PORTFOLIO JAVIER JAIR MONTEMAYOR LEOS
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“Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.� - Juhani Pallasmaa-
JAVIER JAIR MONTEMAYOR LEOS
Architecture student based in Mexico, with interest in architecture design, urbanism, social housing, and commnity making.
EDUCATION 2014 2011-Present
PERSONAL INFORMATION Aalto University Master Exchange Program Architecture ITESM Campus Monterrey Average: 97
2008-2011
High School: Prepa Tec Valle Alto Honorific mention of excellence
2005-2008
Javier Jair Montemayor Leos 10/07/1993 Monterrey, Mexico 8116399708 jj_2@live.com.mx
Middle school: Instituto Laurens Top of the class
WORKSHOPS Fall 2012
Project Design I: Residential housing Arq. Raul BadĂa
Spring 2013
Project Design II: Collective housing Arq. Juan Carlos Lopez
Fall 2013
Project Design IV: Community buildings Arq. Carlos Zazueta
Fall 2014
Project Design V: Mixed use complexes Arq. Sanni (Aalto University)
Spring 2015
Construction project II: Catedra TTQ Arq. Adriana Diaz Marchetti
EXPERIENCE Mar - July 2014
Arquidromo 2D plans and models
June - July 2014
Corcuera Arquitectos 2D plans and renders
Jan - May 2015 Jan - May 2015
Graphic design of Catedra Andres Marcelo Sada Math teacher of elementary school Academic advice SEA: geometry Tutor of middle school students Building and urban studios in collaboration with Yale students in Aalto University Translator of Catedra Luis Barragan Revit MEP used to develop installations in mixed use complex
COMPETITIONS Aug 2013 May 2015
DELF B2
SOFTWARE Autocad Revit Revit MEP 3D Max Vray Lumion Rhinoceros Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Office ABILITIES
ACTIVITIES Aug 2011-2012 Jan - May 2013 Aug - Dec 2013 Aug - Dec 2013 Aug - Dec 2014
TOEFL 640
Project Design III: Recreative buildings Arq. Rodrigo Lobeira
Spring 2014
LANGUAGES Spanish English French Italian German
Social housing: Instituto de Arquitectos de NL NYC Sky Condo: AWR Competitions
Teamwork Constancy in performance Work under pressure Research Hand drawing, scale models
INTERESTS Travel Cinema Books Food Community service
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01 02 HOUSING
Doctor house PAGE 08
HOUSES
INDEX SUMMER HOUSE PAGE 12
03 04 05 COLLECTIVE HOUSING i PAGE 14
COLLECTIVE HOUSING ii PAGE 18
COLLECTIVE HOUSING iii PAGE 22
GUGGENHEIM PAGE 32
MEP & URBANISM
MACROPLAZA PAGE 26
ny condo PAGE 36
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
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09 10 PASEO 701 PAGE 40
NARINKKA SQUARE PAGE 46
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houses DOCTOR HOUSE
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SUMMER HOUSE
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Individual
Tutors:
Category:
Location:
Raul BadĂa
Single house
Monterrey, MĂŠxico
DOCTOR HOUSE The long site gave some clues on how to solve the design of the house. The priority was to give a sense of openness without sacrificing the privacy of the users. To achieve this, the main volume was placed at one end of the plot, leaving open space at both sides to ventilate the public areas, giving them a more direct contact with the exterior. With this placement, the ground floor results in a fluid and open space; in the upper level, the main volume retains its shape, but now a second volume is added to protect the approach of the residents to the entry.
Besides, this second volume corresponds to a guest house, which justifies its separateness from the main volume. To connect them, a bridge was created: it is closed to the street but open to courtyard on the other side. Actually, the tree on this courtyard had to be respected, which resulted on two terraces admiring the old entity, leaving space for the branches to grow. At the end, the house is open in its social areas, but intimacy is also found in the bedrooms with access to the tree patio.
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Single house Section at bridge
Corridor un upper floor
Location: South of the city of Monterrey
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needed to have an independent access form the house, but also a direct connection with the house itself (1).
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The two bedrooms were placed in the main volume (2), and a third one is independently placed on the other side of the plot to assure its privacy, due to its nature of a guest bedroom (3). The bridge (4) serves as a link between both volumes.
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Individual
Clients:
Category:
Location:
Ricardo & Eva
Summer house
Santiago, MĂŠxico
SUMMER HOUSE It all began with a sloping site outside the city, located in the foothills of Sierra Madre Oriental. The concept consisted in the creation of terraces, so that the views to the Sierra Madre were the main attraction. In fact, the mentioned slope was a key factor to maintain the concept throughout the project. Every single space, including the promenade that traverses a variety of gardens
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and vegetable patches, is open to receive the landscape on the opposite side. Besides, due to the mandatory simplicity requested by the client, the entirety of the summer house was concentrated in a single rectangular volume. However, the design made the most of such basic volume, by using its roof like an accessible terrace and making its inferior part a protected area of cohabitation. The interior is equally easy to read, with generously ventilated public spaces and more intimate private ones.
Platform creation (respecting views) Terrace
House
Covered grill
Promenade around gardens, connecting pool, terrace and tennis court
Location: South of the city of Monterrey
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MATERIALS 1 Concrete masonry
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finishing 4 Tiled marble
5 Toilet 6 Guest room 7 Bathroom
wall 5 White bricks
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9 Family room 10 Master room
Ground floor plan Palo blanco Calycophyllum multiflorum
2 Dining
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Dodonea Dodonaea viscosa
Olmo Ulmus
Arbusto cenizo Leucophyllum frutescens
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Chapote amarillo Sargentia greggii
Encino roble Quercus stellata
Arbusto cenizo Leucophyllum frutescens
Mandarina Citrus reticulata
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housing collective housing I
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collective housing II
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collective housing III
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First stage done with
Tutors:
Category:
Location:
Viridiana Negrete
Juan Carlos L贸pez
Social housing
Monterrey, M茅xico
ROW HOUSES The aim of the project was to create affordable houses for the students and young families living in the south of the city. Given its versatile location, along a fluent avenue, near the biggest university in the state, diverse possibilities had to be given. For instance, four different types of houses are offered, which range from 1 up to 4 bedrooms. They needed to be row houses to save space, eliminate the useless corridors between houses, and promote a healthier sense of community.
Besides, their configuration was that of an L-shape, with patios on one side, but designed in a way that users can later have the opportunity of growing their dwelling according to their future needs. As for the arrangement of the block itself, the houses were distributed in different blocks, letting the circulation to flow transversally as well as longitudinally. One of the main priorities was the interaction between neighbors; consequently pocket parks were created. Location: South of the city of Monterrey
2. Rotation according to views and the sun; green spaces originated.
Housing
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3. Cut into different segments to allow free circulation
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1. It started with a cube. 2. Transformation into L-shape (more direct contact with exterior). 3. Spaces left for terraces in superior levels 4. Terrace can be an additional room 5. Gardens communicate when mirroring the houses
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First stage done with
Tutors:
Category:
Location:
Viridiana Negrete
Juan Carlos López
Social housing
Monterrey, México
COLLECTIVE HOUSING 2 In the second stage of the social housing exercise, it was required to have a denser neighborhood. Basically, the same model of house was used but now one house would be over the other, in other words, the duplex model was used. In order to achieve this, cubes of vertical circulation needed to be created to allow the residents of the upper floors reach their own space. The cubes were alternated every two units. As for their materiality, circulations are transparent so they could be distinguished from the solid and almost closed private buildings.
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Only stairs were included in the circulation, due to the number of floors; besides, the ground floor is destined for the elderly, so they don’t have the necessity of climbing the stairs. Because of the bigger density, a lot of green space was liberated. Now, the creation of more generous gardens was possible. The site was organized in two different squares to create private patios with circular plazas at the center. Through omission, some openings were located throughout the block to connect the outside to the inside gardens.
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Location: South of the city of Monterrey
1. Simple blocks in an orthogonal grid were placed. 2. The blocks were shaped into closed squares for more direct communication. 3. Aligned to views, the squares form internal gardens and a community.
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1-Story house 2-Story house 3-Story house 2-Story house Circulation
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1. Elderly housing 2. House for 4 3. House for 6 4. Circulation to houses on 2&3 floor
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First stage done with
Tutors:
Category:
Location:
Viridiana Negrete
Juan Carlos L贸pez
Social housing
Monterrey, M茅xico
COLLECTIVE HOUSING 3 In this final stage, the intention was to incorporate the initial row houses we had at the beginning, into low-rise blocks, something similiar to the redent batiments from Le Corbuiser. There was also a necessity to take into account
commercial soces in the ground floor, to attract more users into the complex. The block occupies the whole site, breaking itself in a zig-zag shape. This arrangement produces three main patios, with their own squares.
The views, specially the one admiring Cerro de la Silla, are carefully respected; this was accimplished by orientating the building in a east-west manner. Two level apartments were kept in the block, but also flats in the corners were made available.
Front elevation
Breaking it up, to create community gardens
Housing
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Inclined grid adequation (better views)
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Social areas Restrooms Room Services Circulation
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The circulation nucleus were placed every four houses, so that social interaction could take place. The flats, in orange, were placed in the corners to take maximum advantage of the space; they also vary in size and number of rooms.
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Cross and longitudinal sections of the complex 2
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PUBLIC
BUILDINGS MACROPLAZA
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GUGGEMHEIM MUSEUM
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NY CONDO
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Individual
Tutors:
Category:
Location:
Carlos Zazueta
Mixed use
Monterrey, MĂŠxico
MACROPLAZA
Observation deck
SPA
Two separate plots were given: one small and the other one large. The program was huge: hotel, apartments, a community center, and social housing. Besides, the two buildings have to be connected in some way, not physically but architecturally. Because of the difficult plot situation (between two sites were there could be potential skyscrapers), the first building was divided into three rectangular elements. The elements formed a triangle that would assure a decent separation form the neighbors, leaving a void at the center.
This arrangement would assure the ventilation and exposure to the exterior, which was necessary due to the nature of the building. The mentioned individual elements, which corresponded to the different functions in the program, were connected through the circulation nucleus on each edge of the triangle. The lack of exterior spaces was compensated with subtractions in some levels of the buildings, to then provide green spaces to the users.
Formal restaurant
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Mixed use Macroplaza
Site analysis: main lines
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The building in the smaller plot, began from a practical 6x6 grid, in order to bring some order to the irregularity of the site. The main concern was to provide with enough ventilation and views to the users, so instead of doing a long building along the site, it was also divided into three elements, connected with the circulation module as well. This time, social terraces outside such module would promote the social relationships in the building, as well as the gardens in the middle levels. Besides using the same concept of individual elements linked with circulation nucleus, the feeling of the first building was maintained with the same kind of close faรงade to prevent excessive heating, characteristic of the city. Apartments Community center Circulation A.
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Individual *Design camp with Yale
Tutors:
Category:
Location:
Pirjo Sanaksenaho
Cultural
Helsinki, Finland
School of Architecture
Competition
GUGGENHEIM HELSINKI Museums nowadays don’t just mean knowledge and reverence towards art, but a more socially interactive space where people can learn about each other. In this case, the museum’s character is greatly dictated by its monumentality, making it easier for people to identify it. By rendering it as an identifiable city point, the intention is to bring people with different backgrounds together. The design creates a connection between the park with the sea, without forgetting about the city and the harbor.
In such way, people can easily flow through the building and appreciate the city in different ways. Noisy quiet becomes present since the beginning: its monumentality might appear distracting but as one gets closer its quietness and adaptation to the context are more evident. Currently, it is necessary for museums to provide unique experiences- it isn’t a luxury to afford. Through the use of fragmentation and sequences, people will get immersed in the museum without forgetting the world outside.
2 Connection with park
Public buildings
1 View to Uspenski Cathedral
4 Visual to White Cathedral
5 Link with art street
Northeast elevation, from harbor
Extrusion of the site
Subtraction to create central space to host sculptures
Subtraction of volume to respect grid and views from street
Height accordance with neighbors and mountain in park
Subtraction to create focal points: Uspenski Cathedral and harbor
Promenade in the back to link park and direct views to White Cathedral
Guggenheim Helsinki
3 Plaza for Palace Hotel
Subtraction of lateral sides to encourage easy flow of people
Creation of transparent bridge between volumes, connecting with exterior
Public zones Mezzanine Exhibition area Horizontal circulation Vertical circulation Exterior circulation
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Transversal section
Platform detail
Site plan
Basically the project consists of one base and three volumetric masses. To give the feeling of monumentality, they are almost completely closed. They have, however, extensive facades of glass overlooking Helsinki’s harbor and the sea. The ground floor hosts important public areas, including the entrance, cafÊ, auditorium, and a library. The next level is an extension of the first, acting as a mezzanine, which includes workshops, classrooms, and a restaurant. The second level is the most important one, because the exhibition area is entirely located there, making it more readable and digestible. It is designed so people can choose which path to follow.
Ground floor plan Front facade
Public buildings
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element is the sequence between open and close; the promenade starts inside a solid volume, then it transitions into the crystal
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corridor with views toward the park and see, then again into solidity, and so on. The ends of the exhibitions at the extremes provide a return to the public areas on the first floor, creating a loop in which people can easily transition.
Third floor 19 Terrace 18 Bar 17 Multipupose zone Second floor 16 Projection room 15 Exhibitions First floor 14 Workshop 13 Bicycles 12 Restaurant Ground floor 11 Machine room 10 Offices 9 Break room 8 Storage 7 Maintenance 6 Kitchen 5 Reading area 4 Library 3 Cafe 2 Auditorium 1 Lobby
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Guggenheim Helsinki
The most interesting
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Team:
Tutor:
Category:
Location:
Alejandra Ferreyro
Karen Hinojosa
Mixed use
New York, US.
Competition
Viridiana Negrete
NYC SKY CONDO We didn’t want an invasive building, that’s why our proposal extended the sidewalk for the pedestrians; this gave more social space for the community, engaging the people to come inside the plaza and begin to explore the cultural and recreational experiences offered by the building. The context played a big role in the formal language, we proposed a convencional steel structure to blend the form with the ones of the existing buildings around.
After deciding the structure we wanted to continue with a non-invasive form, we didn’t want the people coming from the High Line to feel overwhelmed by our building, that’s why we opted to stagger it. Following the structure, we decided to place the apartments most apart from the direct solar exposure; on the other hand the farm was located in the area directly exposed to the sun.
1. Extrusion of 2. Offset from the site the outer limit
3. Creation of regular grid
4. Staggered from to lighten its presence
Mixed use
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6. Combination of ideas
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7. Creation of frames for installations
8. Connection with High Line and context
structural frames
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7 Level 1 lab 9 apartments
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2 Level Art galleries Classrooms
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Local green market
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Views from 10th street and main entrance
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Life cycle of the building
The central nucleus is the main attraction of the building: visitors will go up following the steps next to the core that distributes the elements that give life to the whole building. They will be able to see how it functions.
1. The water, coming from the Hudson river, is treated and collected in a tank on the basement. 2. After the water is filtrated, it is distributed to the fish tank on the third floor and it later irrigates the plants through a piping system. 3. The fishes in the tank produce waste that acts as fertilizer for the plants. 4. The waste of the animals on the fifth floor also serves as fertilizer. 5. The animals and fishes themselves are used as products in the local market on the first floor. 6. The plants produce food for the neighborhs and market. 7. The users take care of the farm and community garden. 8. The garden produces fresh air for the whole complex. 9. The waste form the apartements is used as biowaste to produce energy for the conservation of the plants. 10. The whole building is supported by the activity of tourism and life coming from the High Line.
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Some harvests Top floor/ greenhouse with fragrant plants
Green house
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Vertical farm grains
Vertical farm
fruits and vegetables
Vertical farm
chickens and bees
Labs
take care of crops
Water tank
serving the whole building
Art gallery
exhibition of local art
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MEP &
URBANISM PASEO 701- TTQ
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NARINNKA SQUARE
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Tutors:
Category:
Location:
José Varela
Adriana Marchetti
Construction
Monterrey,
Annette García
Ana María de la Cruz
Mixed use
México
PASEO 701 Located in the south of Monterrey, near the university campus, a mixed use complex was designed. The main objective of the exercise was to fully develop the MEP installations for the building, so a regular and simple U configuration was used. The lower levels were destined for commercial uses and the tower for offices, both of them connected through a green roof. After defining the service areas that would give the installations an easy flow,
the structure was designed: reinforced concrete was used for the columns, and steel girder as well as joists. The third stage consisted on the HVAC proposal: offices required variable cooling meanwhile commerce needed a constant cooling system. The fourth stage had to do with the hydrosanitary system, and the last one was the electric/illumination design for the public spaces of the complex.
Frony & lateral elevation
Parking
Melissa Toussaint
Commerc e
Offices
Team:
Mixed use
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Facade section Azotea Chaflan de mortero con tapa de ladrillo Impermeabilizante
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Enladrillado Mortero cemento-arena proporción 1:6 para recibir e Malla felxible y asfaltos refinados 1 cm Entortado de mortero cemento-arena proporción1:4 Relleno de tezontle para dar pendiente 15 cm Sistema Losacero
Macetero (ver detalle 2) Sustrato para crecimiento de vgetación de 10 cm Malla antierosión de 15 cm
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Geotextil 0.10 cm Dren para infiltración de 1.20 cm Emulsión acrílica 0.10 cm 2 Membrana 0.40 cm 1 Membrana 0.30 cm Emulsión asfáltica 0.10 cm Aislante térmico 3.80 cm Adhesivo 0.10 cm Relleno de piedras 30 cm
Murete Aplanado de mezcla de concreto Muro de tabique rojo recocido asentado con mortero Capa de protección y drenaje impermeabilizante
Muro cortina Manguetería de aluminio Piel fija de cristal sencillo con lámina extra de cristal blanco y 24% de capa re Pieza de conexión de aluminio enlucido
Plafón Soporte metálico con alambra galvanizado calibre 16 Tablero de yeso resistente al fuego Cinta para tablero de yeso Resanado con compuesto de yeso Instalación de luces fluorescentes
Losa Piso de piedra caliza San Vicente Empastado + Adhesivo Crest Vaciado de mezcla de concreto de 12 cm Malla electrosoldada Losacero
Ground floor plan
Viga joist de acero de 45 cm Girder de acero de 91 cm
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Green roof and plaza
Second floor Isometric view Green roof
The green roof links the offices with the shops in the second level. In this case, such level hosts multiple restaurants, which are convenient for the workers in the tower.
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Mised use Second level structural system Module exploded structure
PASEO 701
Green roof
Tower exploded structure Structure of the whole complex
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HVAC section and isometric
Office: HVAC distribution
Hydrosanitary: isometric view
Mixed use Isometric view: electric
PASEO 701
Lighting proposal plan
Hydraulic plan
Isometric view: lighting
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Ana Torres
Mina Di Marino
Urbanism
Helsinki, Finland
Dan Palaire
Frances Zhu
NARINKKA SQUARE The study area selected is located in central Helsinki, a district called Kamppi, and specifically the main public open space of the area, Narinkka Square. Kamppi district represents a key element of the Helsinki urban area. Kamppi Center became one important spot by succeeding to incorporate three main functions of today’s society: transportation node, commercial area and business center. All this congestion of functions brings in the Kamppi area different typologies of people from consumers to businessmen and tourists to commuters. This is literally, how the architect Juhani Pallasmaa designed it, a huge functionalist machine.
This research was inspired by findings on the field. Even though the building itself has managed to retain the same quality of services and spaces, the outside open area in front of the center is suffering. The mixture of functions and people with different interests create easily a mess without any division or control. The square itself has been designed with high quality materials and as a platform for events, but the flows and behavior of people bring great challenges into creating an organized and well-thought-of square. By observing the moving patterns of people, Narinkka Square could be called a transition zone
The field work findings inspired us to do a research proposal reagrdin Kamppi area in order to try and find what concrete elements are problematic on the square and what could be improved to finally help the co-existence of different actors and conclude in a multi-functioning square.
Urbanism MORNING FLOWS 7-9 AM
AFTERNOON FLOWS 16-18 PM
NATURAL MOVING ´PATTERNS
MOVING PATTERNS: SMALL DISTURBANCES
MOVING PATTERNS: BIG EVENTS
The district received its name “Kamppi” in the time when Finland was part of Sweden. The word was a derivative from the Swedish word kamp, meaning ‘battle’. The area was selected for having a very strategic position for the displacement of the army and its ability to reach both the seashore and the Northern part of the city. Later, in the 19th century, when Finland was under the occupancy of the Russian Empire, the area again fulfilled both its original name and function.
WEEKEND& EVENING FLOWS
Narinkka square
THERMAL ANALYSIS
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Background In 1999, Helsinki municipality came with the intention to redesign the entire area in order to create a more pleasant and comfortable pedestrian area while retaining its original function of a transportation node. Finally, in 2002 an international competition was organized in order to redesign the entire area and to create a new type of square that would fulfil the contemporary needs. The winning project was awarded to Juhani Pallasmaa who is an important Finnish architect.
Research The public’s opinions were identified through interviews and behavior in public space was observed. Extended analyses were conducted through literature research and analyses on the square. The literature used included scientific articles, documents provided by the City of Helsinki, and books about the history and present of Kamppi. According to Jan Gehl another crucial element that influences and transforms the urban space are its actors. Because of the Kamppi area’s diversity of services and functions a large selection of different actors is expected. Based on our observations we could group the majority of people passing Narinkka Square in three main groups. EXHIBITION CONFIGURATION
The first and the most persistent group are the commuters and other users of the area’s public transportation. The second category of actors is the visitors of Kamppi Center which are coming for entertainment purposes. The last group of actors refers to people coming to the square for the square’s sake. The group consists of tourists and events visitors. Another important theory to be analyzed in the case of Narinkka Square is the “Collective Pattern of Motion” (Moussaïd, 2011). The flows on Narinkka Square are very clear and strong, so the basic moving pattern is easy to define. The challenging part is that the pattern is often broken through external factors (events, for instance).
Proposal Firstly we came up with a circular shape that would help the square host more functions while maintaining the rational flows Narinkka Square needs. We chose circles because people flow naturally in organic patterns. Besides, such shape is spatially very efficient due to the absence of useless corners, but also the most inviting for social interaction creating protection. On the overall layout the circular shape creates a good dynamism with the EVENT CONFIGURATION
wooden church and a needed contrast to the stiff rectangle buildings. After defining our main shape, we came up with three main concepts that would define the new organization: events, exhibitions, and human interaction. As already mentioned, Narinkka Square has originally been designed as a place for events; however, people who don’t want to get involved in them are disturbed by such happenings. For this reason, we wanted to take into consideration the exiting flows by separating gently the events from the through-passers.
Discussion At the moment Kamppi is too open and monumental, and people don’t feel the need for staying there. The large space has a lack of functions which probably intends to give the public as many options as possible, but does not succeed at that. This paradox has made the square unused – freedom is hard to exploit if any definition is not made. Our concept creates small spaces within the large scale square, which defines the space and benefits especially cultural interaction and perception of space.
EVERYDAY CONFIGURATION
Urbanism NARINKKA SQUARE
Different elements compose the intervention: interactive walls, exhibitions and event places
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