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Performance Hall

Part 1 Project 2003
Marko Matulic
 Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Santiago | Chile
Performance Hall in Peñalolen

The project is located on a public site owned by the Municipal Government of Peñalolen, highly fragmented by diverse buildings of different uses.
Due to this fact, a first purpose is to develop a form capable of joining and relating the different elements of the site, creating a walking park of a variable width that would recover the complete longitudinal dimension of the site.
Inside the park, the building is constructed by means of a variable structural module (beams made of lamellated wood and steel elements) wich is repeated to build a continuous building, that could contain a great multiple performance Hall for 5000 spectators each, two auditoriums for 200 spectators each, a restroom area and an extense central public space.



Arhitectural Studio with a technological Approach

This studio focuses in cases in which the theme of structural design acquires a critical role in the “form” of architecture.

In this oportunity the case studied was a great concert and spectacle hall and adyacent facilities for the municipal government of Peñalolen in Santiago.
the main hall should receive up to 5000 spectators and, due to its dimensions, the structural design of the roof presented an architectural challenge.

The programme for the building was proposed by the mentioned government and the location consisted on a site of roughly 19 acres partially occupied by some other public buildings and activities quite randomly placed near the borders of the site.

The projects should respond to the central themes of any architectural work, such as the creation of a coherent urban space and valuable interior spaces (this under the light of some concepts extracted from selected texts such as “Lightness”, “Visibility” and “Multiplicity” from Italo Calvino’s “Six Memos for the next Millennium”)

And, of course, the projects had to resolve the studio’s principal interest,which is a factible structural design with a clear relation to the spatial values of the building. With this purpose the studio included a series of lectures under the tittle of “the structural form observed in building cases”

2003
Insertion in to the city and valley's geographical dimension.
Condition of the place, images and site plan.
Develope of a strategy for the intervention on the site and the progression of building's contruction.
Acomodation of the building in the site.
Upper view of the model.
Context sketch and model.
Cross sections.
View of the model.
Elevation view from the proposed park.
Second floor plan, first floor plan, ground floor plan, and images of the principal hall.
Principal hall: Aerial view of the model.
Longitudinal seccion and front view of the model.
Loads distribution on the structural system: section of principal beam and images.
Typical sections of the roof beam.
Internal views of the principal hall.
Multi-functional space of the principal hall.
Photomontage of the proposal in the site.
Photomontage of the proposal in the park context.
Site plan and sketches shows the relationship between the project and the neighborehood.
Sketch shows the relationship between the proposal and the city.
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