FINAL+PROJECT

**TEACHERS’ RESIDENCE** Some architects say: “seeing your final project is just like seeing your own child” so I’m going to introduce my child to you.
 * VERTICAL PROJECT**

media type="custom" key="13425908" align="left" width="374" height="374" My project is a vertical design, a building, designed to be built on a corner next to another building –the only ones on the block– so it has two blind facades. It is a teachers’ residence located in a coastal zone, in front of the beach (with a beach view). This residence was designed for all different kinds of teachers, it means, married, single, with kids, etc. In this way there are studio apartments with kitchenette and apartments with kitchen, living room and dining room. In total there are fourteen floors and fifty apartments.

The building has many social areas in its body, basement and top. Sometimes teachers and their families need spaces for recreation that is why there are reading rooms every two floors in the building’s body.

Besides, on the ground floor there are many shopping areas and a laundry; in the mezzanine level there is a restaurant for residents and visitors. On the other hand, there are spaces just for the residents on the top of the building where they might find a library, a gym, a bar and a terrace with a beautiful view to the square and the beach in the horizon.

The materials used in this design are basically two: glass and concrete. However, there are different elements of iron, steel and wood. The apartments have a fascinating relation with the exterior through a glass wall which is accompanied by a game of shadows created by sunshades of steel arranged horizontally. Also, there is a pergola of wood in the terrace. The frame structure is made of reinforced concrete; the non-bearing walls are made of brick and covered with marble.

People think that residences can be lonely and cold, but this one is a home.