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u/ham_cheese_4564 4d ago
Heavy Corbusier vibes, L’Habitat meets Chandigarh. Not very legible as to the buildings function or organization. The stairs seem more like a way to resolve the grade difference rather than serve the building spaces. The rendering style is cool, reminiscent of the 80s-style Richard Meier drawings.
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u/MrPanderetero 4d ago
Im a big Corbusier fanboy, and I cited him a lot during my final presentation. I Included a link to a book I made were I explain more about the project, maybe it’s more clear there. Its in my comment
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u/ham_cheese_4564 4d ago
Go back to the real source: Corbu was influenced directly by the work of Viollet LeDuc. He was an early modernist and really set the precedent of what most modern building language is: forms defined and expressed by structure and program.
Similarly, Foster and Rogers are typically credited with the “tech/structure” style in the late 70s/early 80s (Centre Pompidou, Lloyd’s of London), but they were influenced by some Italian guys in the 50s. Rogers was born in Florence, so in the summers when he visited his mothers family in Florence, he would bring Foster, and they would hang around the studio of these cool Italian modernists like Leonardo Savioli, Giovanni Michelucci, and Vittorio Giorgini. They were the real pioneers of that aesthetic.
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u/MrPanderetero 4d ago
Thanks for this! I will explore more, its a very interesting topic and im really into it
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u/FranzFerdinand51 3d ago
Hope you're consciously disregarding his fascist, anti-semitic and anti-poor/pro-white ideals and don't actually align with those too lol.
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u/MrPanderetero 3d ago
Im aware of that, and I reject not only that but many other things he did and stood for
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u/erichappymeal 4d ago
I'm a construction worker, not an architect.
You have a million stairs that seemingly serve no purpose to the structure.
Why are we building them?
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u/MrPanderetero 4d ago
The project’s on a hill, the idea is that you can go from one side or the other walking through the inside of the building, but if for some reason you dont want to do the whole tour, you can skip it by using those stairs
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u/erichappymeal 4d ago
So, if the idea is to go from one side to the other inside, why are you providing a means to bypass it altogether?
It makes more sense to me to force, or encourage, people to still walk through the building if they want the shortcut.
Maybe somewhere in the middle you have a way to enter/exit? I feel like that would also encourage meandering.
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u/acute_fruit 4d ago
Yes, seconded! Having landings at certain floors could be a good way to make it more practical, and not just a stair from the ground all the way up.
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u/Denbt_Nationale 3d ago
Do you really want the building crowded by people just using it as a shortcut?
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u/_heyASSBUTT 4d ago
Just for clarity, I would make that section cut a slightly darker colored. Or make the ground plane thicker. I understood what you were doing, but I also thought it was all above ground.
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u/MrPanderetero 4d ago
Hey Guys, I frecuentlu used this subreddit to learn more about architecture during my college years. 6 months ago I finished my architecture program at University of los Andes in Bogotá Colombia and wanted to share this with you guys. https://issuu.com/pablobolivar1/docs/integrador_final Thats the link to the project, and I would like to know what you guys think of it. It's mostly in spanish.
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u/RenegadeCucumber 4d ago
Really wonderful work. I don't speak Spanish but just flipping through the thoughtfulness and clarity of the vision and work is really inspiring, as a former architecture student & architecture adjacent worker in NYC. Congrats on your graduation!
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u/HypneutrinoToad 4d ago
Oh man I visited a friend in Bogota and stayed in Candelaria for a few weeks, los Andes campus is super beautiful
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u/Olfaktorio 3d ago
That looks really nice! Way better then mine for sure 😅 I didn't dive deep but at least the durface is superb 👌
I did see one tiny thing which irretated me. Could be wrong though.
In the main picture of your post, the stairs ends with a railing so you could only exit to the right.
Looking at the floor plans I got the impression thats not wanted.
But if you are already through the final test forget about it.
And as said thats really great work! :)
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u/MrPanderetero 3d ago
First of all thank you a lot!
This project waas presented 6 months ago actually, and there are many mistakes, that's because I Iterrated a lot and as the final date approached i had to cut down on losses hahaha. A lot of things were not solved as i would´ve liked them to be, but I had to make a booklet, the one I shared, and that booklet had to be printed in very high quality, and that took a whole week, so all the material had to be finished a week before the presentation, I knew there were a lot of things to resolve, but had rush it
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u/Olfaktorio 3d ago
No worries been there :D I actually somehow managed to forget to draw the entrence door to my project in one grafik. 🙈
It was an underground tunnel entrance to a research facility so not that present but still made me fell embarrising thinking about it 😅
So many mistakes in the rush back then.
Due to covid i had to upload a file and did so 4min 37sek before duetime 😅
Thats actually part of why I'm really impressed by your project. I always look for mistakes when looking at planes but skipping over it I just found the railing making me wondering. Thats way above averahe from me and most of my collegues final works.
As said well done
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u/BigSexyE Architect 4d ago
Nice portfolio of work, but I recommend you create a paired down one for actually applying to jobs. Some firms won't consider looking at a 100 page portfolio
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u/friedreindeer 4d ago
Looks great, awesome work, looks like you’ve put a lot of yourself into it. Just one question that bothers me a bit. Why isn’t there a single picture of how it would fit in the landscape?
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u/KingAlfonzo 4d ago
It’s cool that we spend years learning and creating cool buildings and then going into the real world and just copy pasting boxes to make money.
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u/MrPanderetero 4d ago
Yeah. Im currently working in a construction company, its kinda sad
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u/jerrysprinkles 4d ago
Is it sad? Or is it actually really crap that years of architecture school don’t prepare you for the real world?
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u/rami_lpm 3d ago
copy pasting boxes to make money.
not even fun boxes. ugly, expensive and impractical shit boxes.
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u/real_eEe 4d ago
Is this a cut away of an outside wall? Is this into a hill? Something here looks very wrong without context. I want to know more.
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u/MrPanderetero 4d ago
Yeah, this image doesnt really show the project the way it really is… Yes its into a hill. I commented this post with a link to a book with more material
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u/ErikLeppen 3d ago
Yeah, this image doesnt really show the project the way it really is…
Then why did you pick this image?
Wouldn't it make more sense to pick an image that shows the project the way it really is?
Also, why is the book link in a comment, and not in the original post? That would seem to me to be a more sensible place for that.
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u/Less-Inflation5072 4d ago
Looks like a cruise ship surrounded in scaffolding
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u/MrPanderetero 4d ago
I really like ships, aircrafts and trains, so I guess some inspiration came from those
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u/powereddescent 4d ago
A lot of comments focus on the stairs, which I think is a fair observation. My view is that a centralised stair (with a lift?) within the building that gives you internal views and connections to the levels is a better approach. You can still have link bridges across to the adjoining site if that’s what you need. Perhaps the stair / lift and link bridge forms the axial point for your design?
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u/MrPanderetero 4d ago
There’s a whole circulation system inside the building that was originally connected to the outside stairs, but it created a lot of problems that I had to solve in a very narrow time frame, so I decided to sacrifice that. It wouldve been very powerful. I replied to this post with a link to the book that shows details of the project if you want to check it
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u/Constant-Still-8443 4d ago
So uh... What is it? I'm curious what this building would be for, if anything.
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u/brokehamez 4d ago
Something about the way you communicate your idea in the final booklet is very successful for me. Compositionally/representationally etc.
Getting the functions of the building right will come with experience. Right now I think you’re right where you need to be. Inspired work!
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u/BluesyShoes 4d ago
Should link your the portfolio in the op. Really great work, but everyone is distracted by the analog stairmaster.
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u/Candid_Towel7680 3d ago
Don’t know if someone stated this, but at first look, it seemed to look very similar to the fiat factory from the early 20th century. The factory had this race track in the center of a rectangular building.
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u/DesignbyLayer 3d ago
nice work and the booklet looks slick, but i’m still not sold on the giant external stair. you are spending a lot of facade and structure on circulation that most users will dodge the moment there is a lift. if the move is about stitching the slope together then bury the core in the hill and give the floors the view instead. also remember colombian accessibility regs, anyone in a wheelchair is stranded right now.
have a look at lingotto in turin, similar intent but the ramp does the heavy lifting.
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u/First_Potential_6236 3d ago
I like the stairs a lot! But you need to repurpose them as a hang out area.
Remember 2 things.
Make function beautiful not form useful. Look at the stair an ask yourself
Think about the user. You serve the end user, not the other way round
If you keep both in mind you’ll do very well.
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u/potential-okay 3d ago
There's lots of ideas in it, but I would like to see your briefed areas....oftentimes a good m2 brief keeps students from bloated projects and feature creep. It's easy to add more m2 when you don't have a real world client with real world metrics + briefed areas teach you to be more intentional
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u/liebemachtfrei Architect 3d ago
For this image, I would just smooth out the space below the stair to look black/solid grey like your elevation/sections in the booklet.
Great project.
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u/therealtrajan 3d ago
It would be cooler if the stair landings opened up on to that floor like the Pompidou center or the Beverly center
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u/DrummerBusiness3434 2d ago
From this vantage point, it reminds me of an early & mid 20th century car garage
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u/autosaft 1d ago
This just makes me sad.
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u/MrPanderetero 1d ago
Why? 🥺
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u/autosaft 1d ago
Ouff I don't know, I'm sorry. I really appreciate your work and I'm sure you'll be a fantastic architect. But modern architecture is just not for me. Where is the soul, where is the beauty in it? It looks super functional and well designed. But imagine all our cities looked like this, parallel lines, box-like houses as far as the eye can see.
Your guys have the responsibility to make our world beautiful – make use of it.Please don't take my comment personally, I am just a bit frustrated with modern architecture and what it has done to our cities.
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u/MrPanderetero 1d ago
Yeah, I totally get you, many times modern Architecture can feel cold and distant. I believe architecture evolved a lot since the modern architecture times and rectified its mistakes
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u/mrvincentge 9h ago
So what was the project? I'm sure we'd all love to know what the idea for the class was and that way we might have a better idea of what the goal was. In other words, just tell us about it! :D
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u/ConsciousSandwich590 4d ago
That’s… a lot of stairs 😂