Case Study - ORQUIDEORAMA (Jardín Botánico de Medellín)

ORQUIDEORAMA

Jardín Botánico de Medellín Plan B Architects + JPRCR

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ORQUIDEORAMA

Jardín Botánico de Medellín Plan B Architects + JPRCR

Program: Orchid and garden exhibitions; other exhibits. Varied events (concerts, weddings, parties, fairs).

Location: Jardín botánico de Medellín, Colombia Year of construction: 2006 Area: 4.000 m2 Value per square meter: US $ 500 Structure: Steel columns and beams.

Materials: Harvested wood linings; concrete pavement, steel and polycarbonate roof tiling.

Client: Jardín botánico de Medellín Design: Plan:b (Felipe Mesa + Alejandro bernal) associated with Camilo Restrepo and J. Paul Restrepo Team: Viviana Peña, Catalina Patiño, Carolina Gutiérrez, Lina Gil, Jorge Buitrago Construction company: Ménsula S.A.

Source: planbarq.com/#/orquideorama/

Plan B Architects Plan:b is an architectural office that defines its work through a practice in which equal status is given to dialogue, drawing, travel, model making, construction, etc. and which continuously handles professional or academic situations, publication of books, college classes or construction of buildings. Plan: b trust in working collaboratively, making of it a statement of architecture and understands the practice and the architectural project as open situations, provisional agreements, phenomena not imposed and embedded in eco-social networks both local and worldwide.

Design Process

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Medellín, Colombia Ecosystem: Humid Pre-Montane Forest Height above sea level: 1.460 m Temperature: oscillates between 16° C and 31° C Solar orientation: uniform Wind direction: north-south

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Medellín River

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School

Amusement Park

Hospital

Cerro El Volador Natural Park

Universidad de Antioquia

Medical Center

Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín Campus del Río

Cemetry

High School

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ARRANGEMENT AND SCALE

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The orchideorama is based on a hexagonal module. While the plan allows flexibility by adding hexagons where needed, in elevation, each metal tree is articulated with the scale of the surrounding trees and relates to their strategies: it concentrates the technical installation network in the trunk, mixes the structure’s base with the growth of gardens or understory plants and defines a translucent canopy at the same height as the surrounding foliages. The regular and flexible perimeter geometry allows the orchideorama to comfortably adjust to the void left by the previous pavilion in the forest and restore the tissue.

AVAILABILITY The building is a canopy. It is neither an empty nave nor a free plan; it is rather a shed or foliage with intermittent supports gathering gardens. This allows mixing and blurring the different activities to which the orchideorama is subject with vegetation, the fauna and the weather of the botanical Garden: birds and plants exhibitions, weddings, concerts, fashion shows or gastronomic festivals enjoy the garden instead of being isolated from it.

SPATIAL PATTERN Each module of seven hexagons constitutes the spatial, structural and bioclimatic pattern that allows repetition, orderly growth over time, flexibility to avoid touching the existing trees and adaptation to budget. The module has a central hexagon which serves as a hollow trunk with six columns in which technical installations are housed (structure, lighting, water collection), as well as gardens, hot air ventilation and access to rainwater. These patios were conceived as convergence vortices and gathering of landscape and architecture, therefore the geometry of the wooden envelope shows the torsion concentrated there.

Source: planbarq.com/#/orquideorama/

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THE SPHERES

AMAZON WORKPLACE in Seattle Site Workshop Landscape Architecture

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