Final+Project

Workshop-house for a Cinematography Artist

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This project consisted on the design of a workshop-house to a specific artist that we had the opportunity to choose. I chose a cinematography artist, being inspired in Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Studios.

The program specifies that the edification needed to incorporate spaces of work, teaching and a gallery to expose the artist creations. Those spaces were supposed to respond to the functional requirements depending of the activity that was going to be worked and the environment.

This house was design to be next to a square and between other two houses, so it was necessary to work altogether with other classmates to maintain the relation with the neighbors’ house.

As a designer I needed to consider my client needs, so those were the requirements: - An access that could be shared with the work space. - A gallery that include a space for exhibitions, offices, depots and bathrooms. - A space to work with a library or studio that includes bathroom and depots. - Two teaching shops with bathrooms and depots - And a studio apartment that includes a living room, a dining room with kitchen incorporated and a bedroom with a bathroom and a vestier.

First were analyzed the work spaces that a cinematography artist needed to work efficiently and the workshops needs were the followings: - A storyboard studio with minimum 4 drawing tables for the design and sketching of the film scenes - A design studio with minimum 4 tables with computers to realize the render process and bring life to the characters of the film - A room of expositions, where producers can present the projects to the other workers. - A recording studio - And a cinema to make the first presentation of a new film.

Then, after analyze which was the best way to organize the space to make the work spaces work very well this was the result:

The proposed material to build this project was a mixture of concrete and glass because it happens in a tropical environment where those materials provide freshness and the structure was based on columns and beams.



- In the access floor which is the connector of the workshop with the square we can find the gallery, where are the exhibitions of the best storyboards and movies and also a little store where people can acquire some movies and other products. - On the first floor were located the design studio, the storyboard studio and the room of exposition, just to facilitate the work because the activity realized on each one is related with the activities of others. - On the second floor we find the entry to the cinema, the recording room and a lounge where people can wait before entering to the cinema. - On the third floor starts the apartment of the cinematography artist that begins with a terrace that could be public, then the sitting room, the dining room with kitchen incorporated, a bathroom and other terrace that is more private and offers a view to the square. - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Finally, on the fourth floor we find a private studio, another sitting room with a piano, two bedrooms, both with private rooms, and other private terrace but with a different view of the city. The building results efficiently related it with the urban context, functional and harmonious.

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