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The Musical Cultural Centre is located in “La Punta – Callao” in a former shipyard near Peru’s main port. The lack of public space and infrastructure to host all kinds of artistic events in the area are the main reasons for this proposal. The project seeks to give an adequate infrastructure for leisure, recreational and cultural activities as well as to allow pedestrian traffic along the shoreline. To give program to the main square, the building has a solid first floor, and a third witch hangs on top of the second one with the help of big metal frames. This idea comes from a process that happens meters away, in Lima’s main port: El Callao. Big red metal cranes move containers from and into boats. The same structural idea is used in the cultural centre to get rid of all columns that can affect the space in the second floor. The project intends to harbour the hundreds of artistic events, such as concerts and festivals, which now a days are carried out in schools backyards or

sport stadiums.

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EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE - from de promenade

EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE - from the plaza

DIAGRAMS OF VOLUMETRIC STRATEGY:

Solid first floor. Gives program to the plaza. Third floor floats on top of the second one. Using the help of metal frames: Callao’s Port. Part of the shipyard is used in the design

Taking into account the reality of Callao now a day, a project of this magnitude is essential. Present day leaders know of this necessities but not how to beat them. The Musical Cul-tural Centre would be part of Callao’s actual urban plan, which unifies the main public spaces of all districts using pedestrian roads. It will function as a catalyser in the area and give the promenade going along the seafront

the program it has always longed.

The area would have the public space that is needed, and concerts or festivals have now got an adequate space to perform. During summer the main square turns into a spec-tacle of water fountains that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. They can also be part of the project sea pools that help maintain a connection between the sea and de building.


EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE - sea pools

EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE - third level

EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE- second level EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE - from the plaza

The structure is the same as the one used in the nearby port. Metal beams go from frame to frame. Metallic tensioners are used to carry equal beams at a lower level. The space in between them is then closed using wood planks through the outside and inside to ensure the look of a clo-

sed container.


EXTERIOR ISOMETRY

PROJECT SECTION

VIEW OF CALLAO’s PORT AND BAY

MODEL

The project consists of four main mul-tiple use rooms that hang from the metal frames. Beneath them are two outdoor plazas and service areas. In the first floor we encounter the administration area and the axis of the cultural area of the building, the library, which connects to the level of the sea pools underneath. As im-portant as the previous areas, is the auditorium, which has its own entry.


The majority of buildings in the historic centre of the city are inaccessible due to the deterioration of them or because they are own by a private party. The only place were people are in contact with them is the street. After dozens of mappings it is decided to locate the project in between

one main avenue and a smaller street. The first one has a metropolitan scale and the second one a bigger relation with the neighbourhood.


EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE - from street

SECTION

PROGRAM RELATED TO A METROPOLITAN SCALE, IS FACING THE AVENUE PUBLIC AREAS FACE THE INTERIOR PLAZA PROGRAM CONECTS THE PUBLIC AREA

WITH THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLAZASECUNDARY BUILDING GIVES PROPORTION

TO THE PROJECT

The project generates a plaza between to buildings, one more important than the other. The first one responds to a metropolitan scale by looking at the avenue. From the central plaza you enter the different levels through an electric staircase passing through different scenarios, visuals and

dynamics. The project makes the travel, a learning experience.


EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE - from avenue

FIRST FLOOR

The main building private areas are esta-blished looking at the avenue because it is the noisiest zone and the side with the largest transit of people. Public areas su-rround the interior plaza and it is there where the life of the project takes place. The secondary buildings functions as an anchor and gives the whole proposal the

correct proportions.

The Centre of Heritage Preservation is a building needed in the city centre. It is architecture used to protect other archi-tecture. A building whose main task is to safeguard the life of the city’s heritage. By using architecture the right way, it gives an otherwise highly dense area, the public

space it seeks.


SECOND FLOOR THIRD FLOOR

INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

SECTION



EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE - from street

FIRST FLOOR

The project is located next to an old market that because of lack of regula-tion has become insecure and without any free space. The design of the project tries to help this market, giving some space for merchants to cell their goods across the street as well as gi-ving a public space for the people that visit the place as well as the ones that already live in Surquillo. An “L” shaped building is design, that hides in its inte-rior a public square. The program in its 2 first levels would function as part of the

market.


INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE - from PLAZA

EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE OF PROJECT AND MARKET - from street

SECOND FLOOR

The design tries to avoid the user ente-ring the market to buy and then go home straight away. The public space is avai-lable 24/7 and cafeterias and restaurants around it serve as attractions that make the space successful. From the third floor onwards the apartment section starts. They are divided in two, three, or four be-drooms. With this project, a whole area of

the city will be reformed.





SECTION - ORIGINAL TERRAIN


SECTION - NEW TERRAIN

SLUM POSSIBLE OCCUPATION SITE POSSIBLE OCCUPATION SITETREE ZONE

San Pedro de Lloc is a town north of Lima in Peru. “El Algarrobal” is a portion of desert that has started to be eaten by the nearby town growth. The only things worth keeping in the area are the trees that already exist and use them as protection from an equatorial sun. Using the level difference

and existing trees, an urban plan is carried out, putting emphasis in the design of the main public spaces and roads to and from it. Each house will have its own yard at a different level from the road and protected from the sun. The difference in level continues and differentiates

the public playground as well. Artificial lighting and public furniture is also taken into account.


SECTION - NEW TERRAIN


MAPPINGS: “trees, green areas, slopes” FIRST FLOOR

SLUM OCCUPATION SITE MAIN PUBLIC SPACE OCCUPATION SITE




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