Final+Project

 Final Project

** What my project is about **  My project is about a building. This building is located at the middle of a very big square, between other two buildings I designed some years ago.  To understand the reason I designed this building, I going to make different topics to expose my ideas clearly.

** * *Client **: The client who made the first contact, called me to my office and we decided to have a meeting to talk about the project.  He was interested into build a little mall near the beach. He wanted a design according to the lasted trends in Architecture, but he wasn’t looking for the best mall built ever, no, he just wanted a building beautiful, functional, interesting to people and that it wasn’t a building so big. I heard the client, his first ideas about the project and then I began to design the building. On the first time I wasn’t clear about the way I must to design because the client didn’t gave me enough information about the context so I made few sketches of some ideas that I considered appropriate. I had a second meeting with my client and this time he talked about the needs he wanted to cover with the building.

Needs **: ** As a mall, the building must be distributed on: services, commercial zones and circulation. And finally… I was very happy this time by the meeting I had with my client, because he exposed his needs clearly and on the same time he gave me total freedom to design the building on my style. I designed the building taking into account the topics of my client and the result looked good. But I had yet I big problem to result: where the building will be placed? I talked to my client to asked him about this point but he wasn ´t clear about the building place, he just was interested into have his mall near the sea. So I had an idea!
 * My client exposed that he was interested into put just few stores on the building, because those stores would be luxury boutiques. So he wanted big spaces to each one.
 * He told me that he imagined the building with large ramps and without so many stairs because he considered them boring.
 * My client said that he was supporting the new ecological Architecture in order to safe the planet using natural light, natural ventilation and circulation without elevators to low the energy demands.

**Context:**  I propose to put the building in “Cancun, Plaza la Isla “on the middle of the square near the sea.  My client was agreeing with me so I finished the design.

 **<span style="font-size: 150%; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Building Structure ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">After had finished the design of the building I talked with some engineers to discuss the way the building could be built.

I show them my design by plans, by a computer video tour of the building and I also did a little model of it.

The engineers proposed a hard solid foundation on the first floor to have an important support of the structure. It was also important the use of horizontal beams, columns and tensile structures on the second floor to support the weight of the roof on the top of the building and the floating part.

The floating part was the biggest interest of the engineer’s team, because this part needed to be hard to support the weight of two floors without having an important foundation.

But finally it was possible!

<span style="font-size: 190%; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> **<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Materials **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">Now it is time to talk about the materials that bring alive the building, they were: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; color: rgb(0, 128, 128);"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; color: rgb(0, 128, 128);"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">Concrete: It was use on the foundations, walls, stairs, ramps, columns and on some parts of the façade.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; color: rgb(0, 128, 128);"> Steel: It was use on the structure of the building on conjunction with concrete. Beams and columns are an example of that.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">Brick: Used for the external façade.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">Wood, Glass and Stones (marble, granite…): Used on the internal decoration.

<span style="font-size: 40%; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">**<span style="font-size: 25.6pt; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">Conclusions: **
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">I can say that I am really happy with the result of this building. It is beautiful, ecological; it is perfectly placed between a high building and another smaller than him and it was designed following the needs and the pleasure of the client.

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