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Bogota Tourist Information Spots / Juan Melo, Camilo Delgadillo | ArchDoc

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© Gustav ArvidssonArchitects: Juan Melo, Camilo Delgadillo Location: Bogota, Colombia Client: Instituto Distrital de Turismo Bogotá + ETB Construction: Consorcio Inmetsa Project year: 2010 Photographs: Gustav Arvidsson© Gustav ArvidssonThis project was designed as part of a series of tourist information spots owned by the IDT (Tourism District Institute) and constructed during the past two years, with the cooperation of several government agencies.© Gustav ArvidssonThe new tourist information spots promoted by the city government are located in several locations within Bogotá and aim to provide information and communication services for both tourists and locals. Each spot is expected to hold several computers for internet access, telephones, an interactive screen and an information counter within a small area. In the two specific structures designed by Juan Melo and Camilo Delgadillo, outdoor spaces were chosen for their location, representing a special opportunity for exploring the relationship between interior and exterior.© Gustav ArvidssonThe design concept relies on evaluating the specific conditions for each spot, thus avoiding the idea of a single universal design suitable for all locations. Through variation in their geometry, their section plan and internal distribution the structures are clearly integrated in their surroundings and take advantage of the outdoor space without becoming an obstacle.© Gustav ArvidssonThe Chile Avenue structure was conceived as four modular pieces easily put together. The back wall and its surroundings called for a more introspective space. In the case of the Hacienda Santa Bárbara spot a thinner structure was required due to its reduced space lot. The outside vegetation is framed with a horizontal and continuous window and some explorations in its section plan were made, providing an escalated platform to create a higher contrast between the exterior and interior areas.floor plan 01Although the spots do not respond to a serial design, standard materials and colors are used in order to unify their identity. Teak wood, steel and glass provide an easily adaptable sober and elegant composition. Both structures are required to be extremely open platforms while functioning and hermetic containers when closed. A sliding wooden pivot door system was developed permitting the required spatial transformation and creating a compact and uniform appearance when the container is closed.section 01These tourist information spots are an innovative urban mobiliary typology. Their highly accessible interior spaces invite pedestrians to make quick and comfortable informative stops.#gallery-1 {margin: auto;}#gallery-1 .gallery-item {float: left;margin-top: 10px;text-align: center;width: 33%;}#gallery-1 img {border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;}#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {margin-left: 0;}

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Times Eureka Pavilion / Nex Architecture | ArchDoc

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© Courtesy of Nex ArchitectureArchitects: Nex Architecture / Alan Dempsey, Paul Loh, Michal Piasecki, Tomasz Starczewski, James Chung Location: London, United Kingdom Client: The London Times, Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew Collaborators: Marcus Barnett Landscape Design, Buro Happold Engineering Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Courtesy of Nex Architecture NEX was delighted to contribute to creating a benchmark in integrated design at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, working with Buro Happold and Chelsea Gold Medallist Marcus Barnett on the creation of a pavilion for The Times Eureka Garden, in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.© Courtesy of Nex ArchitectureThe Times commissioned Marcus Barnett Landscape Architects to design and build the garden, demonstrating a commitment to science and reflecting the focus of The Times monthly science magazine, Eureka. Barnett asked award winning NEX Architecture to design the Eureka Pavilion, and appointed Buro Happold to provide structural engineering. Plant species chosen for the Eureka Garden reflect their benefits to society including medicinal, commercial and industrial uses underlining the fact we could not survive without them. The pavilion design brief was to reflect the same theme.ModelNEX Principal Alan Dempsey says: “We extended the design concepts of the garden by looking closely at the cellular structure of plants and their processes of growth to inform the design’s development. The final structure was designed using computer algorithms that mimic natural growth and is intended to allow visitors to experience the patterns of biological structure at an unfamiliar scale. The primary structure is timber sourced from sustainable spruce forests with a glass panelled roof.”© Courtesy of Nex ArchitectureThe design development of the pavilion focused on the ‘bio-mimicry’ of leaf capillaries being embedded in the walls. The structural geometry was finalised to use primary timber capillaries (300dp x 140wd) to form the basic shape and supporting structure of the pavilion, inset with secondary timber cassettes that hold the cladding. Following completion of the 3D modelling to meet architectural and structural needs, specialist timber fabricators undertook detailed analysis and digital manufacturing of the structure.Pattern StudyThe walls and roof are clad with recycled plastic ‘cells’ that frame views out to the garden. Rain water literally runs down the capillaries in the walls of the cube from the roof into the ground. The pavilion sits on a timber raft constructed from spruce beams. Sand ballast fills the voids between the raft timbers to give the pavilion increased weight to resist uplift from wind loads.© Courtesy of Nex ArchitectureNothing will remain in the ground after the structure is dismantled and transported to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew where it will be erected along with the rest of the Times Eureka Garden, against the backdrop of Kew’s historical UNESCO World Heritage Site landscape. It is hoped the garden will be open to the public in early July for the summer months.Plan#gallery-1 {margin: auto;}#gallery-1 .gallery-item {float: left;margin-top: 10px;text-align: center;width: 33%;}#gallery-1 img {border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;}#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {margin-left: 0;}

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Urbanization and Urban Elevator in Galtzaraborda / VAUMM | ArchDoc

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© Aitor OrtizArchitects: VAUMM Location: Galtzaraborda, Spain Technical Architect: Julen Rozas Construction: Obegisa Photographs: Aitor Ortiz sectionIn the middle of the 1960’s the industry of the region suffered a great development that led to the need for labor, generating new neighbourhoods in a short period of time.These neighbourhoods, as Galtzaraborda, are usually high density areas which often have left the valley floor and its settlements begin to climb up the mountains.© Aitor OrtizThe buildings are placed following the logic of the topographic lines, covering different levels and creating irregular voids between them that are used to connect at maximum slope different levels.The void space that concerns us is the natural connection between high levels of housing and the lower level occupied by the equipment, train station, sports center and nursery.© Aitor OrtizThis irregular and casual space is dominated by the presence of a huge tree to be maintained as a valuable witness of the change process in the neighbourhood.The elevator has been built “in the only place where it could be”, its location is a crossing point resulting from the rule requiring minimum distances, maintaining the view of site from the houses around and not exceeding alignments of them.© Aitor OrtizThe second point that determines the shape of the elevator is the position of the gateway bridge which is misalignment and tangent to the elevator to keep away from the tree, focusing the pedestrian way in the virtual axis of the void space.In this position, the gateway does not focus the eye on the door of the elevator, it allows the visitor to walk trough it with a visual depth much more open and serves as an observation point on the environment, the distant mountains and the harbour of Pasaia.sketchIt has sought the maximum slenderness and transparency throughout the element; all pieces have been designed using rigid steel panels with truss triangulations. The triangulations is the answer, first, to the structural logic and second, to an industrial language, in this sense, concrete walls have been form worked with sheet metal casing to provide them the mentioned industrial character. It is constructed in order to impregnate a sentimental relationship with the industrial language of the steel manufactures and the harbour that after all gave rise to Galtzaraborda.#gallery-1 {margin: auto;}#gallery-1 .gallery-item {float: left;margin-top: 10px;text-align: center;width: 33%;}#gallery-1 img {border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;}#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {margin-left: 0;}