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UXUE OJANGUREN UNIVERSITY OF KENT PART 1 ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT
uxue ojanguren PART 1 ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT
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Part 1 Architectural Assistant graduated from the University of Kent. I was born and raised in Spain however, I always knew I wanted something different and challenging for my future. Thus, I have recently completedStage 1 Architecture here in England. Often defined as an adaptable, ambitious, brave, self-motivated, confident and down to earth individual I would briefly describe myself as a fast-learning and creative team worker. I am now ready to move forward and begin my career hoping to make a positive contribution to your Practise.
Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Keynote
DRIVING LICENSE
PHOTOGRAPHY
MACINTOSH
PUBLIC SPEECH
DIGITAL SKILLS
Sketch Up AutoCAD
MICROSOFT
3D Studio Max Hand Drawing Modelmaking
HAND SKILLS
WORKING EXPERIENCE EDUCATION 2016-2017
TEAM WORK
HOBBIES AND INTERESTS
TRAVELLING
MUSIC
FILM
SPORTS
ART
GRAPHIC DESIGN
RIBA Student Mentoring Scheme with LEE EVANS PARTNERSHIP, Canterbury, Kent This insight into practice life enhanced my learning experience and prepared me for the upcoming year out. From office visits, site visits and meetings with clients I learnt how a practise functions and what our role as Part 1 Assistants will be
2014-2017
awayting marks
2014-2015
ENGLISH TUTOR
2012-2014
LANGUAGE SKILLS The benefits of multilingualism, besides making me a more efficient communicator, have contributed to my greater cognitive flexibility from which I gained a strong problem solving capacity and higher-order thinking skills. Ultimately, my interest in languages is the reason I had the opportunity to move to England to study Architecture.
completed with 86%
2012-2014
I was an activity leader on a 2 week Summer Camp 3 years and also completed volunteering work in a Soup Kitchen and the charity events my school organised.
Spanish Baccalaureate, Jesuitas Indautxu, Bilbao (Maths, Physics, Technical Drawing, Chemistry, Philosophy, History, English Language, Spanish, Basque )
For 2 months each summer I worked as a privately hired english tutor for a nine-year-old girl. It improved my communication and transmission skills and the discipline and compromise any part time job requires.
ACTIVITY LEADER & VOLUNTEERING
BA (Hons) Architecture (PART 1), University of Kent, Canterbury
2008-2012
Secondary Education, Gernika BHI, Gernika-Lumo completed with 92%
SPANISH 100%
BASQUE 100%
ENGLISH 90%
ITALIAN 40%
Contents
PROJECT 1: Mix use
URBAN STAGE 3 2016-2017
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PROJECT 2: Extension
ADAPT AND EXTEND
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PROJECT 3: Residential
2015-2016
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COLLECTIVE DWELLING STAGE 2
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PROJECT 4: Written work
DISSERTATION
PROJECT 5: Engineering
FORM & STRUCTURE
OTHER SKILLS
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CITY OF ROCHESTER
PROJECT 1: STAGE 3 2016-2017
Cathedral Castle High Street The Brief for this project located in Rochester, Kent, was to design an urban hybrid building containing a diverse range of building typologies integrated into a greater whole. It was about giving Rochester High Street a dynamic space in which a Marketplace, offices and living units would bring the community together and facilitate a vibrant co-existence – the essence of progressive urbanity!
Historic areas: valuable strength of Rochester in terms of attracting new investment and tourism to the area.
Riverside Development M2 Railway Station THE SITE
This proposal, We·R, aims to introduce a whole new lifestyle, for the young and technologically active sector, built upon community, flexibility and creativity by mixing co-working and coliving principles. It will also become the biggest public hub in central Rochester where a Market, amongst other activities, will take place. The building was designed around an open central space that will act as the heart of a modern amphitheatre-like building, celebrating the adjacency of the ancient city wall and converting it into the perfect backdrop.
Proposed green area
Excellent link to transport infrastructure Distance to London: 40’
Future sustainable residential neighbourhood that will complement and strengthen links with the historic heart of Rochester and the wider regeneration of Medway and the Thames Gateway.
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Ground Floor Plan Market Pop up units Delivery access & Plant Room Shop
Mezzanine Floor Plan 1. North Platform 2. Central Platform 3. Restaurant Kitchen 4. W.C.
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First Floor Plan Cinema & Library Gym Changing Rooms Restaurant Bar Co-working Office services
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Second Floor Plan 1. Cinema & Library 2. Co-living 3. Co-working 4. Main Auditorium
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Third Floor Plan 1. Co-living 2. Shared Lounge 3. Co-working
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Fourth Floor Plan 1. Co-living 2. Shared Lounge 3. Office Lounge and Shared Kitchen
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Roof Plan 1. Parapet Roof 2. ETEF Panels
Cubes
The stalls will include 18 cubes of 50x55x80cm that are movable and reconfigurable.
Touch Screens Interactive screens for customers to connect to their favourite social media make orders or payments through the Building’s phone app.
Movable Counters
Big Screens embedded in the central structure of the stalls that display many things from audiovisual material of the products in offer to live social media ratings…
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To maximise their adaptability the stalls are reconfigurable as it is the case of the counters with different positions.
Display Screens
STALL COMPONENTS Each stall will be composed of the above elects in order to create flexible units that adapt to different uses and purposes
PHONE APP · ORDER
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The Marketplace Flexibility, adaptability and dynamism are the principles for the Marketplace in the Building. Technology is also very present in the installations, being connected to the soul and managerial tool of the building; the Phone App. 5
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Massing The Building was designed to be taller that its surrounding context yet still respecting the hierarchy of the historic buildings of the City such as the Cathedral or the Castle. Thus, its strong presence will make it one of Rochester's new landmarks. 6
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Public Hub Whether there is an event taking place (e.g. market) to not, the open and spacious public interior spaces become the perfect shelter and gathering point for anyone in Rochester. 7
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Co-working Office
Kitchen
Co - work/live The co-working and co-living facilities provided are high quality open environment spaces thought to accommodate the younger spectrum of the population that is willing to share non-material assets. 8
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Living-room
Sun at its highest point
Sun at its highest point
Parapet roof guttering
Closed ETFE Cushion (Summer)
Parapet roof guttering
Opened ETFE Cushion (Winter)
Ventilation Louvers
Mullions in the glazing are extended to the exterior of the building acting as solar shaders
The vents in both ceilings and floors allow for natural air intake and outtake to passively ventilate the offices
Open cladding will enhance the natural cross ventilation
Most floors in the building are made of concrete to improve the thermal massing
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Passive Design Solar gain, daylight access or passive ventilation were carefully integrated in the design in order to favour the long term sustainable qualities of the building. 9
Glazed Facade corner detail Gutter Insulation DPC
Parapet
ETFE roof Guttering system
Parapet to ETFE roof connection and ventilation system
Closed ETFE Cushion
One Panel
Exterior Cladding Mechanism
Perspective view of open panels
GutterOpened ETFE Cushion
Gravel
Mullions Concrete
Mushroom Roof Vent for Flat Roofs
Vapour barrier
Gutter Ventilation Louvers
Parapet
High Pressure air tube for operating flap
Closed ETFE Cushion
Thermal insulation
Secondary beam
Secondary beam
Hinge
Closed ETFE Cushion
Hinge Details
Opened ETFE Cushion
Close up of two ETFE Cushions
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2. Exploded Construction 1. Ground Floor: Load Bearing walls and columns
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2. Concrete Frame: Mezzanine to Fourth Floor 3. Roof Steel Structure: trusses as primary elements and I beams for secondary and tertiary 4. Parapet roof and ETFE panels
Construction Built out of in-situ concrete and combined with a steel truss roof support, the building stands in a raft and pile foundation. The roof of the central space, or heart of the amphitheatre, will be composed by ETFE cushions in order to improve the its daylight access. 10
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Exploded Construction
adapt & extend CITY OF ROCHESTER
PROJECT 2: STAGE 3
PROJECT 2: STAGE 3 2016-2017
Cathedral The brief for Adapt & Extend was based on a ‘Live Project’. Medway Council is currently developing proposals for the extension and refurbishment of their Guildhall Museum in Rochester. Currently the building is composed by a series of different structures from a wide range of periods, the primary edifice being a Grade 1 listed. This structure is linked to the rest of the buildings in a somewhat haphazard way, accruing 27 different floor levels throughout the complex.
High Street
Castle
River Medway
Historic areas: valuable strength of Rochester in terms of attracting new investment and tourism to the area.
M2 SITE GUILDHALL MUSEUM
Railway Excellent link to transport infrastructure Distance to London: 40’
Therefore, the proposed extension for the Guildhall Museum will focus on improving the visitors’ experience by simplifying its very complex circulation routes and the various level changes in the existing building. However, most importantly, it will focus on a greater unification of the three segregated buildings that compose the Museum, with a modern and organic shape that will moreover, make the building a new visual landmark.
Medway River
The Guildhall Museum The greatest opportunity this scheme offered was its Corporation Street Frontage. It was key to turn the building into a visual landmark for Rochester since the the high speed train to London and the M2 run directly past it, getting the view the drawing to the right is showing. Thus, the proposal was to integrate a free and eye catching organic shape for it to appear innovative and provocative against the traditional architecture of its background.
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Existing Mass of the Guildhall
Unifying bubble
Carving out existing roofs
The Concept As the High Street elevation is showing, the Museum is composed by 3 buildings also separated by a small lane, Bull Lane. The building lacked of a sense of confidence when appearing as one mass that works together. Thus, the concept was to Unify the buildings, bring them together and make them bold and obvious. 13
Final unifying mass
ROOF and SKIN
STEEL FRAME
COLUMNS
New Permanent Gallery
New Multipurpose Space
The Structure To the right; an exploded construction drawing showing the different components of the extension. Mainly steel frame, the Outer skin or organic shape is also made out of steel bracing combined with triangular glass panels. 14
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Rooftop cafe
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SEMI PUBLIC END
GALLERY AREA
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1. Temporary Gallery____________________________180m²
6. Cafe and Terrace______________________________90m²
2. Multi-purpose Space__________________________220m²
7. Permanent Gallery_____________________________90m²
3. Education Space_____________________________63m²
8. Reception, shop and Lobby_____________________100m²
4. Office______________________________________30m²
9. Storage______________________________________45m²
5. Storage and Workshop________________________70m²
Adaption and Extension Above; a list of the spaces provided according to the clients wishes in the brief. In order to improve the circulation and organisation of the building its two different purposes, one the museum and exhibition spaces and the other the multipurpose venue and educational spaces, have been separately grouped together. 15
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One Building, Two Functions The two sections on this page cut directly trough the middle of each of the ends of the building. The one on top corresponds to the multipurpose venue side of the building and its connection to the Court Room. The Section at the bottom, cuts through Bull Lane, where the new reception area and shop have been located. 16
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Collective dwelling
FAVERSHAM Kent
PROJECT 3: STAGE 2
PROJECT 3: STAGE 2 2015-2016
Farmland Allotments Collective Dwelling was a project located in Faversham, Kent, a historic market town with a long and distinguished heritage. The objective was to develop a master-plan at the urban scale of Faversham Creek which is a tidal inlet off the Swale, on the outer reaches of the Thames Estuary on the north coast of Kent. The area is currently under consideration for redevelopment. Moreover, besides the master plan we were also to design a multi-type dwelling complex in the indicated site. The dwellings were asked to be open to accommodate a wide rage of occupiers as well as to be designed with a green mindset always trying to reduce the footprint and construction impacts.
The Swale Brents Residential Community
Great extension of Farmers fields from Faversham all the way out into the swale
Abbey Street THE SITE
Faversham High Street. Mainly commercial and formed by traditional Kentish buildings
Riverside footpath
Drawbridge
Reintegration of the Market
New Housing Development
Faversham Creek Masterplan The Creek has played a leading role in the origins and development of Faversham. For centuries this was a thriving and strategically important seaport and was the town’s commercial and economic engine. Thus, the brief asked for a series of strategic proposals for the restoration and improvement of the area. The four sketches on top of the page are examples of the same. From a riverside footpath to a new drawbridge or the cargo container retail area proposed for the current semi-abandoned industrial area of the creek, all the changes, as well as the new housing scheme will contribute to bring the vitality of the creek back to the area.
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Cargo Container Yard
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Housing Development The perfect riverside housing development for families, young buyers or even the elderly, the complex is composed by different types of dwellings thought to become a small community in the rehabilitated area. 21
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The Community The Ground Floor plan of the Complex is all dedicated to small cafes and little shops that will be business opportunities for locals and owners. This will contribute to the community environment of the building and its inhabitants. 22
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A Journey The sequence of perspectives describes the day of a family with two small kids that live in the complex. From getting up early in the morning to water activities, kayaking, in the afternoon from one of the building’s private accesses to the Creek. 23
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Reinforced concrete Frame
700mm Extensive roofs in Rood Gardens
Exterior wooden floor
White brick flooring
Nassella tenuissima (Mexican Feather Grass)
Silver birch
Black stucco
Wooden Cladding
Foam insulation
Steel collars to avoid sheer
Reinforced concrete column
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DPM
Dissertation PROJECT 4: STAGE 3 2016-2017
THE MATTER OF BEAUTY IN ARCHITECTURE
The Dissertation was the perfect opportunity to develop my writing communication skills and a more in depth analysis of an architectural topic of my own interest. I chose to write about Beauty. The first thing I learnt in architecture school was Vitruvius’s three principals; Firmitas, Utilitas and Venustas. However, I was aware of the lack of interest and insistence deposited in Beauty in contemporary architecture. Therefore, my interest on the subject grew to the point I wanted to find what the key for architectural beauty was and whether therefore, was not a purely abstract matter. Thus, by studying the qualities of delight behind buildings considered of universal beauty I discovered that to some extent physical beauty is subject to mathematics and ratios, to proportion and balance.
A STUDY ON THE PROPORTION AND MATHEMATICS BEHIND BEAUTY
UXUE OJANGUREN
February 2015 Kent School of Architecture University of Kent Supervisor: Chris Gardner
AR 597 DISSERTATION Word Count: 8753
Nonetheless, a lesson learnt from this exquisite precedent is that its magic is not purely mathematical. Its perfection was due to a series of subtle and hardly
Lastly, and most importantly, there is also evidence of a relationship between Phi
perceptible departures from straight lines, called ‘refinements’ and that conveyed
and the human body. Since the beginning of time, the human figure has
the problem of optical distortion and gave the illusion of a perfectly straight
constituted the focal point for the understanding and explanation of the unknown.
composition. This uniqueness if found, among others, in the columns, which curve
Thus, ancient civilisations based their proportional understanding of the world in
ABSTRACT
slightly inward or in the very slight arched form of the entablature and stepped
relation to the human body. Greeks, saw the human figure as the key
podium (Strickland, Boswell & Brown2007). Besides, another important factor that
measurement for everything else, even beauty and the divine. In The Ten Books
contributes to its beauty is that is not an isolated building. It is the final piece of
on Architecture, Vitruvius demonstrated a deeper awareness of a persistent Greek
the whole composition of the Acropolis (Figure 32). Part of its excellence is
ideal of beauty as a set of calculated proportions that could be applied in arts and
Since the first written architectural treatise; Ten Books on Architecture by Marcus
perhaps due to the intriguing route that follows from the Panathinaikos procession
architecture (Jenkins & Morton 2008). These ideals become especially evident in
which approaches the Parthenon at an ascending tangent. Once at the gate-
sculpture, in which as seen in Figure 23, Phi plays an important role.
house, the Propylaea, the building is appreciated from a diagonal in all its glory in
Vitruvius, stated beauty as one of the three principles of architecture alongside with
a carefully framed view that deeply penetrates the minds of its visitors. FIGURE 29: Hypothetical elevation of The Parthenon and the Golden Section. It is easy to appreciate how well-proportioned the Greek temple was.
strength and functionality, the matter of beauty has been and still continues to be one of
Parthenon
the most polemic themes of Architectural Theory. From the Classical period up until the
Erechtheion Propylaea
Renaissance it was considered the indispensable quality of those buildings that would constitute the representative monuments of the achievements of their culture. Moreover, they believed in the objective nature of beauty and accordingly, how it could, like a FIGURE 23: Geek statures of perfectly proportioned bodies in which the aforesaid Golden Segment (a+b) is appreciated.
science, be expressed with mathematics in certain ratios. Thus, proportion became for a long period of history the infallible guide for the creation of buildings of great beauty.
Hundreds of years after, the new breed of architects of the Renaissance, whose
This dissertation has studied how some of those specific ratios, in particular the Greek
ideas were greatly inspired by the Classical era and especially Vitruvius’ treatise,
number Phi, were extensively used in some of the buildings that still are universally
with Man at its centre’ (Davies 2011). The human Body was still the epicentre of
regarded as beautiful. Furthermore, in an attempt to prove how our perception of beauty
proportions dates back to this period, Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man (Figure
FIGURE 31: The whole height of the entablature fits the golden section as well as the distance by which the ornaments are separated.
FIGURE 30: Every pair of Columns in the colonnade fits the proportions of Phi.
saw the question of proportion as ‘the reflection of the nature of the universe itself,
FIGURE 32: Bird’s eye view of the Acropolis in its apogee where the Parthenon beautifully stands out.
the proportional systems of the time. A widely recognised illustration of human
is mystically influenced by the Golden Proportions, it follows with the study of those later
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Archaeologists have found some of these simple techniques to be the first steps
periods like the 20th Century Modernism, which clearly undermined the integrity of towards the later standardised proportional systems (Davies 20011). This might
beauty as an architectural principle, even behind so, although subtly, they still explain the unintentional yet finding beautiful that proportions buildingsmore like Notre Dameon Cathedral in Paris (Figure Similarly have an influence the buildings of the41). period.
to Hagia Sophia, perhaps due to
that involuntarily acquired preference for the proportions of Phi of its architect, once again the Golden mean is embedded in its proportions.
details into a proportioned and symmetrical building conceived to be a house
In fact it was not until the 16th Century that Leonardo Da Vinci officially
(Figure 43). Once again, to our great surprise, since Palladio did not communicate
reintroduced the Divine Proportion in the architectural map. With his
his intention of creating a building to fit the proportions of Golden Section, Villa
aforementioned reinterpretation of the Vitruvian Man, he reinstated the importance
Rotunda is another prove of the mystery behind the beauty of Phi (Figure 44).
of this universally appealing rectangle. Simultaneously, on the eastern side of the Globe, in India, its proportions were being used for, what has worldwide been voted as, one of The New 7 Wonders of the World, The Taj Mahal (Figure 45).
FIGURE 38: Pendentives; triangular segments of a sphere that transmit the load of the dome to the four corners of its square plan.
FIGURE 39: Section of Hagia Sophia in which the Golden Section perfectly fits the main central nave with the dome on top.
Later in the European Middle Ages, and before measuring systems were
FIGURE 42: Villa Rotunda, Vicenza 1592.
standardised, splendid buildings, specially Gothic cathedrals, were frequently designed on the basis of simple geometry in order to guarantee their consistency and structural integrity. However the Golden Proportions make once more, an appearance in one of the most characteristic aspects of Gothic architecture, the pointed arch (Figure 40). Based on the measurements of the Golden Pentagon it
FIGURE 45: Front perfect and symmetrical elevation of the Taj Mahal, Agra 1653.
is now clear why gothic arches beautifully surpassed their Romanesque precedent.
Erected in Agra to honour the memory of the Persian Princess Mumatz Mahal, this white marble building was described by the British poet Sir Edwin Arnold as "Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones” (Peswani 1998).
FIGURE 41: Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris 1345. The Golden Section., for the first time vertically, fitting the façade of the building.
FIGURE 43: Ground Floor plan of Villa Rotunda showing its perfect for axis symmetry.
FIGURE 44: Any of the four identical elevations of the building showing how similarly to Hagia Sophia, the building fits the proportions of the Golden section near enough in its main body with the dome on top.
There are many hypothesis around the proportional composition of the Taj Mahal. Art Historians all over the world have for many years studied the numbers behind its beauty. One of those theories shows how the building was rationally and intentionally based on the Golden section. By decoding its geometrical structure
FIGURE 40: Geometrical origin of the pointed arch.
and systematically analysing its octagonal projections like the Golden Pentagon, it was proved that every regularity of the building is hierarchically dependent on
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Golden Proportions (Dmytro 2010) (Figures 46 – 47).
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Form & Structure
Element Hierarchy Primary: Truss arch Secondary: Wooden beams, struts and cable Tertiary: Roof Panels
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Foundations A combination of Raft foundation and Pile Foundation
PROJECT 5: STAGE 2 2015-2016 9850mm
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Form and structure was about understanding how structural components shape the architectural form and how a structure can influence the quality of a space.
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Furthermore we had to carry out an analysis on the external acting forces that the structure was subject to followed by the reacting forces that the structure would counteract them with.
Steel truss 2m wide
Pinned joint Wooden beams 0,6m deep 0,4m wide Cable 0,1m diameter
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The brief of the project was to design a roof and its supports to cover an area of at least 400 square meters with no internal columns or supports in said area. Moreover, clear headroom under the roof of at least five meters had to be maintained.
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ACTING FRCES ANALYSIS
EXTRNAL LOAD
REACTION
COMPRESION
GRAVITY LOAD
Deflected Shape
LATERAL WIND north and south
LATERAL WIND east and west
GRAVITY LOAD
Deflected Shape
Deflected Shape
Deflected Shape
WIND UPLIFT
Deflected Shape Deflected shape
Lateral northern wind blows the structure
Form & Structure
TENSION
Lateral western wind blows the structure
Other Skills
To the right, a collection of drawings I produced for my Dissertation. I studied the matter of beauty in architecture, proportion, balance and the qualities of delight behind the historical buildings regarded of universal beauty. I enjoy freehand sketching and believe in the importance of the same throughout the design process. Moreover, I have learnt to combine my passion for Travelling and sketching since I believe it is the perfect opportunity to experience the architecture of the world in a more slowed down and detailed way.
Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House
Life Drawing Workshops I thoroughly enjoyed practising my quick sketching skills related to human proportion.
Freehand Sketches I believe in the importance of freehand drawing throughout the design process as well as sketching and observational drawings. Model Making Models are the perfect way to communicate 3D space and massing. I enjoy producing detailed models for my designs. Lui Kahn, Fisher House
Other Skills