alehandro aravena

ALEJANDRO ARAVENA

ARCHITECTS

This outstanding architect has a very strong line of buildings: the Siamese Towers (Chile), Pirihueico House (Chile), the Mathematics School at UC (Chile) and ongoing projects such as ORDOS 100 (Inner Mongolia, China)

Alejandro Aravena is a chilean architect, recently awarded with the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale (‘Promising Young Architect’) and selected as a one of the 20 most promising young architects by Icon magazine .

Architect : AlehandroAravena ,Ricardo TorrejonAravena ,Ricardo Torrejon, Victor OddoProject : 2008.Area : 900 m2Location Ordos , Inner mongolia , China .

A three storey villa made with bricks. The villa consists of a viewing platform and indoor swimming pool. This house is monolithic, so the rough broken bricks, are the outward texture of the whole volume, including roofs and exterior pavements.

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� The structure is based on walls and deep beams. Straight floor to ceiling walls are made out of

Structure

to ceiling walls are made out of reinforced brick masonry. The perimeter walls also have a tied rough brick masonry toward the exterior

Plans

Interior spaces are spanned by 1,6m. tall reinforced concrete beams supported by 2,1m.

tall concrete walls.

Concrete slabs (about 15 to 20cm.) are mostly horizontal but diagonally sloped just

around the tower.

Elevations and sections

Regarding color, the interior of the project will be in matte black/white/grey gamut: Masonry walls painted white, sealed exposed concrete, black stained hard wood floors, black porcelain tiles (basement), grey tinted double paned glass in curtain walls and windows.

Steps

North elevation

West elevation

The rough brick texture allows for relatively large tolerance levels, both on walls and roof. The roof shape is achieved by the accumulation of material rather than by following certain geometry. Rigid insulation has to be accumulated on top of the concrete slab as if it were sand or gravel. Then a wire mesh and a shotcrete layer will consolidate the shape.

Renders

Materials : Rough gray brick(for walls and roof) Concrete for slab Glass for windows Wooden for doors