Baler Hospital Project Location: Baler, Philippines Client: Confidential Area: 6,120 sqm Status: Under Construction CAZA Team Member: Carlos Arnaiz, Libo Li, Jingjun Li, Yuan Jin, Kelvin Tseng, IG Nacio Architect of Record: NSI Architecture Planner Consultancy Project Brief: Baler Hospital combines the functions of a general hospital and a trauma center at a rural scale. Our design imagines both a programmatic and a futuristic solution to the challenge of such specialized and exacting program. The luscious exterior landscape permeates the facility through a series of undulating canopies that creates an architectural figure in an open field of green. The hospital’s perimeter portico acts as a strong iconic edge that holds together a vast range of functional difference while still producing a sense of legibility for the users. The gardens fill the hospital with ample light and greenery, connecting patients and staff with the outside in a multitude of ways.
New Supreme Court House Project Location: Manlia, Philippines Client: Department of Justice in Philippines Status: Competition Finalist CAZA Team Member: Carlos Arnaiz, Yuan Jin, Kelvin Tseng, Gaby Roman, Luis Soriano, Lauren Kirk, Craig Sinclair Engineering Consultant: Arup, New York Office Architect of Record: NSI Architecture Planner Consultancy Project Brief: CAZA’s new Supreme Court for the Philippines is a symbol of judicial transparency for Asia’s oldest democracy. The building is a 3-dimensional hyperbolic loop hanging over a botanical garden whose form represents the complex functional interconnections required by contemporary court houses. Composed of six rectangular volumes engineered to create one integrated seamless work environment for the delivery of judicial services, the open architectural form created also enables the building to sustain a collection of locally-themed gardens through rainwater-harvesting terraces. The building stands as a monument to multiplicity – a totem of connectivity that connects with the tradition of tribal architecture in the Philippines, while employing new technologies that envision a more optimistic way of living on our planet.
DESIGN PROPOSAL Our team have designed a building that encapsulates the spirit of the Supreme Court made out of an amalgam with unifying elements. In order to generate this, we studied through its functional requirements and discovered that the courts work as one institution with six distinct spatial categories. As such, we created six clusters and arranged them around a vertical arboretum. In this way, it enabled us to reduce the footprint and create more green spaces within the building’s perimeter. Thereby, it spontaneously raised our environmental quotient. The facade design of each volume used local bamboo screens to create sun-shading for passive cooling system. Further on, the orientation and density of bamboo weave is determined by the direction and the amount of sunlight exposure. The result of traditional weaving techniques allowed natural light shining into the volumes and interior space while shielding occupants from aggressive heat. A series of renewal strategies equipped the new Supreme Court to be the most advanced green and sustainable institutional complex in Philippines.
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1 LOBBY / PUBLIC ACCESS POINT 2 FLEXIBLE PV / SOLAR TRACKING LOUVERS 3 SECURITY CHECK POINT AUTHORIZED VEHICLE ACCESS 4 UNDERGROUND PARKING AREA - 12,690 sqm
( 470 CAR / 10 BUS / 80 BIKE )
5 VOLUME 01: DISCOURSE - 4,500 sqm ( LOBBY / MUSEUM / AUDITORIUM / CONFERENCE HALL ) 6 VOLUME 02: ADJUDICATION - 7,000 sqm ( LOUNGE / LIBRARY / SESSION HALL / OFFICE OF FISCAL MANAGEMENT / OFFICE OF CHIEF ATTORNEY / OFFICE OF ASSOCIATE JUSTICE )
7 VOLUME 03: EXECUTIVE OFFICE - 9,000 sqm ( OFFICE OF CHIEF JUSTICE ) 8 VOLUME 04: ADMINISTRATION - 7,500 sqm ( PRINTING SERVICE / INTERNAL AUDIT SERVICE / OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION / OFFICE OF JUDICIAL RECORD / OFFICE OF COURT ADMINISTRATION )
9 VOLUME 05: SUPPORT - 10,400 sqm ( OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION / OFFICE OF LEGAL EDUCATION / OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFAIR / PHILIPPINES JUDICIAL ACADEMY / JUDICIAL AND BAR COUNCIL )
10 VOLUME 06: LIFE STYLE - 5,000 sqm ( FOOD COURT / TRAINING CENTER / MEDICAL SERVICE / RECREATIONAL FACILITY )
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TRIBAL FUTURISM
DESIGN APPROACH OF MATERIALITY
TRADITIONAL VENACULAR ARCHITECTURE BAMBOO SOLAR SCREEN The “bamboo” solar screen consists of extruded aluminum louvers with wood finish which are cantilevered off of a steel reinforced curtain wall. Because the louvers can be made in many shapes and can be attached at different orientations to the façade, they are a versatile way to both provide solar shading as well as relate to the local building culture.
MODERN ARCHITECTURE CONCRETE SPHERE Concrete simply improves the sustainability performance of a building along with its structure. Its materiality allows to absorb, store, release heat gradually. This character further helps to regulate the temp. and energy efficiency in the complex. In addition, concrete maintains high fire-resistant and durability to last in a very long time. Our design is inspired by the most famous Philippine Modern Architect Leandro V. Locsin for exmaple of Philippine International Convention Center and Theater of Performing Arts.
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE ETFE MEMBRANCE ETFE is significantly lighter than glass or any other translucent alternatives which saves on building structural steel tonnages with the most famous examples included Allianz Arena in Munich and the “Water Cube” in Beijing. METAL SHEET CLADDING SYSTEM Metal cladding, which uses “rain-screen” application, is a durable and inexpensive way to enclose large area. The exterior panel provides the first line of defense against weather which is then backed up by insulation & a secondary weather seal.
BCDA Iconic Building Project Location: Manlia, Philippines Client: BCDA Group in Philippines Status: Competition Finalist CAZA Team Member: Carlos Arnaiz, Laura del Pino, Jun Deng, Gaby Roman, Ignacio Revenga, Yuan Jin, Kelvin Tseng, Jiajun Zhang Engineering Consultant: Arup, New York Office Architect of Record: NSI Architecture Planner Consultancy Project Brief: The 21st century is the age of Nature and the new BCDA building is designed as an icon for this emerging eco-consciousness. The building is a multi-level landscape beginning from an expansive public park on grade to a vertically-hanging arboretum along the circulation cores, and up towards a health-themed urban roof farm. The new BCDA building is both an ecological machine and environmental museum: the vertical arboretum harvests water to display plant species that live in different parts of the Philippines, the urban farm reduces the building’s heat load while supplying local produce to the public, and the wellness center turns a fitness hub into a net-zero energy display. The building reinforces the BCDA’s critical role in infrastructural development and imparts the vision of an ecological future that is at once positively inspiring and exhilarating to experience.