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COMMUNAL CENTER

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INTERNATIONAL CONTEST FOR

ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS

Project year: 2015

Collaboration:  Abraham Torrivila

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In many Latin American cities there are neighborhoods or popular areas that do not have the appropriate urban equipment to help their residents have a better quality of life. These areas, which generally have a high density of built mass without obeying any order, develop in undeveloped areas and under some natural risk because they do not suffer due adaptation.            These neighborhoods require buildings that are capable of adapting to their environment and that provide an incentive for the social, economic and physical development of the area.

 

The conception of the building starts from the lightness and permeability, since they are concepts that fit with the need to conceive an adaptable, transformable and practical architecture. Under these principles, a structural system made up of different elements, or layers, was designed which, when joined, behave as a unit and give the piece rigidity, stability and flexibility. This structural system is made up of a group of rings, of similar proportions, connected by tie bars that cross them and stiffened by tensioners, and this group of rings, called a component, can be joined to another group of different proportions, following the same principles of the system.

 

The volumes, of a practical, logical and flexible nature, act as container spaces for different activities. This allows that the relationship between them is not strictly physical and they can be understood as independent pieces, expanding the possibilities of occupation and use. 

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