Throughout the course, the densification of the city has been a major issue. We have been working in the compact and hyperdense city, where appear mixtures of typologies that have nothing to do to each other. The course has been divided into three main parts:
The first part consists of a game in which we had to create a Frankestein section from plans and elevations of existing buildings taking a very special attention to the joints among the parts.
In the second part a broad analysis was carried out to find out the particularities of diverse typologies (in my case religious and meditation centres). I based my work on the premise that we are working in the hyperdense city to develop a research of the religions with more followers worldwilde in terms of processes and protocols, spaces, time, festivities, …
In the third part of the course, we were meant to mix the analysed typology with another two: RELIGIOUS AND MEDITATION CENTER, SEED BANK and ICE RINK. The first decision made in the design process is to take the most of the identity of each typology because the uses of the new building has a strong personality. That is why the building itself is like a kind of bestiary (the course aim). Regarding the seed bank, I don’t want it to be just like a mere warehouse but a whole productive cycle in which seeds are produced inside and outside, treated and stored. As for the ice rink, two rinks are created (depending on the quantity of movement). At last making use of the previous analysis, a unique space is created in which all religions are welcomed.
Once each typology has its own identity, it is time to take part in the relationships among them proposing unions through thermodynamic relationships. For instance: positioning the seed bank below the ice surface owing to the thermal neccesities of cold while generating a topography, or the use of solar chimneys that distribute the cold-warm airflow according to the thermal needs of the ice rink, the religious areas or the greenhouses.