Technical detail

FREI FORDERTECHNIKProject Location: rubigen, SwitzerLand

office: SHS arcHitekten, tHun

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PUBLIC SPACE FOR UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAMAMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

The project dealt with designing a hybrid building for University van Amsterdam to provide an interaction hub for the students, staff and the citizens. The project aimed to reassert the relationship between city and university. The extremely complex and hybrid program aimed to provide 5000 square meters of Conference Hub and University Lecture Hall combined with a 2000 square meters 2-stars hotel and a 1000 sq.m refectory/low budget restaurant and cafeteria.

The design is a collection of multiple courtyards acting as the congregation point, strategically placed to accentuate student interaction along with cultural activities and caters to different users. The courtyards are also differentiated on the degree of privacy they offer. It also provides platform for catering different UVA campus activi-ties and public programmes. The design unravels itself as a green terrain to generate a landmark image for the building and thus attract the citizens to become part of the UVA campus.

DETAILED WALL SECTION

DETAILED ROOF JOINERY

DETAIL OF FLOOR JOINERY

Growing Medium

Filter Membrane Drainage Root Repellent

Thermal Insulation

Vapour Control

Hollowcore precast concrete slabs 2000*1200*200

Curved Steel truss

1.5 m concrete walkway

Metal grating cover

Drainage

25*300*300 Paver blocks

Corrugated Metal facade cladding

Water Supply pipes

Drainage pipes

Thermal Insulation Metal facade cladding Metal flange connection to the facade

False ceiling cladding

Fixed glass facade Vertical support

Drain ChannelsVertical Down-takes

Metal Grating covered with pebbels Water Proofing

Compacted Growing Medium 600x600mm

Double Glass Windows

DETAIL OF GREEN FACADE

TRANSPORT HUB_ A POINT OF EXCHANGE URBAN ASYMMETRIES GRADUATION STUDIO, CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO

The MSc. graduation project dealt with understanding the implications of Neo liberal policies on the city of Juarez which lies on the US - Mexico border. In 2009 Ciudad Juarez was rated as “the most violent zone in the world outside of declared war zones” due to high crime rates, femisides, homicides, corruption, drug trafficking and multiple other problems. The city is also presently facing massive exodus and the abandoning of large portions of its housing stock due to the increase in violence and a prevailing low intensity war between the state and the drug cartels.

The reasons for this asymmetrical development are multiple and point towards a complex mesh of forces that transgress the scope of the built environment. They encom-pass entangled dimensions of political economy and socio-economic developments, which eventually affect the built environment.

With this background a six month intense research was carried out and a counter proposal group strategy was proposed on a prototype site Riberas Del bravo and eventu-ally an Urban & architectural intervention was designed. Thus as part of my graduation project I designed a collective transport system comprising of three design elements the Transferium hub, the bus stops and the routes on the prototype site.

Metal rodMesquite wood

DESIGN OF A HYBRID TRUSS

CONCRETE BASE VERTICAL SUPPORT HYBRID TRUSS ROOF CLADDING MODULES

WOODEN PALLETS

FABRIC SCRAP METAL

SECONDARY SUPPORT MEMBERS

STRUCTURAL DETAIL AND FACADE CLADDING MATERIAL

STRUCTURAL AND CLIMATIC CONDITIONING CONCEPT

Diagram to show choice of joinery Wind

Pin JointFixed Joint

Pin Joint

Pin Joint

Pin Joint

Pin Joint

Fixed Joint

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Diagram to show choice of joinery

Diagram EXPLAINING CLIMATIC CONDITIONING

STRUCTURAL DETAIL

Paver Blocks

Mesquite Wood vertical supports

Wooden battens cladding. Wooden Pallets

Damp proof course

Reinforced cement concrete slab

Coarse sand

Tongue and groove wood Joinery with Metal Straps

300 mm thick Dry Rubble Pack

Rammed Earth Pin Joint

Metal plate inserts for stronger support

Rammed Earth

Damp proof course

Reinforced cement concrete slab

Toilet Duct

300 mm thick Dry Rubble Pack

Rammed Earth

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B

DETAIL AT A DETAIL AT B

MICRO CLIMATIZATION OF THE PAVILIONS

FACADE DESIGN WITH THE TRIANGULAR MODULES

DETAIL ATC

Fabric Cladding

GI T-angle forming triangular framework modules

Metal brail and loop joinery for Fabric

Wooden Pallet nut bolted to the triangular frames