The cathedral cities like happens to people are living beings who suffer over time with fissures and cracks in its foundations. Rehabilitation projects who design institutions seeking to find the recipe to ensure the maintenance of these old buildings.
But how can an accurate control of the parameters that cause damage to structures? The Cathedral Foundation of Santa Maria de Vitoria offers an online monitoring system that allows instruments to control movement causing deterioration of the building with a precise vantage point sensor network.
The data collected by the score of electronic sensors distributed at strategic points of the building. Devices that allow us to know with high precision and accuracy of key parameters that affect the composition of the foundation, since the temperature of the columns to the degree of crack depth to the precise angle experienced by the walls and columns of the ancient cathedral. Read the rest of this entry »
The 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded the Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the two founders of the Sana agency.
Here are some photos taken during my trip to New York from one of their superb recent release (2007), the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Please note that this year will be the next Kazuyo Sejima curator of the Biennale of Architecture in Venice.
Opposite, and colorful graphics, posters pasted unusual museum on a site board. Read the rest of this entry »
In April 2008, loyal readers remember, I did a post on the Plaza Vieja in Havana and restoration of facades. My photos were dated February 2006, were still left to restore a building that was damn need.
That is nicely done.
To demonstrate these pictures for me in February 2010 by a core of good will who went on site (thank you Jacques for giving me this service).
Old Havana is a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Read the rest of this entry »
Background
From 1934 to 1983 worked in the Barracks “Wholesale Market Fish Concentration,” known as “Fish Market”, becoming in course of time built a reference to the imaginary urban neighborhood.
The area is located where it acquired its present appearance in the early twentieth century, when it builds the station to the North Barracks (now Hipólito Irigoyen) and the magnificent railway bridges linking the city with Avellaneda. In December 2001 he inaugurated the building foundation of the CMD, called ‘Pescadito’. Adjacent to the former Fish Market, is the first building of the institution. The national public won the preliminary contest in 2002. With these 14,500 m2 the CMD, passes to become the largest design center in Latin America.
Project Report
Water towers, industrial building, railway construction cranes and make up imaginary Barracks.
The intervention in the building expressed through appropriate forms of the surrounding cityscape. These transformed into symbolic visual elements and model space. This building can only belong to this place. To achieve this enhanced the existing spatial structure. Read the rest of this entry »
Loft San Marino is located in an intermediate context that combines two adjacent residential areas of Caracas that have municipal services that enable features such as mix of programmatic involvement pedestrian built building block from the housing supply . The building housing implements 9 cells that provide space benefits of a traditional single family home (patios, gardens, balconies and terraces) to the condominium model. Set in a plot of 710 m2 where once stood a single house in recent years had an advanced state of deterioration, this intervention was an act of urban renewal.
Experimental housing unit Loft San Marino is a building designed as a hybrid of metal and concrete structure. The construction system was conceived from the use of convertible components that provide the ability to expand or contract the program connecting interior and exterior of the building and making a body perfectly permeable. It was designed entirely digitally warping, twisting and layering alternately a modular grid of editable poly. Morphology consists of a cross-band system that generates green areas, no disposed below the other.
Each terrace has its individuality, privacy and autonomy, distancing themselves from the others by a mezzanine. We used modeling techniques and digital dissection allowed to make a taxonomic analysis of the building. By means of structural calculation software and forces applied from the deformation of the slabs resulting minima were located on the joist struts lattice potential. Read the rest of this entry »
