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PAVILION FOR MEDELLIN SMART CITY.
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Pavilion Description and Design Process The prototype for the Pavilion was developed in stages through the combination of a structural framework, student’s individual design ideas and collaborative group work, both in London and Medellin. The pavilion can be described as 6 interconnected modules, in which a continuous workshop space is located on an elevated platform, whilst food and drink, and a wifi chillout space is provided on the ground floor. Bartlett students originally designed modules in London, using local context and construction information researched by UPB students and Plan B Architects. These were designed to include an outdoor kitchen space, a grandstand staircase and a hanging garden, with a focus on innovative timber construction techniques, production and assembly, efficient and sustainable use of timber. The completed models were tested for ease of deconstruction, transportation and reassembly in their transfer from London to Medellin. In collaboration with students at UPB, these modules were further developed to incorporate a better understanding of the contextual conditions and availability of other local materials and systems in addition to the locally sourced timber originally specified.
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In parallel to this process, further modules were designed as an office space, workshop space and stage, to complete the programmatic functioning. In addition to the primary functions of the units, the facades, roofs, primary and secondary structures, these were developed to provide storage for materials, produce and furniture. Security and dynamic lighting qualities have also been considered in the provision of a closed nighttime condition. The facades and roofs were also designed to optimize cross ventilation and shelter from intense sunlight and driving rains. Mechanisms to provide the vertical transportation of materials, produce, water and furniture use lowtech work efficient solutions to reduce energy consumption. The primary structure was further developed to be able to allow the separation of modules that can be individually sited at different locations around the city of Medellin. This is integral to the intention of Medellin Digital to disseminate the activities in a manner that creates different social dynamics and interactions depending on their positioning and function. Following this concept development and receipt of the Sir Andrew Taylor Prize from University College of London for the “best set of drawings, combining construction and design� in June 2013 it is intended that the team will be extended within the Bartlett to further develop the pavilion in relation to research in to space syntax and energy management principles, before constructing the full scale pavilion in December 2013.
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The 1/10 scale prototype of the outdoor Pavillion comissioned by Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (Colombia)was designed by unit 22 together with 16 Colombian students from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana de Medellín directed by Unit 22 tutors izaskun Chinchilla and Carlos Jimanez together with Felipe Mesa (Plan B arquitectos, UPB), Jorge Pérez Jaramillo (UPB) and Miguel Mesa (Mesa Editores, UPB). It is composed by six splittable units inspired in local palafito villages allowing units to be relocated in the future.
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Roberto Marin was the structural consultant. UNIT22 students: Akmal Azhar, Georgia Follet, Jiang Dong, Yuen Sar (Lilian) Lam, Jose Ignacio Ortiz-Muñoz, Joanne Preston, Kirsty Williams, Victoria Bateman, Freya Cobbin, Le (Lulu) Li, Megan Smedy, Clarie Taggart, Megan Townsend, Clarissa Yee. UPB students: Manuela Ramírez, María Paulina Posada, Melissa Naranjo, Sebastián Vélez, Felipe Walter, Daniela Agudelo, María Paulina Vargas, Juan Carlos Rúa, Santiago Urreta, Sebastián Montoya, Juan Camilo Arango, Juliana Ramírez, Ximena Gómez, Jose Andrés Zuluaga Materialisation Grant 2013
Sponsors: Mamm, U.P.B, Cluster de Energía de Medellín, Restaurante Blanco, Área Metropolitana de Medellín, Medellín Digital.
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UNIT22, Bartlett Module 1; Entrance, furniture storage and Working Space
Materialisation Grant 2013 01 Fig. 01 Medellin Digital Pavilion. 1/10 scale prototype of the outdoor pavilion comissioned by Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (Colombia). Design was developed by Unit 22 together with students from Universidad Pontificai Bolivariana de Medellín directed by Felipe Mesa (Plan B arquitectos, UPB), Jorge Pérez Jaramillo (UPB) and Miguel Mesa (Mesa Editores, UPB). It is composed by six detachable units inspired by local palafito villages allowing them to be relocated in the future. Sponsors: Mamm, U.P.B, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Cluster de Energía de Medellín, Restaurante Blanco, Área Metropolitana de Medellín, Medellín Digital.
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Module 2; Kitchen and Working Space
Module 3; Storage and Working Space
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Module 4; Stage and Working Space
Module 5; Grand Stand
Module 6; Office
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UNIT22, Bartlett Materialisation Grant 2013 02 Fig. 02 The pavilion will be built with local constructors, Bartlett and UPB students and tutors, and artisans of Medellin. The durability of the pavilion, due to the structural strength of the timber, will be of twenty years, during this period of time, the pavilion would be relocated in different areas of Medellin area, in it’s integral configuration or in separated modules. The uses of the pavilion are not strictly reduce to the inner spaces, but as well to the urban area that surrounded it, including workshops in different aspects of Digital Technology, cultural events, cooking lessons, elderly teaching to knit, neighbours gathering, etc.
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UNIT22, Bartlett Materialisation Grant 2013 03 Fig. 03 MODULE 1, ACCESS AND FURNITURE STORAGE. The workshop space is entered via a ramp secured by a drawbridge. This is controlled by a pulley system hung from the roof which also provides cooling and rain deflection with its layers of shading, steep pitch and large overhang, tempering the environment both for people and hanging plants. The facade is constructed using interlocking triangular panels allowing cross ventilation and storage for similarly shaped folding stools.
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05 Fig. 04 MODULE 1, ACCESS AND FURNITURE STORAGE. The proportions and construction techniques were developed to optimise the material and structure, as well as the sizes of the openings that allowed, views out, cross ventilation, shadow and furniture to be stored. (see Fig. 05) The way the roofs and facades of adjoining pavilions were connected is also a design factor.
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UNIT22, Bartlett Materialisation Grant 2013 07 Fig. 07 MODULE 2, KITCHEN AND WORKING SPACE. The design of the kitchen is developed in consideration to ease of use, access in relation to the primary structure and also in determining where the service areas will be located. A framework was created to indirectly hang the kitchen from the primary timber frame without touching the floor, as well as not to interrupt the usability of the space and to facilitate the cleaning of the continuous urban space below. This substructure also provides the faรงade and the roof structural framework.
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08 Fig. 08MODULE 2, KITCHEN AND WORKING SPACE. The Kitchen module is designed through a hierarchy of structures allowing it to be disassembled and placed elsewhere. Fig.09 MODULE 2, KITCHEN AND WORKING SPACE. Balconies can be cantilevered off the primary structure as resting platforms for picking herbs from the facade and provide shadow to the kitchen below.
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UNIT22, Bartlett Materialisation Grant 2013 010 Fig.10 MODULE 3, STORAGE AND WORKING SPACE. The design aims to develop the ideas of storing furniture in the building skin. The structural grid of the contiguous module ceiling (theatre pavilion) has been transposed onto the walls, which are made up of a series of stacked chairs and manually controllable flaps. This thick wall system provides a consistent isolation form the exterior, and a perfect system to control cross ventilation to assure a confortable inner space. The eclectic design is adapted to take advantage of any existing chairs available (see Fig.11).
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012 Fig.12 MODULE 4, STAGE AND WORKING SPACE. The space intend to mirror a traditional stage set, where the interior is the stage, the actors being the furniture which is capable of popping up from the floor, folding out of the walls and being pulled from the ceiling. Without reducing the functionality of the space as a workshop area when required. Fig.13 MODULE 4, STAGE AND WORKING SPACE. This work, via a carefully calculated counterweight system, is located on the roof truss-like structure and the exterior area. From the outside, therefore, there would be hints of the architecture within via the moving weights and light shining out of the ‘wood fabric’ as theatrical curtain’s walls.
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UNIT22, Bartlett Materialisation Grant 2013 14 Fig.14 MODULE 4, STAGE AND WORKING SPACE. Wood-fabric wall, exterior night time view. At night, the interior pattern is revealed trough a web of light. The hybrid wood and fabric wall creates a folding table, which in turn opens a blind. The wall panels can also be folded for ease of transportation (see Fig. 15).
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16 Fig. 16 MODULE 5, GRANDSTAND AND ACCESS TO OFFICE. Hanging Planters create a roof canopy which works to naturally ventilate the rest of the pavilion. The roof is made up of a combination of traditional timber jointing and framing techniques creating a balloon frame structure comprising decorative timber posts, which act as a frame for the plants to grow on. Fig. 17 MODULE 5, GRANDSTAND AND ACCESS TO OFFICE. The roof structure is mainly composed of six trusses and four set of trapezium-shaped frames which tie the trusses on the primary structure trough a system of timber clamps. 17 15
UNIT22, Bartlett Materialisation Grant 2013 18 Fig. 18 MODULE 5, GRANDSTAND AND ACCESS TO OFFICE. Casual seating arranged in hammocks and on the steps is used by spectators to performances taking place in neighbouring module 4. These also provide access to the office space (module 6). Fig. 19 MODULE 5, GRANDSTAND AND ACCESS TO OFFICE. There are two kinds of treads on the grand stand. The first type, on the upper part, will be screwed, while the second type, on the bottom part of the stairs, can be flipped to vertical position and locked to prevent access to the pavilion at night.
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20 Fig. 20 MODULE 6, OFFICE. Drawing upon vernacular techniques such as weaving and thatching the Office Space is semi-enclosed by an openable facade, allowing maximum connection with the outside natural environment whilst the pitch ensures protection from prevailing tropical rains. This space epitomizes the inspirational vernacular palafito house existing thoughout all Colombian regions. The use of digital technology, as done in each individual pavilion’s modules, is applied to revisit traditional construction systems and improving them by taking into account environmental clues, economical restrictions, geometrical challenges, and people’s skills. Fig. 21 MODULE 6, OFFICE. Traditional Colombian palm-thatched roof thermaly and acoustically insulates the office space without requiring energy consuming systems. 21 17
UNIT22, Bartlett Materialisation Grant 2013 22 Fig. 22 Workshop at the MUSEUM OF MODERN ART OF MEDELLIN, Medellin, Colombia, December 2012.
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