Barras de Código

Contest for a façade design in Sanxo Llop, Gandia (Valencia). 2010, Aprusa.

The need is to make a façade for a volume unknown in the moment for the call of entries. It’s only known that the use of the building will be commercial and leisure.

The proposal creates a metallic piece called “eeele” that can be installed horizontally or vertically. This permits to create a frame around the ground floor showcases.

Also, the piece has two wings that protect from the sun and at the same time, when it is installed vertically, it creates a gazing game.

Municipal Archive and History Museum in Sallent (V – details and structure)

Master thesis. July, 2008.

10 Sallent_Restoration details

The structural support of the building will be new columns. At some points, reinforced concrete is added to the stone walls.


11 Sallent_Details, new elements

The access door to the museum is located on Portalet street . Before the restoration, it was the door to the stables. Today only some small constructions remain. They have got no historical value, so they are demolish to build a new volume.

This will be the responsible for connecting the existing building and the city wall. But it also concentrates the hall, the space for temporal exhibitions, the lavatories and it permits to look at the surroundings from its flat roof.

12_Sallent_Structure, columns



The existing walls don’t have stability problems. But they are supposed to do not have enough strength to resist the transformation of the building, especially in the rooms of the archive. In addition, these walls are very irregular.

So a second structure is added. It is formed by iron columns as well as iron main beams.

13 Sallent_Structure, horizontal structure

In some points the horizontal structure is helped by reinforced concrete.

  

The roofs are completely renewed in order to solve the constructive problems of the existing ones. But also to eliminate the bugs that live on its wood beams, most of them termites.