final+project

media type="youtube" key="iLdrw3DyIeA" height="344" width="425" =**Final project**=

This trimester was a really different from the others because of the process of design. We had three projects and all of them were related to the other so I would like to invite you to see this amazing project.

The first assignment was to design two cubes, one made with the addition of parts that combines form a cube and other with a solid cube that we have to carving; these two cubes were a plastic design so no matter the dimensions or the architectonical facts, and then when we finish the cubes the course took a different angle. We have to design a kinder garden inside the cube we already designed. The land selected was in la castellana in a principal avenue and it was a very rectangular place. Also, the land was plain so we don’t have to do a topography design; the only restriction was the six mts. of perimeter that we have to respect between the buildings that surround the place because this is a residential area.

For the dimensions of this project we don’t have a specific client just that we have to design a kinder for young kids between three and seven years, but the program result to be a very complex one so I imaging this kinder for high class kids and well also because of its location that is in one of the good areas of Caracas. The program was established by the class and it was very complex one, it consists of three classrooms for twenty kids each and a lot of recreation areas like a multimedia room, a working classroom, a pool and a small contact farm. Also it was a requirement from the teachers that we designed a parking area for teachers and parents and this area was to be under ground.

The materials that I used was concrete, glass and for the facade I had a great inspiration, a building design by Carlos Ferrater that has a great idea for facades where he used beside using normal glass windows he put the glass inside a in the outside he covered with this mobile panels like you can see In these pictures, this panels form my facades and it result a great isolator material that protect the inside of the building from the sun and also this panels had colors that create a very interesting plastic design.

The structure was a normal frame structure with a rhythm of columns that were visible in almost all of the floors and for walls I used non bearing walls. This aspect was one of the first facts on the designing process because I wanted that the structure of the building was visible even in the facade, this characteristic helped me to create a very contrasting facade were you can differentiate de floors.

And here is the final project, and in my personal perception it was one of the most complete projects that I made, especially for the combination of plastic and architectonical elements.