FINAL+PROJECT!



MY DESIGN PROJECT

In the design class, we have been working on a project based on the design of a cultural center. The professors gave the same location to all the students: a piece of land of 140x95 m between a square and the beach. On the sides we have our first projects, 22 houses for artists of 16x16 m, and on the other extreme of the square we have our second projects: vertical buildings of 48 m high, designed to serve as professors residences.

Unlike the first two projects we worked on, where we were “trapped” in imaginary boxes, in this project we have no physical limits, meaning that in this huge terrain we can do a building as high as we want, with the shape we choose.

For my last design project, I chose simplicity -I am starting to believe that sometimes “less is more”, as Mies Van Der Rohe used to say-. That is why I took as a reference for my design the “pabellon de Barcelona” and the Farnsworth house. Like those buildings, my version of the cultural center has horizontal volumes, but it also has cubic volumes that “anchor” the other ones to the land.

The cultural center is composed __by__ **(of)** two buildings which are connected by a bridge: they are both made by one cubic volume and a horizontal one. The first building the administrative offices, a room for special events and the museum itself; it is connected on the upper floor to the other building, which has an exhibition part on the second floor, an arts school on the first floor, and an auditorium and a coffee shop in the main floor.

Besides the two buildings, I have worked a lot with vegetation, creating a second way to go over the space: one that is external to the buildings and its end is a private square with a view to the sea.

About the materials, We haven´t been asked to decide materials at this level of the career, even though, I do imagine what my buildings would look like: the cubes made of brick, the horizontal volumes with white slabs and glass on the sides; the insides all white –very minimalistic- with only some of the visible columns in brick, creating which I consider a very interesting rhythm. The structure is composed by a typical post and lintel system, with load-bearing walls on the cubes.

__Resuming__ //**(In short, or Summing up)**//, this is the project I have enjoyed the most, I am very committed to it, and I hope everybody enjoys the results!

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