Final+project

Essay:

I am going to explain my project of a house to Jesus Soto, one of the greatest Venezuelan artists. I designed a house for him in a lot with dimensions of: 12 x 16 x h 12 The lot is located in front of a beautiful city square. It is the only opened side because the lot has constructed context in its right, left and back side. So my design had to use this frontal view to the full. I tried that all spaces had acces to the front view. In addition I wanted to create lightened spaces and many gardens in order to have good internal views that could take a stand for the lack of lateral and back views. -Access -Gallery (exhibition and selling area, office, storage room and toilet) -studio-teaching area: Library- personal studio (with toilete and storage room); 2 class-room (with toilete and storage room). -House area: Living room, kitchen and dining room integrated. Bedroom with toilet and **__changing room.__ //(do you mean walking closet?)//**
 * The programatic Requirements are:**

The design was inspired on the kinetic quality of Soto’s works. I used a composition of squares to make a spatial 3D __**red.**__ **(net)** Moving these squares up and down through different floor levels I created a lot of movement. The concept of the building is to have multiple gardens with square form, through which the stair system make possible going up and down the building. Then the house is divided by an edge of gardens and you go from the most public areas to the most private as you ascend. Each garden has a different way to be crossed and includes little benches in its borders. The idea was that you could see gardens upwards and downwards the area you are and that you needed to cross the gardens to go up and down the building and to go from one side to another. The idea as well was to create most spaces with __**cannon ???**__ view to the square. The building has a lot of movement and I wanted that all that movement was appreciated from everywhere so I sought a lot of transparency. Stairs leave narrows between each step. Privacy is given through different heights. For the workshop or studio area I wanted to get a lot of free space on the back of the building. Having other floors advancing above it on the heights and leaving one square of light where the sky can be seen. For the bedroom I used a Le Corbusier style. The room is located transversely to the living-room, 2.4 meters higher. The structure of the house is made up many rectangular columns and structural exterior walls made of concrete. The roof is made with square and rectangular pergolas, some of them with glass coverings and some other with concrete coverings. So I got a transparent but massive house that has plenty of light and good views, taking advantage to its context location and its own gardens and spatial qualities.