FREI FORDERTECHNIK Project Location: rubigen, Switzerland Office: SHS Architekten, Thun
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PUBLIC SPACE FOR UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS The project dealt with designing a hybrid building for University van Amsterdam to provide an interaction hub for the students, staff and the citizens. The project aimed to reassert the relationship between city and university. The extremely complex and hybrid program aimed to provide 5000 square meters of Conference Hub and University Lecture Hall combined with a 2000 square meters 2-stars hotel and a 1000 sq.m refectory/low budget restaurant and cafeteria. The design is a collection of multiple courtyards acting as the congregation point, strategically placed to accentuate student interaction along with cultural activities and caters to different users. The courtyards are also differentiated on the degree of privacy they offer. It also provides platform for catering different UVA campus activities and public programmes. The design unravels itself as a green terrain to generate a landmark image for the building and thus attract the citizens to become part of the UVA campus.
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Corrugated Metal facade cladding 25*300*300 Paver blocks 1.5 m concrete walkway Metal grating cover Drainage
Growing Medium Filter Membrane Drainage Root Repellent Thermal Insulation Vapour Control Hollowcore precast concrete slabs 2000*1200*200 Curved Steel truss
DETAILED ROOF JOINERY
Thermal Insulation Metal facade cladding Metal flange connection to the facade
Drainage pipes Drain Channels Vertical Down-takes
Double Glass Windows Water Supply pipes Compacted Growing Medium 600x600mm
Metal Grating covered with pebbels Water Proofing
Vertical support Fixed glass facade False ceiling cladding
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DETAIL OF GREEN FACADE
TRANSPORT HUB_ A POINT OF EXCHANGE URBAN ASYMMETRIES GRADUATION STUDIO, CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO
The MSc. graduation project dealt with understanding the implications of Neo liberal policies on the city of Juarez which lies on the US - Mexico border. In 2009 Ciudad Juarez was rated as “the most violent zone in the world outside of declared war zones� due to high crime rates, femisides, homicides, corruption, drug trafficking and multiple other problems. The city is also presently facing massive exodus and the abandoning of large portions of its housing stock due to the increase in violence and a prevailing low intensity war between the state and the drug cartels. The reasons for this asymmetrical development are multiple and point towards a complex mesh of forces that transgress the scope of the built environment. They encompass entangled dimensions of political economy and socio-economic developments, which eventually affect the built environment. With this background a six month intense research was carried out and a counter proposal group strategy was proposed on a prototype site Riberas Del bravo and eventually an Urban & architectural intervention was designed.Thus as part of my graduation project I designed a collective transport system comprising of three design elements the Transferium hub, the bus stops and the routes on the prototype site.
DESIGN OF A HYBRID TRUSS
Mesquite wood Metal rod
STRUCTURAL AND CLIMATIC CONDITIONING CONCEPT Pin Joint Fixed Joint Wind
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Diagram to show choice of joinery Fixed Joint Wind
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Diagram EXPLAINING CLIMATIC CONDITIONING
Diagram to show choice of joinery
STRUCTURAL DETAIL AND FACADE CLADDING MATERIAL
CONCRETE BASE
VERTICAL SUPPORT
HYBRID TRUSS ROOF
SECONDARY SUPPORT MEMBERS FABRIC
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WOODEN PALLETS
Wooden battens cladding. Wooden Pallets Mesquite Wood vertical supports Paver Blocks Coarse sand Rammed Earth
Tongue and groove wood Joinery with Metal Straps Metal plate inserts for stronger support Pin Joint Reinforced cement concrete slab Damp proof course 300 mm thick Dry Rubble Pack Rammed Earth
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Reinforced cement concrete slab Damp proof course 300 mm thick Dry Rubble Pack Rammed Earth Toilet Duct
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MICRO CLIMATIZATION OF THE PAVILIONS
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Fabric Cladding GI T-angle forming triangular framework modules Metal brail and loop joinery for Fabric Wooden Pallet nut bolted to the triangular frames
FACADE DESIGN WITH THE TRIANGULAR MODULES