Bartlett UG2 2016/17_Douglas

Centro Historico

Site

SITE LOCATION mexico city, mexico The building site is located in the south-west of the city centre. It sits next to the largest city park in Latin America -- Chapultepec park.

SITE ZONING MAP The site is sitting next to the Chapultepec park with a busy motorway in between. The street, Avenue Constituyentes, runs from the south-west suburbs in to the city centre, creating a barrier between the park and the neighbourhoods.

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Most urban activities take place in this part of the city. Those districts in the centre have higher population than the others further away from the centre.

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MEXICO CITY DISTRICTS Site Relation to the Existing Urban Contexts The site is located in the central city area, next to La Condesa neighbourhood. La Condesa is considered as one of the most cultural and fashionable neighbourhood in Mexico City.

SITE CURRENT STAGE The site is currently occupied as a public parking location. Three roads are runing round the triangular site with the longest side facing the park.

Residential Housing

Hotel

Office Tower

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SITE CONTEXTS The building site sits itself among a residential neighbourhood. A hotel and a office tower are adjacent to the building site.

SITE PLAN

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Front Elevation

Front Elevation

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2m Height Difference

The site has a 2 metres height difference betweent the fron and the back. The main street is 2 metres higher than the back side of the site. This difference would be used to interact with later building’s design.

SITE ELEVATION, SECTION

Site

SITE MODEL A digital site model was constructed to understand the relationship between the site and the surrounding contexts. From this model, the main street, as the barrier that disencouraging people from the neighbourhood to use the park, is clearly illustrated.

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SITE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS Solar The diagram above shows the local sun path for the site.

Digital site model was used to conduct shadow study.

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SITE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS Wind, Precipitation, and Noise Level

The site experiences mild north-east prevailing wind through out the year. Precipitation is much higher during the summer seasons than the winter seasons.

Noise should be prevented from the street.

This motorway is disencouraging people from the neighbourhood to access the park...

Site

The original motoway would be modified into a pedestrian only pavement to optimise site use...

Building's main entrance would be here since this point is facing to the residential area...

This roof of the office building would be connected to the building with a bridge to create a roof garden...

Building users, cyclists, and public pedestrians could all access the skybridge to enter the park...

SITE MASTERPLANNING Bring the nature to the neighbourhood The motor way running between the park and the neighbourhood creates a barrier to disencourage people accessing the park.

The building design should reconnect the urban to the nature and simultaneously, bring the nature back to the urban.

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Chapultepec Park

Chapultepec Castle

Modern Art Museum

Anthropology Museum

CHAPULTEPEC PARK Chpultepec Park is the largest city park in Latin America. It contains several famous museums and other attractions. It is one of the most popular destinations for tourist and local recreation activities.

Tamayo Art Musuem

Cultural Corridor Chapultepec by FR-EE/ FRENTE/RVDG This project aims to extend the park into the city centre, while my building project expects to bring the park into the southern neighbourhoods.

Park

Current Flow

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Future Flow

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Secondary Entrance (Building Site)

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Southern Neighbourhood HUMANS’ FLOW Urban Scale Currently people access the park through the main entrace from the city centre. The southern neighbourhoods sit close to the park, but because of the road system and lack of attractions, they are disencouraged to use the park. The building program is expected to create a gateway between the neighbourhood and the nature to encourage people from using the south side of the park.

City Centre

HUMANS’ FLOW Building Scale Digital simulations were conducted to simulate expected people’s flow through the building site. The flow of the humans was used to generate initial building concept.

Maxxi Museum

INITIAL CONCEPT MODEL A concept was drawn from the morphology of the humans’ flow and was applied to the building. A model was made to represent the movement from the urban to the nature, and to create a conversation between the two sides.

Traditional Mexican Pinatas

Mordern Cartoon Pinatas

BUILDING PROGRAM A Pinata Workshop for Children When roaming around Mexico City’s market, a few Pinata stalls were spotted and there came the inspiration for the building program. Pinata plays an important social role in Mexican’s festival culture. The building would provide space for children to design, make, and showcase their own pinatas. The content of the building woul eventually attract both local and tourists to experience the pallace of pinatas and also the wonder of the park.

Four traditional Pinata styles

Pinata has developed into more creative styles inspired by modern cartoon characters.

A CATALOGUE OF PINATAS Above are a small catalogue of pinatas that can be spotted in the market. Nowadays pinatas are inspired by cartoon characters to attract kids. Therefore when hanging up all the pinatas, an interesting conversation among the different generations is established.

Making the pinatas

Traditionally, pinata pot are made by clay and contains treats.

People can decorate the outside according to their prefered styles.

Playing with the Pinatas

1. Fill the Pinata pot with treats

2. Assemble the Pinata and hang it

3. Swing a stick to hit the Pinata with eyes folded

4. Pinata cracked open and treats fall on the ground

Pinata can be filled with 1. Sweets 2. Small Toys 3. Confetti 4. Games and Puzzles

Exhibiting the pinatas

Pinatas require a place to be hung and swing freely.

THE LIFE OF THE PINATAS Traditionally people would buy a clay pot from the market as the main container of the treats, and decorate the outside according to their favour. Now pinatas are mostly done with a paper box in the middle.

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A device such as the last image is showing could allow people to adjust the position of the pinata, both for exhibiting and hitting.

Roof Garden

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Sky Bridge

Foyer

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Bedrooms

INITIAL MASSING STUDY

According to the program, spaces need to have three main functions: working (Pinata Making), dining, and resting. Common spaces for occationally public purposes such as holding a festival should be provided as well.

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Workshops: North light should be introduced, easy to access

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Staff Office: consistant temperature and long daylight required

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Auditorium: Great ventilation and lighting, could be viewed from all levels

Dining: Warm temperature, great ventilation

Kitchen: Great daylight, connected directly to dining area Courtyard and Roof Garden: for semi-public use

Foyer

Playing: Great natural lighting and ventilation

Sky Bridge

Storage: Seperate entrace, easy access to other service levels.

Resting: Light and noise should be prevented

Reading Toilets Bathrooms

Security Reception Toilets

KEY SPACES Key spaces for the building are listed above to guide the later designs.

Victorian Factory

Tamayo Mordern Art Museum, Mexico City

INTRODUCING THE NORTH LIGHT Tamayo Museum is not far away from the building site and it is located in the Chapultepec Park. The use of the staircase roof structure to introduce light into the space inspired the design of my building. Old Victorian factories did also use a similar roof structure to introduce balanced north light into the working space.

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Suspension

HANGING THE PINATA Cantilever and Suspension The hanging of the pinata could be deconstructed into two technical concept--cantilever and suspension. Those two concepts were used to drive both the building design and the technical design. The above model was constructed to visualize the application of the concept.

1. A single facade panel is 'grown' from the site as a cantilevel shape

2. Facade panel is rotated towards the north side to receive northlight. More panels are repeated along the site edge.

3. The first concept model guides the direction of 'growing the facade

4. Facade panels envelop the space

5. A main circulation following the first concept model is generated to connect all floors

6. The circulation extends out to reach the park, and one facade panel extends to become a suspension tower for the bridge.

BUILDING ENVELOP CONCEPT

This study intents to intergrate the two concept models together to form the basic massing for the bulding. The concept of hanging the pinatas is used to generate the shape of the building.

BUILDING ENVELOP MODEL The envelop of the building was expressed through this model.

Panelling of the facade structure could create great natural lighting and ventilation for the interior space.

BUILDING CONCEPT VISUALIZATION

Sky Bridge Roof Garden Pinata Workshop

Outdoor Workshop

Kitchen/ Dining

Dining Reading Staff Office Bedrooms

Auditorium

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Main Circulation

Children's Routes

Parents' Routes

FURTHER MASSSING STUDY Each function is arranged in the building. A main circulation is designed. Three characters, children, staff, and parents will occupied the building in different ways but will interact at certain moments.

Teachers' Routes

Office Bedrooms Exit to Courtyard Courtyard

Auditorium

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BUILDING PLAN PROPOSAL Ground Level, First Level

Sky Bridge

Roof Garden Outdoor Workshop Pinat Workshop

BUILDING PLAN PROPOSAL second Level

Rference -- Richard Meier Church

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Bedrooms

BUILDING SECTIONAL PROPOSAL Sections showing different functions on three levels. The bedrooms are placed in the basement to avoid unecessary lighting. Workshops are on the top level to receive great north light.

The facade panels will prevent most noise from the street.

BUILDING STRUCTURAL PROPOSAL

Main building: Facade Development

Masterplaning: Bridge Development

CREATING SPACE-FACADE DEVELOPMENT

BUILDING FACADE PROPOSAL A facade prototype was 3d printed to visualize the spacial quality, as well as the lighting effects.

FACADE LIGHTING Openings are created on the facade to introduce light in the space.

Resting Displacement

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Resting Displacement

FACADE STRESS ANALYSIS STUDY Stress Analysis suggests that in order to obtain stable cantilever facade system, A thicker base is required.

Utilization

FACADE STRUCTURE PROTOTYPE From the strress analysis, a facade that acts as a cantilever requires a thicker base and a thin top. A structure for the facade is proposed accordingly .

Reference: Inhabitable Structures

FACADE LIGHTING With this structure, great lighting could be obtained in the interior. The thicker base could potentially creates inhabitable spaces.

Ronchamp Chapel

FACADE CONCEPT The idea of the inhabitable facade is examined in the render. The structure will be cladded with GRP and, the thicker base could provide napping and relaxing spaces for children. Openneings following the structure grid could intruducing natural lighting in the space.

Top Joints

Main Joints

Ground Joints

FACADE STRUCTURAL DETAILS the structure of the facade was studied further in details in order to understand the visual quality of the facade.

FRAGMENT MODEL Intergrating Spaces into the Facade this model shows how the facade could form a cantilever system and support the founctional spaces in the building.

FRAGMENT MODEL All the floors would be cantilevered from the main structure.

1. A facade panel is constructed

2. Structure divides facade into a grid

3. Some of the grids will be taken out to create openings

4. The south side of the openings will be extruded out to block unwanted direct sunlight in the workshop.

5. Big openings will be extruded both way to create individual workshop spaces, while small openings will be glass panels to intruduce light.

EXTRUDING THE OPENINGS Openings on the facade will be designed according to the direction of sunlight. Extruding the openings to create workshop spaces.

FRAGMENT MODEL #2 This model shows the extrusion of the opening to form inhabitable spaces on the facade. Circulations connecting each space would allow people to intertwine at different moments.

FRAGMENT MODEL #2 The extrusion of the window would create an interactive exterior elevation, which would constantly inform the interior to the outside.

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Floor Deckw Details

FACADE SECTIONAL PROPOSAL This section shows how the facade structure would extend out at certain levels to form cantilever arms supporting the floors. The floor decks would also be suspended from the top of the facade.

Structure forms a Pinata Hanger

Drawer in the Structure

Working Table

Sittings

ROOM DETAILS The extruded openings will form a 3x3x3 (aprox.) space for the individual workshops. Each individual workshop could contain 6 people .

Individual workshops would be located on these three facade panels

Roof Garden

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Window Openings

Vertical Plant Panels Main Circulation

FACADE GRID The north facing three facade panels would be used to provide individual workshop spaces. A grid was created following the GRP panelliing rhythm.

There will be nine individual workshops in total containing up to 54 people.

Service

Luis Barragan Chapel of the Capuchinas

Window Panel Prototype Interior View

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WINDOW BETWEEN THE FACADES The gap ing ing,

window prototype was inspired by Luis Barragan’s Chapel. Each between the facades will have a window panel like the one showabove. This will introduce dramatic colorful light in the buildwhile the clear workshop window brings balanced skylight.

MASTERPLANNING-BRIDGE DEVELOPMENT

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Nine Elms Bridge, London Studio Roland Snooks

BRIDGE PROPOSAL A hybrid structure bridge was proposed to extend the buliding into the park. The bridge would play a critical role in bringing people into the park, and become the gateway between urban and nature.

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BRIDGE MODEL

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Axial Stress

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Axial Stress

From the bridge structure anlysis, we can discover that the less curved side is experiencing more stress, and therefore we can strenghthen this part by pushing the two arch to the side and add lateral beams in between. In this design, the bridge section would appear to be a strong triangle shape.

BRIDGE STRESS ANALYSIS

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BRIDGE SECTION AND PLAN PROPOSAL

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Looking Glass

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Public Cyclists Ramp

Public Cyclists Ramp

Public Staircase

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Second Deck (Outdoor Workshop)

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Tower Structures

Children, Parents, Teaching Staffs (Access from Building) Cyclists Ramp (Access from street) Cyclists and Pedestrian (Access from street) Parents, Children (Access from courtyard) Office Staffs (Access from roof garden) Staircases (Access from street, peak into building)

Passerielle Simone-de-Beauvoir, Paris,,Dietmar Feichtinger architectes

Melkwegbridge, Purmerend, Next Architects

INTERTWINING ON THE BRIDGE The proposed bridge design would include different users: public pedestrians, cyclists, children, parents, and school staffs. All users are expected to access the bridge to enter the park. various routes are designed for all the users respectively, to create different experiences.

Lindlingalm Suspension Bridge, Hinterglemm, Austria

A BRIDGE INTO THE NATURE This render demonstrates the concept of designing a bridge that leads into the nature. The end of the bridge would naturally fade into the trees and intergrate in the landscape, creating people’s longing for the park.

Children playing on the second deck with great view of the city and park...

Approaching the bridge from the neighbourhood...

Cyclists approaching children when going up ramp...

Interaction #1

Pedestrians have a glimps of children's life when going up the bridge...

Parents using the public section can talk to their children...

Interaction #3

Different passages are occupied by different users, and they intertwine at certain points on the bridge. Up and down on their passages results in view changes and view interactions between users. The cross section of the bridge is constantly changing, and belows are some key points of interactions.

BRIDGE SECTIONS

Children can see the public users...

On the mid point of the bridge...

Cyclists start to see the park...

Interaction #2

To park

Public users have a platform with a great view of the city and the park...

Approaching the park...

Interaction #1

Children can get closer to the trees, and gaze at the animals in the park...

Interaction #3

Interaction #2

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Looking glass will allow parents to overlook their children's activities...

Building (Second Floor)

Office Building

Residential Building

Site

This office building is connected to the roof of the adjacent residential building. A roof garden would be developed on the residential building, and would be connected to the bridge through the building site.

Roof garden will be developed on this building

Office roof garden to the bridge

Office

Roof Garden Bridge

CONNECTING THE OFFICE The adjacent building would be used to develop a roof garden for both the residence and the office workers to use. A secondary bridge would be extended out from my building to connect the roof garden with the main bridge in order to faclitate their access to the park.

Public circulation, could only access the foyer and the courtyard. Offer users to have a partial experience of the building, including the pinata showcases.

Characters

Main circulation, could access all individual workshops and floor levels. Long distance would offer full experience of the building and great views.

Secondary circulation, mainly for service use. Fast and steep. Fastest way to access to all floor levels.

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Main Entrance for All Users

This side of the building is shorder to avoid blocking sunlight to the adjacent hotel.

This side is taller to allow natural light into the buliding

Courtyard

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CIRCULATIONS FOR DIFFERENT CHARACTERS Different circulations are created for different characters, children, parents (public), and staffs (Service). By playing with the direction and length of each circulation, those three characters are expected to experience the building differently.

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LA CASA PIÑATA CHAPULTEPEC 1: 100 Ground Level Plan 1. Main Entrance 2. Foyer/ Reception 3. Parents' Cafe 4. Children's Playing Area 5. Auditorium Seatings / Stairs 6. Stage (Festival) / Reading Area (Daily) 7. Staircase to Access Bedrooms 8. Main Circulation to All Floors 9. Bedrooms 10. Staff Office 11. Secondary Staircase to All Floors 12. Staff Resting Pods 13. Meeting Room 14. Service Lift 15. Security 16. Service Entrance (Underground) 17. Exit to the Courtyard 18. Courtyard

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LA CASA PIÑATA CHAPULTEPEC 1: 100 First Level Plan 1. Main Circulation to All Floors 2. Individual Piñata Workshop Pods 3. Dining Area 4. Food Serving Window 5. Kitchen 6. Service Lift 7. Napping Area 8. Piñata Showcases 9. Skybridge to Park Chapultepec 10. Skybridge to the Office Roof Garden 11. Cyclists' Path 12. Pedestrians' Path 13. Children's Path

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1. Foyer 2. Main Circulation to All Floors 3. Bedrooms 4. Bathrooms 5. Stage (Festival) / Reading Area (Daily) 6. Library 7. Toilets 8. Auditorium Seatings / Staircase 9. Storage 10. Staff Office / Lounge 11. Kitchen 12. Food Serving Window 13. Secondary Circulation to All Floors 14. Dining Area 15. Individual Piñata Workshop Pods 16. Piñata Showcases 17. Sky-bridge to Chapultepec Park 18. Group Pinata Workshop Area 19. Roof Garden 20. Top Exit for Service 21. Semi-outdoor Piñata Workshop Area 22. Courtyard

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1. Main Circulation to All Floors 2. Individual Piñata Workshop Pods 3. Group Piñata Workshop Area 4. Roof Garden 5. Toilets 6. Outdoor Skybridge 7. Semi-Outdoor Piñata Workshop Space 8. Sky Bridge Top Level (with vegetable Patch) 9. Pedestrians's Path 10. Cyclists' Path 11. Skybridge towards Office Roof Garden 12. Children's Path 13. Looking Glasses for Parents 14. Outdoor Piñata Playing Area 15. Playground 16. Balcony

1: 100 Second Level Plan

LA CASA PIÑATA CHAPULTEPEC