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 media type="custom" key="4073297"media type="youtube" key="j03Av74GSJQ" height="344" width="425" The purpose of this project is to create an auxiliary pavilion to the already existing “pavilion N°5”. It is obviously located in Sartenejas, at Universidad Simon Bolivar, located in the higher grounds next to already mentioned pavilion. The project supplies the auxiliary classrooms needed in every university, but this time, for architects only. It consists of an auditorium for visual presentations, a library for specialized architecture books, an exposition wing and all the services: a small plotting centre, a café and obviously, bathrooms. The client, better yet, the clients are ourselves, all the students of architecture that need urgently a solution up there for materials emergency, plotting services and food. =__//The project://__ = The Project consist in three modules, one for the exposition wing only, one for the auditorium and one for the services and library. The exposition wing is parallel to the services wing, but it is located closer to the mountain, so it works like a façade between the mountain and the access street. The auditorium is located in front of this wing, working as a rotating axis for the next unit, the services unit, separated from the auditorium only by the main staircase. The main purpose of the location of the modules is to create a square surrounded by them as confinement walls, and the mountain as a fourth limit. It has two accesses; the main entrance comes from the way-in street that comes to the pavilion, continuing the view as if it were already part of it. The second one is perpendicular to this one, but instead of being between the auditorium and the services unit, comes between the auditorium and the exposition wing. The structure and materials of this project are very simple. All the columns and beams will be made out of reinforced concrete, since the humidity of this university doesn’t allow us to work with wood, and the cold doesn’t allow us to work with steel. Nevertheless, all the décor in the facades and interiors are made of these  materials, and also glass. The auditorium, given that it needs to be a much closed structure, is all made of pre-cast concrete walls, in an area of 15mtsx10mts. The exposition wing, because it is at the top of the view in front of the main staircase, has the main façade made out of glass, so everyone can see the current exposition events. The services unit consists of 4 parts: café, bathroom, plotting centre and library. The café area is very open, made out of wood and glass, so it gives a warmer feeling of coziness to the clients. The bathrooms are very much hidden, and are behind the kitchen and deposit of the café, but the entrance comes next to the plotting centre. The plotting centre, next to the library is also very open to the public, with a glass façade and concrete walls only in the attending bar area. The library is half incrusted in the mountain, so the walls that are bearing the loads coming from the mountain are made of reinforced concrete, the rest of it, is all glass. Most of the roofs are made out of concrete, but some roofing parts consist of pergola. These pergolas are made out of wood, and cover the entrances and the garden area of the auxiliary pavilion.

This project is very important for the university, since the needs of the students of architecture are becoming increasingly urgent. So, if this project gets to be build, it will be absolutely perfect. All the materials and all the structure are perfectly combined to create the most comfortable and useful pavilion. This would be a perfect place for hanging out, studying or even for relaxing.

Thank you very much! Edgalia Leandro