ARCHITECTURE
P O R T F O L I O JOSE EDUARDO PINTO
RETHINKING REMEMBRANCE
Revitalization and improvement of an existing cemetery into an urban public space in Panama City. Master Degree Thesis Use : Communal non-residential. Project location: Panama City, Panama. Date: 2018 Used softwares: Autodesk Revit, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop.
Death has fascinated us throughout history. The estate of human death has always been obscured by mystery and superstition, and its precise definition remains controversial, differing according to each culture and legal systems. Cemeteries provide a means of getting rid of a dead body, express basic cultural beliefs concerning death and the meaning of life. They are places where the relationship between the dead and the bereaved is stablished and maintained. Through the last centuries we have given main importance to the physical function of the cemetery as a place where to put the remains of the dead. For technical reasons and health concerns, cemeteries have been located outside the cities; and the ones that remain inside the cities are enclosed. This led us to move away from cemeteries and for that reason we are disconnected from the dead. The traditional disposition of our remains in graveyards has used space in a non-sustainable way for the performance of the city. Enclosed cemeteries are only occupied by the function they hold within: a dead space. They are normally visited a few days a year, sometimes because of the location but also because of the boundaries that we as society have been creating through history: dividing the living and the dead.
How can we transform these spaces (existing and new) to bring back the connection and the commemoration from the living to the dead? How can we manage the future demand for burials in a more sustainable way?
The proposal for the new typology of using urban cemeteries as public spaces will lead us to view death in a new way; we can take advantage of an existing place and bring life into a dead space. Rethinking the potential of this now dead space intends to change the obscured perception of the Panamanian people towards death, through the revitalization of this cemetery into an approachable urban area that respects the importance as well as the religious and sentimental significance of grief and remembrance.
The site At less than 10 km east from the center of Panama City, in an area with predominant residential use, a big representation of industries and some commerce, recreational spaces are very limited. The municipal Cemetery of Juan DĂaz is in the middle of this area possessing a current double necessity: the first one is the overcrowded state of the cemetery, and the second one is the lack of public space for the inhabitants of the Juan DĂaz sector. My project pretends to be a solution for both necessities, working also with the projection of the growth of the population.
Existing areas and structures to mantain
Graves
Programming
Vault niches
Basic targets 1. Improve the overall aesthetics of the site to make it more appealing for a potential visitor. 2. Provide ecologic contributions. 3. Preserve the existing characteristics of the area with moral considerations. 4. Ensure better use as casual open space. 5. Improve the visibility and safety around the cemetery. 6. Provide a safe and pleasant walking experience for pedestrians. 7. Improve pedestrian accessibility. 8. Improve the physical and visual connections with the cemetery and surrounding urban context.
Chapel
Ossuaries
Cremation Center (to mantain)
Entry structure (to mantain)
New accesses - Conectivity / System of order
New scheme of areas
Recreative areas
Main area for funeal activities
Master Plan
Main spaces
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Space 1 Information Point
A welcoming space to get information about the facilities of the cemetery.
Space 2 Funeral Chapel
A space to dismiss the deceased with some ritual for every kind of public.
Space 3 Ossuaries and vault niches
structures that contains niches in wich bones and vaults are placed.
Space 4 Plaza, Cafe, Florist
Communal gathering space, offer a casual atmosphere for meeting and sharing for several uses. A place to buy presents and offerings to the deceased.
Space 5 Follies
spaces to sit, walk, meditate, lie down, read, talk peacefully.
Space 6 Columbariums
structures that contains niches in wich urns are placed.
Elevation of the vault niches and columbariums.
Section
Section through the vault niches, columbariums, Funeral Chapel and the recreative areas
FUTURE HOUSING TYPOLOGIES Workshop in Architekturforum Aedes | ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory and Studio project in the Hochschule Anhalt. Use : Housing (Multi-unit Dwelling). Project location: Berlín, Germany. Date: 2017 Used softwares: Autodesk Revit, Adobe Photoshop.
In this workshop we were analysing the conditions around the story of the tower of Babel and how it can also describe an condition to the current metropolitans spaces. This problem is structural, deriving from the essentially architectonic logic of dialectics, and connected to language at a fundamental level. In place of the dialectical structure, an “anarchitectural” space will be proposed as the ground of community. This reorientation suggests that the dialectical telos, like the Babylonian tower, is constitutively incomplete and reveals an intrinsic opacity to language. As such, Babel is shown to be an appropriate symbol for community-not for its unifying function, but because of its impossibility as a project, and the failure of communication that it represents. And this is our task in this project, to analyse and propose a union between the diferent languages in a contemporary context. In this case the urban use is our language. In this picture, the final result of the workshop I took the stepped feature from the tower of Babel and the different leves in a urban meaning and like a distribution method of private-public uses for the project.
The proposal model of providing permanent supportive housing within the downtown core by incorporating a new type of shared public space within the building. The building is organized around three principal spatial zones stacked one upon the other: a retail zone at street level; a second level for community programs; and four terraced floors of residences above. The welcoming first floor includes commercial uses. The storefront glazing and the open corridors brings in natural light and transparency to the ground floor spaces, providing an urban permeability in the base of the building. The second floor has many recreational spaces. Residents are able to enjoy generous outdoor patio spaces of community edible gardens. single studio apartments on the building are included in all the upper levels each include an eat-in kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom. The option for big families has been also considered in the proposal.
Urban context and space study
site and Proposal
Plans APARTMENTS
WORKSHOPS / OFFICES / APARTMENTS
HOUSING TYPOLOGY 3 SINGLE APARTMENTS WITH SHARED PUBLIC BACKYARD
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STOREFRONT GLAZING AND THE TO THE GROUND FLOOR SPACES, OUSING WITHIN THE DOWNTOWN G. THE SECOND FLOOR HAS MANY WITHIN THE BUILDING. US OUTDOOR PATIO SPACES OF ONES STACKED ONE UPON THE HE BUILDING'S ARE INCLUDED IN ALL OMMUNITY PROGRAMS; AND FOUR AND BATHROOM. THE OPTION FOR
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STOREFRONT GLAZING AND THE TO THE GROUND FLOOR SPACES, G. THE SECOND FLOOR HAS MANY US OUTDOOR PATIO SPACES OF HE BUILDING'S ARE INCLUDED IN ALL AND BATHROOM. THE OPTION FOR
WORKSHOPS / OFFICES
WORKSHOPS / OFFICES / APARTMENTS
HOUSING TYPOLOGY 2 SINGLE APARTMENTS
WORKSHOPS / OFFICES / APARTMENTS
HOUSING TYPOLOGY 1 SINGLE APARTMENTS WITH BACKYARDS
WORKSHOPS / OFFICES / SUPERMARKETS / CAFES / RESTAURANTS
JOSE PINTO STUDIO FUTURE HOUSING TYPOLOGIES PROFESOR JOHANNES KISTER SUMMER SEMESTER 2017
JOSE PINTO TUDIO FUTURE HOUSING TYPOLOGIES ROFESOR JOHANNES KISTER SUMMER SEMESTER 2017
DESIGN FOR THE REGIONAL CENTER OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF PANAMA OESTE Bachellor Degree Thesis Use : Communal non-residential. Project location: La Chorrera, Panama. Date: 2015 Used softwares: Autodesk Revit, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop.
The increase of the economic activity in Panama has made every sector in the country look for an update and an adjustment to the progress that is happening. Education, as one of the main beings in every society, also requires an inversion so that there can be qualified professionals that can take up those work areas that are needed an will still be needed in the future. With these premises, I have proposed the design for this education center, which may be used by the people from the disctricts of San Carlos, Chame, Capira, La Chorrera and Arraijรกn. The design of this Regional Center is proposed because only with the existing one, the carreers cannot be finished, wich forces students to travel to the capital city. Nevertheless, many students with lower incomes cannot do this, so they generally do not finish their studies.
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SITE ANALYSIS The studied area posseses a lot of potential and almost none restrictions that may affect the development of the project. Potential: - Location - Proximity to commercial plazas - Direct access to the Pan-American Highway - Direct access to the ArraijĂĄn - La Chorrera Highway - Proximity with the general hospital Dr. Santiago Barraza - Availabe public transportation - Optimal topography - Posibilities of future growth because of the size of the site Restrictions: - No direct infrastructure
DESIGN CONCEPT The conceptual model that is used generally to develop university centers is the “Campus Model�. In this model it is characterized the direct conection between the buildings that are around a central space, wich works with the universities in the way that the big program is divided in separated areas and spaces, taking the library as the academical focus, and the sports structure as separated elements. This model has been used in this proposal because it is the best one applicable for universities. That way, there have been located different buildings by use and the activities they imply, to generate axes that connect directly the educational use with the administrative one, maintaining the library as a focal point from which is created the main axis of the project. Using the properties and the uses of every space, it is proposed the design of all the installations that form the campus, separating the buildings of educational, administrative and sports nature, studying each function, proposing a master plan that includes every one of these building types and that contains a study of the plastics of every building, forming at the same time a uniform architectonic language thar identifies all the study center.
MASTER PLAN MASTER PLAN 1 BUS STOP 1 AND PEDESTRIAN CROSSING
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PLAZA 1 BUS STOP2 1ENTRANCE AND PEDESTRIAN CROSSING 3 CENTRAL PLAZA AND PARKING LEVEL 2 ENTRANCE PLAZA 4 CLASSROOM BUILDING 1 3 CENTRAL PLAZA AND PARKING LEVEL 5 CLASSROOM BUILDING 2 4 CLASSROOM BUILDING 1 6 LIBRARY 5 CLASSROOM BUILDING 2 7 BUS STOP 2 6 LIBRARY 8 LABORATORY BUILDING 7 BUS STOP 2 9 POST-GRADUATE BUILDING 8 LABORATORY BUILDING 10 CAFETERIA 9 POST-GRADUATE BUILDING 11 ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING 10 CAFETERIA 12 AMPHITHEATER 11 ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING 13 ECUMENICAL CHAPEL 12 AMPHITHEATER 14 GYM 13 ECUMENICAL CHAPEL 15 FOOTBALL FIELD 14 GYM 16 MANTEINANCE WORKSOP AND SECONDARY PARKING LOT 15 FOOTBALL FIELD 17 WASTEATER TREATMENT PLANT 16 MANTEINANCE WORKSOP AND SECONDARY PARKING LOT 18 WATER TANK 17 WASTEATER TREATMENT PLANT 19 SECURITY GUARD 18 WATER TANK
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CLASSROOM BUILDINGS The classroom in this master plan is one of the most relevant spaces, since it is where it is developed the teaching-learning process, being this the main objective of this thesis work. As a part of the student population proyection it has been proposed the design for two classroom buildings with the same architectonical configuration, which may be repeated in new classroom buildings for future expansion. There is enough space for two more buildings besides the two that are here presented. A module classroom with standard dimensions (7.10 m x 7.10 m) has been used to arrange these modules in a strategical way, aiming for a ventilation, lighting, access and circulation efficiency. Each building has a spacious lobby for the reception of the users, vertical circulation cores, an administravie area, a professors hall, bathrooms for students and professors, a presentation hall, a drawing classroom and a study hall for the students. There have been arrenged areas where the students can study in between classes and free hours, making the stay in the building comfortable, and as a consequence, obtaining optimal results. All these aspects taken into consideration, promote the comfort and convenience of students and professors.