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variedades el sol naciente store
alajuela, 2006-2008
The project is located near the Holcim building and Tribu Advertising Agency –designed by Bruno Stagno- and Aceros Ross projected by Rolando Barahona. The latter is located 50m away and is similar as to building and terrain format (226m x 46m).
The building, of 5500m2, divides into: store, offices, cellar, and parking lot. The entrance is located on the short side of the site, to enter a virtual “box”, neutral, functional and inexpensive.
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The proposal is divided into three zones. Facing the street, the offices are located, on the upper level. The entrance is located under the multiuse salon, which “breaks” the box and generates a “door” or threshold to the project. The store is a second volume, covered by a organic, curved roof that relates the internal space with the content (dry flowers, seeds, bulbs, etc). the cellar is articulated with the store at the loading platform, and is defined by a two-sloped roof. This roof has its top ax displaced from the center, in allusion to the section scheme on Rolando Barahona’s project, and continuing the central ax of the store area.
Structurally the project is defined by a series of metallic white frames, of variable section, with exposed precast concrete envelopments. Over these walls, were placed siding and a stripe of translucent polygal vents, installed vertically and illuminated at night. The project is formulated as a bioclimatic design, which has a system of cross ventilation along the building, with air injection on the vents and hot air flow to the outside at the openings located on the rooftop. The connection between inside and outside manifested through the window at the end of the entrance area of the store. This opening, of 18m x 1,3m. contributes to illumination and relates the internal space with the wooded surroundings. Architectonic Design and Internal Design: Arch. Luis Diego Barahona Structural Calculus: Eng. Eduardo Guevara (FSA Ingeniería y Arquitectura) Electromechanical Calculus: FSA Ingeniería y Arquitectura Drawing: Pamela Salas Scale model: Joselyn Solorzano Scale model photography: Oscar Abarca |