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Iacobus Project 2008


Final Project


The strong identity of the complex defines axis, forms and sizes, as wellas the caracteristichs of materiality.

The site and the astonishing views lead us to make the most of itsqualities, in a project that tries to respond to a complicate programm. Theecological system that involves a vertical growth enters in symbiosis withthe nature around.

To coordinate all this factors, answering with coherence, compromiseand aesthetic, is the objective of the project.

Verticality

Verticality is the main idea of the project because it has existed since the18th century in Randan, on the one hand with the presence of the castleand its towers, which was built on a hill from where there is a wonderfulview of the site; and on the other hand because of the almost 30 meterhigh trees (plane trees, fir trees, walnut trees...).

The conexion with the village in such a huge project, is given by anentrance floor that generates a new public square in dialogue with theOrangerie.

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-2.Underground floor [Store rooms, Office]

-1.Underground floor [Parking, Cafeteria, Lounge]

Ground floor[Reception, Office]

+1st Floor [Restaurant]

+2nd Floor [Service rooms]

+3rd /+9th Floor [Bedrooms]

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The musical term describes the caracter of the project thebest: a dynamic garden formed by ramps which rise and bury in a relaxing and quietcomplex.

Playing with the different perspectives and the changes in the heigh of the ramps it ispossible to intensify the importance of the historical elements such as the convent orthe castle.

In this "dynamic garden" arises the building for the music school. It is made up ofthree buildings, which are unified by a depressed square, used as a public place, aconcert hall or a simply way. The shape and the position of the buildings emergefrom the movement of crossing the garden from the street in the South to the riverDanube.

"Allegro ma non troppo"

The part of the program for the youth hostel is set in the old building of the conventof Santa Klara, keeping its structure and its character. The interior courtyardbecomes a peaceful green place used as a terrace of the cafeteria. The green partrelated to the music school is a big public garden ordered in the different levels (-3,+0 and +3).

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die Donau

Two of the buildings of the music school areused for theoretical classes, rehearsal rooms,storerooms for instruments... The one in theSouth contains an auditorium, a big cafeteria (inthe ground floor) and a library (in the firstfloor). The stage can be headed to the outside,so as in summer the audience can be on thesquare or on the ramps.

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In the ground floor of the convent is the reception, the administration, the conference rooms, the kitchenand the refectory. In the first and second floor the single and double rooms are laid out, grouped in threenucleus with each own rest rooms and reading lounges.

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The buildings for the music school are concieved as big freeplaces under the ramps, where cubes of different proportionsare inserted. There the specific activities take place.

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Each cube has a traslucent ceiling, which allowsthe natural light to illuminate the inside rooms fromboth sides.

The typical aspect of the life in a convent is the combination ofausterity and community. This is reflected in the spartan bedroomsof the hostel, furnished just with a multifunctional object(bed-desk-shelves). All the other activities take place in thecommon rooms of the convent (refectory, louges, rest rooms...).

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Final Project

The neighbourhood of Cantodarea was originally an old fishermanvillage, which has preserved its complexity and its structure ofnarrow and rambling streets. The topography has a wild character,the terrain is full of huge irregular rocks and strong slopes. Thenarrowness of the streets and the abundance of stairs make it aneighbourhood with a lot of problems of accesibility.

Cantodarea

The aim of the project is not making a big intervention butrenovating some of these weakest points, as an example for afuture complete restoration which will transform the aged andtumbledown buildings and public spaces to new attractive and alivepoints. Three of these derelict buildings placed in the consolidatedurban plot are chosen for this restoration, and they will be renovatedto contain the majority of the program of the civic centre. Thesmallest building will be the social services, with three privateoffices; the second one will contain a small library, with a studyingroom and a reading lounge; and the last one will have three bigclassrooms thought for different activities.

The ruin of a market which was built only until the structural phaseand then abandoned, is the best place to create a new relationshippublic place, a new central square related to the new builtauditorium, which is designed more as a multifunctional hall, and abig cafeteria.

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current situation urban proposal

Just like the restoration of the run down buildings for a common use for the peopleof the neighbourhood, there will be a renewal of the private properties to transformthem in a whole green public area. The current situation shows us narrow plots ofland full of weeds which generate a big whole inaccesible area. In the proposal thisarea is understood as a garden, respecting the old division with low iron fences,but creating new ways that allow everybody to enjoy this green heart of the village.

The private property will be preserved, obliging the owners to maintain the fieldscultivated with the traditional vegetables and cereals, or as orchards, so as all thepassers-by can have an enjoyable walk from the top of the area until the newbuilding and the square.

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Final Project

The chosen wood for the inside aswell as for the outside of thebuilding is the Mansonia ?????????because of its extraordinarycharacteristics of resistance anddurability. It has a naturalprotection that permits a longprogressing ageing.

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The renewed building is composed of the oldstone walls kept from the ruin and an added woodvolume, which makes it a three-store building. Ineach floor there is a big classroom for differentactivities, such as yoga courses, gymnastics forold people, dancing lessons, small lectures orexhibitions, painting workshops...

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The books are located in theground floor with a quiet loungefor reading, and in the firstfloor there is a studying roomwith natural zenithal light and asmall place for computers.

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The regular shaped rooms of the ruin areused for the three offices of the socialservices while the complementary spacewill be used as a waiting room.The old stone porch is preserved as asymbol of identity of the building, but thereare two new entrances from two differentlevels of the street.

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