Final+Project

This page's content is related to the final project of the class. In my case, I decided to create my own project and show my drawings in a slideshow. To watch the slide show, you can acces to the link below.


 * This project was created to establish a settlement for a small family consisting of 4 members in Cubiro, State of Lara (Venezuela) . The family posseses a terrain at that location which includes a small pond. After setting the main arrangements of the house, there were three aspects or conditions that the design had to accomplish: **
 * Since Cubiro is a warm place, the house needed a ventilation system that didn't require the use of electrical energy to low the costs of air conditioners. Secondly, the house had to be connected to the little pond near to it and finaly, the house had to be both private for the outsiders and public for the insiders. **
 * In order to reach these conditions, the design had to be carefully thought. Concerning the structure, its size had to be proportional to the size of the family and due to this, the house has only one floor and holds to itself by steel posts. **
 * The average temperature of Cubiro is 22° to 28° celsius degrees. If the house had to be constantly ventilated with a small use of electrical energy, the numbers of windows had to increase, but that would break the third condition of privacy. The solution found was the design of continuous small windows located in the top of the walls that didn't allow the outsiders look inside the house. On the other hand, the side of the house that faces the pond replaced the walls with small windows by glass panels to avoid the complete enclosure of the space defined by the house. **
 * The materials used during the construction were: stainless steel for the columns, blocks of processed clay covered in concrete for the walls, glass for the panels facing the pond and the small courtyard. The walls facing the outer street is veneered with a thin layer of brick, the floor was started with poured concrete and then finished with slab panels. **