DESIGN PROCESS

Site Feeling

A memorial exhibition should be able to communicate in every way the essence of the place, it’s architecture, it’s way of living and the feeling of the people living around.

Sketching

After considering several options for this exhibition, decided that creating a traditional cover filled with a modern and innovative interior would be the best fit for the overall look of the project.

CONCEPTUAL (DIGITAL) MODEL

The representation of this model with materials and an unrealistic scale, is to express better the feeling of merging with the environment, undersizing visually the project, so it blends with the surroundings.

Structure

Updating a Traditional Construction System

Following the same conceptual direction, this project has a traditional structure composed of beams, columns and a diagonal roofing system. Usually this would be made out of wood, reinforced with thick walls on the perimeter that stabilized the whole building. But for this project wood was replaced by a metal structure acompanied with reinforced concrete, the changes in material and sructure are supossed to evoque the old feeling, in a bigger scale for a public building instead of a small house or temple. The structure is repeated along the two main “buildings” of the exhibit and a smaller more simple version is used for the temporary exhibit. For the cafe a simple roof garden in reinforced concrete structure is used.

Home Above Market

Composite Design

For this project, the goal is to create a harmonious system where two different typologies can co-exist in a single space, housing and commerce . The housing part is an apartment building type of architecture and for the commerce an update of the existing market in the location. In this project, the idea we want to express with our concept is that in architecture sometimes the hardest solution is the simplest one. When having so many dueling functions that may be affected by each other, and complicated systems is easy to strive into complex solutions. But in this project, the result is a simple structure that goes along the whole project repeating itself, making both the circulations very logical and the functions very organized for the users.