What Happens During Sorority Initiation?

basic design contest for the construction of the headquarters of the delegation of VATS safor [College of Architects of Valencia]
VATS
gandía June 1904

third prize


considerations that may be in the first instance on how to put the building on the site revolve around two very specific facts:
First, the dominant residential use in the area regarding the use of office which requires the program needs new building gives the complex and ambivalent character of strangeness and seasonality, typical of the newcomers to place.
On the other hand, the existing volumetric analysis offers little face light the draft resolution because:
- at one point are now building a ground floor and one floor plus four, plus two low. All with different configurations volumetric mainly as a result of their different origin;
- Zoning Regulations implementing the crystal leaves resolution of any discussion regarding the volumes as long as regulatory fixed height (8.00 m), the number of plants ( II) and the buildability (2.00 m2/m2).
However, all who wanted to submit a proposal according to the dignity of the use, marking a representative character. We have included all these variables, in principle adverse in the formulation of a contemporary building quietly able to assume their status as "foreigner", offering instead that personality and letting the time just put it in the course of their situation acontecimientos.Por Sants street in the Pedra the south facade of the building is situated at the end of a woodland walk which lies very close to the facade, access to residential property. We propose a specific amendment to the final landscaping of the tree-lined avenue in order to improve the accessibility of residential property with dignity finish solving the meeting point between the Head of the Delegation of the Safor and the aforementioned ride.




The study of the needs of the Head of the Delegation requires, by its representative character and, in some ways, exemplary, consider, beyond of regulatory requirements and program all around a building project, issues that directly affect the "quality" of the project.
Those questions have to do with the quality of daily living (comfort understood as the proper determination of hygrothermal control, ergonomics applied to a concrete program of natural accessibility for all users), with an economic use of resources, natural and urban, with a sensible response to the environment.
Hence the goal in the successive developments of this Blueprint is:
1. Achieving a sustainable way of building based on:
- materials used;
- building systems. Demountability and recovery of components;
- Hygrothermal control weak. Ventilation and air conditioning techniques based mainly natural or low technology (low environmental impact);
- sustainable management of natural resources and urban. Rate ecological balance or environmental.
2. End of concrete with its material resources and aspects taken into account at this stage of project's overall ergonomics and accessibility:
- Completion of paving,
- signage, design and / or choice of furniture adapted.