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• Architects: Estudio Arquitetura , MEIUS Arquitetura
• Location: R. Itaúna, 452 – Colégio Batista, Belo Horizonte – MG, 31110-070, Brazil
• Design Team: Eduardo de Oliveira França, Leticia Oliveira Azevedo, Guilherme José Tetzl Rocha
• Area: 1511.48 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Izabel Diniz

• Construction: Construction F2
• Collaborators: Fernanda Boratto, Lorraine Coscarelli
• Owner: Uilton Roberto Rocha
• Total Budget: 965.089.93 USD
• Cost / M²: 638.50 USD
• Software: Autocad, Sketch Up

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Located in the Baptist College neighborhood, in Belo Horizonte, MG, Zider is a project of critical response to demand from depleting the constructive potential in a lot of non-usual proportions.

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Because of the fragmentation of large tracts of land, most of the lots in the city has 360 m2 and a rectangle 12 meters tested by 30 long. On the one hand this geometry creates a desirable relationship between the design possibilities within a batch and a number of lots to be filled – in every street – the urban infrastructure, on the other, the existence of any number of lots with dimensions identical previous open to the repetition of types of multi-family residential buildings, whose projects do not always have a desired architectural quality. Thus, a lot to present a variation in the dimensions mentioned is not always valued.

Diagram

Lot Zider has 10 meters tested by 40 long. Your building potential is 680 m2, considering the multiplication of its area by 1.7. This amount of net area that can be built led to the creation of eight units. Considering the increase in spatial quality provided by terraces adjacent to the apartments, the units accessed at ground level are designed as two-level studio, with the first located the social area and services, and in the second room. Thus, it enables the creation of a larger number of units in the projection of the building with four studios, all with private area. Above, there is a deck with two units, and finally, two duplexes with cover. Thus, the eight residential apartments, six have a private area.

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The residential project is based, as stated, to refute the logic of the real estate market development apartment-type, separating the ratio of each unit of its space potential across the project proposal, as the increase in the level of the number of apartments ground to own private area. Thus, it creates a project with the following units:

• Studio 01 – duplex with private area, double height in the social area and three bedrooms;
• Studio 02 – duplex with private area and two bedrooms (two suites);
• Studio 03 – duplex with private area and two bedrooms (two suites);
• Studio 04 – duplex more private area, double height in the social area and three bedrooms;
• Apartment 05 – unit with three bedrooms;
• Apartment 06 – unit with three bedrooms;
• Apartment 07 – unit with private area, double height in the social area, three bedrooms and an extra room;
• Apartment 08 – unit with private area, double height in the social area, three bedrooms and an extra room.

Axonometric Projection

Although there is no standard apartments, this project condition does not cause the adopted solution is more costly, financially. Considering that the building is designed to be built in self-supporting masonry walls of different floors are the same, despite the creation of various internal spatial relationships. Furthermore, rooms that require health infrastructure have been leased adjacent to one of the walls, allowing the creation of power and depletion of plumb.

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Another point to note refers to the image of the building. In terms of coating, applied externally was ecogranito in light gray color, showing the portion of the building that are rented studios and the other in graphite color, with apartments of a pavement. By way of crowning the building, the upper side gables will be painted in yellow gold color.

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Section EE

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects is part of the winning SPARK consortium to design the new educational facility for the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht in the Netherlands. The new educational facility completes the existing ‘Kasbah’ master plan and will provide space for over 6,500 students, staff and visitors, as well as house seven institutes. 

“It forms a strong and clear mark on the site, where it will activate and support the dynamic life on the campus,” says the architects.

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From the architects: The new educational facility will offer two large 200+ seat auditoriums, two smaller auditoriums, TV / radio studios, a knowledge centre, classrooms, café, food shops and parking for more than 1,200 bicycles.

The project will create a new inner courtyard facing the neighboring student housing block from where the volume steps up towards the east façade allowing it to connect with the existing buildings. This creates a building that is activated from all sides.

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“We have created a strong and clear gable motif that forms the final end of the Kasbah masterplan. The building yields to the adjacent buildings with a series of green terraces and roof gardens. Coherence with the surrounding campus is achieved by the use of a similar floor-tiling outside and inside on the building’s ground floor, which acts as a large open piazza with cafes, conference center, amphitheater and lecture halls,” explains Kristian Ahlmark, Senior Partner at Schmidt Hammer Lassen. 

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The facade is clad in light concave and convex panels of anodized aluminum in seven warm colors, with each color representing an institute. The major functions of the building show in the facade with large color fields.

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With all general functions situated on the ground floor, the seven different institutes are spread over the other seven floors, most with direct access to outdoor spaces, which will be used for learning and interaction. The institutes connects via a spectacular atrium which forms the heart of the plan. On each floor, “academic “bookshelves” containing smaller meeting rooms and study cells serve as gateways to the individual institutes, from which there is access to classrooms and offices via a walkway. 

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“We’ve tried to create a place that encourages the chance encounter. By activating the heart of the building, the atrium becomes the primary function of logistics where the school’s flow distributes via kaleidoscopic stairs, bridges and escalators. Thus, the atrium becomes the building’s meeting place where paths cross, experiences are shared and insight into other institutes is gained,” concludes Kristian Ahlmark.

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The scheme targets the BREEAM Excellent sustainability standard.

The consortium SPARK won the bid to design, build and maintain the new premises for 15 years. The new educational facility is planned to open in December 2017.

• Architects: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
• Contractor: Besix & Strukton
• Structural Engineer: IMd
• Mechanical & Electrical Engineer: Deerns, W4Y
• Acoustics And Fire Safety: Peutz
• Sustainability: W4Y
• Client: University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
• Area: 22310.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2017
• Photographs: Schmidt Hammer Lassen

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