984 research outputs found
Landmark for Justice, a binational courthouse
No full textThe design of a binational courthouse on the border between the USA and Mexico. Located on the south side of the border, in Ciudad Juarez, it aims to be an incentive for further cooperation, between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, and on a bigger scale in the border region.Border StudioComplex ProjectsArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Community Learning Centre
No full text“There is a saying in Korea: If you sleep for 3 hours a day, you will pass the exam. Sleep for 4 hours, you will fail.” Mckinsey & Company, Korea 2020 Community Learning Centre South Korea has gone through a period of rapid urbanization from 1960 to 1990, and currently 82% of the population lives in cities. This increase in urbanization has been accompanied by success like the 13th largest economy and a strong technology based industry. However, it also created social problems; having one of the highest suicide rates in OECD, high rates of alcoholism, plastic surgery and addiction to computer games and pornography. Furthermore the elderly population in Korea is growing rapidly, with an estimated percentage - in 2050 - of 38% against 52% of the working class. Embracing these social-economic problems, I designed a community that will allow for convenient distribution of shops, residences, amenities and prioritized walkability. This will allow for spaces where young and old get the occasion to integrate with each other and into their society. Experiencing Seoul I found that street life is extremely important and particularly dynamic, which generates an ambiance that is typical for Korea. Due to new developments this street life, and the public space in general, are replaced by ‘locked’ open spaces, residual space of high-rise buildings. Those areas are only accessible for the people who live there and as a result the city of soul is segregated. My urban design is concerned with both the need for density due to the urbanization and growing economic and the need for public space. By allowing areas in the community to be dens and high, but also creating an important low-rise pedestrian strip that can generate the community life that is so characteristic for this city and its culture. A predominant element in this urban design is the integration of the high-rise development, by transforming the ‘locked’ space into a public space. The location of my architectural design is precisely where the pedestrian strip is penetrating the high-rise area. This not only allows the design to mediate - in a volumetric way - between the low-rise building blocks and high-rise towers, but it also continues and reunites the two different kinds of public spaces. My design embodies a new roofed public space for community activities and will accommodate the place for a ‘Community Learning Centre’. In this way the design forms a new approach to experiencing street life. Moreover, is the design focuses on the broader social problems of Korea by combining space for study, leisure – like sports and karaoke - tutoring and creativity into one design. Every component in the design - the floor, the roof, the façade and the rooms - can be seen as isolated elements. Therefore the roofed public space creates a feeling of roughness and openness, wherein every room gets his own identity by way of materialisation. These materials have a natural impression – like stone, steel and wood – in order to create a differentiation in expressions but a feeling of coherency. Besides, it provides for a transition from the urban area to the park. The inside of the rooms are more sensitive and related to its specific program.Materialisation - VCAArchitectureArchitectur
Risk - adjusted rates of return for project appraisal
Get PDFIncorporating risk assessment into public project appraisal makes sense when project risk is significantly correlated with uncertainty about national income. It is especially important in countries that specialize in particular agricultural or resource sectors. This report presents the following conclusions: (a) risk corrections can be substantial; (b) the intuition that risk is great for further investment in a crop or sector that constitutes a large part of a country's GNP is not invalid, but the effect may be offset by other forces in operation; (c) risk corrections can be negative because of a negative correlation between project return and GNP; (d) risk premia vary greatly across countries and sectors - so recognizing the risk correction needed for each project on its own merits makes more sense than including a common general risk premium in the rate of return required for all lending; (e) risk corrections are small for many sectors and countries - so efforts can be concentrated on the other categories, where the proposed treatment of risk makes a big difference; (f) risk affects investment projects in many different, subtle ways; and (g) resource requirements for this are not great.Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Economics&Finance,Banks&Banking Reform,Statistical&Mathematical Sciences,Crops&Crop Management Systems
Estadio de la comunidad - Community stadium, El Paso , Cd. Juarez
No full textComplex Projects Border studioComplex ProjectsArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Student Center Vocational College Nogales
No full textDesign of a masterplan for a vocational college campus in Nogales (twin-city on the US-MEX border) with the architectural design of the student center which contains a library, meeting space and workshop.Complex ProjectsArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Food Hub / Food Valley
No full textAn Agricultural Complex tying together U.S and Mexico and allowing to create a new type of land of producton.Complex ProjectsArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Arens de la ciudad
No full textThe graduation studio Borders-the Architecture of violence researches on border conditions at rigid borders, where two worlds collide. The focus of the studio was on the border between the United States of America and Mexico. This border with a long history of conflicts, alterations and discrepancies has unfortunately caused for a mostly negative perception of the border area. The project proposes a very public and attractive program in the form of a new bullfighting arena in the city center of Ciudad Juarez. The project is located on one of the major connecting spines between the two city centers and is easy accessible from both cities. This spine links the downtown area of El Paso to the border bridge and the bullfighting arena in Ciudad Juarez creating a strong connection between them. As a part of an overall masterplan to reconnect the cities the project aims to do this on all scales, from a very local stimulation of activity and reestablishing of the community in Mexico to connecting the border cities and with this the border region as wholeComplex ProjectsArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Deconstruction Yongsan
No full textThe Yongsan district is becoming a new infrastructural hub for Seoul and South Korea. Due the growing population, the current train station can not handle the capacity of the passengers any longer. The sollution a new railway station that will be place into the ground, to make space for Yongsan plaza. An area where people can meet and enjoy the city.MaterialisationArchitectureArchitectur
In the Park
No full textUrban and architectural project in Seoul, South Korea.Materialisation, Vertical Cities AsiaArchitectureArchitectur
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