNDAMENTALS The project fundamentals are based on the respect for trees, that means that the trees are maintained, also that the lake views give the final form to the building.
OPERATION
PEDESTRIAN FLOWS
RESPECT TO CONTEXT TREES
MAIN AREAS
PROGRAM Sition of knowledge from the past to the future: the first floor, corresponding to a prior time of social transmission of knowledge through community and recreation. The second floor symbolizes the present times where knowledge is shared through physical records. The third floor embodies the connection of the present with the future, through technological advances ,the library is the physical manifestation of people where they can leave behind a piece of themselves, creating a sense of belonging to the library, making the library a living book written with the voices of many.
FILES WC TEACH PC SCREENS RELAX
READ
MEDIA
INFO
PHOTO RECORD SCREENS
SHARE
READ STACKS READ FOOD SHOP PLAY
OFFICES
WC
STACKS
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PLANS
FLOOR PLAN II
FLOOR PLAN I
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SPACE AND STRUCTURE
MASTER PLAN
FLOOR PLAN III
THE PROJECT ALLOWS THE LIBRARY TO HAVE THE BOOKSHELVES IN THE BRIDGE, HAVING 13,000 BOOKS.
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ELEVATIONS
WEST
NORTH
SOUTH
EAST
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SECTIONS
SECTION EAST
SECTION NORTH
SECTION WEST
STRUCTURE A SIMPLE RETICULAR STRUCTURE IS APPLIED TO THE PROJECT, BUT THE INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN THE RETICULUM ARE SELECTED IN ORDER TO GIVE THE NEEDED SPAN FOR CARRY THE FORCES.
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WIND PAVILION The project is located over the metro station in Monterrey, where it becomes an alternative to public space in the city of Monterrey. Since the city lacks in public spaces and cultural areas, the aim of the project is to generate a space inside the city and to develop it through a design methodology based on the wind. The interpretation of the wind, which are curved lines, penetrate through the metro station structure creating a high pressure wind in the street. Considering this the project reveals as an experiment on how we can improve citties through new developments of urbanism. This parasite is attached into a strcuture that has only one function, but the aim of project is to reveal
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STUDIO DESIGN SITE PROF.
Arch. Studio V August 2017 Monterrey, Mexico Arch. Marcelo Espinosa
MONTERREY, MEXICO The site is surrounded by industrial buildings, schools, and small apartments, it is located near downtown of Monterrey and is in front of one of the biggest metrostations of the city. The site is a node that conect into the main roads of the area having an impact on the development of the project. The metro station of Felix U Gomez is a difficult place for pedestrians.
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DESIGN METHODOLOGY The design mthodology is based on the wind flows. By interpreting data from the program flow design, the wind crosses thorugh the metro line and creates a strong current of wind. This wind defines the form generation process.
1.The site reveals the metro station, and the low density buildings in its surroundings.
2. This wind is then considered as the blue lines, The representation of the continuity and the effect of the current of the wind is constant.
3. The wind flows are selected from the diagram in order to determine the character of the form of the project.
4. The form of the project appears as a conection of these sected lines or wind flows. These lines conect with each other and create a solid forn.
5. The form of the building is tested witha parameter in order to produce and to create a structural system to hang the “parasite� from the metro line.
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6. The building then adapts to the metro station and embraces the whole area, giving a sense of conection.and creating the final form of the project.
MODULAR SECTION The modular section bases its potential on a steel structure in order to maintain the project in its place. If giving a section, these “rings� would appear to understand fabrication of the project.
PROGRAM AND OPERATION
Access throug metro station, conection.
Then as a public space, the program is a main exhibition galeria where pedestrians can walk freely, offering intermediate acceses and exits for leaving the project when required. The middle of the project is where the columns emerge and works as a storage.
STORAGE
GALERIA
Intermediate Access Ramp
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STRUCTURE As it was mentioned before, the modular sistem of rings carry the whole structure and this same structure hangs from the main columns of the metro station..
The steel beams are conected to the main columns of the project which are hanging from them.
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PLANS
FLOOR PLAN I
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
SOUTH ELEVATION
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ITESM DESIGN CENTER The present project is located within the Campus Tec Monterrey, in Monterrey Nuevo Leon. Its main objective is to provide a variety of spaces that satisfy the needs both academic, social and urban, within the campus. For this, they took in consideration the most important variants of the district regeneration plan tec which are; use of facade that minimizes the increase of temperatures and the energetic consumption, green roofs, orientation elements, access to public spaces, promote pedestrian flows thus reducing road distances and the creation of outdoor public spaces.
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STUDIO DESIGN SITE TEAM PROF.
Arch. Design Studio III December 2016 Monterrey, Mexico Mariana Morales Marcelo Espinosa
MONTERREY, MEXICO Distrito Tec is the new model for the campus planning in Tecnologico de Monterrey. The ideal of having green areas over buildings and the renovation of spaces thinking more in the pedestrians. The site is surrounded by modern buildings, a lot of trees and a main point of user flows.
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DESIGN METHODOLOGY The formal design was taken into consideration three fundamental factors, which respond to the variants already mentioned; adequate flows for the pedestrian, spatial experience that produces pleasant views and conservation of trees. These three factors give a unique identity to the project, at the same time have a high relevance in terms of benefits, not only to students, but also to the environment.
LEVEL I
LEVEL II
LEVEL III
LEVEL IV
Tree Tr ee C Con Conservation onse on serv se rvat rv atio at ionn io
Visuals
Pedestrian Flows
FINAL FLOOR PLAN I
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FI FINAL FLOOR PLAN AN II
FINA NAL FLOOR PLAN AN III FINAL
FINA NAL FLOOR PLAN IV FINAL
PROGRAM This design center, which consists of 19,300 square meters of construction, houses all the necessary spaces for the academic development of more than 2,000 students of the design careers, inside which are inserted workshops, work areas, and terraces.. The program is defined by determining public and private space and the necessities of the design courses.
General Workshops, Areas of individual work Exposition Halls
Offices for teachers and directors Areas for advice Meeting rooms
Computer Rooms Model Rooms Artistic Drawing Sculpture Workshop Photography
Basic design classrooms
Traditional classrooms
Auditorium Galleries
Print Center Bookshop Accesible Files Material Store
Cafeteria Construction worshops and prototypes
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STRUCTURE AND OPERATION The structure is based in a reticula that allows to have the span bridge that conects the whole building. Also there are Pratt
The vertical circulations are based primarly on two main stairs and elevators.
Frame for the bridges.
columns are added respecting the axes structural underground parking
Columns are used on reticular shafts 8 x 8 meters, are added pratt armor for hold the clear
Roof level without vertical circulations
Two vertical circulations and complete connectivity between them
Three vertical circulations without connectivity Columns are used on reticular shafts 8 x 8 meters
Columns are used on reticular shafts 8 x 8 meters, are added pratt armor for hold the bridge
Columns are used on reticular shafts 8 x 8 meters, the auditorium has its own structural system
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Three vertical circulation and complete connectivity through the bridge
Three vertical circulations at floor level
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PLANS FLOOR PLAN I
FLOOR PLAN II
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FLOOR PLAN IV
FLOOR PLAN III
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ELEVATIONS
SOUTH ELEVATION
WEST ELEVATION
NORTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
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SECTIONS
SOUTH SECTION
WEST SECTION
NORTH SECTION
EAST SECTION
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MODEL
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PAPE BIRD OBSERVATION TOWER Pape nature park is a place of reunion and communion between humans and nature. The bird observation tower becomes part of the representation of the reunion of humans, birds and animals. The tower stands as a platform that allows people to interact with the migrating birds . Pape park history is full with achievements that regenerated natural life cycle from the site, that previously was driven out from agriculture. The aim of the project is to respond to site conditions, animal species, and a low cost- energy efficient constructive process that doesn’t interrupt Pape’s natural wildlife . The tower stands as a light structure that can be lost in the lanscape, allowing animals, birds and humans to use it and interact with it. The tower intervention complements the value of Pape Park by allowing human - animals species’ interactions and honoring wildlife. The tower becomes the home of the park where life is appreciated.
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CONTEST DESIGN SITE TEAM
Bird Observation Tower in Latvia November 2017 Pape, Latvia Mariana Morales Santiago Borda
PAPE, LATVIA The Pape Nature Park opened in 2003 and is located in the South-West region of Latvia, in the districts of Nica and Rucava. The park is a nature reserve in the south west region of Latvia, approximately 45km south of Liepaja. The entire park stretches over 10886 hectares, and is made up of mainly bogs, meadows and dunes surrounding Lake Pape.
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CONCEPT DESIGN 11.00
6.30
The platforms were designed in a radial disposition, situating circulations in the center. Allowing people to have a total 360 experience.
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The heights of the platforms where designed in order for people to reach the best views possible with the allowed 11m. height. Creating a 360 platform
The modular structure allows permeability to integrate the tower with the wild life. The tower’s materiality allows also to use less materials, being an environmental friendly construction.
The bridge instead of being linear, it’s breaked in order to create different view angles, that allow the user to experience the landscape and the tower in a different way.
PROJECT FUNDAMENTALS
Enviroment The project responds to the site considering the lowest
quantity
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materials possible and their easy transportation to the Pape nature park. The building responds to the enviroment loosing itself in the landscape, being useful and permeable for animals to cross through it and stand in it, as a medium for users to connect them with the species
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pape nature park.
Climate conditions Due to the humid or wet climate, the project is developed understanding that water should go away easily during raining. Each floor has stainless steel grating that allows permeability and prevents that the materials absorve water. This material and special material treatments will allow the tower to last longer.
Tower’s Life Cycle Wood: Valrosa Coating Ignifire treatment. Allows to prevent the wood from fires and gives it a water proof coating. Concrete: Long term water proof coating. Steel: Anticorrosive treatment for durability and to prevent oxidation
Materials Reinforced Concrete is used in the foundations of the tower and in the pillars. Stainless Steel is used in the membrane conections from the exterior structure and in the stairs allowing the structure to be light. Wood is used in the slabs and in the exterior angular elements allowing a light structure able to deal with tension forces due to the movement.
Susteinability The project was developed using a small amount of materials and elements, creating an interior space with light materials and an easy constructive process based on creating prefabricated steel and wood pieces. Having the less amount of materials and also using prefabricated elements decreases the effort to take materials to site and time for the construction.
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PLANS
FLOOR PLAN I
FLOOR PLAN II
FLOOR PLAN III 1
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SPACE AND STRUCTURE Steel membra-
Structural Slab
ne connection
System
to railing ring
Steel membrane connection to railing ring
Steel conections with slab.
Wood support for angular columns.
Stair Modules.
Steel membrane connection to railing ring
Railing Modules.
Steel column for stairs.
Steel foundation connection.
ELEVATION
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3
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CONSTRUCTION PIECES COUNT Almost all of the constructive elements where modulated, so that the construction process became way much easier, faster and with the less amount of waste. The constructive process starts with the foundation, which consists on eight reinforced concrete piles which reach firm earth and a reinforced concrete slab. Steel connections that connect the building with the concrete slab are also soaked in concrete and welded to the foundation steel.
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CONSTRUCTION PROCESS The tower exoskeleton is constructed following the same steps in every level (placement of the wood lumbers followed by the placement of the steel connections), and finally in each level the slab is supported in the steel connections of the exoskeleton. At the end the bridge is constructed by placing first the main wood structure and finally adding the wood planks that conform the platform and stairs.
Excavation
Pile reinforcemend and excavation Reinforced concrete cast underground colocation
Colocation of wood lumbers, steel conections and supports
Colocation of wood slab and steel grating.
Colocation of wood lumbers, steel connections and supports.
Colocation of wood supports
Colocation of wood slab and steel grating
Colocation of wood lumbers, steel connections and supports
Colocation of wood column supports.
Colocation of wood slab and steel grating
Colocation of fina wood lumbers, steel connections and wood protection railing.
Construction of steel stairs
Colocation of steel railings in platforms
Preparation of site
Colocation of bridge wood supports
Colocation of bridge and stais and wood planks.
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