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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Leon de Grief Library Park in Medellin, Colombia by EL EQUIPO MAZZANTIAugust 11th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Giancarlo Mazzanti Design concept The aim for the project is to establish a project that enables the biggest amount of urban connections and the development of public spaces. To achieve this, there are several proposals such as enabling the roofing of the building as public space, empowering meeting places and developing viewing-points which overlook the city.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez
 Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez The model allows the usage of communal facilities as small open spaced theatres, viewing-points, small plazas and sport fields when placing them on the rooftop, leaving plain borders as vacuums inside the lot and thus enabling their external use.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez The designers propose a management program between the EDU and the Culture Secretariat called “Film, Music and Theatre in my quarter”. This will allow the usage of the above mentioned roofing as auditoriums so that every two weeks a cultural show can be taken to each quarter.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez Feature The place presents itself as a green viewing-point and a territory of connections between the lower and upper zones of the quarter, which are actually used as areas for sport activities. The project the designers propose will redefine the existing paths and empower the creation of shaded plazas on the library’s rooftop. As a result, it will not only multiply the connections because the building will be an obliged path, but it will create more and more events as people intertwine in the public spaces provided around the library. More than a transformation, the designers want to re-interpret the space so that it can be recreated into a symbolic place for the city.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez The project will consist of a system conformed by three contained, rotated, squared modules that turn, adapting themselves to the landscape and the view and one curved module that unites and relates the other modules and that, in addition, allows other uses. Circulation systems crossed airs through the mentioned patios, which allows cold air to displace hot air. The designers propose the usage of natural air cooling systems, nurturing the inside of the library with fresh air. In addition to this, the designers want mobile blinds to cover the windows that face the sunset so that the effect of sunlight can be minimized. On top of the roofingview points, the designers propose the plantation to trees to provide shadow.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez Materials Structural system exists in reinforced concrete, in porches and screens.Each container module is structurally independent from the curved connector. Modules are conformed by screens in the ends to compensate the projection and in the center 2 axes of rectangular columns in concrete. The connector is proposed in a reticule of metallic columns filled with concrete and a contention wall in stone gabion and concrete in the rear part. Vinyl floors in different colors and shapes limit pedagogic areas. Visible roofing in white concrete is with inferior cake and wooden panels of 5 cm planks. White antique concrete walls and crystal plates in sandwich are with colored resin on the inside to mark and provide some color to the pedagogic areas. The mobile panels of the façade in folded cool rolled planks and curved borders with elements in teka wood.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez Description of the project The project is a landscape that gives the urban geography continuity through the paths and the building of public space on the rooftop, a landscape constituted by paths, theatres or inclined plazas, a spatial network with connection multiplicity and meeting places.  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez  Image Courtesy © Sergio Gómez  Image Courtesy © Giancarlo Mazzanti  Image Courtesy © Giancarlo Mazzanti  Image Courtesy © Giancarlo Mazzanti  Image Courtesy © Giancarlo Mazzanti  Image Courtesy © Giancarlo Mazzanti  Image Courtesy © Giancarlo Mazzanti
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