In the beggining it was a dream, there were doubts, who pays for it? When will it be built? How long will it take to construct? Who to seek help from? Who will pay the publishing? In the next 6 months wood companies knew about the project an the had given a price for the structure and the Museum of Modern Art Medellin had signed the contract for the pavilion. What will the community profit from? Education and culture which is what Medellin is about today. Once everything was flowing, engineers got involved, and this is when Izaskun and the Bartlett came along, the design started becoming a reality from a beautiful dream. Construction plans, elevations and sections were done. The exact price was calculated. Medellin digital (the client) asked the building to provide benefits and the same way around. At the same time, contracts with artesans of wood from the area will be made, internet systems to be installed with a technology already tested by the group. All this ahieved in only two months, in 2013 then it will be possible to use this installation for social activities, birthday celebrations, cooking lessons, elderly teacching to knit or any other educational occasion that contributes to learning. Durability of one year as a pavilion and then having the option of separating the different units and spreading them around the city creating different harbours or keeping it as a single pavilion. If it was to be given an end to its usage, the wood could be 100% reused.
El Puerto Pavilion Medellin 2012 Kitchen and Entrance units. Everything started with a fire, the heart of a home, around which one can sit around and get warm in a cold day of winter and even thanks to which one can cook a lovely meal for the family. A place to socialise, to learn and to explore. This was the beggining, now the kitchen unit can be designed around this fire now the space is inhabited, and now attention to detail is needed in order to get to a good single and strong design created by many different minds.
Natural Ventilation
Final Pavilion location plan
Natural Light
PLANS
Structure without the designed units
Main Access Workshops Connectio Bridge Secondary Access Hammocks Area Commercial Area Admin Office
SPACES
FIRST LEVEL 1:75
ROOF LEVEL 1:75
Section 2 1:75
Section 1 1:75
Long Section 1:75
Section showing the pavilion main structure. Document provided by UPB Medellin students
Day 1. Design brainstorm. What is important in a kitchen? FIRE. Everything got designed from the beggining with the idea of fire in mind. To t=reresent our ideas in group and fully understand the dimensions we created a plan and a section of our design 1:1 with tape on the floor. We then brought to life the drawing by acting inside it, sitting serving or cooking!
Strong joints made out of simple and light materials
Clarissa
Clarissa + Daniela
Different ideas for storage
Furniture
chats with furniture team so that their pieces would \slot into out emty windows
Structure 1:20 Model of structure & 3D model Scalability of models, different ways of navegating the project
Freya
Freya + Mejo
Roof
Viewing an activity from different points of view
Materials and water collection system
User comtribution to the building of the design through time
Victoria
Information together & Final model is built! Packet to fly to Colombia!
Entrance group (Colombia wit UPB students)
Megan
Idea of fire emergency
Structure
Chats with structure to decide where to put windows and storage
Megan + Jose
Roof
Chats with roof team to decide about natural light and hanging planters
Victoria + Ximena
Ramp
Chat with ramp team to decide the opening for the entrance
Layout & Program Chimney, Pulley systems and storage
Me
Tension and compresion mechanisms Adaptable architecture
PAVILION
After presenting our three dwellings to the rest of the students in our studio, we were placed in GROUPS for the different units!
Idea of compression
DWELLINGS
Pavilion; How did everything start?
KITCHEN GROUP
Packaging architecture
Me + Juliana
Layout & Program + esthetics
ENTRANCE + RAMP
WORKSHOP
By Bartlett and UPB
KITCHEN By Bartlett students
By UPB students
THE GRAND STAND STAGE By Bartlett students
By Bartlett students
OFFICE By UPB students
Proudly presenting the Medellin Pavilion we designed together with UPB students in Colombia
Units I designed together with my group
We had a pavilion structure, seven units were to be designed!
Smoke up (out)
Water Down (in)
Exploaded view of our kitchen unit. On the right it is appreciated the water mechanisms (plant-shelves, water collector and water pipe going down) On the left, the Fire facade exploaded elements (Chimney and charcoal pipe)
Lifting Crate
Lifting Crate
Crate
Smoke Extract Hood
Coal dispenser
Charcoal Chute
BBQ Flue
Service Bar
Charcoal Chute
BBQ Flue
Coal Store Water Collection Tank Ice Maker
Counter Counter weight used to transport store up to the roof level
Ice Chute
Ice Chute
Water vassel counterweight
Kitchen Plan
Top Floor PLan
Water vassel counterweight
Top Floor Plan with Roof
Flue needs to extend at least 600mm from the ridge At or within 600mm from the ridge
Chimney (Smoke from Kitchen) Pulley System
Wooden gutter hanging off frame by steel clips 200mm minimum Flue diameter for fireplace with opening up to 500mm x 550mm
Storage Area Water Container
Ice Supply
Minimum flue length of 6m
Planter Boxes Ice Pipe Workshop Area
Openable panels Ladder
Fireplace hood used to tunnel smoke upwards
Kitchen Area
Counterweight container used to transport good up to roof level
Section 1:50
Front Elevation 1:50 WATER FACADE
Back Elevation 1:50 FIRE FACADE
KITCHEN DETAILS
BBQ Tray Detail Kitchen Unit Structure The ground floor kitchen is suspended from a lattice grid structure constructed in timber below the first floor primary structure. From this hangs 2 Workspace Units and a central Sink and Storage unit.
It is intended that the joinery for the 2 workspace units are identical including hardwood surfaces and bar construction, however one would house a steel BBQ tray and grill, whilst the other would be a steel tray lined externally in polysty rene as a drinks and ice container.
Sink & Storage Unit The central hanging structure will need to support a sink and house all the utensils and smaller equipment such as pots and pans, and be fully lockable. (This is still to be designed)
JOINTS
Workspace Unit
Tutor’s feedback for our first version of the Kitchen Unit Corrections in our design to follow
Kitchen Model Construction, after tutor comments (simplified design)
Roof & Shingles
Overlapped Trelises
Kitchen counters
Simplified kitchen model for Medellin Pavilion ‘El Puerto’ MAMM
Pavilion main structure
First facade trellis in place
Mirrored first facade trellis
Trellises are sucured and kitchen ceiling + suspension struc ture is added
Suspension structure from level above
Next level first trellis added
Last trellis in place and secured all overlapping wood trellises
The roof is added slotting it between the main structure and the trellises
Pulley system is installed and weights working
Shingles installed Bar counters and main sink hung.
Hanging vegetation + user interaction
Fur
nit
ure Clarissa + Daniela
Layout and pprogram + Esthetics of design (colours, materials & textures)
Me +
We decided to divide the design vertically, starting from the bottom up: DWELLINGS
Pots for planting herbs for people to use for their picnics included in the structure
Roof
Juliana
Megan + Jose
Facade to include mirrors reflecting both upstairs and downstairs Facade to include both windows and storage Hangingcolourful pots from the ceiling at different heights to be reflected by the mirrors to the outside ge Brid Facade shape + storage
Victoria + Ximena
Pulley system to lift Bridge
Facade with triangulated windows and storage spaces
Hanging herbs to be used for the cooking
Lifting Bridge
Open space below providing shade
Roof structure showing three layers - tiles, - grid allowing ventilation and - ceiling providing shade
Between both roofs, water collection system
Kitchen Unit
Proudly presenting the Medellin Pavilion we designed together with UPB students in Colombia
THE HARBOUR Bringing back the nature to the metropolitan area of Medellin through its river.
Medellin grew arround its river, also called Medellin. After the big industralization of the city, the river became very urbanized with a man made basin which made it flow fast and streight, giving it a completly different look if it is to be compared to itssmaller streams which have a jungle feel, full of vegetation and fauna. The levels of the river change dramatically because of the heavy rain One thing I noticed when in the city of Medellin, was that most of the homes, as in many other big cities, did not have their own garden or open space. At the same time, peripheral and marginal areas don’t have an inmediate interaction with the rest of the city I found here the design proposal, a green space in which both, people from the city and peripheral neighbors, can socialise and have their own small piece of land to grow their vegetables or flowers! My idea is to bring to the river Medellin the nature it once had, starting by a water purification system followed by the addition of garden platforms (hanging and floating) used as paths along and at different levels of the river basin, making the river flood the lower ones when at its highest tidal level. These would provide ciewing platforms to explore the river and learn how to clean it as an educational purpose.
Keping the christmas market and lights spirit all year round
Moravia area In the 70s began its urban occupation as a waste disposal site. - Uncontrolled disposal site that received over 100 ton/day of waste: Urban Waste Industrial Waste, Health Care Waste ,Animal, Control Waste.. The human settlement in Moravia happened together with the waste disposal. - The first habitants were the people that lived “searching” the garbage that was dumped in Moravia (looking to find value materials such as wood, metal, paper, etc) - As paradox as it could be, Moravia is a well located place in Medellin (in front of the bus terminal, only a few minutes to city center). Once it was close down – attracted especially the people that was arriving at Medellin. - In 1983, 17.000 people lived there (1st census), in 2006 around 42.000 people.
San Javier neighborhood.