Portfolio 2022 by Frank A.V.O.

Architecture Urbanism Architecture DesignUrbanism Design

2018-2020 2018-2020

SELECTED WORKS

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/About me & cv

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2020

/Productive Urban Hub - Loods 26 Macro Scale - Muide - Ghent 9000, Belgium

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2018 - 2019

/BIOTOPO - Headquarters for Tierra de Sabor Mezo Scale - Overuela - Valladolid 47009, Spain

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2019

/The Hortus Conclusus

Micro Scale - Stiemerbeek- Genk 3600, Belgium

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/Competitions - 90 days design 2018 - 2019 p. /46-/51

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/Fashion Urban School

Mezo Scale - Miranda de Ebro- Burgos 09200, Spain 2018 - 2019

/G.E.M.A - Shelter and experimental farm Mezo Scale - Camposolillo- León 24855, Spain

Any architectural intervention, no matter how small it is, must always generate a great impact on the largest scale.

00/ About me

Frank Alonso Van Oorschot

about/

I was born in the small town of Salamanca in Spain, although my roots are Belgian. While living in between the multilayered city of Valladolid and the inspiring city of Ghent as a student to become an architect, I found opportunities to improve my communication and adaptation skills that helped me develop an interdisciplinary approach towards architecture. After training professionally in several areas of architecture and gaining some experience in a variety of interrelated fields, I have decided to lead my goals and dreams towards small and medium-scale type of architecture, focused on resolving social problems and climatological conflicts, with a sustainable strategy based on a long-term vision. I want to continue learning and working for my passion, my profession and my discipline to show that “architecture needs architects’’ -Bernard Rudofsky-

SPE: Native LIST: Native

English SPE: Proficiency C2 LIST: Proficiency C2

Dutch SPE: Beginner A2 LIST: Good B2

ARCHITECTURE IN UNREAL TIMES 2020 The silver lining is that Covid has made me improve professionally. Moreover it has been a good excuse for me to adapt, to reinvent myself, and to self-manage my time, because an architect must be self-taught as its study is infinite.

links/

Linkedin: /frankavo

Issuu: /Porfolio2022

education/

Languages/ Spanish

Ir. Architect

2019-2020 KU Leuven, Campus Ghent, Belgium Second Year Master of Science in Architecture [Magna Cum Laude Laureate] 2018-2019 ETSA, Valladolid, Spain Master Thesis in Architecture - Degree IR.Arch [Cum Laude Laureate] 2017-2018 ETSA, Valladolid, Spain Fith Year Master in Architecture (specialization year) 2016-2017 KU Leuven, Campus Ghent, Belgium First Year Master of Science in Architecture Scolarship Validating the 4th Year + 1 Year Master 2013-2016 ETSA, Valladolid, Spain Three Years Bachelor - Degree IR.Architect Full degree in 6 years - Bachelor+Master 2007-2013 Vaguada de la Palma, Salamanca, Spain Full degree in 6 years - 4+2 University Preparatory

[Design Studio Laureate]

skills/ Autocad /////// Civil 3D ////--AutocadMAP3D /////-Rinhoceros ///---3dmax ///---Revit ///---Sketchup Pro /////// Vray ////--Photoshop /////// Illustrator /////-InDesign /////-DaVinciResolve /////-Agisoft ///---QGIS ///---Blender ////--

Karate-Do Black Belt /Kumite Team /Kata Team

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Mar.2021SPATIAL DESIGN ARCHITECTURE & URBAN OFFICE Jul.2022 Tractebel Company, Ghent, Belgium Ir. Architect Nov.2020PROYECTO PEQUEÑOS HEROES Constant Volunteer - Architecture as a tool for a better future for the most needy. Co-partener Design & Ir. Architect Sep.2020FREELANCE - Architect Jan.2021 Small Scale Projects - Restoration/New construction - Salamanca, Spain Design Ir. Architect / Site manager Jan.2020COWORKING - DOCTORATE - Neglected Villages in Aragon Jun.2020 By Ignacio Galan for KU Leuven, Investigator Architect Jun.2018SANTHER, Eng.Building Company Oct.2018 Salamanca & Madrid, Spain Work on site - Construction Manager. Ir.Arch Jan.2018SANTHER, Eng.Building Company May.2018 Salamanca & Madrid, Spain Design Ir.Architect Jan.2016May.2016

ATRES Studio, Valladolid, Spain

Intern Architect, Curricular Experience

achievements/

activities/ 20072017

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experience/

Painting & Sketching Urban nature Sculpting from Clay Photography Illustration Learning Dutch Paddle Cycling Travelling

2016 Honor Certificate 3rd Year Bachelor Honored Subjetcs/Structures, Design Studio, Urbanism, Ecology & Construction 2018 MusiARQ Wooden Stage Structure Competition First place 2019 Honor mention Master Thesis - Valladolid, Spain Top 7 2020 Graduating in Unreal Times Exposition Top 12 Master Thesis, KU Leuven Master in Science 2020 Van Hove Prix 2020 Fourth place / Nominated / Master Thesis, Ghent 2020 Archiprix International 2020/2021 Nominated (on going) /Top 30 Favourites / Master Thesis, Ghent 2022 Tiny Gardens - Best Landscape Design 2021/2022 Nominated , Municipality of Salamanca, Spain

01/ Introduction

“In memorable experiences of architecture, space, matter and time fuse into one singular dimension, into the basic substance of being, that penetrates our consciousness. We identify ourselves with this space, this place, this moment, and these dimensions become ingredients of our very existence. Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves and the world, and this mediation takes place through the senses” Juhani Pallasmaa - The eyes of the Skin - page 71.

PRODUCTIVE URBAN HUB

2020

Productive Urban Hub

#Identity #Waterway #Suburban #Mobility #Ecoboat #Flexibility #Adaptable #Restoration #Industrial #Permeability#Self-Suffiency#Cooperation#Multidisciplinary #Upcycled #Common sources #Modular #Unity

The restoration project of the neglected Loods 26, in the Old harbor of Muide, will mean a change towards a sustainable future having as main goals to ensure and restore the lively image of a naval port, the education of the workers and their future residence in it.

Back to the Future. Sustainable strategies 2020 to 2050 2020 | Academic Project | Architecture & Design & Urbanism Promoter: Luc Eeckhout Location: Muide, Ghent 9000, Belgium

This master’s dissertation is about the development of a strategy that is able to alleviate and change in a sustainable way the mismanagement of the inherited architecture and its history; also serving as an example for future cases. In the following case study, we try to reconnect the municipality of Muide, in Ghent, with the city itself. We analyze how to give back a promising future to this village, without losing its identity as an industrial harbor. We are not only looking to reach the physical connection between Ghent and its inhabitants, but we are also aiming to achieve the intangible connection where the values of the past, implicit in the manual work, in education and based on cooperation that have been forgotten, become essential resources for the construction of a sustainable future. Subsequently, the manual work, the technical skills, and all the knowledge would entail, once again, a valuable discipline that will help to improve the social and economic situation in 2050.

city impact

02/ Analysis - Three Scales

1.Mobility

4.Green Spaces

2.Services

3.Density

5.Protected Spaces

village solution

PRODUCTIVE URBAN HUB

building restoration

Project Movie

Loods 26 in 1910

Unhide Loods 26 in 2022

‘‘Back to the future’’

Loods 26 must become a place to live, coexist, and work in an open and permeable way, where the canal water becomes a common thread for people and goods. The Hubbox

1.Permeability 2.Matrix

4.Vernacular

3.Upcycled

5.Flexible

03/ Loods 26 Axonometric

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+ ECO

PRODUCTIVE URBAN HUB

ORIGINAL

NEW +

04/ Phase IV - Masterplan

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2033-

PRODUCTIVE URBAN HUB /11

-2040

05/ Loods 26 - The Hubbox - The living units

Transversal Section / 1.50 Detail / Start ups & Living Units Transversal Section / 1. 250 / Market hall / The Square

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PRODUCTIVE URBAN HUB

Photomontage 1/ West side ~ Hubbox - The living unit Photomontage 2/ East side ~ Canteen & Living Units - Green Area

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06/ Loods 26 - The Hubbox - The heritage units

Photomontage 3/ West side ~ Hubbox- Educational system ‘‘Learn, Live, Photomontage 4/ West side ~ Ateliers & Workshops - Harbor Area

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PRODUCTIVE URBAN HUB

, Work’’

Transversal Section / 1.50 Detail / Educational & Repair System Transversal Section / 1. 250 / Old Dry Dock vs New Loods 26

EcoBoat System - Booklet /15

07/ The Manual - Detail Scale

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how to build yo

our own hubbox?

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01/ Introduction

“People trace a winding path for some reason, despite being able to walk straight if they wish spaces are born out of the relationship between architecture and non-architectural elements and the relationship with the people who perceive there. A building is no more than one of the many conditions that make up myriad environments. The extent to which architecture and other things can be rendered equivalent is the key to expanding the possibilities of architecture in the different scales” Junya Ishigami - Another scale of Architecture - page 81.

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BIOTOPO

2018

Biotopo-Tierra de Sabor

#Romans #Periurban #Empty #Industrial #New-construction #History #Full-Development #Typologies #Food #Biology #Firm #Multi-spaces #Japanese #Farmhouse #Tradition #Modular #BigScale #TheUnit #VacceoUrbanism

The mutiple-tipology project seeks to achieve a symbiosis with the place and the history of the Soto de Medinilla where this project is proposed and the relationship with the new firm of indigenous products in the area.

Rooting through the History - Final Project Thesis 2018/2019 2018 | Academic Project | Architecture & Design & Urbanism Promoter: Jorge Ramos Jular Location: Overuela, Valladolid 47009, Spain

This final’s dissertation is about designing from the past to transmit an idea of the history to the present and that it remains in the future culture. Although it only affects one area of the city, It is a large-scale project. This peri-urban area of more than 4 vacant hectares, needs to be transformed in to the great headquarters of the firm “Tierra de Sabor”. The project aims to represent this company in the city of Valladolid, referring to an architecture that encompasses the history of “El Soto de Medinilla” as its leitmotiv. Thanks to an exhaustive study of the history of the Soto and its pre-Roman origins, these archeological foundations are an important basis for the reinterpretation of contemporary architecture. The final goal of the project is to revive the architectures of the place itself. The architecture that has dominated the Soto and how to translate an image of a community with a chaotic urbanism and at the same time with an natural organisation that it does not seem made by the human being, intead of it, It looks like made by nature itself.

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02/ Location & Research Communities

Vacceo house

Similarities

‘‘Genius Loci’’

These are the architectural shapes unearthed on our site project from 800 BC. The design is inspired by their urbanism, form and design to generete an ordely complex seemingly chaotic filled with multiple typologies.

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03/ Biotopo & Identity

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BIOTOPO /23

04/ Masterplan

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BIOTOPO

Pre-Roman / Vacceos Tierra de Sabor is based on the architecture that has dominated the Soto in its origins and how to transfer an image of a community with a chaotic urbanism to a contemporany controlled chaotic complex surrounded by nature.

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05/ The market & the cell

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06/ The Tower

3rd Floor / Coworking area

5th Floor / Lookout

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2nd Floor / Library

4th Floor / Atelier-Study area

BIOTOPO

Investigation area

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07/ The tower & Auditorium

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01/ Introduction

“In architecture, there are two basic possibilities of spatial compostion: the closed architectural body that isolates spaces withing itself and the open body that embraces an area of space that is conneted with endless continuum” Composing the Space Peter Zumthor - Thinking Architecture- page 22.

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HORTUS CONCLUSUS

2019

The Hortus conclusus

#Urban Planning #Suburban #Landscape #Civil-Engineering #Identity #Secret-Space #Shelter #Nature #EnclosedGarden #MedievalGarden #Ishigami #SaskiaDeWit #JamesCorner #River #Swamp #Micro-Scale #Artificial #Pure #Wild #Maze

The idea is to create a tension between the artificial object embedded in nature and the nature reserve itself, where the viewer feels that the rhythm of his journey has changed. It must be clear that the element generate does not belong to the field of nature.

The Enclosed Garden - Studio Architecture & Territory 2019 2019 | Academic Project | Architecture & Design & Urbanism Promoter: Steven Geeraert and Bart Van Gassen Location: Stiemerbeek, Genk, 3600, Belgium

This Landscape project starts with a close relationship with the context, where the artificial space alien to the natural exterior must contain a history. I rely on the water cells from the swampy area to build up my architecture, the different dispersed cell shapes will generate a trace on the artificial object, creating the sequence of paths inside the new space. The shape of this route must be one that makes us constantly contrast the controlled interior with the uncontrolled exterior. It is an artificial object assembled by man in a natural place. The nature is confronted and limited by the artificial, the distinction between what is wild and what is artificial. This tension is created by facing the openings of the walls of the new object and its interior with the landscape that embraces it. This artificial element represents the purity, that contrast with natural area where the earth is filled with a battered, dirty and polluted vegetation. The project at this stage is defined as Enclosed Garden a place with a strong poetic character, where society is liberated and strengthened.

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STORYBOARD

02/ The Narrative

~The route~

~The Drift~

~First Sketch~

~Hortus conclusus~

~Exiting~ ~Project Site~

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~The Dérive~

~Hortus ludi~

~The path~

HORTUS CONCLUSUS

~Positive impact~

~Hortus catalogi~

~The maze~

EVOLUTION OF AN IDEA

~Discover of the site~

~The swamp~

~Context relation~

~The idea~

~Into the swamp~

~The enclosed garden~

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03/ Dérive & Concept & Shape

~The Dérive~

Low Profile Proposal- The Empty garden

Mid Profile, alternative Proposal - The In-Situ Garden

The final Proposal - The Exotic Garden

Conceptual Image “People trace a winding path for some reason, despite being able to walk straight if they wish spaces are born out of the relationship between architecture and non-architectural elements and the relationship with the people who perceive there. A building is no more than one of the many conditions that make up myriad environments.” Another scale of Architecture - Junya Ishigami -81

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HORTUS CONCLUSUS

3 BUDGETS / 1 CONCEPT

SHAPING

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04/ Mid. profile, alternative Proposal

“An interesting counterpoint develops between the continuous rhythm of movement and the discontinuous visual rhythm, created by the concealment and surprise appearance of new elements. There is a complex interplay in how space is perceived through the body and the eye”

Topographic Imagination, Elissa Rosenberg - pages 9-10

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05/ The final proposal

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06/ In&Out

~ North ~

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~ East ~

HORTUS CONCLUSUS

~ South ~

~ West ~

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07/ The Enclosed Garden

“The hortus conclusus unites within itself a marvelous assemblage of disparate aspects. It seeks to understand the landscape it denies, explain the world it excludes, bring in the

nature it fears and summarize all this in an architectural composition”

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The Enclosed Garden - Saskia de Wit - page 22

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01/ Introduction

2018

Fashion Urban School

#Copy #Textil #Suburban #EduardoTorroja #Fashion #Flexibility #Adaptable #Restoration #Industrial #Identity #Footprint #Concrete #Lacaton&Vassal #Symmetry #Renovable #Manofactures #Fix #VS

The proposal for the competition is the restoration of the abandoned Fefasa Project, a former paper and fiber textile factory and its transformation into a new university linked to fashion and textiles for young entrepreneurs.

FEFASA - The Original and the Copy 2018 | Competition Project | Architecture & Design & Urbanism Location: Miranda de Ebro, Burgos, Spain

The former Fefasa factory has been forgotten within a large site with several buildings of which the concrete structure by the Spanish architect Eduardo Torroja stands out. This 1940’s structure is now bare. In this new project we will try to give visibility to it, to its forms, folds and play with the duality of a flexible and modern open space, versus a fixed, high and bulky space. Creating a copy and an original, playing with the symmetry of the industrial building.

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FEFASA

Structure inherited from Torroja Exalting the nakedness of the concrete

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02/ Plan and Scale

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04/ Main Section

Reuse by giving a second life and use of the factory’s own elements

The Copy

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FEFASA

The new university works like a greenhouse, being being thermally efficient

The Original

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01/ Introduction

2018

G.E.M.A - Enjoy&Learn

#Farm #Neglected #Vernacular #Shelter#Ruins #Flexibility #Adaptable #Restoration #Village #Ruskin #Nature #Footprint #Identity #Plantspecies #Heritage #Renovable #Courtyards #Geniusloci #Experiment

This proposal seeks to preserve the beauty of the landscape that remained after the river overflowed its banks. In order to reactivate a flooded village, re-cycle it and enhance it, we must first understand the geometry of the landscape, its vegetation and its architecture.

G.E.M.A - Shelter and experimental farm 2018 | Competition Project | Architecture & Design & Urbanism Location: Camposolillo, León, Spain

This project hides behind the vegetation and the ruins, hiding from the direct vision of those who enter the village. It will appear leaning on the ruins of the old farmhouse, peaceful, conveying a sense of warmth, in contrast to the cold colors of the surrounding nature. Playing with these elements, a mimicry with the exterior and a call from our architecture to reflection and intimacy, reflecting the idea of disintegration towards the landscape and compactness, generating intimacy and protection towards the interior. To give this space a new meaning, without losing the connection with its roots.

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GEMA

1968 - 2018 Genius Loci introverted U, C and L shapes.

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02/ Plans & Model

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03/ Detail Sections Elevation/Section - Classrooms + Greenhouse

1- Cleaning concrete 2- Separator 3- Foundation reinforcement 4- Compacted soil layer 5- Waterproof sheeting 6- Geotextile sheet 7- Drainage Pipe 8- Drainage gravel 9- Abutments 10- Compacted soil

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11- Vegetable Coating 12- Laminated Glass 6-15-88A 13- Wood Pillar 14- Wooden Carpentry Crosspiece 15- Anchor, Hidden plate 16- Wood baseboard 17- Composite Panel 18- Embedded heating (Clima Canal) 19- Waterproof sheet Flooring 20- Thermal insulation 5cmt

21- Precast concrete, skin reinforcement 22- Compaction layer of 10 cm 23- Porcelain tile flooring (Gray/White) 24- Pladur upright 25- Thermal Insulation 10 cm Mineral Wool 26- 2 Sheets of Wood 1,4mm Boards 27- 1 Masonry Sheet 22x45x15 28- Masonry Reinforcement 29- Reinforced concrete layer 10 cm 30- Troweling of Concrete

31- Drainage 32- Wooden lathing 33- Thermal insulation Perimeter joints 34- Hinged glass 35- Motorized Glass Opening System 36- Sandwich Panel System 37- Hidden pins Beam-Pillars 38- Steel brackets 39- Perimetral wooden band 40- Wooden framet

41- Covered waterproof sheet 42- Micro-ventilated layer 43- Zinc roofing, striped 44- Boards and Insulation 10cm Covering 45- Reinforced concrete load-bearing structure 46- Wooden carpentry 47- Zinc roofing

1- Cleaning concrete 2- Separator 3- Foundation reinforcement 4- Compacted soil layer 5- Waterproof sheeting 6- Geotextile sheet 7- Drainage Pipe 8- Drainage gravel 9- Abutments 10- Compacted soil

41- Covered waterproof sheet 42- Micro-ventilated layer 43- Zinc roofing, striped 44- Boards and Insulation 10cm 45- Reinforced concrete 46- Wooden carpentry 47- Zinc Roofing Goterón 48- Projected dwarf - Pillar 49- Zinc gutter 50- Gutter

GEMA

Elevation/Section - Shelter + Canteen + Workshops

51- Blind, blackout 52- Horizontal seal Zinc 53- Cover glass 6-15-88th 54- Zinc carpentry, roofing 55- Roof rails 56- Continuous flat roof tile 57- Main Tie Beam 58- Metal plate / nailed 59- Joist- Pair of wood 60- Ridge tile

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03/ Detail Sections

1- Cleaning concrete 2- Separator 3- Foundation reinforcement 4- Compacted soil layer 5- Waterproof sheeting 6- Geotextile sheet 7- Drainage Pipe 8- Drainage gravel 9- Abutments 10- Compacted soil

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41- Covered waterproof sheet 42- Micro-ventilated layer 43- Zinc roofing, striped 44- Boards and Insulation 10cm Roofing 45- Reinforced concrete load-bearing structure 46- Wooden carpentry 47- Zinc roofing 48- Projected dwarf - Pillar 49- Zinc gutter 50- Gutter

51- Blind, bla 52- Horizonta 53- Cover gla 54- Zinc carp 55- Roof rails 56- Continuou 57- Main Tie 58- Metal pla 59- Joist- Pair 60- Ridge tile

61- Gutter embedded in wall 62- Wooden fences, roof finishings 63- Concealed anchor plate - Masonry wall 64- Existing masonry wall 65- Spanish knife truss 66- Truss tie beam 67- Truss girder 68- Javelin 69- Brace 70- Bolts and braces

GEMA

ackout al seal Zinc ass 6-15-88th pentry, roofing s us flat roof tile Beam ate / nailed r of wood e

Elevation/Section - Canteen + Library

71-Zinc Joint Ridge Joint 72- Pladur System 73- Wood edge trim 74- Board on joists 75- Insulating Panel 76- Anti-impact sheeting 77- Wood slats 78- Zinc Plate 79- Goterón anchored to Masonry 80- Anchoring of light fixtures

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