[ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO] Sol María Calcarami
[INDEX]
CURRICULUM VITAE
............................................................4
SELECTED UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS 1. G-Building
...............................................................6
2. Guemes Public High School.......................................................16 3. Unity Bridge..............................................................28 4. Mixed use Block ............................................................36 5. Landscape Project in Ex villa el Posito ..................................................48 6. F.U.E.L. Part 1 - Utopian Project ....................................................58 7. F.U.E.L. Part 2 - Utopian Project
....................................................68
8. Interior and Furniture Design for local Architect’s School’s Headquarters................................78
[CURRICULUM VITAE] [Personal information] Full name Nationality Date of birth Age ID number Adress E-mail adress Phone number [Languages]
[Computer skills]
[INTERNATIONAL EXAMS] 2010 2008 to 2009
2007
4
Sol MarĂa Calcarami Argentinean 02/12/1993 24 37.276.804 Obispo Trejo 1320, city of CĂłrdoba, Argentina sol.calcarami@gmail.com +54 9 351 7530772 Spanish English French
First language Advanced level Basic level
Adobe Photoshop CS6 Adobe Indesign Autocad 2D Autocad 3D
Rhinoceros 5 Sketchup 2015 Vray for Sketchup 3Ds Max
A.I.C.E. (Advanced International Certificate of Education) from Cambridge University. Passed with MERIT. I.G.C.S.E. (International General Certificate of Secondary Ed.) from Cambridge University. Passed with MERIT. First Certificate in English from Cambridge University. Passed with B.
[EDUCATION] Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC-FAUDI) in Córdoba, Argentina. 2012 to present Bachelor in ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM Expected graduation: Dec. 2017 (currently working on final thesis) Centro Kandinsky, in Córdoba, Argentina. 2011 Finished 1 year long course on INTERIOR DESIGN Finished 6 months long course on PHOTOGRAPHY Academia Arguello, in Córdoba, Argentina.Finished high school 2008 to 2010 with orientation in humanities and foreign language studies. [CONFERENCES] BIA-AR 2016 (Bienal Internacional de Arq. en Argentina) 2016 Conference from Brazilian architect ANGELO BUCCI 2014 BIA-AR 2014 (Bienal Internacional de Arq. en Argentina)
Córdoba Argentina
CIDI Córdoba 2013 (Congreso Internacional de Innovación en Arq. y Diseño), having attended 2013 conferences by architects: Rodo Tisnado, Héctor Esrawe and Winy Maas (MVRDV) [ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES] 3 day long Seminaire in microapartment design at EAD (Escuela Argentina de Diseño) 2017 Workshop Pre Bienal “Urban furnishing for the coast walk”, dictated by Spanish architect Josep Ferrando, and organized by the 2017 International Bienal of architecture of Buenos Aires.
Seminar “Utopías Fácticas” held by Architectural Design class level 5 (Univ. Nacional de Córdoba) together with 2016 students and professors from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, from Troy, NY, USA. Workshop and seminar “Architecture, public buildings and public spaces: Educational architecture for Córdoba”, held by the 2015 project research laboratory from the Univ. Nacional de Córdoba. [LIFE EXPERIENCES] Academic exchange to New York City, USA. to Poly Prep country day school (1 month long). 2009 Academic/Sports (field hockey) exchange to Santiago de Chile (10 days long) 2004
5 5
[G-Building] Year Team
Nadia Borri + Sol María Calcarami
Tutor
Cecilia Inés Peralta
Program
Mixed use building: Housing + Comerce
Location
Guemes neighborhood, in Córdoba, Argentina.
Project description
1 6
2014 (Final project for Architecture Design class level 3)
The project is located next to the center of the city of Córdoba, a developing area which nowadays is considered insecure and neglected, with a low density population and deteriorated architecture. This neighborhood, Barrio Guemes, has a very rich heritage and local culture involving the arts and theater. It has many natural resources such as the river La Cañada and the foliage that follows it, crossing the city as a whole. With our project we seeked to fulfill the habitation necessity in the city within it’s contiguous developing area. We had two principal goals to achieve with our building. First, we wanted to create FLEXIBLE housing units that could adjust to different habitation needs. And second, we wanted to RESPECT the site and it’s habitants by giving special importance to the public space at the ground floor that connects our project with the rest of the area; and by using raw materials, like recycled wood and organic concrete for the facade, trying to blend in the site’s rusticity.
7
THE IDEA The morphology of the building was determined by the characteristics of the site and it’s possibilities. We wanted to orientate our building to the north in order to take advantage and use of natural illumination for internal spaces. Also, we wanted to open up our ground floor and the building towards the public space, as well as opening to the views and the river landscape. The result was an L shaped building that opens itself to de neighborhood.
8
PRIVACY The building itself is sectioned into three areas, each with a different privacy level. On the ground floor we have the public space; an extension of the sidewalk; the entrance to de building, shops and a bar. Secondly, we find the heart of the building, which holds the vertical circulation and community areas for the residents. Finally, the apartments hold the maximum level of privacy on the sides of the building.
9
Underground level : Parking area
10
Ground floor: Public space, shops, public toilets, bar and building entrance
Floors 1 - 6: 3 1 Bd appartments and flexible 2 Bd appartment each floor
7th floor: Common use salon with barbacue and dinning area, and terrace.
11
12 Level -1 Parking area
Level 0 Public area
Levels 1-6 Appartments
Level 7 Terrace and common use salon
INTERIOR SPACE Each habitation unit is equipped with integrated furniture that enables the flexible use of space to fit different necessities at different times. The idea came from maximizing and optimizing the interior spaces, and creating apartments that suit different needs, different kinds of families.
TECHNOLOGY The technology and materials used consisted in a concrete structure and facade with a rustic finish. It´s malleability gave us the opportunity to use the skeleton of the building as the sustention to construct the furniture and storage space in recycled wood. As noted, the entire building is constructed in concrete, even the parasols, with lightened concrete. The vertical circulation area was designed in steel and a recycled wood filter, so it would differentiate from the more private spaces, not only in its privacy, but also in the material used.
13
The one-bedroom apartments were very carefully designed to take the maximum advantage of space. Therefore we design a complex piece of furniture that covers all the basic needs and transforms itself to fulfill different tasks. The idea was to concentrate the actions of sleeping + bathing + cooking inside this -box- like structure in a way that it can be closed up in order to free the rest of the apartment’s space for other activities, making it a smart/flexible unit.
14
15
[Guemes Public High School] Year Team
Nadia Borri + Sol María Calcarami + Consuelo Oyola
Tutor
Mariano Piccardo
Program
Public High School - Educational + sports
Location
Guemes neighborhood, in Córdoba, Argentina.
Project description
2
16
2015 (Final project for Architecture Design class level 4)
For this project we were given the assignment of designing a public high school in the neighborhood of Guemes, in Córdoba city. To begin with, we started analyzing the concept of public education and the role that the government plays in it. We concluded and developed the idea that the public education is a representation of the State itself taking responsibility for an existing problem while spreading the most important tool for progress to its society. Therefore it should be inclusive, universal and open for EVERYONE to have access to. This particular concept was the main idea that powered the project’s design; the idea of creating a space for the marginal society of the neighborhood that could offer a wide range of public uses, a place to have access to education as a community. Our main goal was to create two differentiated areas: a more public one, containing the parts of the program that could be opened after school hours for public use; and a more private and safe area, with the right concentration environment for the kids to learn properly.
17
Circulation system
Gym and it’s roof as main playground Library Cafeteria
Classroom area
Entrance and public space
Public park Special classrooms and laboratories
REFERENCES 1. Main entrance 2.Main patio, formation area, gym outdoor extension 3. Gym 4.Restroom, showers and locker room 5. Outdoor extension of cafeteria 6.Stage 7.Kitchen, depot and staff locker room and restroom 8. Cafeteria 9. Restrooms 10. Music classroom and backstage 11. Gym depot 12. Backstage changing rooms 13. Stage depot 14. Secondary entrance and public plaza 15. Information table and entrance to private area of school through ramp (classrooms and administration area) 16. Machine room, water tank and depot 17. Stackable stands storage.
18
The Site
The Project And public space redesign
19
20
REFERENCES 1. Classrooms 2.Nursery 3. Restrooms 4. Psychopedagogy cabinet 5. Gym’s roof and illumination maintenance hanging platform 6. Teacher’s room 7. Principal’s office and his secretary’s office and vice president’s office 8. Administrative offices and secretary’s office 9. Medical emergency’s room 10. Tutor’s offices 11. Flexible classroom/media laboratory 12. Science laboratory 13. Science classroom 14. Main playground 15. Library, computer’s room and study hall 16. Student’s center 17. Secondary entrance.
21
For the design of each classroom and the classroom area environment. We wanted to design a space reigned by natu We therefore used materials like glass bricks and perforat inside. We incorporated patios in between the classrooms t during breaks.
22
CLASSROOM DESIGN
a itself, we rethought the concept of learning and how to improve the conditions for a suitable learning ural light, but at the same time we didn’t want the kids to get distracted with what is happening outdoors. ted metal sheet panels to let sunlight in, but at the same time maintaining a concentration atmosphere to bring nature into the educational area, and for the students to have a quick access to recreational areas
23
Level 0 : Cafeteria Level 1 : Administrative area Level 2 : Library + Computer room + Study hall
24
Main entrance
Vertical circulation system
THE CROSS SECTION We took advantage of the abrupt change of topography between the different fronts of the site, in order to create distinctive scales depending the program usage.
Classroom area
Maintenance area
Level 0: Gym Level 2: Main playground
Level 0: Music classroom + Secondary entrance Level 1: Administrative area Level 2: Student´s center
25
26
27
[UNITY BRIDGE] Year Team
Nadia Borri + Sol María Calcarami + Consuelo Oyola
Tutor
Germán Margherit
Program
Pedestrian Bridge
Location
General Paz neighborhood, in Córdoba, Argentina.
Project description
3 28
2016 (First project for Architecture Design class level 5)
The city center of Córdoba is surrounded and limited by the Suquía River; a very extensive river which divides the most densely populated and urbanized area of the city with a less developed and deteriorated area. The river is nowadays a limit, but could also serve as a linker between these two regions. With this premise, and considering a plausible project for the coast in which a lineal park was designed along the extension of the riverside, we designed a pedestrian bridge located in a strategic point, joining an existing park with a very developed densely populated area of the city. Once the strategy was stated, the focus was on the technological aspects of the bridge, which was developed in a steel structure, supported by an existing and very iconic bridge.
29
CONNECTION Between the parks in the riversides
30
VINCULATION With the existing bridge, widening the sidewalk to generate a viewpoint
SIZE VARIATION Depending on the usage, it expands first to produce a platform, and then it expands again to open itself to the park.
STRUCTURE A steel spine-like structure.
31
Exploded Axonometric of the structure
32
STRUCTURE Since the project had its focus on technology and innovation, we designed a steel structure that worked as a spine, with custom made steel ribs fixed to a main cylindrical beam. Each ‘rib’ changed in size and shape depending on the variation of the bridge. The ribs function both as structure and handrail, and are joined to the beam with a custom made piece and with two tensors forming a triangular shape to prevent structural rotations and stiffen the joint. The platform is made from a horizontal steel frame joined to the main structure, with a see-through finish of steel mesh. The cylindrical beam is fixed on foundations in the ground in its two ends, and in two concrete pillars which are attached to the existing pillars of the vehicular bridge.
Fix between the steel structure and concrete pilar
33
34
35
[MIXED USE BLOCK] Year Team
Nadia Borri + Sol María Calcarami + Consuelo Oyola
Tutor
Germán Margherit
Program
Mixed use building: Housing + Commerce + Public Park + Hotel + Office + Gym + Public parking lot
Location
General Paz neighborhood, in Córdoba, Argentina.
Project description
4
36
2016 (Midterm project for Architecture Design class level 5)
General Paz neighborhood is a very diverse area of the city. It is located right next to the center area and it is developing fast. The project is a result from an urban analysis and, in which we detected many opportunities to create a building with a mixed program that could satisfy all the needs of the General Paz’s neighbors. The hood is a historical spot in the city, and it has a lot of heritage. It always had mainly residential usage, nowadays being occupied by old families, young couples and college students. Furthermore, there are 3 important hospitals nearby, a university, and the main bus station of the city is one bridge away. We concluded in a project that can serve as a response to the habitation needs of its population, in its wide variety; a hotel / temporary residences; a block of offices offering services to the growing population, and commerce / gastronomy spots to attract visitors. Finally, all this activities are situated surrounding a public park, it being the heart of the project, which is a transition between the existing park in front of the building, and the building itself.
37
THE SITE
THE CONCEPT
Introducing the park inside the block.
THE PROJECT
Ground Floor
38
REFERENCES 1. Main entrances 2. Access to vertical circulation system to residential area 3. Access to parking lot and gym 4. Acces to vertical circulation system and lobby for the hotel and office area 5. Public restrooms 6. Shops 7. Restaurants 8. Emergency exits / stairs 9. Gym’s green roof.
PROGRAM
+ Apartments
+Hotel
+Offices
+Horizontal circulation
+Shops
+Gym
+Vertical circulation +Public park
39
Floor -1
40
Floor +2
REFERENCES 1. Public parking lot Entrance/Exit 2. Access to vertical circulation system to residential area 3. Access to vertical circulation system to offices and hotel 4. Light patio for underground floor and access to public park on ground floor 5. Gym 6. Parking area 7. Motorcycle parking 8. Water tanks 9. Office area 10. Horizontal circulation platform and access to apartments 11. Public terrace for office area 12. Hotel area with one service room per floor with its vertical circulation 13. Community use terraces for residential area (every two floors) 14. Public restrooms 15. Community use rooftop for residential and office area with barbecues 16. Rooftop for hotel area with barbecues.
Floor +7
41
42
43
Option 1
Option 2
TYPOLOGIES As detected, there is a wide variety of types of possible residents, from an elder public, to college students and young couples. Our strategy was based in creating flexible typologies that could adapt to every need, with continuous and integrated spaces and a clear and legible distribution. The typologies come in two formats, 1 floored apartment (see option 1) and 2 floored duplexes (see option 2). The duplex come as well in different sizes, maintaining the ground floor format, but changing the upper floor, adaptable for different family needs (options 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3).
44
Option 2.1
Option 2.2
Option 2.3
45
46
TECHNOLOGY The structure was designed in concrete, with a unique and repeated module that was obtained from the space needed to park three cars. The distance between the pillars is 7.5 meters; 7.5 meters in which we designed every typology to fit in: the hotel rooms, the offices, the shops and the apartments, creating a very regular constructive scheme in spite the irregular final shape of the building. The facade has a very irregular look on the residential areas, and a neat style in the hotel, ground floor and offices with a curtain wall technology. The inside of the building, to create privacy between the habitation units, we applied a very simple technology combining a steel structure with a metal mesh and planters, to create a -green wall-.
47
[Landscape Project] Year Team
Nadia Borri + Sol María Calcarami + Macarena Berardi
Tutor
Griselda Lorenzo
Program
Public park + Bar + Public Parking lot + Bus Stop
Location
Guemes neighborhood, in Córdoba, Argentina.
Project description
5 48
2015 (Final project for Landscape Design class)
The landscape project is situated on a nowadays empty lot that used to be a marginal community’s site of residence, giving it its name -Ex Villa el Posito-. The site has a very symbolic importance since it is dividing two different areas of the city: Guemes neighborhood and Nueva Córdoba’s neighborhood, both presenting different users, families on one side and college students on the other respectively. Our main goal was to create a public park that instead of dividing, connects this two differentiated areas, as well as contributing with activities that involve the whole community and the primary school located on the extreme of the site. Therefore, we wanted EDUCATION to be our main connector, proposing a bar with a small library, calm reading areas, pergolas for exhibits and fairs and an open amphitheater. The project also acts as transport means exchanger, with a bus station, a parking lot and bike paths.
49
REFERENCES 1. Public primary chool 2. Reading area / forest 3. Bus stop 4. Refunctionalized sheds as entrances to the park 5. Ludic area / hanging nets to play and lay over / pond 6. Steel pergola for installatio 10. Main access to park 11. Pedestrian access to underground parking lot 12. Lookout 13. Anphitheater area 14. Underground parking lot vehicular entrance.
50
Connection through morphology
Amphitheater area
Educational - Cultural sector
ns 7. Exterior extension of bar 8. Multi function area 9. Bar and restrooms entrance
Lookout point (visual connection)
Multi function sector
Educational Reading sector
Direct connection with public primary school to the educational and reading sector
51
TREE SPECIES
1
5 3 2
4 FRESNO AMERICANO
52
The a p whic dyna lot ract ted area
The Fresnos Americanos are an existing specie on the site and in the whole area. Therefore we use them as a bonding element with the rest of the hood and we maintain the ones on the site.
We tried to generate different atmospheres with the use of a variety of native tree species from Cรณrdoba.
AGUARIBAY
Aguaribay tree has pendulum essence, ch makes it a quite amic specie, with a of movement, chateristic why it is locain the more playful a.
The Ibirapitá is a first magnitude tree, making it tall enough to be the background of the ‘forest’ area.
IBIRAPITÁ
The Acacia Visco is used for paths. It is a deciduous specie, therefore it gives shadow to the paths during the summer, but more illuminated walkways in the winter.
ACACIA VISCO
The Jacarandá is also a pre existing specie in the area, connecting the project with an important corridor known for its Jacarandas, and gives a hint of color to the foliage.
JACARANDÁ
53
TECHNOLOGY The metallic pergola was specially designed to held different activities such as art exhibits, fairs or just a shelter. It is equipped with an electric installation and plugs in the base and a water collecting roof to fill in the nearby pond.
54
1. Educational/Reading area with forest of Ibirapitรก trees 2. Water drain 3. Concrete ramps 4. Ludic area with Aguaribay trees 5. Concrete columns with hanging nets 6. Dilatation meeting every 6 meters of ramp 7. Metallic columns (pergola) 8. Water springs 9. Pond 10. Concrete planters with Acacia Visco trees 11. Outdoor bar extension 12. Proyection of perfola roof 13. Multi function area 14. Public restrooms 15. Bar and library space 16. Holes in concrete paths for installation of fair tables 17. Main entrance 18. Lookout projection 19. Bike path 20. Cobblestone path uniffying park entrance with resto of the hood 21. Metallic column 22. Educational / Cultural area with anpitheater.
55
56
57
[F.U.E.L.] Part 1 Year Team
Nadia Borri + Sol María Calcarami + Consuelo Oyola + Kelsey Baker
Tutor
Juan Accotto + Cristian Nanzer + Gustavo Crembil
Program
Public park + Waste Water treatment plant
Location
Guemes neighborhood, in Córdoba, Argentina.
Recognition Project description
6
58
2016 (Seminaire -Utopías Fácticas- for Architeture Design class level 5, with students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Published in Taller Mediterráneo’s year book
For this project, each group was given a topic to work with in order to design a utopian project for Córdoba in 2050. We were assigned the topic of WATER, so we started studying in which ways water was a problematic issue for the city, and how to respond in a creative and mostly, in an innovative way. We chose to work with black waters for many reasons. Firstly, because we noticed that the water treatment plant is not working properly, and is reportedly releasing a high percentage of the waste water without any treatment to the river Suquía. Another reason was that the sewer system of the city is almost collapsed, and finally we found out that we could use the waste water to produce ENERGY. Our challenge throughout this exercise was to transform this water treatment plant into architecture, creating a hybrid between an infrastructure piece and a urban milestone that integrates society into the process of water treatment, raise awareness of water waste, all this while introducing a new type of public space for the future city.
59
THE CONCEPT We investigated new technologies that facilitate and potentiate the energy production from BIOMASS obtained from the water waste; which is then transformed into BIOGAS inside a biodigestor, and finally turned into ELECTRICAL ENERGY. We incorporated in the design an innovative organic material through a glass bioreactor, which constituted a series of roofs throughout the public space. We are talking about microscopic ALGAE. When you combine algae in a bioreactor with the filtered water from the sewer and sunlight, the algae reproduces very fast and generates large amounts of biomass to produce energy. Also, Algae absorbs more carbon dioxide from the environment than any other species and during the summer, the elevated temperature makes it grow faster and therefore produce a more shaded roof, cooling down the atmosphere beneath. We wanted the system to be visible and livable so that the public could experience and get informed about the water treatment and raising awareness.
LOCATION
Next to the river where the algae could be taken from, in a developing area of the city
60
MORPHOLOGY
The shape was a result from analysing the growth pattern of the microscopic algae and the study of the form in the physical model.
HYBRIDIZATION
Public Park + Water Treatment Plant
Physical Model
61
Top View Project + Site
62
Top View 1 Module
Water treatment system projection Water treatment system
Public space
Filtration tank
Pond
Metallic column / water pipe
Public space projection
Metallic column / water pipe
Roof projection
Floor plan 1 Module
Underground installation 1 Module
63
64
65
TECHNOLGY Each module consists on: + A ‘green roof’ formed by the sum of small interconnected bioreactors containing the microscopic algae and maintaining its living conditions with water and nutrients obtained from the waste water, and the correct amount of CO2.
+ A steel structure made out of hollow round section tubes that allow the passage of water inside. As the water is pumped through this pipe-like structure, it is filtrated and driven to the bioreactors. Finally the pipes are connected with the biodigestor, taking the excess of biomass produced by the algae to the biodigestor to produce biogas.
+ The ground floor is where the recreational park takes place, where we can see the biodigestor appear from the ground with its green roof as well, and a pond where part of the filtrated water goes, in order to always maintain the visitor in contact with the system. The subsoil level consists of the first and final steps of the process. The waste water enters the first tank: the filtration/sedimentation tank, where the solid waste goes down and to de biodigestor, while the water stays in the upper part of the tank and is pumped through the metallic structure. This structure is also connected to de biodigestor, where the biomass produced by the algae meets the solid waste from the black water to produce BIOGAS.
66
Physical Model
67
[F.U.E.L.] Part 2 Year Team
Nadia Borri + Sol MarĂa Calcarami + Consuelo Oyola
Tutor
Juan Accotto
Program
Public park + Waste Water treatment plant
Location
Guemes neighborhood, in CĂłrdoba, Argentina.
Project description
7 68
2016 (Final project for Architecture Design class level 5)
The project is a metamorphosis from the previous and more utopian project to a more plausible one. We maintained the same concepts and ideas from the first intervention, but bringing it more to the reality of CĂłrdoba and with a stronger connection with the site. We firstly changed the location to reduce de scale of the project to a more real one. We chose a site nowadays empty, in front of the river and next to an abandoned shed. There have been many thesis and ideas to refunctionalize this particular shed. We took one of these existing projects to develop our own program to complement and accompany the renewed shed with activities. We maintain our main goal of reusing wastewater to produce energy through biogas technology, but now focusing more in the technological process and the proper spaces needed. We also focused in creating this hybrid that serves both as an infrastructure to the city and a reunion space for its community. The program itself became more complex, having educational areas to raise awareness; an arts center, library and an open amphitheater that complement the artistic approach of the refunctionalized shed, a public park and a pedestrian bridge that connects the project with the city.
69
As the project became more feasible, we inves black waters in Cรณrdoba and analyzed the effi THE DATA
+ The average water consumption per person in C
+ About 90% of this water is discarded as black wa
+The water treatment plant in the city -Edar Bajo cubic meters per hour
+The plant throws away 55% of the water received liters)
+With the help of a biodigestor, organic waste can tricity. With 40 kilos of organic waste, 2 cubic mete biogas 10 kw/h of electrical energy can be produc
70
10.000 MÂł
stigated more about the current situation with fficiency of the system in energy production.
CĂłrdoba is 350 liters a day
ater
o Grande- receives a water flow of around 10.000
d to the river with the minimum treatment (5.500
n be transformed into biogas, and biogas to elecers of biogas are produced; with 2 cubic meters of ced.
71
72
THE SITE ENERGY PRODUCTION PROCESS
4. Biogas storage
6. Organic waste storage
7. Waste exit as fertilizer
5. Electric generators 3. Biodigestor
THE PROJECT
1. Sedimentation tank
2. Water filtration and storage
REFERENCES
1. Open amphitheater and access to park 2. Electric generators 3. Biogas storage tanks 4. Organic residue storage/compost 5. Investigation laboratory 6. Water absorbent flooring 7. Exit area for compost through elevator 8. Educational area / classrooms 9. Exhibition area for water treatment procedures 10. Projection of upper slab 11. Projection of underground water sedimentation tank 12. Projection of upper slab 13. Projection of biogas pipes connecting to storage tanks 14. Public restrooms 15. Biodigestor 16. Prefabricated concrete structure for aerial street 17. Main access ramp 18. Outer exhibit area 19. Concrete structure columns 20. Access ramp from pedestrian bridge 21. Projection of underground water filtration and storage tank 22. Art exhibit area 23. Upper library projection 24. Access 25. Projection of upper slab 26. Projection of upper slab 27. Vehicular access to parking lot 28. Organic waste exit 29. Special parking space for trucks that transport the organic waste 30. Water tank 31. Parking lot 32. Library 33. Access from parking lot to park
73
74
75
76
77
[Architect’s School] Year Team
Nadia Borri + Sol María Calcarami + Consuelo Oyola
Tutor
Silvia Barrionuevo
Program
Administrative offices for local Architect’s school.
Location
Nueva Córdoba neighborhood, in Córdoba, Argentina.
Recognition Project description
8
78
2016 (Final project for Interior and Furniture Design Class)
Selected for competition held by the university and architect’s school.
We were given the task to design the ground floor for the administrative headquarters of Architect’s School’s building. The building itself is already being built in the middle of Nueva Córdoba’s neighborhood, and our mission was to design the interior space and its furniture. Firstly we studied the different tasks and procedures that would take place in this particular headquarter, in order to design the right distribution of different areas, since it is a multidisciplinary office with legal councilors, architects, administratives and more. We knew we wanted to create an integrated and continuous space, with this new contemporary idea of open offices, to create a friendly work environment and the sense of transparency and work ethics of the association. Regarding materials, we seeked to reduce the material options to the minimum in order to outstand the existing architecture, which is a raw concrete structure designed to let natural illumination throughout the entire space in spite of being on the ground floor of a building in the middle of the city. We chose wood and black steel for the furniture in order to continue to show the rusticity in the materials.
79
REFERENCES 1. Main entrance / patio 2. First waiting area with computers and printers for self management of paperwork 3. Waiting area with a snack bar and coffee machine 4. Final waiting area with library of architectural books and magazines 5. Records and files reception window 6. Reception 7. Main stairs to underground auditorium 8. Receptionists working area and storage 9. Restrooms 10. Bursar’s personal office and administrative office 11. Administrative stands 12. Terrace 13. The association’s president’s office with it’s secretary desk 14. Waiting area 15. Public entrance to working area 16. Cash register 17. Flexible meeting room 18. General secretary’s personal office and it’s administrative office 19. Technical offices
80
Public circulation circuit
Ceiling Design - Continuity
Furniture Design
Modular steel structure with wooden boxes and shelves.
81
82
83
84
THE MEETING ROOM The meeting room was conceived as the heart of the working area. Its flexibility allows multiple uses with small changes in it’s facades and furniture. We designed it as the meeting point for all the workers in the office, mixing all the different proffesionals. It’s functionality can go from two separate smaller meeting rooms for the legal councelors; to one bigger conference room for large meetings; or a community use room available for all the workers to sit and share work toghether. This flexibility condition is given by the materials and technology used, in which not only the function varies, but it changes while the furniture does.
85
86
87
[TO LIVE A CREAT MUST LOSE OUR F WRONG
88
TIVE LIFE, WE FEAR OF BEING G]
89 89
[2012 - 2016]